Senior Product Designer

Moniepoint is looking for a Senior Product Designer to help shape the digital financial experiences used by millions of businesses and individuals across Africa.

In this role, you'll take ownership of complex product design challenges, transforming financial services into intuitive, accessible and engaging experiences across web and mobile platforms.

You'll work closely with product managers, engineers and other designers to develop solutions that balance customer needs with business objectives. Beyond delivering high-quality interfaces, you'll contribute to product strategy, strengthen the company's design system and mentor less experienced designers.

This opportunity is suited to an experienced product designer who combines strong UX research capabilities, visual design expertise and a strategic understanding of digital financial products.

What You'll Do

Lead Product Design From Discovery to Delivery

You'll oversee the complete design process, helping teams move from identifying user problems to launching effective digital experiences.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing design approaches that support customer needs and business priorities.

• Leading discovery, research, ideation, wireframing and interactive prototyping.

• Creating polished user interfaces for financial products across mobile and web.

• Designing clear navigation structures, user flows and information architectures.

• Working alongside engineers to ensure designs are implemented accurately.

• Making complex financial interactions easier to understand and complete.

Use Research and Data to Improve Experiences

Research and experimentation will play an important role in your design decisions.

You'll conduct user interviews, usability studies and heuristic evaluations to identify opportunities for improvement.

You'll also use quantitative insights, product analytics and A/B testing to validate solutions, measure performance and refine experiences over time.

The goal is to create products that are not only visually effective but also deliver measurable improvements in usability, engagement and business outcomes.

Develop Scalable Design Systems

You'll help maintain and expand Moniepoint's design system to support consistency across its financial products.

Your contributions will include:

• Building reusable interface components and scalable design patterns.

• Applying atomic design principles.

• Working with Figma components, variants, auto layout and design tokens.

• Improving consistency across responsive web and mobile experiences.

• Creating thoughtful micro-interactions and motion elements.

• Promoting accessible and inclusive design practices.

Support Design Leadership and Collaboration

As a senior member of the design team, you'll help raise the quality of design work across the organization.

You'll mentor junior designers, communicate design decisions to stakeholders and contribute to a collaborative environment where research, experimentation and continuous improvement inform product development.

You'll also keep track of developments in fintech, digital product design and emerging interaction patterns.

What You'll Need

Moniepoint is looking for a designer with proven experience delivering impactful digital products and influencing design decisions within cross-functional teams.

Professional Experience

• At least 3 years working in a senior product design position.

• Demonstrated experience leading complex UX/UI projects.

• Previous experience designing products in fintech and/or SaaS environments.

• A portfolio showing end-to-end product design work and measurable results.

• Experience collaborating with product managers, developers and business stakeholders.

• Ability to mentor designers and provide constructive design feedback.

UX Research and Product Thinking

You should have a strong understanding of:

• User research methodologies and usability testing.

• User interviews, heuristic evaluations and behavioral psychology.

• Information architecture, interaction design and user journeys.

• Translating qualitative and quantitative research into design decisions.

• Product experimentation and A/B testing.

• UX analytics platforms such as Google Analytics, Mixpanel or Hotjar.

Visual Design and Prototyping

Strong visual design skills are essential, including expertise in typography, layout, grids, color and interface composition.

You'll also need:

• Advanced proficiency in Figma.

• Experience with auto layout, component variants and interactive prototypes.

• Knowledge of design tokens and scalable component libraries.

• Understanding of responsive and adaptive design for mobile and web.

• Familiarity with atomic design principles.

• Experience using motion design tools such as Lottie, After Effects or Principle.

Communication and Leadership

The ideal candidate can clearly explain design decisions, present research findings and build support for proposed solutions.

You should be comfortable working in an agile product environment, balancing multiple priorities and collaborating with colleagues from different disciplines.

What Moniepoint Offers

Joining Moniepoint means contributing to financial products that operate at significant scale.

The company highlights several benefits of the opportunity:

• The chance to influence financial experiences used by millions of people.

• Professional development and career progression opportunities.

• A culture that encourages experimentation and iterative improvement.

• Competitive compensation and employee benefits.

• Remote-friendly working arrangements.

• Access to learning and development resources.

Specific salary figures and benefit details have not been disclosed.

About Moniepoint

Moniepoint Inc. is a financial technology company providing integrated payment, banking, credit and business management services.

Its platform supports approximately 20 million businesses and individuals each month, helping customers manage financial transactions and access essential financial tools.

The company is Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer and processes more than $250 billion in annual digital payment transaction value through its subsidiaries.

Moniepoint focuses on making financial services more accessible and efficient, particularly for businesses that depend on reliable payment infrastructure and digital banking solutions.

For product designers, this creates opportunities to solve complex challenges involving financial accessibility, usability, trust and large-scale digital experiences.

Hiring Process

Moniepoint's recruitment process includes several stages designed to assess both practical design skills and strategic thinking.

1. Application and Portfolio Review

The recruitment team will review your professional experience and portfolio, looking for strong UX case studies that demonstrate research, design execution, leadership and measurable impact.

2. Initial Recruiter Conversation

A preliminary discussion about your background, career interests and expectations.

3. Design Team Interview

You'll discuss your design approach, previous projects and experience working on complex product challenges. This stage also includes a portfolio walkthrough.

4. Design Challenge

An advanced design exercise will assess your problem-solving abilities, UX/UI expertise and strategic approach.

5. Executive Interview

The final conversation focuses on leadership, cross-functional collaboration and your ability to connect design decisions with customer and business outcomes.

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