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That's for good reason-the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.\nWe'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. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. Now, we have millions of users across 9 countries and are growing fast.\nOur goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...\nHow you'll help us achieve it\nWe are growing our product design team and looking for an experienced mobile designer to expand features on our Android and iOS apps. You will have the opportunity to make financial services more accessible and inclusive for millions of people through working with thoughtful product managers, researchers, and engineers!\nIn this role, you’ll:\nWork closely with product managers, user researchers, engineers, and data analysts from the start to end of a feature.\nCreate high quality designs, interactions, and prototypes to explore ideas in service of the best solution for the project (Wave uses Figma).\nCraft user research plans and work directly with our user researchers to identify problems and validate solutions in user testing.\nContribute to Wave’s design system and component library.\nTalk to customers and find solutions to their problems by thinking critically from their perspective.\nCommunicate the reasoning behind your product decisions in review sessions and in conversation with PMs. \nPrototype visual and UX concepts and iterate towards the right solution (Wave uses Claude for mobile prototyping with Android apks).\nKey details\nThis 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.\nYou'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. You’re highly encouraged to visit market counties more often! We also provide a yearly stipend of $1,200 USD to meet with coworkers every year.\nOur salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula. 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.\nMajor benefits:Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)\n6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance\nUnlimited vacation with a 20-day minimum requirement, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays\n$10,000 annual charitable donation matching\n\nRequirements\nExperience with low and high-fidelity design & prototyping with LLMs on Android mobile apps\nFluency in English. French language skills are a plus. \nAt least 6 years of end-to-end in-house experience, with a consumer focus on product design with mobile apps.\nExcellent visual and interaction design skills, with an eye at removing friction from flows\nAttention to detail and high level of visual craft\nStrong illustration and animation skills. We use After Effects and Lottie at Wave but anything that can be converted to a Lottie file works\nAbility to deliver high-quality designs with speed and polish\nBias towards action. Identify UX improvements without waiting for the perfect conditions\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills\nAbility to think through complex interaction design as well as thinking about tradeoffs of each solution\nCuriosity for understanding and unpacking customer behaviors and needs\nExperience balancing business goals, customer needs, and technical tradeoffs, while explaining your point of view to the team\nYou might be a good fit if you\nAre detail-oriented and able to balance multiple projects\nCan iterate separate concepts quickly to user test design bets. The ability to move fast and update designs based on customer feedback is an important quality we’re looking for\nThink carefully about in-the-weeds details and their role within the design system\nFeel comfortable anticipating and designing for edge cases\nEnjoy pairing with designers, engineers, and product managers\nAre excited to learn about how all our products work together\nCan 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.\nOur team\nWe 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.\nWe're deeply passionate about our mission of bringing radically affordable financial services to the people who need them most.\nWe foster autonomy for our employees. You'll own your projects at every stage, from understanding the problem to monitoring your solution in production.\nWe raised the largest Series A in Africa in 2021. Our world-class investors, include Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa.\nWe are on Y Combinator's top companies by revenue.\nHow to apply\nFill out the form below, and upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role.\nWe review applications frequently and recommend that you apply to the role that most closely aligns with your skills, experience and career goals.\nWave is an equal-opportunity employer. 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