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Product Designer

PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡 Fully remote (within Japan)
  • 🧪 3+ years experience required
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About PayPay

PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo

With over 70M million registered users (as of July 2025), PayPay is the country’s most popular mobile wallet used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan.

Key benefits

  • International engineering team
  • Japanese lessons on company time
  • Incredible scale

About the position

PayPay Product Designers are committed to eliminating user inconvenience and providing new value at all touch points originating from payments, not just only QR code payments. PayPay is looking for a Product Designer who will join us to promote product creation that puts user experience top priority.

Responsibilities

  • Join a project and work with engineers, product managers, and senior designers to develop new features and improve existing features that put user experience top priority.
  • Design the total UX/UI for PayPay application and app/web tools for PayPay merchants.
  • UX flow and UI design based on concept
  • Conduct quantitative and qualitative research and analysis using questionnaires and interviews
  • Analyze and suggest improvements using numerical analysis tools

Requirements

  • More than 3-5 years of hands-on professional experience in mobile app (iOS/Android) UX/UI design.
  • Experience in UX/UI design using Figma and Adobe
  • Hands-on experience in product release, effectiveness measurement, and product improvement
  • Experience in using PayPay application

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Hands-on experience in design utilizing HCD (Human Centered Design) and design thinking
  • Experience in managing in-house services
  • Conversational level in Japanese

Meet PayPay's Developers

Ashwini leads one of PayPay’s payment sub-teams. She got there by doing something she’s done throughout her career: identifying something she wants to do and asking to do it.

Read their story...
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Refactoring PayPay’s Android App

with Adrian Mariadas

Adrian came to Japan to join PayPay as an Android Engineer. As the app has grown in scope, refactoring the codebase to ensure development can continue at a rapid pace has been a big part of his job.

Read their story...
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iOS Development at PayPay

with Yoseph Savianto

Yoseph joined PayPay after being attracted to their mission of making Japan a cashless society. As an iOS Engineer, he originally joined their iOS feature team, but now works on their platform team, creating an internal SDK for their iOS and Android apps.

Read their story...

Shilei started working on PayPay before it launched, and has seen it grow into a product used by tens of millions of users. He explains how diversity has helped them overcome challenges, and what PayPay is looking for in candidates.

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