Product UX/UI Designer

About the role

A leading African telecom and fintech group is looking for a Product UX/UI Designer to join its product team and help design, improve and scale digital products, with a strong focus on mobile transactional experiences and the client's flagship mobile merchant/agent app. The designer works in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with product managers, developers, business stakeholders and marketing teams, creating scalable, user-centric mobile experiences across multiple countries.

Key responsibilities

• UX design: understand user needs, product challenges and business constraints; design intuitive, scalable user journeys; create user flows, wireframes and interactive prototypes; apply usability, accessibility and information architecture best practices; identify friction points and improve the experience
• User testing: prepare and run user testing sessions, build feedback frameworks and questionnaires, analyze usage patterns and turn insights into prioritized UX improvements
• UI production: design clean, consistent mobile interfaces, produce high-quality Figma mockups, respect existing design standards and deliver implementation-ready interfaces
• Design system: work within and contribute to the design system, structure components and variants in Figma, collaborate with developers on design-to-code workflows and ensure consistency across products and countries
• Collaboration: work with developers on feasibility, take part in product discussions and integrate mobile technical constraints into designs
• AI-enhanced workflow: use AI tools to speed up and improve UX/UI exploration, keeping a critical and structured approach

Required profile

• 3-5+ years of experience in UX/UI or product design
• Experience designing mobile applications or evolving digital products
• Previous experience in product companies, startups, agencies or software factories
• Telecom or super-app experience is a plus
• French professional fluency required; professional working English proficiency recommended

Required skills

• Strong user journey design, usability, ergonomics, user-centered design and information hierarchy
• User testing and research, including Maze, FigJam, Dovetail or equivalents
• Advanced Figma (components, variants, auto-layout, design systems)
• Responsive and cross-device UI, design-system-to-code principles
• Nice to have: large-scale design system experience, Agile/Product/Design Thinking knowledge, front-end sensitivity (HTML/CSS), product analytics exposure (Amplitude, Hotjar, Firebase Analytics)