Senior Product Designer - Remote Payroll Platform

Check; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote or Hybrid work

Office in New York City

Office in San Francisco

Annual company retreats

Job summary

Check is redefining embedded payroll by building a design-led platform that simplifies complex payroll workflows for thousands of operators. We seek a Senior Product Designer to own major design enhancements, conduct user research, and translate insights into scalable product patterns.

You will work with engineering, product, and leadership to shape strategy, evolve design standards, and elevate the user experience across our payroll infrastructure platform.

Qualifications

• >6–10+ years in product design, UX/UI research, or related roles designing complex software or infrastructure
• >Strong UX instincts and ability to simplify complex systems and data-heavy interfaces
• >Experience designing workflow-driven products or operational software (fintech, dev tools, enterprise platforms)
• >Portfolio showing systems thinking and elevated visual design with AI awareness
• >Experience collaborating with engineering teams within technical constraints
• >Ability to drive ambiguous design problems from discovery to shipped product
• >Experience conducting or leading user research and translating insights into product improvements
• >Experience designing for multi-step workflows and complex user journeys
• >Comfort in fast-moving environments with broad problem spaces
• >Strong communication and ability to articulate design decisions and tradeoffs

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design of major enhancements within Check's products, from problem framing through shipped experience
• Solve complex payroll problems through deep research and design thinking, shaping interaction models and product architecture
• Conduct user research — including direct conversations with payroll operators and platform partners
• Identify opportunities to rethink existing product patterns and drive intuitive, efficient operator-facing experiences
• Collaborate with engineering and product leaders to design surfaces that simplify payroll operations
• Elevate the visual and interaction design of product surfaces for a cohesive experience
• Prototype and iterate quickly on new ideas with user and cross-functional feedback
• Contribute to evolving Check’s design standards and raise the bar for design across the company
• Collaborate with marketing and creative teams to socialize platform enhancements with partners and prospects

Skills

UX/UI research

Workflow design

Cross-functional collaboration

AI in design

User research

Design strategy

Mentoring

Communication

Problem framing

Multi-step workflows

Job description

Check is redefining embedded payroll by building a design-led platform that simplifies complex payroll workflows for thousands of operators. We seek a Senior Product Designer to own major design enhancements, conduct user research, and translate insights into scalable product patterns.

You will work with engineering, product, and leadership to shape strategy, evolve design standards, and elevate the user experience across our payroll infrastructure platform.