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About UsDailyPay is transforming the way people get paid. As a worktech company and the industry's leading on demand pay solution, DailyPay uses an award-winning technology platform to help America's top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job while supporting their financial well-being outside of the workplace.

About UsDailyPay is transforming the way people get paid. As a worktech company and the industry's leading on demand pay solution, DailyPay uses an award-winning technology platform to help America's top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job while supporting their financial well-being outside of the workplace.DailyPay is headquartered in New York City, with operations throughout the United States as well as in Belfast. For more information, visit DailyPay's Press Center.The RoleAt DailyPay, we're helping millions of working Americans take control of their financial lives, on their terms. As we scale from Earned Wage Access to a full ecosystem of financial services, we're investing deeply in the power of design to shape experiences that are not only useful —but empowering and trusted.We're hiring a Director of Product Design to lead this evolution. In this role, you'll set the vision for our product design function, grow and develop a world-class team, and work closely with executive leadership to build a design org that drives business outcomes through simplicity, empathy, and innovation.How You Will Make An Impact

• Lead, grow and scale a multidisciplinary team of product designers and researchers across multiple product areas—from early-stage exploration to high-impact execution
• Shape and communicate a cohesive design vision across our ecosystem of financial products, ensuring clarity, trust, and usability in every experience
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and marketing leadership to align on strategy, prioritization, and outcomes
• Champion a user-centered, data-informed design culture—anchored in accessibility, usability, and continuous learning
• Define and implement scalable design processes, tools, and team structures to enable efficiency, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Build career development frameworks, mentor leads, and guide talent progression at all levels of the team
• Ensure design is strategically positioned to play a proactive role in product planning, discovery, experimentation, and roadmap development
• Influence cross-functional leadership by clearly communicating how design drives measurable business outcomes like adoption, engagement, and retention
• Advocate for design at the executive level, ensuring, design plays a key role in shaping product and company-level strategy and decisions

What You Bring To The Team

• 8+ years of product design experience, including 3+ years in a senior leadership role in a product-led company
• Proven success leading and growing high-performing design teams in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
• Deep expertise in design systems, mobile-first design, and product strategy—especially in fintech, healthtech, or other regulated/high-trust domains
• A track record of delivering intuitive, elegant, and measurable user experiences that drive business results
• Strong operational experience—able to scale design processes, rituals, and team structures as the org grows
• Experience partnering closely with research, data, product, engineering, and marketing to drive a cohesive product experience
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with experience presenting to executive teams and senior stakeholders
• Passion for mentoring and building inclusive teams that prioritize craft, autonomy, and shared ownership
• Ability to think across time horizons—connecting immediate product needs with longer-term platform and brand direction

What We Offer

• Exceptional health, vision, and dental care
• Opportunity for equity ownership
• Life and AD&D, short- and long-term disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Resource Groups
• Fun company outings and events
• Unlimited PTO
• 401K with company match

DailyPay is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable culture of belonging, grounded in empathy and respect, which values openness to opinions, awareness of lived experiences, fair treatment and access for all. We strive to build and develop diverse teams to create an organization where innovation thrives, where the full potential of each person is engaged, and their views, beliefs and values are integrated into our ways of working.We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to [email protected]. All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.DailyPay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.

Seniority level

• Seniority levelDirector

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• Job functionProduct Management and Marketing

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