Product Designer at Kuda Bank

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

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 Haves:

• 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

Benefits
Become a part of one of the trailblazers in the challenger banking arena by joining the exciting and ambitious team at Kuda Bank as we work to become the neobank for ‘every African on the planet’.

• An exciting and flexible work environment
• Competitive pay
• Smart and kind coworkers
• Full pension contribution
• Reliable health insurance