Senior Product Designer, Wave
$184.4-216.9k
We are offering a salary of up to 216,900 USD based on your location (paid in your local currency equivalent), plus a generous equity package
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Financial services for underbanked communities
Job no longer available
Financial services for underbanked communities
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$184.4-216.9k
We are offering a salary of up to 216,900 USD based on your location (paid in your local currency equivalent), plus a generous equity package
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make Africa the first cashless continent.
Role
Who you are
- This is a fully remote role. Candidates must be based in one of our hiring hubs (US, UK, Spain, Kenya, Ghana, Canada) or in one of our operating markets in Africa, including Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso
- Fluency in English
- At least 8 years of end-to-end in-house experience, preferably with a consumer focus product design with mobile apps
- Excellent visual and interaction design skills, with an eye at removing friction from flows
- Attention to detail and high level of visual craft
- Strong illustration and animation skills. We use After Effects at Wave but anything that can be converted to a Lottie file works
- Ability to deliver high-quality designs with speed and polish
- Bias towards action. Identify UX improvements without waiting for the perfect conditions
- Experience with low and high-fidelity design & prototyping
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to think through complex interaction design as well as thinking about tradeoffs of each solution
- Curiosity for understanding and unpacking customer behaviors and needs
- Experience balancing business goals, customer needs, and technical tradeoffs, while explaining your point of view to the team
Desirable
- Are detail-oriented and able to balance multiple projects
- Can iterate separate concepts quickly to user test design bets. The ability to move fast and update designs based on customer feedback is an important quality we’re looking for
- Think carefully about in-the-weeds details and their role within the design system
- Feel comfortable anticipating and designing for edge cases
- Enjoy pairing with designers, engineers, and product managers
- Are excited to learn about how all our products work together
- Can speak, read, and write in French. This is nice to have but not a strong requirement - we have large markets in West Africa where French will come in handy. There are plenty of folks at Wave who do not speak/read/write in French and still do well :)
What the job involves
- We are growing our product design team and looking for an experienced mobile designer to help make great iOS and Android apps. You will have the opportunity to make financial services more accessible and inclusive for millions of people through working with thoughtful product managers, researchers, and engineers!
- Work closely with product managers, user researchers, engineers, and data analysts from the start to end of a feature
- Create high quality designs, interactions, and prototypes to explore ideas in service of the best solution for the project (Wave uses Figma)
- Craft user research plans and work directly with our product operations analysts/user researchers to identify problems and validate solutions in user testing
- Contribute to Wave’s design system and component library
- Talk to customers and find solutions to their problems by thinking critically from their perspective
- Communicate the reasoning behind your product decisions in review sessions
- Prototype visual and UX concepts and iterate towards the right solution
Application process
- Fill out the form below, and upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role
- We review applications frequently and recommend that you apply to the role that most closely aligns with your skills, experience and career goals
Our take
Because of things like high fees and a lack of local branches, about half of the adults in Africa still do not have a bank account. Although this is an improvement on past estimates, the continent is still significantly underbanked - which is what Wave helps to combat.
Wave addresses this banking gap with technology, offering a straightforward and cost-effective tool accessible via mobile. The impact has been substantial. A 2021 GSMA report suggested over 500 million mobile money accounts were registered in Africa, facilitating transactions valued at nearly $500 billion.
Wave has already established its presence in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Gambia and Mali, using steady investment to expand its footprint and reach unicorn status. It also continues to enhance product development and engineering efforts, as well as shore up business operations. Despite challenger companies emerging, Wave has a considerable head start on the competition.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$10m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$200m
SERIES A
Total funding: $210.2m
Company benefits
- Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents (vary from country to country)
- 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
- Retirement contributions (vary from country to country)
- Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries
Company HQ
Mermoz Sacre-coeur, Dakar, Dakar Region
Leadership
Drew Durbin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founder and CEO at Sendwave (International Remittance).
Lincoln Quirk
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founder and CTO at Newsbrane, Engineer at Demiurge Studios and co-founder of Sendwave (International Remittance).
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