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Embedded within a crossfunctional tech squad, the role is responsible for designing intuitive, buildready user journeys across push provisioning, acquiring/payment flows, and campaignrelated touchpoints within the MPesa ecosystem.\nWorking closely with Frontend Engineers and client stakeholders, the UI/UX Designer ensures design intent is accurately realised through sprintbased delivery, provides UX and branding inputs into initiatives such as Tokenisation,\n4. Key Responsibilities\nOwn endtoend UX delivery for squad features, covering user flows, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, highfidelity UI, and design QA.\nDesign payment and provisioning experiences across push provisioning, CYBS/acquiring payment flows, and campaignrelated touchpoints within the MPesa app.\nDesign user-facing messaging, iconography, consent flows, and visual brand compliance elements for Tokenization initiatives, delivered as annotated design specifications.\nMaintain and evolve the MPesa design system, ensuring components are reusable, documented, and aligned to established standards.\nPartner with Frontend Engineers during sprint delivery, validating build feasibility, reviewing implementations, and tracking design defects.\nEnable analyticsready journeys by collaborating with Data Scientists to ensure key user interactions are identifiable and measurable.\nValidate usability through lightweight testing, incorporating findings into design refinements ahead of development.\nProduce handoffready design artefacts, including annotated designs and specifications for efficient engineering delivery.\nSupport propositionspecific journeys, including Diaspora consumer onboarding and feature flows.\nDeliver knowledge transfer to client designers, covering design methods, tooling, component usage, and usability practices\nMeasurable Outcomes & Deliverables\nFirst 30 Days\nCurrent M-Pesa app design system and component library reviewed; gaps and inconsistencies documented.\nUX audit of existing payment flows (where relevant to squad workstreams) completed; priority usability issues identified.\nPush provisioning flow: wireframes and user journey map produced and reviewed with Product Owner and Frontend Engineer.\nDesign tools and collaboration environment configured; design file structure agreed with Frontend Engineer.\nDays 31-60\nPush provisioning flow: high-fidelity UI designs completed, reviewed, and approved by stakeholders; handed off to Frontend Engineer.\nCYBS Acquiring payment UI components: wireframes and high-fidelity designs produced and reviewed.\nAt least one usability test or expert review conducted on a key flow; findings documented and design iterations applied.\nComponent documentation produced for all new UI components delivered to date; added to design system.\nDesign QA process established: at least one round of design QA completed for implemented features. \nDays 61-90\nCYBS Acquiring UI components implemented, and design QA completed; zero critical design defects in staging build.\nPush provisioning flows implementation reviewed and signed off by Designer; live in UAT / staging.\nDiaspora UX inputs delivered (if applicable): flow designs or UX recommendations for diaspora-specific features produced.\nDesign system contribution complete: all new components documented, named consistently, and added to shared library.\nKnowledge transfer: design playbook (v1) produced for client design team, covering component library, design methodology, and usability testing approach. At least two sessions delivered.\nOngoing KPIs\nDeliver timely, buildready UX designs that support sprintbased engineering delivery.\nEnsure highquality user experiences through thorough design QA and early identification of usability issues.\nMaintain consistency and scalability by contributing to and evolving the MPesa design system and component library.\nWork closely with engineers and data teams to enable accurate implementation and analyticsready user journeys.\nTransfer design capability to client teams through documentation, shared practices, and handson collaboration.\nStakeholders & Ways of Working\nAgile Ceremonies: All sprint ceremonies; leads design-specific story refinement (user stories for UX/UI tasks); participates in daily stand-ups; presents designs at sprint review.\nReporting Cadence:\nSprint-level: design delivery status at sprint review.\nAd-hoc: design blockers (e.g., missing brand guidance, stakeholder unavailability for review) escalated to TPM within 24 hours.\nCross-Functional Touchpoints:\nFrontend Engineers (design handoff, implementation QA, component specification).\nProduct Owners / client Product team (requirements alignment, design review/approval).\nData Scientist (analytics event instrumentation alignment within user journeys).\nBackend Engineers (understanding of technical constraints affecting UX).\nClient brand/marketing team (brand compliance, visual identity guidance).\nRequired Skills & Experience\n5-8 years of UX/UI design experience, with at least 2 years in mobile application design for financial services, payments, or fintech.\nProven ability to design end-to-end user flows for complex, multi-step transaction journeys (payment flows, onboarding, authentication) in mobile contexts.\nProficiency in Figma / Sketch / Adobe XD]for high-fidelity UI design, prototyping, and developer handoff.\nExperience contributing to or maintaining a mobile design system and component library.\nSolid understanding of mobile UX best practices, including gesture navigation, accessibility (WCAG), and performance-aware design.\nAbility to conduct or facilitate lightweight usability research (heuristic evaluation, prototype testing, user interviews).\nExperience working in agile/sprint-based delivery environments, including structured design handoff and design QA processes.\nStrong communication skills; 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