Overview
Job details
Fully remote
Per the ad.
Requirements
Have 5+ years of experience
Senior-level role.
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
- A leadership role in shaping the future of fintech - your work will impact millions of users.
- Career growth opportunities.
- A culture of experimentation - we encourage innovative thinking and rapid iteration.
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Remote-friendly work culture, with access to learning resources.
The role
As a Senior User Experience Designer, you will be responsible for executing high-quality designs for our financial products, ensuring they are intuitive, accessible, and effective. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior designers, and champion user-centred design within the organisation. This role requires a strategic mindset, deep UX/UI expertise, and the ability to translate complex financial concepts into seamless user experiences.
What you'll do
- Define and execute design strategies that align with business objectives and user needs.
- Lead the end-to-end design process, from discovery and research to wireframing, prototyping, and final UI execution.
- Conduct advanced user research, usability testing, and A/B experiments to validate and refine design solutions.
- Partner closely with product managers and engineers to ensure seamless implementation of designs.
- Design scalable UI components and contribute to our evolving design system.
- Advocate for accessibility (A11y) and inclusive design principles, ensuring our products serve a diverse user base.
- Create and refine micro-interactions and motion elements to improve user engagement and usability.
- Use data-driven insights to continuously improve the user experience and optimise for business impact.
- Mentor and guide junior designers, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
- Stay ahead of fintech trends and best practices to drive product innovation.
What you need to succeed
- 5+ years in a senior product design role, with a strong focus on UX and a demonstrated ability to lead impactful projects
- Mastery of visual design, typography, grids, layout, and colour theory.
- Expertise in interaction design, information architecture, and user flows.
- Deep understanding of designing for both mobile and web platforms, ensuring responsive and adaptive experiences.
- Strong knowledge of behavioural psychology and how it influences user decision-making.
- Extensive experience conducting usability testing, user interviews, and heuristic evaluations.
- Ability to synthesise qualitative and quantitative insights into impactful design decisions.
- Familiarity with UX analytics tools (Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Hotjar, etc.).
- Proficiency in atomic design principles and building scalable UI frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of motion design tools (Lottie, After Effects, Principle) to create dynamic user experiences.
- Experience mentoring and guiding junior designers.
- Ability to articulate design rationale and influence stakeholders across teams.
- Comfortable working in agile, fast-paced product teams.
- Figma mastery - deep experience with auto layout, design tokens, component variants, interactive prototypes, and scalable design libraries.
- Proven experience in fintech and/or SaaS environments, with a strong understanding of industry challenges and user behaviours.
Hiring process
Preliminary phone screen
With a recruiter · Phone call
An initial call to confirm profile details and assess qualifications.
Technical assessment or case study interview
Evaluates technical skills and problem-solving.
Panel interview
Explores work experience and alignment with the team.
Executive / final interview
With executive leadership
A meeting with executive leadership; success leads to an offer letter.
Hiring process
- Application & portfolio review: we look for strong UX case studies that showcase process, research, impact, and leadership.
- Preliminary phone call with the recruiter: a brief conversation to discuss your background, interests, and expectations.
- Interview with a design team member: a discussion about your experience, approach to design, alignment with our mission, and a portfolio walkthrough.
- Design Challenge: an advanced exercise to assess problem-solving, UX/UI craft, and strategic thinking.
- Final executive conversation: a discussion with senior leadership about your ability to think strategically, collaborate across teams, and drive business and user impact through design.
Submit your resume and portfolio showcasing your best work - preferably with fintech or SaaS-related projects. Your portfolio should clearly demonstrate impact, including measurable improvements in user experience, business metrics, or engagement. We want to see end-to-end product thinking, including research, wireframes, prototypes, and final execution.
About Moniepoint
Moniepoint is a Nigerian fintech company that provides digital banking, payments, and financial services to businesses and individuals across Africa. Founded in 2015, it has grown into one of Africa's largest financial services platforms, processing billions of dollars in transactions monthly and serving millions of customers, primarily through its network of agents and merchants. The company is a major player in the African fintech ecosystem, offering a range of products including payment processing, business banking, and credit services.
Moniepoint is expanding its global footprint and has opened a technology and product hub in Spain, with a focus on building engineering, data, and product teams. The Spain office, located in Madrid, is central to the company's R&D and product development efforts, offering international professionals the opportunity to work on high-impact fintech solutions for emerging markets. The work culture is fast-paced, mission-driven, and emphasizes innovation, making it an attractive option for those looking to contribute to financial inclusion while working from Europe.
- Founded
- 2015
- Employees
- 1,000–5,000
- Headquarters
- Lagos, Nigeria
In their own words
About the company & team
Moniepoint Inc. is Africa's all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month.
As Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country's point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually.
