Product Designer

Kuda is a money app for Africans on a mission to make financial services accessible, affordable, and rewarding for every African on the planet. We're a tribe of passionate and diverse people who dreamed of building an inclusive money app that Africans would love, so it's only right that we ended up with the name 'Kuda,' which means 'love' in Shona, a language spoken in the southern part of Africa. We're giving Africans around the world a better alternative to traditional finance by delivering payment solutions, smart budgeting, and instant access to credit through digital devices. We've raised over $90 million from some of the world's most respected institutional investors, and we're rolling out our game-changing services globally from our offices in Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Product Designer to create engaging designs according to requirements across the full suite of Kuda products. You will be involved in the full product development cycle: from early research and product strategy, to design and developer hand-off. You should have a strong understanding of web design patterns, mobile design, strong visual and user experience sensibilities, and care deeply about the end-user experience.
Responsibilities

• Use various techniques to create drafts and prototypes
• Produce final design solutions
• Pitch creative and usable ideas
• Bring new ideas to life from sketching and wireframes to high-fidelity prototypes, visual design, asset production and developer handoff.
• Use feedback from other designers, customers, and team members to improve the product.
• Work closely with Product Managers and Engineers on the Retail, Business and Internal Product teams to launch features that impact the teams’ KPIs

• 3+ years of experience designing and shipping both web and mobile products and tools
• Strong portfolio demonstrating visual and user experience design in similar products
• Experience with Figma
• Familiarity with design techniques (e.g. prototyping, wireframing)
• Understanding of visual elements (layout, colors, typography & iconography)
• A razor sharp eye for detail
• Time management and multitasking abilities
• The ability to think at a high level about product strategy and clearly articulate design decisions.

Advantageous

• Knowledge of and interest in technology and financial services; prior experience working in fintech or digital payments a plus.
• Contributing to or maintaining scalable design systems.Familiarity with UX writing.
• Basic familiarity with front-end development with HTML/CSS/Javascript
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Ability to craft scalable and meaningful icons, spot illustrations, or vector-based assets.
• Experience using tools like Principle, After Effects, or Framer for animations and micro-interactions.

Why join Kuda?

At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:

💜A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team

👴Pension

📈Career Development & growth

😁Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays

🎁Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)

💯Group life insurance

💖Medical insurance

🎁Well-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)

✅ Perkbox

🏃‍♀️Goalr - employee wellness app

🥇Award winning L&D training

💒 We are advocates of work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule

Kuda is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Kuda is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.

We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.