Head of Design at Kredete Limited

Kredete is a financial technology platform that helps African immigrants in the diaspora build credit through instant international money transfers to 22+ countries, with low fees. We also offer businesses an API-based infrastructure for secure and low-cost cross-border payments to many African countries.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Design

Location: Nigeria (Remote)
Job type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are looking for a highly skilled and creative Head of Design to join our dynamic team in the fintech industry, focusing on banking and remittance products for both individuals and businesses.
• The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading the design team, overseeing the development and execution of innovative, user-centered design strategies across multiple platforms while ensuring scalability and alignment with the company’s brand identity.
• The Head of Design will play a critical role in scaling design solutions to support extensive feature sets, mentoring other designers to ensure team growth, and ensuring design outputs resonate with our diverse user groups.
• They must be capable of working independently, conducting research to fully understand products, and fostering a fast-paced design cycle with continuous iterations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design initiatives across all company platforms, ensuring design strategies are both innovative and user-centered, with a deep understanding of banking and remittance products for individuals and businesses.
• Manage and coordinate asset design, including illustrations, motion graphics, and other forms of design, ensuring all visual elements align with the company’s brand identity.
• Drive brand scalability and consistency by enhancing brand identity across multiple touchpoints, ensuring that design executions resonate with each unique user group.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and marketing, to ensure alignment on product vision, scalability, and user experience.
• Conduct independent research to fully understand product needs, competitive landscapes, and user expectations, and translate insights into actionable design frameworks.
• Lead by example, mentoring and guiding other designers to scale up their skills and performance, fostering a culture of continuous learning and design excellence within the team.
• Act as a player-coach, balancing hands-on design work with the strategic alignment of business, platform, and customer needs, while staying responsive to rapidly changing product requirements.
• Build scalable design systems that support massive feature sets, ensuring the design process remains agile and adaptable to changes as new features are rolled out.
• Ensure fast and continuous shipping of design assets and products, maintaining a design process that delivers within impressive timelines, while still adhering to quality and user experience standards.
• Champion user-centered design principles, incorporating feedback from user testing, product stakeholders, and market insights to drive product decisions that solve key pain points for both individuals and businesses.
• Stay ahead of design trends and innovations in fintech, ensuring that the company’s products remain competitive and appealing within a fast-evolving industry landscape.
• Reports directly to the Chief Product Officer (CPO), ensuring alignment between design strategy and overall product goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Design, UI/UX Design, Interaction Design, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in UX design, interaction design, or related roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity. Experience in fintech, banking, or B2B products is essential.
• Demonstrated experience in asset design, illustration, and motion graphics, with a portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions across desktop, mobile, and web platforms.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to lead design initiatives, manage stakeholders, and mentor a team of designers.
• Proficient in design thinking, rapid prototyping, and design systems, with the ability to scale designs for complex, multi-feature products.
• Deep understanding of fintech products, particularly banking and remittance services, with experience designing for both individuals and businesses.
• Ability to manage fast-paced design processes with continuous improvements and fast shipping of products.
• Skilled at collaborating with cross-functional teams and influencing decisions at all organizational levels.

Application Closing Date
14th October, 2024.