Product Designer

Summary

Join Wave, a leading financial institution in Africa, and help us make the continent cashless. As a Mobile Designer, you will work closely with a team of product managers, researchers, and engineers to create high-quality iOS and Android apps. You will be responsible for crafting user research plans, contributing to Wave's design system, and prototyping visual and UX concepts. This is a fully remote role, with candidates based in specified countries or willing to relocate. Wave offers competitive salaries, generous equity, and comprehensive benefits, including subsidized health insurance, parental leave, flexible vacation, and charitable donation matching. The role requires at least 5 years of end-to-end product design experience with a consumer focus on mobile apps, excellent communication skills, and fluency in English. Travel to African operating markets is expected approximately 20% of the time.

Requirements

• Fluency in English
• At least 5 years of end-to-end in-house product design experience, preferably with a consumer focus with mobile apps
• Excellent visual, UI, interaction, and communication skills
• Experience with low and high-fidelity prototyping
• Ability to think through complex interaction design as well as thinking about tradeoffs of each solution
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Work closely with product managers, user researchers, engineers, and data analysts from the start to end of a feature
• Create high quality designs, interactions, and prototypes to explore ideas in service of the best solution for the project (Wave uses Figma)
• Craft user research plans and work directly with our product operations analysts/user researchers to identify problems and validate solutions in user testing
• Contribute to Wave’s design system and component library
• Talk to customers and find solutions to their problems by thinking critically from their perspective
• Communicate the reasoning behind your product decisions in review sessions
• Prototype visual and UX concepts and iterate towards the right solution

Preferred Qualifications

• Are detail-oriented and able to balance multiple projects
• Can iterate separate concepts quickly to user test design bets. The ability to move fast and update designs based on customer feedback is an important quality we’re looking for
• Think carefully about in-the-weeds details and their role within the design system
• Feel comfortable anticipating and designing for edge cases
• Enjoy pairing with designers, engineers, and product managers
• Are excited to learn about how all our products work together
• Can speak, read, and write in French

Benefits

• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
• Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching