Product Designer at Gemstone Microfinance

Overview

• We're looking for a talented Product Designer with great visual design and UX skills to help build our internal product.
• You will be involved in the full product development cycle: from early research and product strategy, to design and developer hand-off.
• You should have a strong understanding of design patterns on web, strong visual and user experience sensibilities, and care deeply about the end-user experience.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Use various techniques to create drafts and prototypes
• Produce final design solutions
• Pitch creative and usable ideas
• Bring new ideas to life from sketching and wireframes, through to high-fidelity prototypes, visual design, asset production and developer handoff.
• Use feedback from other designers, customers, and team members to improve the product.
• Work closely with Product Managers and Engineers on the Internal Product team to launch features which impact the team's KPI's

Requirements
Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of designing and shipping web-based products and tools
• Strong portfolio demonstrating visual and user experience design in similar products
• Have experience in building mockups and interactive prototypes with Figma or similar design tools.
• Skilled in explaining your work, process, and decisions to cross-functional stakeholders and welcoming feedback to help you produce your best work.
• Are uncompromising service-minded towards our users and your colleagues, but able to set and achieve priorities that find the perfect balance between benefiting the project, the Design team, and all of Gemstone
• Ability to collect and interpret both qualitative and quantitative feedback
• You care about details and are excited to keep pushing your work until is pixel-perfect
• Passion for design; not satisfied with the status quo and always thinking of ways to improve

Experience:
We're looking for someone who has:

• Experience with design software (e.g. Sketch, Figma) and graphics editing tools (e.g. Photoshop, illustrator)
• Experience working in highly collaborative design teams, or other multidisciplinary teams
• Familiarity with design techniques (e.g. prototyping, wireframing) and an understanding of visual elements (layout, colors typography, and fonts)
• A keen eye for detail as well as strong time management and multitasking abilities
• A strong understanding of responsive design, feature hierarchy, and care deeply about the end-user experience
• An ability to empathize with a wide range of users, often different from yourself, to understand what they need.

Nice To Have:

• Knowledge of and interest in technology and financial services; prior experience working in fintech or digital payments a plus.
• Basic familiarity with front-end development with HTML/CSS/Javascript