Design Director - Brand Design System

Who are we? ?

PayFit simplifies payroll management and HR processes for SMBs(e)PayFit is an automated SaaS solution to help business owners and HR professionals save time and money allowing them to refocus on what really matters: their employees.

Since 2015, we have set ourselves a mission to support the digital transformation of HR management through our ever growing range of product features and services(e)We have a strong presence in France and have been quickly growing in Germany, Spain, the UK and Italy(e)With 6,000 customers in 5 countries, we are one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in Europe.

Today, we are more than 700 employees at PayFit and we all share four core values:

We are committed to a culture of inclusion and an environment that enables fulfillment in freedom & responsibility.

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Get onboard of the PayFit rocket by joining our Design Language System Tribe as a Design Director

Your mission will be to:Make PayFit customer experience delightful, consistent and memorable by building and scaling PayFit brand identity system (brand design, design system & UX writing)

You will be responsible to:

• Build and spread a strong brand-design-system vision: collaborate within a cross-functional teams of design, engineering & content to build your tribe long-term vision & strategy

• Manage a tribe included 3 pillars and related teams: Design System, Brand Design, UX writing

• Partnering with our Experts Engineering Director to manage our design system team and bring our system to the next level

• Partnering with design ops to centralize all our brand resources in a single source of truth, building a brand-identity-system platform

• Manage and scale our brand design team & processes to cover company needs at scale

• Create the UX writing global entity with a scalable and highly collaborative approach

• Advocate for a strong design culture, spread our vision

• Partner with VP Design on PayFit design vision and strategy at company level

Your are Senior in design leadership (10 years experience minimum with at least 5 years experience in a leadership role managing teams of more than 10 designers in an international context).

You have a manager-as-a-coach mindset, you drive your teams with passion and excellence but also care and humility.

You have the following qualities :

• Strong creative direction & brand DNA

• Strong design system knowledge

• Data-driven mindset: you're able to link design achievements to company goals and measure your team impact

• Experience managing brand and design system teams

• Experience of efficient collaboration with engineering

• Proven success as design leader (examples: leading a company rebranding through marketing as product content, &/or brand design achievements or strategy with related success metrics, &/or scaling brand/design system/content design teams and processes)

• Experience working in the SaaS / BtoB industry

• Experience of scaling design team in a hyper growth context

• Strong communication skills (from daily collaboration to company exposure on sharing vision and strategy)

• English speaker

• You have created design systems by yourself

• You have experience of design language system / brand identity system platforms

• You have experience building and scaling big design teams/departments

• You have experience scaling design in a hyper growing scale up

• An international and dynamic team with the opportunity to visit our different offices (Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, London, Milan)

• A work from anywhere policy to allow you flexibility in regards to where you want to work in one of our five countries (France, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and Italy)

• 1 trip of 200 euros value per year to travel to one of our European office

• 150 euros equipment budget to comfortably work from home

• An accessible office for people with disabilities

• A gym at our Paris office and a Gymlib membership with preferential rates

• Restaurant tickets card (Swile)

• 20 weeks of maternity leave supported by PayFit and 4 weeks of partner leave (Signed the Parental Act)

• Health insurance (supported to 60% by PayFit) and payment of medical consultations via the platform Qare

• One day per year dedicated to volunteer for an association

• A fulfilling and inclusive workplace, offering equal opportunities for any minority, disability, gender identity and sexual orientation(e)Don’t forget: everyone fits at PayFit!

• Validation of the application

• Recruiter interview

• VP Design Interview

• Meet your peers (engineering director, brand director, design director)

• Meet the team: round table with brand designer, system designer and tech lead to discuss about 1 case you worked on(e)Intent is to talk about a real project/achievement to see how you think and interact all together.

• CPO or VP product Interview