Senior Product Designer (Fintech/Payments)

About the role

Our client, a technology company focused on payments solutions for African businesses, is seeking a Senior Product Designer to create exceptional payment experiences. You will work closely with product managers and engineers, often as the sole designer, shaping both consumer‑facing and merchant‑facing interfaces.

Key responsibilities

• Design user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high‑fidelity screens for payment products, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• Own the design through implementation, performing design QA and fixing issues directly in code as you grow into design‑engineering.
• Contribute to and evolve the Pax design system to ensure visual and functional consistency across products.
• Conduct usability testing and merchant interviews, turning research insights into informed design decisions.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to frame problems, define success criteria, and turn ambiguous ideas into clear product directions.

Required profile

• 4+ years of experience designing digital products with a portfolio that showcases process and outcomes.
• Strong visual design fundamentals, including typography, colour, layout, and interaction.
• Proficiency in Figma with good judgment on fidelity levels.
• Experience designing for financial services, payments, or e‑commerce.
• Commitment to accessibility, including colour contrast and legible hierarchy.
• Experience conducting user research and applying findings to design decisions.
• Genuine appetite for learning code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and using AI‑assisted design tools.

Required skills

• Figma
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• React (or other component‑based UI frameworks)
• Framer (high‑fidelity prototyping)
• AI code generation tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable