Head of Design at Kredete Limited

Job Title: Head of Design

Activities

• Lead design initiatives across all company platforms, ensuring design strategies are both innovative and user-centered, with a deep understanding of banking and remittance products for individuals and businesses.
• Manage and coordinate asset design, including illustrations, motion graphics, and other forms of design, ensuring all visual elements align with the company’s brand identity.
• Drive brand scalability and consistency by enhancing brand identity across multiple touchpoints, ensuring that design executions resonate with each unique user group.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and marketing, to ensure alignment on product vision, scalability, and user experience.
• Conduct independent research to fully understand product needs, competitive landscapes, and user expectations, and translate insights into actionable design frameworks.
• Lead by example, mentoring and guiding other designers to scale up their skills and performance, fostering a culture of continuous learning and design excellence within the team.
• Act as a player-coach, balancing hands-on design work with the strategic alignment of business, platform, and customer needs, while staying responsive to rapidly changing product requirements.
• Build scalable design systems that support massive feature sets, ensuring the design process remains agile and adaptable to changes as new features are rolled out.
• Ensure fast and continuous shipping of design assets and products, maintaining a design process that delivers within impressive timelines, while still adhering to quality and user experience standards.
• Champion user-centered design principles, incorporating feedback from user testing, product stakeholders, and market insights to drive product decisions that solve key pain points for both individuals and businesses.
• Stay ahead of design trends and innovations in fintech, ensuring that the company’s products remain competitive and appealing within a fast-evolving industry landscape.
• Reports directly to the Chief Product Officer (CPO), ensuring alignment between design strategy and overall product goals.

Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Design, UI/UX Design, Interaction Design, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in UX design, interaction design, or related roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity. Experience in fintech, banking, or B2B products is essential.
• Demonstrated experience in asset design, illustration, and motion graphics, with a portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions across desktop, mobile, and web platforms.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to lead design initiatives, manage stakeholders, and mentor a team of designers.
• Proficient in design thinking, rapid prototyping, and design systems, with the ability to scale designs for complex, multi-feature products.
• Deep understanding of fintech products, particularly banking and remittance services, with experience designing for both individuals and businesses.
• Ability to manage fast-paced design processes with continuous improvements and fast shipping of products.
• Skilled at collaborating with cross-functional teams and influencing decisions at all organizational levels.

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is 14th October 2024. Therefore qualified and interested candidates can “CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT APPLICATION” it is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy.

Website:
Official Job Website: https://www.kredete.com/career