About Payrails

Payrails is a global payment software company helping leading enterprises to take control of their payment operations and maximize performance. With deep experience in the payments space and firsthand knowledge of merchants' challenges, we’ve seen how fragmented, complex, and inefficient these systems can become. Now, we are setting a new industry standard for how enterprises around the world manage and optimize payments, with more control, visibility and flexibility than ever before.

Our vision is to reimagine payments from the ground up. We are building a deeply integrated meta layer that spans the entire payment lifecycle with a modular architecture. This helps us give leading brands building blocks to craft solutions to most complex operational challenges, tailor seamless customer experiences and grow their business.

We are backed by some of the world’s top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, HV Capital, EQT Ventures and General Catalyst, who share our mission to simplify payment complexity globally.

At Payrails, we’re committed to building a team of exceptional people - not just talented, but driven to build, solve, and deliver at the highest level. Excellence isn’t just a value here; it’s a way of working. We believe that great people thrive in environments where there’s trust, clarity, and shared purpose. We work openly and collaboratively, with deep respect for each other’s craft. Everyone is encouraged to understand the bigger picture - what we’re building, why it matters, and what stands in the way. When people have that context, they move faster, take ownership, and make better decisions. We care about creating a culture where people feel inspired to do their best work and a deep sense of responsibility to help us bring our vision to life. Success at Payrails means staying focused on the problems that matter most, and executing with purpose.

Your team

At Payrails, Product Design is at the heart of how our users experience the complexity of payments and how we turn that complexity into clarity. Sitting at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer insight, our mission is to craft experiences that are intuitive, precise, and built to scale with enterprise needs.

We focus on three core pillars:

• Understanding real user workflows and mental models - through deep customer research, thoughtful questioning, and a strong partnership with Product and GTM teams

• Designing for clarity and control - simplifying complex processes into experiences that are easy to navigate, flexible to configure, and satisfying to use

• Building scalable systems with a high bar for craft - creating design patterns and interfaces that are consistent, elegant, and built to last

Design at Payrails operates with speed, autonomy, and a strong sense of ownership. We don’t just make things look good - we solve real problems that move the product and business forward. We value clarity over decoration, systems over one-offs, and progress over perfection.

You’ll be joining a team that cares deeply about the details, collaborates closely with engineers and PMs, and believes great design starts with asking the right questions. If you're excited to shape the design language of a category-defining product and thrive in an environment where speed and craft go hand in hand, you'll do your best work here.

How you will make an impact

• Own the design strategy and execution for complex product areas from exploration and concepting to polished, production-ready work.

• Lead strategic design initiatives that span multiple surfaces, teams, and systems by influencing product direction at a high level.

• Deeply understand user needs, constraints, and workflows - turning insights into intuitive flows, frameworks, and patterns.

• Partner closely with Engineering, Product and GTM teams to drive decisions, balance trade-offs, and scale design through systems and collaboration.

• Raise the quality bar through direct contribution, design reviews, mentorship, and setting strong standards for craft.

• Help shape the future of design at Payrails by contributing to our design system, process, and culture as we grow.

What we are looking for

• You bring 8+ years of experience designing digital products, ideally in complex B2B, SaaS, or infrastructure environments, and including experience operating at Staff level or equivalent.

• You’re confident designing for complexity not just individual screens, but systems, user journeys, and mental models.

• You have a strong point of view, grounded in user needs and product thinking and you know how to communicate it clearly.

• You’ve worked closely with engineers and product teams in fast-paced environments, and know how to move from idea to iteration to delivery.

• You take ownership, move with urgency, and sweat the details from flows to micro-interactions.

• You’re motivated by impact, not credit and you’re excited to help shape both product and team.

• You’re a builder at heart energized by the opportunity to define a brand from early stages and evolve it as the company grows.

Please submit an up-to-date portfolio in English as part of your application.

What we offer

• High impact and high velocity environment with the most talented and ambitious people you will ever work with

• A chance to shape the story of a company and a category from the ground up

• Real ownership. You’ll have the freedom and trust to build, test, and take lead

• A product used by the best brands around the world

• Visa and relocation support for you and your family where required

• Hybrid working with an office in the heart of Berlin

• Regular team events, activities and off-sites

• Discounted Urban Sports Club membership

• Competitive salary and equity package

• 27 days of annual paid vacation