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Product Design Manager
About this role
The role is for a Design Manager who will lead a small team of product designers, ensuring the quality and coherence of its output across mobile, web, POS, or operational tools. The focus is on designing for trust and accessibility, particularly for shop owners, traders and entrepreneurs who may have limited devices or unreliable networks. The employer, Moniepoint, is a fintech company building a financial ecosystem for businesses in Africa. The position is hands-on, involving setting design direction, collaborating with product partners, and shaping the design system while embedding AI tool usage responsibly across the team.
What you would do
- Set the design direction for your area and translate it into plans with milestones and measurable outcomes.
- Work with product partners to ensure designers start from a clear brief and push back when necessary.
- Maintain end-to-end customer journeys across teams and resolve conflicting designs before launch.
- Determine what to test with customers before build and plan validation with defined success metrics.
- Ensure journeys use the design system and avoid one-off rebuilds for variations.
- Plan and staff system contributions like any other project.
- Build partnerships with product and engineering to align on what gets built.
- Hire, set expectations, give feedback, and develop growth paths for designers.
- Integrate AI tools into the design process and foster team fluency in responsible use.
- Foster a culture of design quality through critiques, reviews and a definition of done.
What they are asking for
- 10+ years of experience in product design with a portfolio showing shipped mobile and web work and measurable results.
- 3+ years of experience managing product designers, including hiring, coaching and career development.
- Experience setting design direction for a product area and leading a team to deliver it.
- Experience running a design quality practice (critiques, reviews, definition of done) that improved shipped work.
- Experience building shared patterns or templates adopted across teams, products or markets.
- Experience shipping accessible, inclusive products for users with disabilities or limited devices/connectivity.
- Experience using AI tools in design work and promoting team fluency in their use.
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