Staff Product Designer at Moniepoint Incorporated

Moniepoint Incorporated is a global business payments and banking platform and recently became QED Investors’ first investment in Africa. We are the partner of choice for over 600,000 businesses of all sizes, powering the dreams of SMBs and providing them with equal access to the tools they need to grow and scale.

Job Position: Staff Product Designer
Location: Lagos (Remote)

About the Role

You’re a senior individual contributor who drives design excellence and strategic impact across multiple teams.

You lead through craft mastery, strategic thinking, and influence, not through people management.

You set direction, solve complex problems that span products, and multiply impact by raising the capabilities of designers around you

Job Responsibilities

1. Lead design strategy for major product areas or cross-product initiatives
2. Drive complex, ambiguous projects from discovery through launch across multiple teams
3. Set design standards, patterns, and best practices that others follow
4. Identify and solve systemic design problems across products
5. Partner with senior product and engineering leadership on strategy
6. Mentor and sponsor senior and mid-level designers (informally, no direct reports)
7. Make critical design decisions that affect multiple teams
8. Contribute significantly to the design system strategy and evolution
9. Represent design in organisational planning and cross-functional forums
10. Identify strategic opportunities that weren’t on the roadmap

Requirements

1. Mastery of design tools and advanced prototyping
2. Ideally, 10+ years of product design experience with demonstrated strategic impact
3. Strategic product thinking and strong business acumen
4. Ability to influence without authority
5. Comfortable operating with extreme ambiguity and creating clarity for others
6. Strong facilitation skills for workshops and alignment sessions
7. Can work autonomously for extended periods without guidance
8. Makes high-stakes decisions

Requirements

1. Portfolio showing leadership and influence across multiple teams or products
2. Proven track record of solving complex, ambiguous problems
3. Deep expertise in visual design, interaction design, and systems thinking
4. Strong research skills and ability to validate strategic decisions with evidence
5. History of setting direction that others follow
6. Experience mentoring and developing other designers
7. Excellent stakeholder management and communication at the senior leadership level
8. Track record of identifying opportunities and driving them to completion

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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