UI / UX / Product Designer at PayQart

Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Employment Type: Contract
Job Type: 3-Month 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.