Product Designer

We are looking for a Product Designer to help design different customer-facing and internal products. You will be working with a small team of engineers and designers to build highly impactful products in the fast-growing blockchain technology space.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with Product Managers, engineers, designers and content strategists to oversee the user experience of a product from conception until launch (and then some)
• Conceive new feature ideas and pitch them directly to the CEO
• Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something useful and valuable for our users
• Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the commercial team
• Design and prototype simple, elegant and intuitive experiences.
• Give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise our bar for quality
• Supply graphics across many different mediums: web, iOS, Android and print
• Contribute to all stages of the design process from user research to wireframes and shipping the product
• Identify the needs of users and improve on existing features
• Help define the short and long-term roadmap for your product area
• Regularly give and receive feedback on design iterations
• Communicate design goals and specifications to the engineers responsible for building them

Qualifications

MUST HAVE

• A portfolio showcasing your mobile or interactive design skills, design research process and completed work
• At least 2+ years experience designing and shipping mobile applications to Play and/or Appstore
• Experience in application design, visual design, interaction design
• You are enthusiastic about details – a pixel perfectionist!
• You have experience or are enthusiastic about working with a design system
• You are previous experience documenting your design process: connecting business cases to research-backed design solutions, and sharing with stakeholders
• Proven ability to think at a high level about product strategy
• Proven Experience with Figma
• Excellent communication and presentation skills. You’ll be expected to clearly communicate design strategy to executives, the rest of the team, and to engineers

GOOD TO HAVE / BONUS (In order of priority)

• Familiarity with prototyping tools (ie Principle, Framer, Invision, )
• Familiarity with JIRA, GitHub and other agile management tools
• You have an understanding of HTML, CSS, and JS standards

Why Join Us?

• Do something meaningful; Be a part of the future of financial technology in the continent.
• Fast moving, challenging and unique business problems
• International work environment and flat organisation
• Great career development opportunities in a growing company
• Competitive salary and equity options
• Health insurance with Gym and Spa Access
• Access to training courses for Blockchain and other relevant professional development areas
• Pan-African travel to other countries for product and market research
• Remote-Friendly with flexible working hours