Senior Product Designer at Afriex Nigeria

At Afriex, our mission is to remove the friction of sending money across borders and to level the economic playing field on a global scale. To achieve this we are building a global payment network: a scalable and usable infrastructure that integrates existing fiat and crypto payment networks, including but not limited to crypto exchanges, banks, card processors, and public blockchains. We believe that cryptocurrency will set a new standard for secure online payments, giving individuals and merchants a seamless way to transact with anybody in the world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Product Designer

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description
You'll need to: 

• Lead product design vision as a hands-on designer and providing guidance for design team output, facilitating cross-functional partnerships and implementing effective design processes.
• Develop and ship design system that define Afriex and deliver these across iOS/Android and web. Look for larger patterns to make it easier to create features end-to-end: solid primitive items, types, colors and components etc.
• Work and iteratively improveon the user experience of Afriex app for both iOS/Android, primarily on mobile
• Participate in regular design reviews where you’ll seek out and incorporate relevant feedback on your designs. Drive design initiatives from conception to completion – taking ideas from inception to development with multiple iterations that take into account user feedback from usability studies and feedback
• Own the craft quality of the shipped experiences in Afriex product and grow the level of design craft in the team and org. Leading this space means you get to maintain, improve, and innovate.
• Lead and influence cross-functional product vision, champion craft and maintain a high-quality bar for shipped experiences and execute on the product roadmap
• Be a core driver of decisions to improve Afriex product quality in both the short and long run while balancing customer and business needs.
• Optimally scale design resources across brand/marketing and product.
• Hire, mentor, align and amplify the team from strategy through delivery.
• Work closely with engineers and product manager to define both the long-term strategy and the short term tactics for our products
• Collaborate daily with Engineering, Product, Customer service, and User Research.

Requirements
You're a great fit if:

• Interested candidates should possess relevant qualifications
• You possess 6+ years of professional product design experience
• You have experience designing and shipping consumer-facing experiences for web and mobile
• You possess strong UX craft, visual design and written communication — you can break down complex experiences and design with consideration for all touchpoints
• You have experience working in a collaborative, remote environment with, engineers and cross-functional teams
• You're fluent in Figma, Photoshop, and prototyping tools
• You're open-minded
• Experience in financial services is a plus.

You need:

• Your own laptop - Afriex has a Bring Your Own Device Policy (BYOD) for all roles.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.