Wave Mobile Money · 14 hours ago
Senior Product Designer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$0/yr - $217K/yr
8+ years expWave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent by providing accessible financial services. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to join their growing team, responsible for creating user-centered designs for their mobile applications and collaborating with various stakeholders throughout the product development process.
Financial ServicesFinTechMobile Payments
Responsibilities
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 product operations analysts/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
Prototype visual and UX concepts and iterate towards the right solution
Qualification
Required
Fluency in English
At least 8 years of end-to-end in-house experience, preferably with a consumer focus 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 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
Experience with low and high-fidelity design & prototyping
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
Preferred
Can speak, read, and write in French. This is nice to have but not a strong requirement
Benefits
Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays
$10,000 annual charitable donation matching
Company
Wave Mobile Money
Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2021 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$438.66MKey Investors
Rand Merchant BankInternational Finance CorporationAlameda Research
2025-06-30Debt Financing· $137M
2022-07-06Debt Financing· $91.66M
2022-01-01Series Unknown· $10M
Leadership Team
Drew Durbin
Founder & CEO
Sid Sridhar
Head of Business
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