• Application Deadline:
• Position: Staff Product Designer



• Job Type Full Time



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND



• Experience 10 years



• Location Lagos




• Job Field UX, Design and Architecture 
  
  

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

What you’ll do

• Lead design strategy for major product areas or cross-product initiatives


• Drive complex, ambiguous projects from discovery through launch across multiple teams


• Set design standards, patterns, and best practices that others follow


• Identify and solve systemic design problems across products


• Partner with senior product and engineering leadership on strategy


• Mentor and sponsor senior and mid-level designers (informally, no direct reports)


• Make critical design decisions that affect multiple teams


• Contribute significantly to design system strategy and evolution


• Represent design in organisational planning and cross-functional forums


• Identify strategic opportunities that weren't on the roadmap.

Requirements

• Mastery of design tools and advanced prototyping


• Ideally, 10+ years of product design experience with demonstrated strategic impact


• Strategic product thinking and strong business acumen


• Ability to influence without authority


• Comfortable operating with extreme ambiguity and creating clarity for others


• Strong facilitation skills for workshops and alignment sessions


• Can work autonomously for extended periods without guidance


• Makes high-stakes decisions.

What you bring:

• Portfolio showing leadership and influence across multiple teams or products


• Proven track record of solving complex, ambiguous problems


• Deep expertise in visual design, interaction design, and systems thinking


• Strong research skills and ability to validate strategic decisions with evidence


• History of setting direction that others follow


• Experience mentoring and developing other designers


• Excellent stakeholder management and communication at senior leadership level


• Track record of identifying opportunities and driving them to completion.