Senior Product Designer
Kwara, Kenya
Job Description
Welcome to Kwara!
We are the first player in the market to provide a modern banking backoffice for credit unions as as well as a shared neobanking app for credit union members.
A great product experience for credit union staff directly translates to increased usage on the neobank app.
We are looking for a driven, experienced Product Designer to join our Revenue team. You will be joining our Core cell, ensuring our digital banking platform is fine-tuned to the best user experience for staff who work at credit unions.
Your Responsibilities
- Plan, drive, and prototype our Core product features
- Drive human-centered design decisions through user research and data
- Create user stories, user journeys, wireframes, storyboards, user flows, visual mockups and process flows to support the design process that lead to intuitive user experiences
- Help the team by suggesting process improvements that advocate for customer needs
- Development of visual language and design systems whilst following style and brand guidelines
- Documentation of design work and assets to keep the UI/UX and other teams informed
Requirements
What we Expect
- At least 3 years enjoying designing excellent interfaces
- Demonstrated ability and comfort creating deliverables in all phases of the design process
- Pro-active and organized user research approach
- Strong communication skills both written and spoken
- Be able to work in a startup-style, agile and fast-paced team
- Strong understanding of different cultures and customers across the globe
Benefits
What there is for you
HQ and Remote Work
Kwara HQ is in Nairobi, Kenya. Remote team members will have the opportunity to visit our beautiful city regularly. We work both in-person and remotely.
Culture amp; Values
Kwara has a culture that emphasizes an Olympic Mindset, User Obsession and Strength in Diversity. We attract energetic, competitive and unique personalities who love to win, love to be first and love to celebrate. The diversity of our team also puts responsibility for kindness and compassion on each of us, while backed by strong policies that ensure every Kwaran works in an environment where they can be most successful.
Our Investors
Kwara is a well-funded venture-backed startup by SoftBank, Finparx, Google, Norrsken, FINCA Ventures, Catalyst Fund and Kepple.
Care for the Kwaran!
We care deeply about Kwaran's experience and aim to provide tools and systems that software engineers will rave about. The team has collectively had a great deal of experience building fintech and developer-facing products in Africa and other emerging markets.