Product Designer at Aza Finance

Job Summary

• Our goal at AZA Finance is a simple, yet powerful one: we want to make it easier for businesses from more than 115 countries to do business with and within Africa. We do this by empowering these organisations to move money, exchange currencies, and make payments across all major African, G20 and digital currencies.
• If you're someone creative who loves to solve complicated problems, then you will find a good fit joining us at AZA Finance.
• As a Product Designer, you will be responsible for producing design work across our products. You will be working closely with Designers, Product Managers and our Engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of products and features from the ideation stage to post-launch
• Design user flows, interactions, and experiences that are simple, elegant, intuitive, and consistent across web and mobile platforms
• Run user research and user testing to evaluate the current product and user needs
• Work directly with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to effectively launch new features
• Constantly audit, analyze, and iterate — leveraging quantitative as well as qualitative metrics.
• Take a data-driven approach to design growth experiments, while maintaining a relentless focus on delivering real value for our customers.
• Give and receive feedback from other designers to raise our bar for quality.
• Responsible for ensuring designs are consistent, making sure products align with our brand, and identity.

Requirements

• 3+ years of product design experience.
• Strong online portfolio to demonstrate your product design experience.
• Solid grasp of creating work to satisfy KPIs and metrics from stakeholders.
• An understanding of how to gather data to support your design decisions.
• Ability to moderate customers in remote usability testing sessions.
• Capable of gathering requirements, creating the required assets and then presenting them to engineers.
• Follow a user-centric approach to creating work that satisfies our customers requirements.
• Capable of giving and receiving feedback in critique sessions to improve team practices.
• Capable of scoping requirements for work and giving rough estimates of timescales to complete it.
• Good understanding of industry trends and software. Use of Figma is a real plus.
• Experience sketching, wire-framing, and prototyping as part of the design process.
• Understanding of working in scrum and/or kanban would be helpful but not essential.
• Financial services experience would be a bonus.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• Global / regional network / exposure in FinTech / Blockchain industry.
• One of the hottest, fastest scaling startups in Africa.
• Great work-life balance
• We value autonomy
• Environmental-friendly (we try to use as little paper as possible!)
• Opportunity for growth for all our employees
• Private Health Insurance for self and family
• Attractive WFH Allowance benefits
• Flexible work plan and more.