Product Designer at Carbon Nigeria

⏲ Sep 25, 2024, 8:58 AM
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Carbon is a pan-African digital bank with a mission to provide friction-free finance to its customers. Carbon promises to play a fundamental role in its customers’ lives wherever they are, with flexible solutions. We pride ourselves on our efficiency and with just $10mm of equity raised in 2015, we have disbursed over $100m in loans and earned more than $30mm in revenue over the last 2 years. Carbon has operations in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria, supported by a talented team spread between Lagos, Nairobi, London, Argentina, and Palo Alto so we operate with a remote-first mindset.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Designer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time (Hybrid)

About the Role

As a Product Designer at Carbon, you will play a pivotal role in designing and enhancing financial products that empower small businesses and underserved communities.
You will work closely with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to deliver intuitive, customer-centric digital solutions.
Your design solutions will contribute to improving the overall user experience (UX) and driving the bank's mission to provide accessible financial services.

Responsibilities
In this role, the Product Designer would be expected to:

Identify research opportunities on the product, brand, and marketing designs.
You are comfortable working daily using tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD
Be familiar with project management tools like Jira and Gitlab.
Contribute to improving our set of visual standards and documentation for our products.
Design ancillary visual materials including infographics, presentation graphics, and iconography.
Updating and improving existing design assets/systems.
Create mockups, wireframes, and prototypes for products and websites.
Work directly with the product and engineering teams to ensure products are optimized for existing users and are being built for future users.

Requirements
Successful applicants in this role would typically have:

Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in visual and product design
Expert knowledge of design tools including Figma, Adobe products (Photoshop, Illustrator, XD), or related products such as Sketch & Invision
Experience designing and implementing complex User Interfaces
Experience creating abstract illustrations
Understanding of usability and user interaction principles
Strong stakeholder management skills.

Additionally, the following would make you more attractive:

Extensive experience with design collaboration and prototyping tools (InVision, Sketch, Balsamiq, etc).
Experience performing user research to understand the user experience.
Experience working with data visualization, graphs, charts, and dashboards.
A neat and comprehensive body of work.
Experience performing usability tests.

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