Staff Product Designer: Acquiring & Design System

Checkout Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Checkout.com in London is seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead design for Acquiring and evolve Checkout.com’s design system. You’ll shape product strategy, mentor designers, and own end-to-end design across desktop and mobile.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Product and Engineering, applying the system to real product needs, and advancing design-to-development workflows with AI-assisted tooling. You’ll influence how teams ship high‑quality experiences.

Qualifications

• Staff-level product design scope or equivalent: set direction without formal authority and raise the quality of others through critique and mentoring.
• Exceptional product craft across interaction, visual design, prototyping, and shipped experiences.
• Ownership of complex product work, partnering closely with Product and Engineering from problem to delivery.
• Experience shaping and evolving a production design system.
• Technical fluency to collaborate with Engineering on implementation constraints and design-to-development workflows; this is not a front-end engineering role.
• Shipped experience using AI-assisted design or development workflows, such as Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design for Acquiring, mentoring designers and raising craft quality through critique and guidance.
• Evolve Checkout.com’s cross‑pillar design system across products and surfaces, including dashboard and mobile experiences
• Partner with Product and Engineering to apply the system to real product needs and implementation constraints.
• Improve how teams move from design intent to production.

Skills

Staff-level product design scope

Exceptional product craft

Ownership of complex product work

Production design system

Technical fluency with engineering

AI-assisted design workflows

Job description

Checkout.com in London is seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead design for Acquiring and evolve Checkout.com’s design system. You’ll shape product strategy, mentor designers, and own end-to-end design across desktop and mobile.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Product and Engineering, applying the system to real product needs, and advancing design-to-development workflows with AI-assisted tooling. You’ll influence how teams ship high‑quality experiences.