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Product Design Lead (Hybrid)
About this role
Chowdeck is recruiting a Product Design Lead in a hybrid role based in Lagos. The role leads the central Product Design function, overseeing design across customer, vendor, operations and trust products while mentoring designers and shaping design systems and processes. It combines hands-on design work with leadership responsibilities, coordinating with other teams and advancing design quality and consistency as the company grows. The position reports to the Product Executive and involves building a design practice, strengthening research, and guiding design decisions from discovery to delivery.
What you would do
- Oversee design operations and cross-functional collaboration
- Define product design principles, critique standards and decision quality
- Lead the product research practice and ensure evidence supports design decisions
- Own the design system and reusable interaction patterns
- Ensure coherence of Chowdeck product experiences across surfaces
- Manage the design team, including hiring, coaching and allocation
- Improve how customer research and operational insights feed product decisions
- Build and maintain the design system with ownership and adoption expectations
- Set a clear product design vision and translate it into standards
- Partner with functional leads to shape problems early and align with other disciplines
What they are asking for
- 6–7 years of product design experience
- At least 2 years leading, managing or mentoring product designers
- Strong experience designing complex mobile and web products
- Portfolio showing design process and decisions
- Ability to work across strategic direction, critique and hands-on design
- Experience partnering with other functions from discovery through launch
- Clear communication, empathy and ability to give constructive feedback
- Strong interaction, systems and visual-design judgement
- Ability to move between high-level direction and detailed execution
- Bonus: experience in marketplaces, commerce, logistics, fintech or operational tools
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