Senior Product Designer

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.

While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

Paylocity acquired Airbase! Airbase Inc., a modern finance and spend management software solution that combines bill pay / accounts payable automation, expense management, corporate cards and procurement capabilities. The acquisition of Airbase represents an expansion of Paylocity’s suite and is expected to deliver incremental integrated value to HR and finance leaders in managing all of their spend on a single platform – expanding the Paylocity total addressable market beyond HCM and further into the Office of the CFO.

We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer various benefits, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it’s career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Airbase by Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.

Help Airbase by Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology! Want to develop the strategies and principles needed to deliver compelling software? Join our team and help us enhance our all-in-one software platform, elevate our one-of-a-kind technology, and improve the employee experience. Take your career to the next level at one of G2's Top 100 Software Companies. Explore our Product & Technology positions to see where you fit!

Position Overview

User Experience applies principles of discovery, research, design, and content strategy to shape how users interact with a product. This role is responsible for leading design initiatives across multiple products and identifying and solving challenges for Paylocity users. You are a storyteller with a diverse skill set, a driver of change, open to new possibilities, impact-oriented, and a strong cultural fit.

Primary Responsibilities

The below represents the primary duties of the position, others may be assigned as needed. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Collaborate with product owners and development teams to guide end-to-end experiences from concept to launch and inform
• Lead small- to medium-sized projects independently, defining project needs and tasks clearly.
• Make expert design decisions, balancing user insights, business goals, technical feasibility, and design principles.
• Facilitate ideation sessions and workshops with designers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts.
• Create and contribute to key design artifacts such as design briefs, user flows, content prototypes, research summaries, and design reviews as needed.
• Conduct in-depth user research, usability testing, provide readouts, and summaries using data to inform product decisions.
• Provide platform-level IA (Information Architecture) recommendations based on deep knowledge of navigation patterns.
• Break down complex problems, identify patterns, and make informed decisions.
• Ensure seamless collaboration by effectively sharing design files with development teams and stakeholders.
• Maintain development quality by tracking bugs and missed requirements.
• Create structured, grid-based designs that are device-appropriate and align with the design system.
• Guide communication across cross-disciplinary teams, demonstrating executive-level communication skills
• Engage in thought leadership and industry events, sharing expertise and contributing to the UX community.
• Promote transparency and collaboration by proactively sharing information beyond your immediate team or organization.

Education And Experience

Required Experience

• Degree in a related field
• 5-7 years experience in UX or product design
• Strong visual, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to tackle complex design challenges in undefined problem spaces.
• Proven ability to collaborate with and influence product and engineering teams.
• Extensive UX expertise, with advanced experience in design and system design within complex information architectures.
• Capable of designing for multiple platforms while ensuring product scalability across various environments, including mobile, tablet, responsive design, native applications, accessibility, and localization.

Preferred Skills

• Experience designing for SaaS products in an agile environment.
• Proven ability to mentor and coach team members.
• Experience collaborating with UX Research teams to interpret data and share insights.
• Stay current with design trends, tools, and technologies, adapting to evolving requirements.
• Familiarity with AI patterns and machine learning, with experience partnering with data science teams and implementing referenceable examples.

Soft Skills

• Expert communicator and facilitator when engaging with business stakeholders.
• Relentlessly curious about tech and market trends, with the ability to adapt accordingly.
• Strong advocate for user experience, ensuring the best possible outcomes.
• Skilled at building relationships in highly