The scale and impact of our work is massive. 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 (Remote)
Job Type: Full-time / Hybrid
Department: Technology - Product Design
The Job
- 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.
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- You will report into the head of design, this role is fully Remote role, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3
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.
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 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 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 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.
Whats 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.
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