About Pliant
- Pliant is a modular B2B payments platform that combines commercial card issuing, payment accounts, FX, and spend management in one system — adapting to existing setups rather than requiring customers to replace them.
- Businesses across industries such as travel, e-commerce, and insurance use Pliant to manage complex payment workflows with cards, backed by credit lines Pliant underwrites itself.
- Fintechs and software platforms embed Pliant's payment infrastructure into their own products, from API-based Cards-as-a-Service to fully white-label solutions. Banks use Pliant's Card & Spend OS, the customer-facing interface, on their own infrastructure to run card programs.
- Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Pliant serves 5,000+ businesses and 40+ partners across Europe and the United States. A principal member of Visa and Mastercard, Pliant issues commercial cards in 13 currencies across 32 countries — under its own European e-money license and with licensed partners in the UK and US.
- Learn more at www.getpliant.com.
About the Role
- Role: Senior Product Designer, Design systems.
- This role blends hands-on product design with deep Design Systems ownership. Time is split between shipping product features embedded in a team and owning the evolution of the design system, including leading its evolution for AI-assisted workflows.
- You'll bring structure and craft to the product's user experience, working across web and mobile applications, and becoming the owner of the system that keeps everything consistent as the company scales across product teams, internal tools, and data dashboards.
- You'll collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to shape the roadmap and deliver new features, while raising the quality and consistency bar through a world-class design system.
- The design team reports directly to one of the founders.
- Flexibility is provided to work remotely or hybrid from one of the company hubs: Berlin, London, Vienna, or Helsinki.
- If not based in Berlin, you ideally must be able to join team meetings throughout the year and be within a +/- 3 hour of GMT timezone.
What You'll Be Doing
- Own the design system domain: Be the accountable owner of components, tokens, patterns, and documentation, keeping it consistent and high-quality as the team and product grow.
- Design product day to day: Embed in a product team and design end-to-end features across the web platform, mobile app, internal tools, and dashboards — from user flows and wireframes to high-fidelity UI and prototypes.
- Take the design system into the AI era: Restructure tokens, components, and documentation so AI agents can read and use them, enabling prototypes that map one-to-one to code.
- Partner closely with engineering: Keep the design system and codebase in sync by aligning naming, tokens, and component APIs so design and code stay 1:1.
- Raise the consistency bar: Define and champion standards, review component usage across flows, and help other designers move faster within a shared system.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders from discovery through delivery, ensuring smooth implementation of designs.
- Wear multiple hats when needed: Support different design needs and jump into projects outside the main scope to drive company success.
What You'll Bring
5+ years of experience in product design, UX/UI, or digital design (agency or in-house), with at least 1 year in a senior or lead role.
Deep, demonstrable expertise in Design Systems — having built, scaled, and governed a design system.
Strong command of component architecture, design tokens, theming/modes, and documentation, with a systematic approach to naming and structure.
Advanced Figma skills, including variables, modes, component properties, and auto-layout.
A solid understanding of how design systems map to front-end code (tokens, component structure) and comfort collaborating closely with engineers to keep design and code 1:1.
Curiosity about how AI/agent-assisted design workflows are evolving.
A proven ability to design end-to-end product experiences across web, mobile apps, internal tools, and dashboards.
Excellent craft in interaction and visual design, focusing on clarity, hierarchy, and making complex workflows feel simple.
A proactive, highly organized way of working with autonomy while collaborating closely with PMs and engineers.
Strong communication skills for presenting work, explaining rationale, and inviting feedback.
Experience working in Agile, fast-paced environments, iterating quickly based on feedback and data.
Company values alignment: Push It, Own It, Open Up, Be Kind, Have Fun, Be Pliant.
Nice to Have
Experience in fintech or B2B SaaS.
Compensation & Benefits
- The opportunity to work in a growing team with big responsibilities that thrives on a strong exchange of knowledge and excellence.
- Attractive remuneration.
- Your choice of preferred OS, Windows or Mac.
- Flat hierarchy and transparent communication in a relaxed, professional atmosphere.
- Opportunity to develop talent in a dynamic team with ambitious goals.
- Flexibility and possibility to work remotely.
- Monthly mobility benefit.
- Wellhub Membership.
- Pliant Card with monthly credit to explore the product and enjoy food with colleagues.