Senior Product Designer – Fintech Payments

About the role

Our client is a technology company solving payments problems for businesses across Africa. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to create exceptional payment experiences for merchants and their customers, impacting millions of users in digital commerce.

Key responsibilities

• Design end‑to‑end payment experiences, producing user flows, wireframes, prototypes and high‑fidelity UI that balance user needs, business goals and technical constraints.
• Own the quality of your work through implementation, performing design QA and fixing issues directly in code when needed.
• Develop working prototypes using AI‑assisted code tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or Lovable, gradually shifting toward design engineering.
• Contribute to and evolve the Pax design system, ensuring consistency across all product surfaces.
• Conduct usability testing and merchant interviews to validate concepts and inform product decisions.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers and stakeholders to frame problems, define success criteria and turn ambiguous ideas into clear product direction.

Required profile

• 4+ years of experience designing digital products with a portfolio that showcases process and outcomes.
• Strong visual design fundamentals (typography, colour, layout, interaction) and a focus on accessibility.
• Proficiency in Figma and good judgment about design fidelity.
• Experience designing for financial services, payments or e‑commerce.
• Curiosity about code, with exposure to HTML, CSS, JavaScript and component‑based UI frameworks (React preferred).
• Willingness to experiment with AI code generation tools and grow into design‑engineering.

Required skills

• Figma
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• React (or similar component‑based UI framework)
• Framer (high‑fidelity prototyping)
• AI code generation tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, etc.)