Razorpay is one of India’s leading full-stack financial technology companies, powering the way businesses move, manage, and grow money. Founded in 2014 by Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar with a simple vision — to simplify payments for Indian businesses — we’ve since grown into a fintech powerhouse driving India’s digital payment revolution.
Razorpay powers millions of businesses with a smarter, scalable stack that goes beyond transactions to help them truly build and grow.
From seamless checkouts to payroll automation, across India, Singapore, and Malaysia, we’ve been engineering a fintech ecosystem that’s redefining how money moves across Asia — and we’re just getting started.
Today, that ecosystem supports everyone from early-stage startups to some of India’s largest enterprises, enabling them to accept, process, and disburse payments at scale while expanding into new ways of managing money more efficiently.
Our scale speaks volumes: Razorpay processes $180+ billion in annualized transactions, powering leading businesses like Airbnb, Facebook, WhatsApp, Airtel, CRED, BookmyShow, Zomato, Swiggy, Lenskart, Mirae Asset Capital markets, Indian Oil, National Pension Scheme — and over 100 of India’s unicorns. With strong roots in India and growing operations in Southeast Asia, we are shaping the next chapter of financial technology across the region.
We are backed by global investors including GIC, Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA), Tiger Global, Ribbit Capital, Matrix Partners, MasterCard, and Salesforce Ventures, having raised over $740 million to date. Strategic acquisitions — including Ezetap (POS and offline payments), Curlec (Malaysia expansion), BillMe (digital invoicing), and POP (rewards-first UPI) — along with earlier moves in fraud prevention, payroll, and lending, have further strengthened our platform and widened our footprint across Asia.
But what truly sets Razorpay apart is our culture. At Razorpay, ownership is our oxygen — you own what you build, with no micromanagement or red tape, just the runway to make your ideas fly. Learning is a lifestyle — if you’re curious, you’ll feel at home here. People > Pedigree — we hire for attitude, hustle, and hunger more than degrees. Transparency thrives over titles — this is where interns question CXOs and CXOs say “thank you.” Guided by our values of Customer First, Autonomy & Ownership, Agility with Integrity, Transparency, Challenging the status quo and a strong belief that Razorpay grows with Razors, you’ll be part of a 3000+ strong team building not just products, but the financial infrastructure of the future.
The Role :
We're seeking an exceptional design leader to manage and guide a team of talented multidisciplinary designers in one of the fastest growing tech startups of the nation to drive it towards becoming the best design team in the industry.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Manage the team and the work
- Own a team of multi-disciplinary designers consisting of product designers, visual designers, visual communication designers and researchers.
- Along with the design leads, manage various design projects and their priorities. Help the team in resolving blockers. Ensure the output meets business goals, deadlines and the quality bar.
Shape up product direction and drive design-led projects
- Take part in ideation, planning and prioritization of our diverse range of products & features keeping the short and long-term goals of the organization in mind.
- Find out new directions that we can take in our quest to make payments and finance easy and accessible to all.
- Strategise, prioritize and drive design-led projects. Also, help to extend the existing design systems and build new ones.
Mentor, Guide and Lead the Team
- You will be responsible for the growth of the team. Help them grow their soft and hard skills. Help them define their career paths, identify opportunities and level up to do the best work of their lives.
Raise the Bar
- You will set the bar high. You know what quality looks like and how to help product teams ship at that quality with minimal impact on velocity.
Drive and improve the design process
- Iterate upon and improve the design processes to introduce the best practices within the team. Bring in users to the center of the process and encourage design decisions to be backed by user-behavior and data.
- Create frameworks and guidelines for the team to deliver better and faster.
- Conduct design reviews and status meetings. Facilitate design sprints, workshops, brainstorming sessions.
- Prioritize research and design improvement opportunities in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
- Share engineering principles to guide the team from an engineering point of view.
Work with cross-disciplinary teams
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing and various Business teams to deliver delightful customer experiences. Ensure that projects are well-defined, high impact, and successfully executed.
- Collaborate with your peers in leadership to define a strategic vision for what we build, helping focus on solving user problems.
Design Evangelism, inside and outside
- Be a strong advocate for exceptional user experiences and demonstrate their impact. Evangelize the goals of design and communicate them to the product, engineering and other teams in the organization.
- Represent Razorpay outside by speaking in external design conferences/meetups, publishing blogs/articles or running events.
Hire, Build and Scale team
- You will be responsible for attracting and hiring excellent people. You’ll work to create the systems for you (and others) to effectively evaluate and hire designers and researchers.
Mandatory Qualifications:
You are someone who increases the effectiveness of the entire team, not just your direct reports – a leader and an example-setter. You are effective even when you're not even in the room. Your processes are celebrated, emulated and copied by teams in and out of the organization.
You are an amazing designer who has shipped out many great designs.
- 6+ years of experience in designing digital products.
- A portfolio of kickass design work, executed either by yourself or a team that you led, that conveys an ability to ship successful products that people love.
- A great understanding of Visual Design with relentless attention to detail and consistency.
- You’re product-minded and intensely customer-focused. You care about design all the way from a strategic level down to design details and getting the pixels right.
- Good to have: experience with creative design projects on the likes of animated videos, motion designing and videography.
- Understanding the importance of behavioral analytics. You go by data-driven when applicable and understand nuances of it. Experience with various analytics tools like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, etc would be awesome.
You have at least 2 years of experience in leading & managing design teams.
- You have been managing, coaching and leading. You’re passionate about developing designers’ skills and careers. You inspire and motivate people to do their best work fully aligned with business goals. You know how to grow and hire new leaders.
You love change and know how to manage it.
- You can work effectively in a dynamic environment, juggle multiple projects, and prioritize work. Experience working in Agile/Scrum development processes is a big plus.
You have excellent communication and presentation skills.
- You are able to clearly articulate design decisions within a larger context to the team and leadership.
Top Skills
What We Do
Power your finance, grow your business.
Razorpay is India’s first full-stack financial solutions company. We are on a mission to enhance the payment experience of over 300 million end consumers. And in doing so, we aim to enable Indian businesses - big and small - accept payments digitally with minimal effort and maximum ease.
Razorpay has grown from being a payment gateway provider to a solutions-driven organization boasting of an extensive products suite to accept and disburse payments as well as raise capital and park money. In a nutshell, we fit into every nook and corner where your business touches money.
#OutgrowOrdinary
We identify ourselves as disruptors in the digital payments space and our vision is to power the financial ecosystem for other disruptors. Like attracts like and Razorpay actively looks to partner with established companies and startups that have either broken the glass ceiling in their industry or are set to.
The Razorpay Product Suite today comprises verticals, along with Payment Gateway, like Payment Links, Payment Pages, Subscriptions, Smart Collect, Route, Razorpay Capital, RazorpayX, Payroll and Thirdwatch.
Razorpay was started in 2014 by two IIT Roorkee alumni, Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar. Just a short few years later, Razorpay has evolved into a 800-odd strong organization with some of the best talents in the country helping some of the best companies manage their money movement seamlessly.
Certified cool
We are a bunch of spirited, ambitious and fun folks. And no, we’re not saying this ourselves--leading institutions have recognized Razorpay for the high trust and high-performance culture that we maintain.
Our strength lies in the people we are and we go to great lengths to nurture a family of coders, designers, sellers, marketers, analysts, writers, runners, photographers, gamers, tinkerers, and above all, people who are dreamers and doers at the same time. Be a part of our exciting journey.
