Product Designer

Wave Mobile Money; United States; A distancia; USD 168.000 - 206.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

Retirement contributions

Parental leave 6 months

Fertility assistance

Unlimited vacation with 20 days min

Charity donation matching

Descripción de la vacante

Wave Mobile Money is seeking a seasoned mobile designer to expand features on our Android and iOS apps. You will collaborate with product managers, researchers, and engineers to deliver accessible financial services across millions of users in Africa and beyond. This fully remote role supports a global team and offers competitive compensation and equity.

You will help evolve our design system, prototype visually polished concepts, and translate customer insights into delightful user experiences.

Formación

• Experience with low- and high-fidelity design & prototyping.
• Proficiency in Android mobile app design & prototyping.
• Fluency in English; French a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Collaborate with PMs, researchers, engineers, and data analysts from start to finish of a feature.
• Design high-quality interactions, prototypes, and visuals; contribute to design system.
• Develop and execute user research plans with our researchers; validate solutions via testing.
• Talk to customers and translate feedback into design decisions.
• Prototype concepts and iterate toward the best solution using Wave tooling (Figma, Claude for prototyping).
• Communicate design rationale during reviews and with PMs.

Conocimientos

Design prototyping

LLM prototyping

Android apps

English fluency

Visual design

Herramientas

After Effects

Lottie

Descripción del empleo

We're making Africa the first cashless continent.

In 2017, over half the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.

We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. Now, we have millions of users across 9 countries and are growing fast.

Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...

How you'll help us achieve it

We are growing our product design team and looking for an experienced mobile designer to expand features on our Android and iOS 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!

Our mission

We're making Africa the first cashless continent. In 2017, over half the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.

We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. Now, we have millions of users across 9 countries and are growing fast.

Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...

In this role, you’ll:

• 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 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 and in conversation with PMs.
• Prototype visual and UX concepts and iterate towards the right solution (Wave uses Claude for mobile prototyping with Android apks).

Key details

• 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.
• Wave is a distributed team, and we fund up to three in-person get-togethers a year, in line with Wave's travel policy.
• Our salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula. For this role, we are offering a salary of up to $187,000 USD based on your location (paid in your local currency equivalent), plus a generous equity package.
• Major benefits:
  • Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
  • 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
  • Unlimited vacation with a 20-day minimum requirement, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays
  • $10,000 annual charitable donation matching

Requirements

• Experience with low and high-fidelity design & prototyping with LLMs on Android mobile apps
• Fluency in English. French language skills are a plus.
• At least 6 years of end-to-end in-house experience, with a consumer focus on 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 and Lottie 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
• 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

You might be a good fit if you

• 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.

Our team

• We have a rapidly growing in-country team in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Uganda, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon plus remote team members spread across the world.
• We're deeply passionate about our mission of bringing radically affordable financial services to the people who need them most.
• We foster autonomy for our employees. You'll own your projects at every stage, from understanding the problem to monitoring your solution in production.
• We raised the largest Series A in Africa in 2021. Our world-class investors, include Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa.
• We are onY Combinator's top companies by revenue.

Wave is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.