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About The Company

Wave is a rapidly growing financial technology company dedicated to making financial services radically affordable, accessible, and inclusive for millions of people, particularly in Africa. Our mission is to empower individuals and businesses by providing innovative digital financial products. We have a strong presence across multiple African countries including Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Uganda, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon, supported by a distributed remote team worldwide. Our company is backed by world-class investors such as Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa. Since raising the largest Series A in Africa in 2021, we have been recognized among Y Combinator's top companies by revenue. At Wave, we foster autonomy and ownership, encouraging employees to lead projects from conception through to production monitoring.

About The Role

We are expanding our product design team and seeking an experienced Mobile Designer to enhance and expand features on our Android and iOS applications. This fully remote role offers the opportunity to collaborate closely with product managers, user researchers, engineers, and data analysts to deliver high-quality mobile product experiences. You will play a key role in making financial services more accessible and inclusive by designing intuitive, engaging, and effective mobile interfaces. The position requires travel to key market countries twice a year for immersion and collaboration, with additional opportunities to visit markets encouraged. Wave offers a competitive salary up to $187,000 USD (location-dependent), a generous equity package, and comprehensive benefits. This role requires candidates to be based in one of our hiring hubs (US, UK, Spain, Kenya, Ghana, Canada) or operating markets in Africa.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of end-to-end in-house product design experience focused on consumer mobile apps.

• Proficiency in creating low and high-fidelity designs and prototypes, including experience with LLMs on Android mobile apps.

• Strong visual and interaction design skills with a keen eye for reducing friction in user flows.

• Excellent illustration and animation skills; familiarity with After Effects and Lottie or compatible animation tools.

• Ability to deliver polished, high-quality designs quickly and efficiently.

• Fluency in English; French language skills are a plus but not mandatory.

• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.

• Ability to think critically about complex interaction designs and balance business, technical, and user needs.

• Curiosity and aptitude for understanding customer behaviors and needs.

• Bias towards action and proactive identification of UX improvements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with product managers, user researchers, engineers, and data analysts from feature conception through launch.

• Create high-quality designs, interactions, and prototypes to explore and validate ideas.

• Develop user research plans and work directly with user researchers to identify problems and validate solutions through user testing.

• Contribute to and maintain Wave’s design system and component library.

• Engage with customers to understand their challenges and devise thoughtful, user-centered solutions.

• Communicate design rationale clearly during review sessions and cross-functional discussions.

• Prototype visual and UX concepts and iterate rapidly to achieve optimal solutions.

• Anticipate and design for edge cases and complex interaction scenarios.

• Travel as required to key market locations for immersion and collaboration (twice a year, with additional visits encouraged).

Benefits

• Competitive salary up to $187,000 USD based on location, paid in local currency equivalent.

• Generous equity package.

• Subsidized health insurance for employees and dependents (varies by country).

• Retirement contributions (country-dependent).

• Six months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance.

• Unlimited vacation policy with a minimum of 20 days per year, excluding statutory holidays.

• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching program.

• Yearly $1,200 USD stipend to meet with coworkers in person.

• Fully remote work with flexible scheduling and global team collaboration.

Equal Opportunity

Wave is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to creating an environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply and join us in our mission to bring affordable financial services to those who need them most.