Founding Product Designer (UI & UX) at a Reputable Nigeria-based Software Development Company

We are building the future of Nigeria-based software development, IT remote staffing and augmentation tailored for companies all around the world, with a vision to be a trusted partner for businesses looking for scalable, cost-effective solutions. Innovation, collaboration, and building lasting relationships will be the framework/fabric of the Company. A Company that combines European organisation and processes with world-class Nigerian Engineering expertise to deliver a truly holistic solution. LAUNCH- first 6 Softplicity employees to begin with 1 EU Project/ Client and 2 Nigeria-based projects.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Founding Product Designer (UI & UX)

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are hiring the first Product Design Team, which will be responsible for the human experience of using software.
• You will be hands-on and expected to drive the direction of design at the company by crafting systems and implementing a design-centric approach to product development. You will work closely with engineers and understand user needs.
• This is a critical role for the company and demands an ambitious and motivated Product Designer who can make design central to the way Softplicity operates and builds.
• Working at a fast-paced company like Softplicity will be a varied and demanding experience.
• You will find yourself: leading design prototyping sprints with engineers and other designers; crafting the design system of Softplicity products.

Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:

• Product- UX & UI design: As our first design hire, you must be a strong individual product designer: you'll be involved at every stage of design work. You'll cover the full spectrum of software UX &UI design, from helping define early product concepts, to wire-framing the high-level workflow, to de-risking critical micro-interactions of features, to creating high-fidelity blueprints that frontend developers can use. You’ll also build out a crisp and effective visual design system, ensuring it remains consistent across our products. You should have experience using industry-standard design tools such as Figma.
• User research: Alongside having strong visual craft, you’ll need to work and empathise with our users. You’ll run and observe user research in the user’s environment, which might mean sitting in a muddy field with them. You’ll focus on the problems they experience, and feed back into the design and the product to help solve them.
• Collaborating with the Engineering team: You don’t need to know how to write code, but you need an understanding of and a keen interest in technical architecture, and how that affects the feasibility of your designs. You’ll work closely with engineers from the rapid prototyping stage all the way through to release, ensuring that elegant design goes hand-in-hand with pragmatic engineering.
• Partnering across the wider company: Beyond Engineering, you’ll work with our Product and Strategy and Partnerships teams to understand user needs and contribute to the wider product vision and direction.
• Defining the design processes: Following industry best practices, but still pushing the envelope using modern technology and tools, you will set up slick and efficient processes for the whole design cycle at Softplicity.
• Building the team: As the company grows, you will help identify, recruit and onboard additional design talent into the team.

Requirements
You should have:

• 5 years of experience in the design of software products / UI, and UX design-centric
• Experience conducting user interviews
• Experience designing enterprise-grade software for both desktop and mobile environments
• Skill in design tools such as Figma and/or Adobe XD, Hotjar, GitHub, and Notion
• A history of building design teams and processes

Ideally, you would also have:

• Experience designing geospatial applications for both desktop and mobile applications
• Understanding of interfaces for controlling robotic systems
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Typescript
• Ability to create or modify designs in frontend frameworks such as React.

Benefits / Salary

• Salary: N350,000 / month.
• Competitive base salary
• Accommodation support
• Access to any resources, equipment and training that you need to do your job in a world-class way
• free breakfast and Lunch.

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2025.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV with a cover letter in PDF to: hire@softplicity.co.uk using the position as the subject of the email.

Application Process

• Stage 1: Application and Portfolio. Fill in the Submit your CV with a cover letter in PDF to hire@softplicity.co.uk and share a link to your portfolio - if there is a password, then please share this as well.
• Stage 2: Initial Interview and Problem-Solving Exercise.
• If selected, you will then be invited for an interview at our Ikeja office, Lagos.
• Stage 3: Final Interview. You will speak with one of our Founders who can answer any questions you might have about the company and discuss more about your motivations for joining a startup.
• Stage 4: Offer.

Note: We want Softplicity to bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We don't expect everyone to have experience across each of these areas. Please apply even if you only partially fulfil this list.