Making payroll faster, clearer, and built to grow.

Running payroll is high stakes — sellers need speed and confidence, but complexity often got in the way. As lead designer, I led the end-to-end redesign of Square Payroll’s setup and core experience to help sellers run payroll faster and more reliably, supporting over $7B in payroll volume and introducing proactive alerts that caught issues before payday failures.

The problems we needed to solve:

  • Speed vs. compliance — enabling faster first payroll runs without cutting corners

  • Simplicity vs. scale — an experience that works for one location or fifty

  • Guidance vs. friction — surfacing critical blockers without slowing submission

We rebuilt the full payroll lifecycle — from first setup to every pay run after.

Set up once, run with confidence — Tax and compliance handled during onboarding, before sellers ever hit submit.

Full visibility before every pay run — Blockers flagged early so sellers could resolve them before submission

Pay everyone accurately — Hours, salaries, and withholdings calculated automatically across locations.

Your whole payroll, in your pocket. — Full payroll management from mobile

Credit One: Redesigning credit for confidence