Product Design - UI/UX

Location: Remote / Hybrid (Timezone overlap preferred)

Type: Full-time

Experience Level: Mid-Level

💼 About Us

We're building a fintech product to revolutionize SME lending in emerging markets. Think fast-moving, high-ownership, design-meets-systems-thinking culture. We’re solving one of the messiest real-world problems, credit access, with clean, intuitive interfaces and ruthless clarity. The stakes are high, and so is the bar.

🎯 What You’ll Do

• Lead UX and UI design across mobile and web products
• Translate rough concepts and workflows into clean user journeys
• Build and maintain scalable design systems in Figma
• Partner tightly with product, engineering, and operations to shape features
• Conduct lightweight user research and usability validation
• Think in flows, not just screens, and obsess over edge cases

🛠 Your Toolkit

• Figma (components, auto-layout, prototyping, the works)
• UX research basics, user interviews, usability tests, etc.
• Understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and real-world constraints
• Bonus if you know how design decisions impact frontend development (React)

💡 What We’re Looking For

Hard Skills

• Portfolio with relevant work, ideally shipped B2B or fintech products
• Experience with design systems and scalable UI frameworks
• Ability to wireframe quickly and polish when needed
• Comfort working with ambiguity and shaping early-stage features
• Can turn complex logic into clean interfaces that make sense at a glance

Soft Skills

• Curious mind, always asking why before jumping to how
• Collaborative communicator who makes others better
• Clear design rationale and willingness to debate tradeoffs
• Comfortable working solo and owning problems end to end
• Deep empathy for small businesses and emerging market realities

🧠 Additional Traits We Value

• Systems thinking over dribbble thinking
• Ability to ruthlessly prioritize and cut scope
• Love for clarity, speed, and simplicity
• A bias for getting real feedback over chasing perfection

✨ Nice-to-Haves

• Fintech or SME product experience
• Past experience in early-stage, high-growth teams
• Frontend design handoff experience (understanding dev tradeoffs)
• Exposure to AI/LLM-integrated product experiences

❌ What We’re Not Optimizing For Right Now

• Over-polished Behance portfolios with zero product depth
• Designers who only want final specs and handholding
• People afraid to challenge product decisions

💸 Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary (based on experience)
• Equity options, early team = long-term upside
• Remote-first, async-friendly culture
• Your design will shape core parts of how we serve thousands of SMEs

👥 Team & Culture

• Small, execution-first product team
• Flat, high-trust environment
• Low-meeting, fast-shipping, user-first mindset
• Serious about craft, casual in meetings

🚀 Growth & Learning

• Influence product direction from day one
• Ownership of core flows across SME lending stack
• Learn from real users, iterate fast, and see your work in action
• Opportunity to shape the design culture from the ground up

🌍 Remote/Hybrid Setup

• Remote-first with optional co-working
• Async culture with flexible schedules
• Prefer candidates within ±3 hours of PKT

📝 Application Process

1. Portfolio Review + Intro Chat – Get to know each other
2. Design Deep Dive - Walk through a product decision you’re proud of
3. Product Challenge - Explore a feature from our roadmap
4. Final Call - Meet more of the team + offer logistics