Product Design Lead

Product Design Lead

Moniepoint

Who we are Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial ecosystem, helping 10 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, and business management tools since 2019. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, it powers most of the country’s Point of Sale (POS) transactions. Through its subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes $22 billion monthly for its customers while operating profitably. Curious about what makes Moniepoint an incredible place to work? Check out posts on how we cultivate a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth. About the role: As a Product Design Lead, you will own the execution of our design vision, managing a small team of designers across multiple teams to prioritise initiatives, drive strategic projects, and foster a culture of excellence. Balancing leadership with hands-on design, you will ensure we deliver business-driven, user-centred solutions that elevate the user experience. This role requires strong leadership, UX/UI expertise, and cross-functional collaboration. You will work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to remove blockers, streamline workflows, and create scalable, accessible designs that align with both user and business needs. What you’ll do * Lead and manage a small team of product designers, ensuring project prioritisation, team alignment, and timely execution of high-quality design work. * Mentor and inspire your team, fostering a culture of feedback, learning, and innovation through regular critiques, coaching, and skill development. * Manage project timelines, roadmaps, and design workflows, ensuring the team delivers high-quality work on schedule. * Maintain a hands-on approach, contributing directly to key design projects while balancing leadership responsibilities. * Partner with product managers, engineers, and executives to translate strategic goals into user-friendly design solutions. * Advocate for user-centred design by leveraging qualitative and quantitative research, usability testing, and behavioural insights to make informed design decisions. * Ensure design consistency and scalability through the use of design systems and atomic design principles. * Champion accessibility (a11y) and inclusive design, ensuring our products are usable by a diverse audience. * Collaborate with analytics and product teams to measure the impact of design and optimise experiences based on data. What you need to succeed * A strong portfolio demonstrating your ability to lead design teams and deliver end-to-end product design solutions across platforms, backed by user research and measurable impact. * Experience leading and developing design teams, fostering collaboration, mentorship, and performance-driven growth. * Expertise in UX/UI principles, interaction design, and user research methodologies, with a proven track record of delivering results-driven digital products. * Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and advocate for design at all levels. * Strategic mindset, with the ability to translate product goals into scalable, flexible, and user-centric design solutions. * Experience managing design workflows, tools, and operational processes to improve team efficiency and output. * Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, effectively balancing multiple priorities while maintaining design excellence. * Experience in fintech or SaaS, with a strong understanding of financial products, compliance, security, and designing for trust. What you’ll get * A leadership role in shaping the future of fintech - your work will influence design strategy and impact millions of users. * Opportunities for career growth - mentorship, leadership development, and the ability to scale and shape a high-performing design team. * Autonomy and influence - own design decisions, drive cross-functional collaboration, and define best practices. * A high-performing and collaborative team - work alongside talented designers, engineers, and product managers in a culture that values design excellence. * A culture of experimentation - we encourage bold ideas, rapid iteration, and data-driven design improvements. * Competitive compensation and benefits. * Remote-friendly work culture with support for professional development and engagement with the design community. What to expect in the hiring process * Application & portfolio review: we assess your experience, leadership impact, and UX case studies that demonstrate strategic thinking, process, and measurable outcomes. * Preliminary phone call with recruiter: a brief conversation to discuss your background, leadership experience, and expectations. * Interview with senior leadership: a deep dive into your leadership approach, design philosophy, and ability to drive impact. This includes a discussion on past projects and collaboration with cross-functional teams. * Design leadership challenge: a scenario-based assessment to assess both strategic thinking and leadership skills while balancing UX/UI expertise. * Final executive conversation: a discussion with senior leadership to assess alignment with our vision, strategic thinking, and team-building philosophy. How to apply: Submit your resume and portfolio showcasing your leadership in managing design teams, driving strategy, and delivering user-centred solutions with measurable business impact. We want to see case studies that demonstrate how you have led and developed designers, prioritised and managed projects, and fostered a high-performing team culture. Your portfolio should highlight how you have used research, data, and experimentation to inform decisions, optimise workflows, and drive success metrics.

Product Design Director

Omnea

OUR MISSION At Omnea, we’re reinventing how enterprise businesses operate, starting with the most painful parts: procurement – where a single purchase can drag on for months, trigger 50+ emails, and pull in Finance, Legal, Security, and IT just to get something approved. We’ve raised $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, and Accel to change that. Our AI-native platform connects every person, step, and system so buying is fast, safe, and efficient – one place to request, automated approvals and renewals, real-time supplier risk, and complete spend visibility. The opportunity is massive. Every enterprise on the planet has this problem and nobody has solved it. We’ve 10x’d ARR to double-digit millions in 18 months and are trusted by global enterprises like Spotify, MongoDB, Monzo, and Albertsons. We’re now the 4th fastest growing startup in Europe & the Sunday Times' #1 Best Medium Sized Tech Company To Work for. Our team previously scaled Tessian (cybersecurity tech, backed by Sequoia, Balderton, Accel, acquired post-Series C), and our team includes ex-founders operators who’ve grown unicorns, shipped world-class products, and executed at the highest levels. You’ll work alongside leaders like Ben, Abs, Sabrina, and Rebe. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE TEAM AND LIFE AT OMNEA HERE. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for a Director of Product Design to help us build and scale a world-class design organization at Omnea. In this role, you'll lead the design function across the company — driving vision, nurturing talent, and ensuring every customer interaction with Omnea is intuitive, elegant, and trusted. This is a senior leadership role that combines strategic design leadership with organizational building. You’ll set the design bar, define team culture, and ensure we scale product quality alongside company growth. You’ll be joining us at a pivotal time. We’ve just raised $50M in Series B funding from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, Accel, Point Nine, and First Round Capital. In the past year we’ve grown revenue 5x, tripled our customer base, and maintained >99% retention with enterprises like Spotify, Wise, Albertsons, Adecco, and McAfee. Our team is small but high-calibre -- it took over 10,000 interviews to hire our first 50 Omneans. Now we’re scaling fast and building the category of AI Supplier Relationship Management! WHAT YOU’LL DO * Own and evolve Omnea’s end-to-end product design strategy across all surfaces and customer touchpoints. * Manage and grow a high-performing team of product designers - including hiring, coaching, and performance development. * Collaborate with product, engineering, and GTM leaders to drive alignment on roadmap, priorities, and user experience goals. * Champion user-centered design practices - incorporating research, prototyping, and continuous iteration into the team’s DNA. * Drive high-quality execution across all phases - from vision decks to pixel-perfect delivery. * Shape and maintain our design system, brand voice, and internal design practices. ABOUT YOU * 8+ years of experience in product design, including 3+ years in design leadership roles. * Proven ability to grow and lead high-performing design teams in fast-paced environments. * Deep systems thinking -with a portfolio that spans early-stage design and scaled systems. * Exceptional communicator and cross-functional partner - you build trust quickly and lead with empathy. * Experience owning design strategy across complex platforms or internal tools. * You care deeply about product and design craft - and know how to scale that care across a team. WHY JOIN OMNEA Omnea is rebuilding the enterprise back-office stack to be delightful, composable, and seamless. That only works if the user experience is best-in-class - and you’ll be a key driver of that vision. As Director of Product Design, you'll shape how we work, how we hire, and what we ship — with massive ownership and outsized impact. We care deeply about craft and velocity. If you do too, we’d love to talk. At Omnea, we embrace diversity. To build a product that's loved by everyone, we're best served by a team with all sorts of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't quite match the full job spec! And regardless of your race, religion, colour, gender, or anything else! If you think you could be a good fit for Omnea, please reach out. A FEW THINGS TO NOTE: * We offer competitive geo-localised benefits, and you can check out our UK Benefits Package here and our US Benefits Package here. * We work Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in-person at our offices. At this early stage of our company life-cycle it's important to us that we get this together-time, and you can read more about why we believe this is a winning move here * We're commercial, ambitious and we don't pretend otherwise! We're actively seeking folks looking to make the most of a career-defining opportunity, with the hunger to be part of building something really impressive. You can see our values here and our Omnea Future Founder's fund here! * We sometimes use AI note-takers to help us transcribe interview notes, so we can be more present in your interview. If you'd like to opt out of us using automatic transcribers, please note this in the free text field in your application, otherwise we'll take your application as confirmation that you're happy for us to use notetakers (whether added to video calls or in the background). We are proud to be recognised for both our culture and product, and we are just getting started. Join us as we grow! 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Founding Product Designer

Odin

About Odin Private markets are overdue a design transformation, and there is still no design-led company setting the standard for the category. Most products in the space look and feel like a bank statement from 2009. We’re looking for someone to help us change that. Odin is building infrastructure for the future of private markets. We believe capital is one of the most powerful tools for shaping the world - and more people should be putting it to work. Our mission is to make it radically easier to raise and deploy capital, so that anyone, anywhere, can back the companies and ideas they believe in. Our first product is a full-stack platform for launching and running private investment firms - think Shopify for VC and PE. We handle all the infrastructure: from legals and investor onboarding to KYC/AML, payments, tax, reporting, and exits. We’re already trusted by over 10,000 angels, VCs, and founders. We administer over $500m in assets, covering investments from pre-seed to series E. This includes household names like ElevenLabs, OpenAI, SpaceX, xAI, Anduril, etc. but also new companies creating everything from synthetic brains to small nuclear reactors. Mission We’re looking for a senior design leader who combines exceptional visual craft with systems-level product thinking. You’ll play a central role in defining and elevating the customer experience at Odin as we prepare for a major US launch. The scope here is intentionally broad. Your remit spans across product and visual brand identity. You’ll help evolve our brand identity alongside the founders, expressing the philosophy, ambition and cultural stance of a company that is rethinking what progress means and how we get there. Working with our existing designer, our Head of Product and the wider product team, you’ll help set the design direction for the company, raise the quality bar and shape how design operates as we grow. You’ll bring experience and conviction to make strong design decisions quickly, while creating the systems, practices and feedback loops that allow consistently excellent work to scale. You’ll remain close to the work: exploring complex problems, building and testing prototypes, speaking directly with customers and translating what you learn into polished, production-ready experiences. You won’t be stepping into a finished structure. You’ll be helping to shape the next stage of it. Your remit spans both product and brand. You’ll turn complex, regulation-heavy workflows and dense interfaces into experiences that feel clear, intuitive and inevitable. Your Must-Have Qualities We value designers who combine rigorous reasoning, high agency, exceptional craft and deep customer empathy. You’ll succeed in this role if you are: * Deeply user-centric: You advocate for the customer and care about how people experience the product. You use interviews, data and observation to understand real behaviour—not just what users say. * Exceptional in your craft: You have a highly developed eye for composition, hierarchy, interaction and detail. You create polished, cohesive experiences and hold the shipped product to a very high standard. * Reasoned and curious: You challenge assumptions, ask sharp questions and look for root causes rather than applying surface-level fixes. * Decisive with strong judgment: You make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, complexity and compliance. You explore enough to make an informed decision, form a clear point of view and move quickly. * High agency: You don’t wait for perfect information or detailed direction. You identify what needs to happen, bring others with you and take responsibility for moving the work forward. * Systematic about discovery: You build repeatable ways of learning from customers, test assumptions early and establish regular feedback loops rather than treating research as a one-off stage. * Clear and collaborative: You articulate your thinking simply, write clearly and give engineers the context and detail needed to build what was intended. You debate constructively, respond well to feedback and operate with conviction without ego. * Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity: You create structure from incomplete information and navigate technical, regulatory and operational constraints without losing momentum. * Outcome-driven: You care about what happens after something ships. You measure impact and ensure your work genuinely improves the customer experience, business outcomes or operational efficiency. Your Experience Must-Have * 8+ years of product design experience, with a strong track record of shaping complex products end to end. * Experience as an early or senior designer within a high-growth product team. * In-house experience, with ownership of complete customer journeys rather than isolated screens. * A portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design, polished production-ready UI and measurable business or customer impact. * Strong information architecture, interaction design and prototyping skills. * The ability to produce high-quality work at pace, make confident visual decisions and maintain a consistently high bar across the product. * Strong systems thinking, with experience designing complete workflows spanning user actions, communications, automations, permissions, operational processes and technical constraints. * Experience designing complex, multi-party products or working within regulated environments. * The ability to independently lead discovery, including customer interviews, assumption validation, prototyping, usability testing and iteration. * Experience establishing structured, repeatable customer-research and feedback practices. The Hiring Process 1. Interview with Imani, our Head of People & Talent – In this session, you’ll unpack the role and learn more about us, while she ensures you're the right fit for the position (30-45 mins). 2. Interview with Mary, our Co-CEO & Co-Founder – During this initial interview, we’ll touch on topics like culture, values, and your experience to see if there’s alignment on both sides (60 mins). 3. Live Workshop with Mary and Laurits, our Head of Product – This session will focus on your product and systems thinking. (90 mins) 4. Live Workshop with Mary and Laurits – This is where we assess visual craft with a narrowly scoped, UI-focused task. (90 mins) 5. Trial Day (Paid) – We’d like to make an offer, but want to ensure that you experience working with us in a real-world setting and get a feel for our team dynamics and processes. This trial allows both sides to see if the fit is right before making a long-term commitment, ensuring mutual success. We'll fly you to the UK to meet the team in-person. Our process typically runs over two weeks. We share detailed feedback within 24 hours of each interview stage and aim to line up next steps quickly so momentum isn’t lost. Salary The salary band for this role is £105,00 - £135,000 + equity options. During the hiring process, we'll assess your experience and capabilities to determine your starting salary. Working at Odin We’re a London-based team. This is a role where being in the office - working closely with the founders and wider teams - makes a real difference. The speed and intensity we operate at make in-person collaboration crucial, and we expect at least three days per week in the office. Benefits * Health: Private health insurance (Vitality), paid sick leave including support for pregnancy loss and fertility treatments, and access to Spill for mental health support * Wellness: £1,000 annual budget for health, therapy or fitness * Parental Leave: Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity and partner leave * Pension: 4% employer contribution with salary sacrifice options * Time Off: 25 days annual leave, 2 wellness days and flexible bank holidays (33 days total) * Work From Anywhere: Up to 6 weeks per year working from anywhere globally * Birthday Leave: An additional day of leave