Kredete is a personal finance company that's focused on helping everyone in Africa make financial progress. We believe that when it comes to money, everyone deserves a chance to succeed. That's why we offer a range of tools and personalized recommendations designed to help people make the most off their money - no matter where they're starting from. With Kredete, anyone can access the financial resources they need to get ahead.
- The Head of Design will play a critical role in scaling design solutions to support extensive feature sets, mentoring other designers to ensure team growth, and ensuring design outputs resonate with our diverse user groups.
- They must be capable of working independently, conducting research to fully understand products, and fostering a fast-paced design cycle with continuous iterations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead design initiatives across all company platforms, ensuring design strategies are both innovative and user-centered, with a deep understanding of banking and remittance products for individuals and businesses.
- Manage and coordinate asset design, including illustrations, motion graphics, and other forms of design, ensuring all visual elements align with the company’s brand identity.
- Drive brand scalability and consistency by enhancing brand identity across multiple touchpoints, ensuring that design executions resonate with each unique user group.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and marketing, to ensure alignment on product vision, scalability, and user experience.
- Conduct independent research to fully understand product needs, competitive landscapes, and user expectations, and translate insights into actionable design frameworks.
- Lead by example, mentoring and guiding other designers to scale up their skills and performance, fostering a culture of continuous learning and design excellence within the team.
- Act as a player-coach, balancing hands-on design work with the strategic alignment of business, platform, and customer needs, while staying responsive to rapidly changing product requirements.
- Build scalable design systems that support massive feature sets, ensuring the design process remains agile and adaptable to changes as new features are rolled out.
- Ensure fast and continuous shipping of design assets and products, maintaining a design process that delivers within impressive timelines, while still adhering to quality and user experience standards.
- Champion user-centered design principles, incorporating feedback from user testing, product stakeholders, and market insights to drive product decisions that solve key pain points for both individuals and businesses.
- Stay ahead of design trends and innovations in fintech, ensuring that the company’s products remain competitive and appealing within a fast-evolving industry landscape.
- Reports directly to the Chief Product Officer (CPO), ensuring alignment between design strategy and overall product goals.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design, UI/UX Design, Interaction Design, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in UX design, interaction design, or related roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity. Experience in fintech, banking, or B2B products is essential.
- Demonstrated experience in asset design, illustration, and motion graphics, with a portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions across desktop, mobile, and web platforms.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to lead design initiatives, manage stakeholders, and mentor a team of designers.
- Proficient in design thinking, rapid prototyping, and design systems, with the ability to scale designs for complex, multi-feature products.
- Deep understanding of fintech products, particularly banking and remittance services, with experience designing for both individuals and businesses.
- Ability to manage fast-paced design processes with continuous improvements and fast shipping of products.
- Skilled at collaborating with cross-functional teams and influencing decisions at all organizational levels.
What We Offer:
- Competitive salary
- Health benefits package.
- Opportunity to work with a passionate and innovative team.
- Professional growth and development opportunities.
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