Product Designer at Lemonade Finance

Lemonade Finance "LemFi" (YC S21) is building the neobank for African diaspora in North America & Europe. We provide our users with a multi-currency account that allows them to hold, send, and receive money from Africa in any currency for their business and personal banking needs. We are a fast-paced startup with entities in the UK, USA, Canada and Nigeria and you would be required to familiarize yourself with necessary statutory and regulatory requirements in these locations.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Mid-level Product Designer

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time
Category: Product

Description

• We're looking for a user-centered Mid-Level Product Designer with a fintech experience to contribute to our growth and improve our team.
• You’ll be responsible for translating requirements from Product Management into elegant user experiences that our engineers can implement.
• You will leverage the full range of your design skills, including user research, interaction design, and visual design.
• You’ll work closely with our Product and Engineering teams to build new features from our product roadmap, and improve existing features, based on user feedback and competitive analysis, using various design and prototyping tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Design experiences that satisfy our customers’ requirements.
• Continually ensure that UX goals are aligned with the broader business goals.
• Create customer journeys, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and prototypes
• Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to ensure business and technical needs are met, while maintaining a strong focus on the user experience
• Define, track, and analyze metrics that are used to make measurable improvements to the product.
• Distill complex network engineering problems and use cases into intuitive and compelling interactive experiences that engage our users.
• Conduct customer and user research, including interviews, surveys, concept testing and usability studies.

Skills and Competencies
What we are looking for in candidates:

• 2 - 4 years of experience in digital product design.
• A robust portfolio with work samples demonstrating UX & UI skills (ideally clearly explaining your role, process, and impact within showcased projects); fintech and banking experience would be a big plus.
• High Figma proficiency.
• Knowledge of most recent industry trends and the ability to best leverage them to continuously improve our suite of products.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (English, B2-level minimum) to effectively collaborate with management, developers, support, and end-users.
• Experience in the entire product design workflow: from analyzing customer/business needs and solution ideation to flawless execution and optimization.
• Excellent understanding of design principles, and modern mobile and web usability.

Nice to have:

• Excellent communication skills, (Spoken and Written) and experience in writing UX copy to guide users through the most important interactions.
• Relevant experience and/or genuine enthusiasm about learning and designing for FinTech.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply