Product Owner
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
Job Summary
The Opportunity
The Product Designer role carries real weight here you wont just be executing a roadmap someone else defined. Youll help define it. Youll work directly with our CEO and Head of Engineering with a level of ownership over product direction that most designers only get several promotions in.
What youll do
- Get close to the field. Talk directly to hotel HR finance and teams as well as shift workers to understand where the platform creates friction or falls short.
- Own problems end-to-end. Take a rough idea or operational pain point and carry it through research flows prototypes testing and shipped UI.
- Design for a multi-sided platform. PaydFlex serves hotel admins approvers (HOD/HR/Finance/GM) and casual workers each with different needs contexts and technical comfort levels. Great product design here means balancing all three.
- Write specs engineers can build from. Youll work in tight loop with engineering without a PM as a translator in between.
- Shape prioritisation. Your perspective on user value and operational impact will directly influence what gets built next.
- Build and evolve our design system as the product expands into new markets and hotel departments beyond banquet housekeeping and F&B.
Qualifications :
What were looking for
- 4 years of product/UI/UX design experience ideally with exposure to operationally complex or multi-sided platforms (marketplaces fintech workforce or logistics tools)
- A portfolio showing range: research flows and high-fidelity UI not just visuals
- Comfort running your own lightweight discovery customer interviews field visits usability sessions without a dedicated research team
- Strong collaboration instincts; youll work daily with engineering often without a PM buffer
- Fluency with Figma (or equivalent) and enough technical fluency to have efficient realistic conversations with engineers
- Business judgment you can reason about trade-offs like this is great UX but expensive to build versus this unlocks the next enterprise client
- Fluent English; Bahasa Malaysia a strong plus given our client base
Nice to have
- Experience designing for frontline/deskless workers (not just office-based SaaS users)
- Exposure to fintech payments or compliance-heavy products (EPF/SOCSO payouts)
- Experience designing for hospitality logistics or workforce management
Additional Information :
What youll get
- Outsized ownership over product direction from day one
- Direct line to leadership and to real customers some of the biggest hotel brands in the region
- A product with genuine measurable impact: less fraud faster payouts real time saved for hotel teams
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
Payd is a B2B SaaS company that works with hotels, F&B chains and retail companies to help them manage the payroll for their casual workers. We're working with some of the largest hotel brands in the market and are looking for a Sales Manager to join us with a focus selling to hotels ... View more