Senior Product Designer - Design System
Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, it powers most of Nigeria’s point-of-sale transactions and processes over $250 billion in annual digital payment transaction value through its subsidiaries.
As a Senior Product Designer, you will execute high-quality designs for financial products, ensuring they are intuitive, accessible and effective. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior designers and champion user-centred design across the organisation. The role requires a strategic mindset, deep UX/UI expertise and the ability to translate complex financial concepts into seamless user experiences.
You will define and execute design strategies aligned with business objectives and user needs; lead the end-to-end design process from discovery and research through wireframing, prototyping and final UI execution; conduct advanced user research, usability testing and A/B experiments; partner with product managers and engineers; design scalable UI components and contribute to the evolving design system; advocate for accessibility and inclusive design; create micro-interactions and motion elements; use data-driven insights to improve user experience and business impact; mentor and guide junior designers; and stay current with fintech trends and best practices.
The role requires 3+ years in a senior product design role, with a strong focus on UX and a demonstrated ability to lead impactful projects. You should have mastery of visual design, typography, grids, layout and colour theory; expertise in interaction design, information architecture and user flows; experience designing for mobile and web platforms; knowledge of behavioural psychology; extensive experience with usability testing, user interviews and heuristic evaluations; and the ability to synthesise qualitative and quantitative insights into design decisions. Familiarity with UX analytics tools such as Google Analytics, Mixpanel and Hotjar is expected, along with proficiency in atomic design principles, scalable UI frameworks and motion design tools including Lottie, After Effects and Principle. You should have experience mentoring junior designers, influencing stakeholders, working in agile product teams, and using Figma features such as auto layout, design tokens, component variants, interactive prototypes and scalable design libraries. Experience in fintech and/or SaaS environments is preferred.
You will have a leadership role in shaping the future of fintech, with work impacting millions of users, as well as career growth opportunities, a culture of experimentation, competitive compensation and benefits, and a remote-friendly work culture with access to learning resources. The hiring process includes an application and portfolio review, a preliminary recruiter call, an interview with a design team member, an advanced design challenge and a final executive conversation. Applicants should submit a CV and portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product thinking, research, wireframes, prototypes, final execution and measurable impact.