Product Designer

The role

You will expand features on Android and iOS apps as an experienced mobile designer. You will work with product managers, researchers, engineers, and data analysts to create designs, interactions, and prototypes.

What you will do

• 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
• Craft user research plans and work directly with user researchers to identify problems and validate solutions
• Contribute to Wave's design system and component library
• Talk to customers and find solutions to their problems
• Communicate the reasoning behind product decisions in review sessions and in conversation with PMs
• Prototype visual and UX concepts and iterate towards the right solution

Required qualifications

• Experience with low and high-fidelity design & prototyping with LLMs on Android mobile apps
• Fluency in English
• At least 6 years of end-to-end in-house experience, with a consumer focus on product design with mobile apps
• Excellent visual and interaction design skills
• Attention to detail and high level of visual craft
• Strong illustration and animation skills
• Ability to deliver high-quality designs with speed and polish
• Bias towards action
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to think through complex interaction design as well as thinking about tradeoffs of each solution
• Curiosity for understanding and unpacking customer behaviors and needs
• Experience balancing business goals, customer needs, and technical tradeoffs

Nice to have

• French language skills
• Can speak, read, and write in French

Benefits

• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents
• Retirement contributions
• 6 months fully paid parental leave
• Subsidized fertility assistance
• Unlimited vacation with a 20-day minimum requirement
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
• Fund up to three in-person get-togethers a year

Before you apply

• Upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role

About the company

Wave is building financial services to make Africa the first cashless continent. They have millions of users across 9 countries and are a distributed team.