Product Designer
Wave Mobile Money is a financial technology company providing affordable mobile money services across Africa.
Funding history
About Wave Mobile Money Inc.
Wave Mobile Money builds and operates a mobile financial network intended to help make Africa the first cashless continent. Its consumer services enable users to deposit and withdraw money, send funds, pay bills, buy airtime, and access customer support through mobile applications and agents. Wave Business provides bulk payments, in-person merchant payments, cash collection tools, a business portal, and checkout APIs. The company serves consumers, agents, merchants, businesses, and other clients across multiple African countries.
Skills
About the Role
You will partner with product managers, researchers, engineers, and data analysts throughout feature development. You will create designs, interactions, and prototypes; plan and support user research; contribute to the design system; speak with customers; explain product decisions; and iterate visual and UX concepts for Android and iOS apps.
Requirements
- Experience with low- and high-fidelity design and prototyping with LLMs on Android mobile apps
- Fluency in English
- At least 6 years of end-to-end in-house consumer product-design experience with mobile apps
- Visual and interaction design skills
- Illustration and animation skills
- Experience with After Effects, Lottie, or tools that can produce Lottie files
- Ability to balance business goals, customer needs, and technical tradeoffs
- Communication and collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product managers, user researchers, engineers, and data analysts throughout feature development
- Create designs, interactions, and prototypes
- Develop user-research plans and validate solutions through user testing
- Contribute to the design system and component library
- Talk to customers and develop solutions to their problems
- Communicate the reasoning behind product decisions
- Prototype and iterate visual and UX concepts
Benefits
- Equity package
- Subsidized health insurance for employees and dependents
- Retirement contributions
- Six months of fully paid parental leave
- Subsidized fertility assistance
- Unlimited vacation with a 20-day minimum requirement
- USD 10,000 annual charitable donation matching
- USD 1,200 yearly stipend to meet with coworkers
- Company-covered costs for a one-week market immersion trip