Senior Product Designer at M-KOPA Nigeria

M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go "PayGo" solar energy for off grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Product Designer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time | Remote
Category: Technology - Product Design

About the Role

• The M-KOPA design team is a team of senior designers in different African markets with a love for customer research & digital design. We work at the intersection of service design, UX/UI design & design validation to help create experiences that our users love and lead the impact we desire.
• We partner with with experienced developers, data analysts, researchers and other team members translating insights and data into customer-centric design solutions.
• Together we improve the Android customer app and Android sales app, but also our CRM and other internal tools.
• This is a unique opportunity to become part of our growing team of designers and researchers. As part of the team you will apply your research & UX/UI design experience.
• You'll lead important discovery processes in the field and oversee creating top-notch user interfaces and experiences.
• You will spend the majority of your time with your dedicated product team, but will also be part of a design team with designers who will rely on your coaching and guidance.
• Would you also like to become a Senior Designer of the digital products at M-KOPA? Read below if the job suits you. You will report into the head of design, this role is fully Remote role, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3

Responsibilities
You are excited about this role because you will:

• You create Android app designs and are to be on top of the latest developments.
• You deal with a huge amount of team members and align them to reach the best possible design solution.
• You facilitating the creative process and lead teams in the ideation and solutioning process.
• You inspire other designers and are open to learn from other team members.
• You use data, insights, technical limitations and team goals to fuel your design solutions.
• You have a user-centric mindset that cares about solving problems, good user journeys and customer blueprints.
• You build empathy with users by collaborating with researchers and consuming insights going out into the field yourself.

Requirements
We're excited about because you have experience in:

• Bachelor's Degree in Design, Human Computer Interaction or related field.
• 5+ years of applied UX design experience.
• You have at least 5 years of work experience doing end-to-end UX Design; from gathering input from users to great-looking pixel-perfect prototypes.
• You can make great experiences of our products for our users through a balanced mixture of interaction design, motion design/animation, and copywriting.
• You have great prototyping skills and know when to use it and how to get the best results out of your user research.
• You have great workshop facilitation skills, know how to lead creative sessions and how to get people involved.
• You have a solving problems mindset and team up with others to create the desired solution.
• You can apply a style guide to what we need in the products.
• You question assumptions provided by assertions, data and conversations and know the appoint the most riskiest assumptions made.
• You know how to use research, data, and customer insights to ensure that partners and product teams thoroughly understand our customers' problems.
• You know how to collaborate with colleagues to complete more complex projects
• You understand mobile and native Android app design.
• You have experience setting up and conducting user tests and can validate your ideas.
• You'll provide a portfolio demonstrating your design process and deliverables of mobile apps
• You have experience in Agile development and scrum
• You have a solid experience with (design) tools such as Figma, Maze, Miro etc.
• You have experience designing for the African markets.

Benefits
What's in it for you:

• Great compensation package
• Remote work #LI-Remote
• Private health insurance (inpatient outpatient, maternity, eye care, dental and gym facilities)
• Group Life Cover and Personal Accident Cover
• Company pension (A mandatory basic national social security scheme)
• Remote working (dependent on the nature of the role)
• Airtime allowance (dependent on the nature of the role)
• MIFI monthly payment for remote workers
• 20 days per annum (excluding public holidays). Annual leave is accrued at the standard rate of 1.67 days per month.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.