Senior Product Designer at Kora
Remote – Nigeria (Full Time)
About Kora: Kora is a pan-African payment infrastructure that enables businesses to create seamless, intuitive payment experiences for their customers. Committed to eliminating digital financial service barriers across Africa, Kora aims to deliver reliable, secure, and easy-to-use digital financial solutions.
Role Overview: Kora is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join their team, responsible for crafting intuitive experiences for merchants and customers globally. As a crucial member of the Design team, you will collaborate across various teams to deliver user-centered solutions aligned with Kora’s design standards. Your role involves leading and managing projects, contributing to product and process improvements, and providing consultation as needed.
Reporting Relationships & Stakeholder Engagement:
- Reports to the Head of Design (Elias Awili).
- Collaborates with design team members, product managers, engineers, business, marketing, compliance, and IT team members.
- Establishes a strong working relationship with Managing Team/Directors/Team Leads across the business.
Responsibilities:
- Owns the design process from concept to delivery, ensuring a holistic approach to the user experience.
- Improves existing design solutions and evolves products.
- Designs rational, elegant solutions to complex problems.
- Takes initiative from concept and discovery through delivery and beyond, considering the user journey and product ecosystem.
- Contributes to OKRs, product strategy, vision, and roadmap by collaborating with stakeholders.
- Utilizes data to measure and improve product experience and success.
- Facilitates research and testing for usability and product consistency.
- Reviews release performance, identifies key learnings, and enhances processes.
- Ensures design quality and cohesion across product squads, supporting adjacent teams.
- Engages with other designers to facilitate knowledge sharing and skill development.
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience in designing functional, effective, and delightful software products, especially in the payments industry.
- Portfolio showcasing live products in use.
- Out-of-the-box thinker passionate about disrupting the status quo.
- Strong commitment to delivering an exceptional customer experience through designs.
- Ownership of the design process and self-directed work within the development team.
- Systems thinking ability, considering the broader payment ecosystem.
- Proficiency in prototyping, especially using Figma.
- Comfort with exploring beyond design, including ‘Inspect mode,’ CSS, etc.
- Positive energy, adaptability to change, and effective workload management.
Nice-to-Haves:
- Comfort with leadership responsibilities.
- Experience in content creation and UX writing.
- Some background in brand design.
- Additional skills in illustration, animation, motion design, and front-end development are a bonus.
Interview Process:
- Recruiter Screen (15 minutes) – Abayomi Ishmael.
- Technical Assessment (90 minutes) – In-depth exploration of professional background, work style, and design thinking.
- Cultural Fit Interview (60 minutes) – Conversation with Kora’s COO, Head of People and Culture, and the relevant team head.
Working Hours: Flexible, with a requirement to coincide with 9:00 am – 5:00 pm WAT for at least 40 hours/week.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Kora is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, experience, and business needs. Applications from underrepresented communities and diverse ethnic groups are strongly encouraged.
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Sponsored and tailored training
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time-off
- Flexible work style
- Annual performance bonus
- Low-interest loans
- Employee-assisted programs
- Day off on your birthday
- Employee resource groups
- Great company culture and collaborative team environment.
Note: Imposter syndrome is recognized, and candidates not fitting every characteristic are still encouraged to apply.
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