Senior Product Designer, Mobile

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Location: Remote (Must be based anywhere in the Czech Republic)

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.

Help 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.

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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

• Extensive experience in UX, usability, accessibility, and product design, supported by a degree in a relevant field
• 5-7 years experience in UX or product design primarily for mobile experiences and responsive design.

Required Skills

• 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.
• Experience with using and contributing to design system at scale.

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 collaborative environments.

Physical requirements

• Ability to sit for extended periods: The role requires sitting at a desk or workstation for long periods, typically 7-8 hours a day.
• Use of computer and phone systems: The employee must be able to operate a computer, use phone systems, and type. This includes using multiple software programs and inquiries simultaneously

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.
We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact View email address on us.fitly.work. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed.

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