Product Designer - Merchant Experience

About Us

Hello Clever is building the next generation of payments and loyalty infrastructure by turning every transaction into growth for merchants. We’re an AI-powered fintech operating across 22+ markets, helping businesses move money in real time and convert payments into measurable outcomes like higher repeat rates, bigger baskets, and smarter customer engagement. Our platform combines local account-to-account rails, embedded cashback & loyalty products, and powerful data intelligence (Clever AI) so merchants can launch offers, optimise ROI, and scale faster – all through a single integration.

We’re also proud to be recognised on the global stage including being named Australia’s fastest-growing fintech, Top 100 Forbes Asia, ranked in the AFR Fastest-Growing Companies, and selected for Inc. Magazine’s Best in Business alongside some of the most iconic companies in the world.

The Role

Unlock your potential with Hello Clever. We're seeking a Product Designer, Merchant Experience to own the merchant-facing product surface end to end: the CleverConnect dashboard merchants run their business from, payment and checkout configuration, transaction, settlement, payout, and refund visibility, rewards and loyalty configuration, reporting and insights, integrations, and self-service support. You will sit in our Ho Chi Minh City hub alongside the engineering, support, and operations teams who build and run this product, and your work will serve merchants in every market we operate in. If you want ownership of a dense, trust-critical product surface and want to design it where it's built, we'd love to hear from you.

• Position: Product Designer, Merchant Experience, full-time
• Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Working mode: Hybrid (4 days in office)
• Reporting to: Head of Product
• Work rights: Applicants must have full working rights in Vietnam.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Merchant Dashboard & Money Visibility: Design the CleverConnect dashboard merchants run their business from — home, navigation, transaction and settlement visibility, payout and refund status, and reporting — making money states legible, timely, and hard to misread.
• Payment & Checkout Configuration: Design how merchants set up and manage checkout, payment methods, pricing, and payment links, so configuration is clear, transparent, and reversible.
• Rewards & Loyalty Configuration: Design how merchants fund and manage cashback, offers, and milestone rewards, and how Clever AI insights reach them, so the value exchange is obvious to merchants and their customers.
• Integrations & Self-Service: Design the ongoing integration and account management experience after a merchant goes live — connection health, webhook and event visibility, team and permission management, and self-service support paths.
• Onboarding Partnership: Pair with the designer who owns the merchant onboarding and activation journey and the PM who owns merchant activation, shaping the post-signup merchant experience without claiming the signup-to-first-transaction journey.
• Design System Contribution: Adopt, extend, and document the shared design system on the merchant surface — components, patterns, content standards, and accessibility guidelines — in coordination with the founding design system owner.
• Product Discovery & Research: Partner with Product to understand merchants across markets through remote interviews, usability testing, activation and funnel data, support signals, and rapid experiments.
• Interaction Design & Prototyping: Create flows, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity UI, and detailed interaction and edge-state specifications, then work with Engineering through delivery and review implementation quality.
• Trust, Risk & Compliance-Aware Design: Design experiences that make money movement, settlement timing, refund state, permissions, and audit history legible and trustworthy, consistent with regulated fintech expectations.
• Cross-Functional Delivery: Work with the HCMC engineering, support, and operations teams and the global Product, Risk, Compliance, Sales, and Customer Success teams to move from ambiguous problem framing to shipped improvements and measurable learning.
  
  

What Success Looks Like

In the first 6 to 12 months, success looks like:

• The merchant-facing surface has a coherent experience: shared patterns documented in the design system and in real use across dashboard, configuration, and rewards surfaces, not a personal file.
• At least one merchant-experience improvement (dashboard, payment configuration, money visibility, or rewards configuration) has shipped with a defined success signal, measured across more than one market.
• A repeatable merchant research cadence exists — remote interviews, support-signal review, funnel analysis — and Product can point to decisions it changed.
• Engineering teams in HCMC ship your specifications with low rework because the specs, states, and edge cases were complete.
  
  

Exact targets will be set against Hello Clever's live roadmap and current design maturity, not fixed in this posting.

You're a Strong Fit if You Have

• 5-8 years of experience in product design, UX/UI design, interaction design, or a closely related discipline, including end-to-end ownership of complex, detail-dense customer-facing product surfaces. Fintech, payments, banking, SaaS, ecommerce, marketplace, or another regulated environment is strongly preferred.
• A portfolio showing end-to-end ownership: problem framing, research, information architecture, flows, prototyping, high-fidelity UI, engineering handoff, and what you learned from what shipped.
• Experience designing data-dense surfaces — dashboards, tables, status-heavy workflows, financial or operational data — where hierarchy, states, and edge cases carry the experience.
• Strong craft: interaction and visual design judgement with real care for accessibility, content clarity, empty and error states, and production quality.
• Experience contributing to a design system, component library, or content and accessibility standard that other designers and engineers actually adopted.
• Professional working proficiency in English, with the ability to run research with merchants in English and argue design decisions with a global product and engineering team.
• Experience working in a distributed team across time zones, and the communication discipline that requires: written thinking, direct trade-off discussion, and clarity without over-process.
• The ability to explain design trade-offs across merchant value, operational risk, technical feasibility, compliance, and trust to practitioners and executives alike.
  
  

Bonus Points if You Have

• Experience in fintech, payments, banking, wallets, QR payments, bank linking, ecommerce checkout, marketplaces, loyalty, or another regulated environment.
• Familiarity with account-to-account payments, settlement, reconciliation, payouts, refunds, disputes, or platform fund-flow models.
• Familiarity with Southeast Asian digital commerce and payment behaviour, including experience at regional payments, commerce, or super-app companies.
• Experience designing merchant dashboards, reporting tools, integration management, or self-service support experiences in a two-sided marketplace or platform business.
• Experience designing role-based access, permission, or audit-aware workflows.
• Experience pairing with a design-system owner or scaling a system across multiple surfaces and teams.
  
  

How We Work

You will sit in Ho Chi Minh City with the engineering, support, and operations teams who build and run the merchant platform, and work daily with a product organisation spread across Australia, Japan, the United States, and beyond. We build one platform for every market: no country forks, no local variants that drift. We value direct communication, evidence over assertion, and design quality that holds up when money is moving.

Why Join Hello Clever

• Real Surface Ownership: Own the merchant-facing product experience end to end, across every market we operate in.
• Design Where It's Built: Sit in the HCMC hub next to the engineers, support, and operations teams who ship your work, with short feedback loops from spec to production.
• High-Growth Fintech: Be part of a company shaping the future of real-time payments, loyalty, and merchant growth across 25+ markets.
• Strong Product Partnership: Work directly with the Head of Product, the merchant-experience PM, and engineering on problems where design quality directly affects trust, activation, and business outcomes.
• Career Development: Grow your craft across payments, regulated product design, design systems, and cross-market delivery.
  
  

How To Apply

We keep our hiring process simple and effective:

• Phone Screen (People & Culture)
• Meet the Hiring Manager: An introductory conversation with the Head of Product. Walk us through shipped work, your design reasoning, and how you've owned a complex surface end to end
• Design Exercise & Meet the Team: A focused, time-boxed exercise on a merchant dashboard or money-visibility problem. Meet key collaborators across Product, Engineering, and Support, and confirm mutual fit
  
  

If this sounds like your next career move, we'd love to hear from you.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now.