UI/UX/Product Designer at PayQart

Job type: 3-Months Contract

The role

PayQart, a financial technology company in Lagos State is looking for a passionate UI/UX/Product Designer who wants to help us shape the future of fintech. This role will come with a number of UX challenges that need an analytical, customer-focused brain. You’ll be at the forefront of our efforts and will be directly responsible for the key decisions that shape our products. You’ll need a full range of skills from product design, interaction design and visual design to build purposeful experiences.

To be successful in this role, you should have experience with design software and wireframe tools and have a portfolio of professional design projects that includes work with web/mobile applications.

The awesome things you will be doing:

• Creating UX/ UI design for the group’s different brands across Lending, E-commerce, Savings and more
• Leading and delivering end-to-end product design projects
• Setting user experience vision and working collaboratively with our product, engineering and business teams
• Supporting the implementation of your designs by collaborating closely with engineers as they build and release
• Driving high-quality solutions without sacrificing speed.
• Gathering and evaluating user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Preparing and presenting rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Identifying and troubleshooting UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Illustrating design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps

What we’re looking for:

• Proven background in designing complex digital products and launching a product to market (UX and visual design)
• An impressive portfolio showcasing end-to-end product design work highlighting your end-to-end design process from concept through delivery and iterative releases
• Expert knowledge of all the usual software (Sketch, Figma, Principle, ProtoPie, Photoshop, XD, InDesign etc.)
• A good sense of typography, grid layouts and clean interfaces
• Strong UX focus along with understanding of psychology and human behaviour
• The ability to clearly articulate design decisions along with sound rationale to support them
• Experience working directly with developers on design implementation
• The ability to take charge of your time and meet deadlines
• A positive attitude and a willingness to work as part of a team
• Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders