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About the Role

We're looking for a product designer with a human-centered approach, keeping customers' behaviours front-of-mind when solving complex business solutions. Working with a collaborative team consisting of a product manager, product owners, engineers, and product designers, you will design solutions for both mobile and web products.

You will be an ambassador on customer experience and visual design, supporting the creative direction and vision within our fast-growing product design team. Additionally, you are a recognised, trusted expert who is constantly looking to sharpen your skills.

What You'll Be Doing

You will work closely with your product manager and owner to conduct research, identify problems and explore and develop solutions

Conceptualise, wireframe and design customer-friendly experiences and prototypes that are both intuitive and engaging solutions

Participate in all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering

Understand technical limitations, where to push the boundaries, and how to communicate with engineers, product managers, designers, and stakeholders across different teams and countries.

Conduct research, from customer interviews to usability tests, and A/B testing

Stay up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies and share with the rest of the design team

Contribute to the evolution, maintenance, and adoption of our design system

Keep abreast of competitors’ products and industry trends.

Supporting and sharing your knowledge and expertise with junior designers

What We Look For In You

You should be passionate about clean and artful design and be able to translate high-level requirements into beautiful, intuitive, functional customer flows

3+ years of end-to-end (UX and UI) product design experience for Android, iOS, and web

A strong portfolio showcasing your UI and UI design processes and impacts

Ability to work both autonomously, and in a small team to solve complex problems

Great knowledge of relevant tool stacks such as Figma & Miro

Some experience in working with analytics to understand your customers' pain points

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Experience in user research such as conducting customer interviews, and uncovering what the users' pain points are

Experience working in agile teams, with strong communication skills for articulating, discussing, and advocating design decisions with developers and stakeholders

A self-starter who takes initiative and comes up with problems to solve, whether that's new ideas to improve the customers' experience, or improving design team processes

Nice to Haves

Experience with design systems, from creation to management over time

In-depth cryptocurrency knowledge

Analytics skills

Experience with micro-interactions and animations

Experience with UX writing, micro-copy, and why content is important

What's In It For You

Medical Insurance coverage

Allowance to work remotely

Weekly remote team activities to keep the spirits high

Opportunity to work for a truly global multicultural team

About Yellow Card

Yellow Card is a financial services company that enables people around the world to invest, save, and send value. We're building a network across Africa that makes investing, saving, & sending money and crypto cheaper, easier, and more reliable than ever before. With millions of customers and counting, Yellow Card is trusted as the crypto exchange and remittance service of choice for Africans.

At Yellow Card, we are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!

Check out our website to learn more about us.