Product Designer
Japan’s largest mobile payments platform (~75M users); SoftBank/LY Corporation fintech JV; 40% equity holder of Binance Japan.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
About PayPay
PayPay Corporation is a Tokyo-based fintech company operating Japan’s leading QR/mobile payment service, founded 2018 as a SoftBank/Yahoo Japan (LY Corporation) joint venture, with banking (PayPay Bank), insurance and securities offerings. In October 2025 PayPay acquired a 40% equity stake in Binance Japan, making the crypto exchange an equity-method affiliate.
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About the Role
You will design end-to-end user experiences and interfaces for mobile and fintech products. You will develop UX strategies, create concepts and user flows, conduct research, analyze results, propose improvements, collaborate with product stakeholders, and mentor designers.
Requirements
- More than 3 years of professional mobile app UX/UI design experience for iOS or Android
- Experience using Figma and Adobe for UX/UI design
- Hands-on experience with product releases, effectiveness measurement, and continuous improvement
- Business-level proficiency in Japanese or English
- Experience using and evaluating PayPay or similar mobile payment and fintech apps
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end UX/UI for products and services
- Develop UX strategies based on project and business goals
- Create design concepts using user personas and journey maps
- Design UX flows and user interfaces
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative research using questionnaires and interviews
- Analyze data and suggest product improvements
- Work with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver product experiences
- Design high-level UX strategies balancing business performance and user experience
- Manage designers, control quality, and provide mentoring
Benefits
- Hybrid workstyle
- Super flex time with no core time
- Annual leave
- Personal leave
- Social insurance
- 401K
- Translation and interpretation support
- Visa sponsorship
- Relocation support