Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent by providing accessible financial services. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to join their growing team, responsible for creating user-centered designs for their mobile applications and collaborating with various stakeholders throughout the product development process.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with product managers, user researchers, engineers, and data analysts from the start to end of a feature
- Create high quality designs, interactions, and prototypes to explore ideas in service of the best solution for the project (Wave uses Figma)
- Craft user research plans and work directly with our product operations analysts/user researchers to identify problems and validate solutions in user testing
- Contribute to Wave’s design system and component library
- Talk to customers and find solutions to their problems by thinking critically from their perspective
- Communicate the reasoning behind your product decisions in review sessions
- Prototype visual and UX concepts and iterate towards the right solution
Requirements:
- Fluency in English
- At least 8 years of end-to-end in-house experience, preferably with a consumer focus product design with mobile apps
- Excellent visual and interaction design skills, with an eye at removing friction from flows
- Attention to detail and high level of visual craft
- Strong illustration and animation skills. We use After Effects at Wave but anything that can be converted to a Lottie file works
- Ability to deliver high-quality designs with speed and polish
- Bias towards action. Identify UX improvements without waiting for the perfect conditions
- Experience with low and high-fidelity design & prototyping
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to think through complex interaction design as well as thinking about tradeoffs of each solution
- Curiosity for understanding and unpacking customer behaviors and needs
- Experience balancing business goals, customer needs, and technical tradeoffs, while explaining your point of view to the team
- Can speak, read, and write in French. This is nice to have but not a strong requirement