Airbase Principal Designer - Design Systems

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.

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About the Job 

As a Principal Product Designer at Airbase by Paylocity, you will guide key strategic design and company initiatives with a focus on creating scalable and coherent experiences across our product. This is an opportunity to have a big impact and influence how the design function evolves as we grow. We're looking for someone who thrives in a scalable company and is self motivated.

What you will do: 

• Deeply comprehend the customer pain points around how they spend money and also the long-term goals of the organisation.
• As a member of the Design Platform team, proactively look for and tackle high-level issues by designing cohesive and unified experiences across multiple mediums like web and mobile.
• Proactively contribute to and build on our design system and guidelines. Develop patterns and interactions that are durable, repeatable, and help evolve the component standards. Strategically partner with engineering, product, and design teams to define the future of design at Airbase by Paylocity.
• Advocate for design by presenting your ideas and work across functions. Articulate design rationale and goals which can help in the adoption and implementation of platform-wide solutions and design systems. 
• Participate in Design Reviews to ensure high-quality output, and give effective direction and feedback to other designers on the team. 
• Proactively cultivate a design studio culture within the team and push product design forward based on our standards and approaches to design at Airbase by Paylocity. 
• Mentor other designers on the team. 

What you will bring: 

• At least 10 years of experience, including a portion of time dedicated solely to adopting and managing design systems.
• Extensive native mobile app and responsive web design experience.
• Portfolio with work samples showcasing your experience with the full range of product design, interaction design, and visual design. 
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and collaborative skills. 
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. 
• Attention to detail especially to tiny interaction details that delight users. 
• Knowledge of HTML and CSS. 

Nice to have: 

• Experience with workflow-driven B2B SaaS products. 
• Experience with Accounting or Fintech software. 
• Experience designing products in remote or distributed team environments.

Airbase by Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. We are 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 Airbase by 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, or any other status protected by state or local law for an individual who falls within the jurisdiction of such law. 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.

Applicants who require an accommodation throughout the application and interview process should request this in advance by contacting  accessibility@paylocity.com.

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