Product Design Lead

About this role

Chowdeck is seeking a Product Design Lead in Lagos to steer product design across customer, vendor, operations and trust products. The role combines senior design leadership with hands-on contribution, focusing on design quality, the design system, research practices, and cross-functional collaboration. You will lead and develop designers, set standards, and coordinate with other functions while reporting to the Product Executive. The position involves shaping how designers are allocated as the company grows and overseeing the central Product Design function. The goal is to keep Chowdeck’s product experiences simple and coherent as the business expands.

What you would do

• Set a clear product design vision and translate it into practical standards for the team.
• Coach designers through discovery, interaction design, prototyping, validation and delivery.
• Run critiques to improve work and develop designers' judgment.
• Partner with functional leads to shape problems early, beyond just reviewing final interfaces.
• Build and maintain the design system with ownership and adoption expectations.
• Improve how customer research and operational insights inform product decisions.
• Plan design capacity, identify hiring needs and ensure priority teams receive support.
• Collaborate with other design disciplines while maintaining clear ownership of the product experience.
• Lead the central Product Design function and help shape designer assignments as the organisation grows.
• Ensure high-quality, consistent design support across product teams and early design involvement

What they are asking for

• 6 to 7 years of product design experience.
• At least 2 years of leading, managing or mentoring product designers and improving team quality.
• Strong experience designing complex mobile and web products with a portfolio showing process and decisions.
• Strong interaction, systems and visual design judgement.
• Experience partnering with other functions from discovery to launch.
• Ability to switch between strategic direction, critique and hands-on design.
• Clear communication, empathy, high standards and ability to give direct, useful feedback.

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