Senior Product Designer

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