Who you are

You’ve designed fintech products before — experience with payment systems, financial products, or complex multi-state flows in production. You can design for complexity without making it feel complex.

You’re end-to-end — from research and wireframes to polished UI and handoff. You own the full design process and don’t need a dedicated research team to understand your users.

You ship fast — comfortable with 1-2 week design sprints. You know when to polish and when to prototype, and you never become the bottleneck.

You think in systems — you build component libraries, design tokens, and patterns, not just screens. Your systems accelerate the whole team.

You think about business outcomes — you can articulate how your design decisions affect conversion, retention, and revenue. You ask “why are we building this?” before “how should it look?”

You design for the market — you understand constraints like low-end devices, poor connectivity, and users who need to trust your product with real money.

Bonus: Experience designing for African or emerging markets, familiarity with crypto/wallet UX, or background in brand and visual identity.

Some topics you’ll think about

How do you design a merchant onboarding flow that maximises completion rate while meeting compliance requirements across jurisdictions?

What does trust look like in a financial product for African merchants — and how do you build it through design?

How do you make custody and multi-sig wallet flows feel simple when the underlying infrastructure is complex?

What design system foundations do you need from day one versus what can wait — and how do you build something that accelerates engineering without over-engineering?

How do you establish user feedback loops and lightweight research practices when you don’t have direct access to your users yet?