In 2017, over half the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.

We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. How you'll help us achieve it

We are growing our product design team and looking for an experienced mobile designer to expand features on our Android and iOS apps. Work closely with product managers, user researchers, engineers, and data analysts from the start to end of a feature.

Create high quality designs, interactions, and prototypes to explore ideas in service of the best solution for the project (Wave uses Figma).

Craft user research plans and work directly with our user researchers to identify problems and validate solutions in user testing.

Contribute to Wave’s design system and component library.

Talk to customers and find solutions to their problems by thinking critically from their perspective.

Prototype visual and UX concepts and iterate towards the right solution (Wave uses Claude for mobile prototyping with Android apks).

This is a fully remote role. Candidates must be based in one of our hiring hubs (US, UK, Spain, Kenya, Ghana, Canada) or in one of our operating markets in Africa, including Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso.

- You'll travel to one of our key markets for a 1 week immersion trip with your immediate team (Wave covers all costs). Outside of this 1 week immersion, you’ll also travel to a market country with our product design lead and PMs, for a total of travel 2x a year. For this role, we are offering a salary of up to $187,000 USD based on your location (paid in your local currency equivalent), plus a generous equity package.
- Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)




- 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- Unlimited vacation with a 20-day minimum requirement, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays
- $Experience with low and high-fidelity design & prototyping with LLMs on Android mobile apps

Fluency in English. French language skills are a plus.

At least 6 years of end-to-end in-house experience, with a consumer focus on product design with mobile apps.

Excellent visual and interaction design skills, with an eye at removing friction from flows

Strong illustration and animation skills. Ability to deliver high-quality designs with speed and polish

Identify UX improvements without waiting for the perfect conditions

Ability to think through complex interaction design as well as thinking about tradeoffs of each solution

Curiosity for understanding and unpacking customer behaviors and needs

Experience balancing business goals, customer needs, and technical tradeoffs, while explaining your point of view to the team

Are detail-oriented and able to balance multiple projects

Can iterate separate concepts quickly to user test design bets. The ability to move fast and update designs based on customer feedback is an key quality we’re looking for

Think carefully about in-the-weeds details and their role within the design system

Can speak, read, and write in French. This is nice to have but not a strong requirement - we have large markets in West Africa where French will come in handy.

We have a rapidly growing in-country team in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Uganda, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon plus remote team members spread across the world.

We're deeply passionate about our mission of bringing radically affordable financial services to the people who need them most.

You'll own your projects at every stage, from understanding the problem to monitoring your solution in production.

Our world-class investors, include Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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📌 PRODUCT DESIGNER (H/F) (remote)
🏢 Wave Mobile Money
📍 Toronto