Senior Product Designer

Mastercard; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape the future of products and experiences for small businesses. You will work at the intersection of design, product, data, and technology to uncover customer needs, explore opportunities, and deliver measurable customer and business value.

This role emphasizes ambiguity tolerance, emerging technologies, and translating insights into impactful design solutions while collaborating with Product Management, Engineering, and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience designing and shipping digital products across consumer, B2B, or B2B2C experiences.
• Expert-level proficiency in Figma, including component systems, prototyping, variables, and scalable design systems.
• Experience using Figma Make (or similar AI-assisted design tools) to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and iteration.
• Ability to translate product vision into scalable experience frameworks, interaction patterns, and reusable components.
• Strong UX foundation with deep understanding of component architecture, behaviors, responsive layouts.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end product design efforts from discovery through delivery across web, mobile, and platform experiences.
• Identify customer needs, market opportunities, and business challenges through research, data, and stakeholder collaboration.
• Help shape product strategy by uncovering opportunities that drive customer and business value.
• Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to define vision, prioritize opportunities, ideate, conceptualize, and validate solutions.
• Rapidly prototype concepts, Proofs of Concept (POCs), and MVPs using human-centered design principles and AI-assisted design tools.
• Present design concepts, rationale, and recommendations to cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
• Create user flows, journey maps, prototypes, and high-fidelity experiences that deliver exceptional customer outcomes.
• Leverage atomic design principles to build cohesive, scalable experiences that accelerate product delivery while maintaining quality and consistency.
• Contribute to scalable design systems and champion high-quality, accessible experiences across the product ecosystem.

Skills

Figma

Figma Make

Scalable design systems

UX architecture

Tools

Figma Make

Job description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Senior Product Designer

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

We are building the next generation of small business experiences at Mastercard.

Our Global SME (Small Medium Enterprise) team is focused on helping entrepreneurs and business owners start, manage, grow, and succeed through innovative products, intelligent insights, and seamless digital experiences. We're united by a shared passion for solving meaningful customer problems and unlocking the next generation of business intelligence and financial technology solutions.

As part of our pioneering Customer Experience & Design (CX&D) squad, you'll help shape the future of Mastercard's small business ecosystem. You'll work at the intersection of design, product, data, and technology to uncover customer needs, explore new opportunities, and design experiences that create real value for businesses around the world.

This is a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment where experimentation, innovation, and customer-centric thinking are at the core of everything we do. You'll partner closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Researchers, and business stakeholders to imagine what's next, rapidly prototype new ideas, and bring impactful solutions to market.

Together, we're accelerating the adoption of Mastercard's global SME solutions and empowering millions of businesses with the tools, insights, and experiences they need to grow with confidence.

We're not just designing products. We're helping build the future of small business.

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate, strategic, and customer-centric Senior Product Designer to help shape the future of products and experiences for small businesses.

This role is ideal for a designer who thrives in ambiguity, embraces emerging technologies, and enjoys turning customer insights into impactful product solutions. Working closely with Product Management, Engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders, you will help define product strategy, uncover new opportunities, and create intuitive experiences that deliver measurable customer and business value.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead end-to-end product design efforts from discovery through delivery across web, mobile, and platform experiences.
• Identify customer needs, market opportunities, and business challenges through research, data, and stakeholder collaboration.
• Help shape product strategy by uncovering opportunities that drive customer and business value.
• Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to define vision, prioritize opportunities, ideate, conceptualize, and validate solutions.
• Rapidly prototype concepts, Proofs of Concept (POCs), and MVPs using human-centered design principles and AI-assisted design tools.
• Present design concepts, rationale, and recommendations to cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
• Create user flows, journey maps, prototypes, and high-fidelity experiences that deliver exceptional customer outcomes.
• Leverage atomic design principles to build cohesive, scalable experiences that accelerate product delivery while maintaining quality and consistency.
• Contribute to scalable design systems and champion high-quality, accessible experiences across the product ecosystem.

Must Have

• 6+ years of experience designing and shipping digital products across consumer, B2B, or B2B2C experiences.
• Expert-level proficiency in Figma, including component systems, prototyping, variables, and scalable design systems.
• Experience using Figma Make (or similar AI-assisted design tools) to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and iteration.
• Ability to translate product vision into scalable experience frameworks, interaction patterns, and reusable components.
• Strong UX foundation with deep understanding of component architecture, behaviors, responsive lay