Senior Product Designer

Greenlight Planet

. Own the end-to-end experience of products used by customers, field agents and staff teams.

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeNairobi • KenyaSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing user-centric digital products, particularly for mobile platforms, with a strong focus on accessibility, usability, and offline functionality. Proficient in utilizing design systems and tools like Figma to create high-quality prototypes and visual designs while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

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Expert In FigmaUsability TestingDesigning For Emerging MarketsData LiteracyDesign System Maintenance

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Hard Skills

Mobile Product DesignPrototypingAccessibility FundamentalsHTMLCSSReactSQLMotion DesignIllustrationService Design

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationProactive AttitudeProblem Structuring

Tools & Technologies

AI ToolsComponent Library

Industry Keywords

FintechLast-Mile DistributionPay-As-You-GoAsset FinanceMicrofinanceEmerging-Market Lending

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidReactSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the end-to-end experience of products used by customers, field agents and staff teams.
Conduct field research, usability tests, contextual interviews and concept tests with Energy Officers, customers and operations teams.
Design end-to-end journeys for sales, onboarding, collections, servicing and assist, including offline steps.
Create production-ready visual designs optimized for small screens, bright sunlight and low-end Android devices.
Design for intermittent connectivity, offline states, synchronization, failure recovery, low digital literacy and multiple languages.
Own the component library and design standards, keeping them aligned with engineering implementation.
Build clickable prototypes, use AI tools to generate variants and draft copy, and test prototypes with users.
Produce handoff-ready files, specifications and states, including empty, error, loading, missing-data and poor-network cases.
Review builds before release and maintain implementation quality.
Define success metrics and work with product and data teams to analyze adoption and funnel data after release.
Collaborate with product managers, engineers and market operations teams throughout the product lifecycle.
Travel as required to Sun King markets, including Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania and Myanmar, with regular field visits.
Report to the Head of Product, Enterprise Products.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Portfolio of shipped product work (mandatory), including two or three cases in depth.
5–7 years designing digital products, with meaningful time on mobile.
Experience designing for users who are not like you, ideally in emerging markets, field operations, fintech or last-mile distribution.
Comfortable being the most senior designer in the room and setting the standard.
Able to structure and evaluate ambiguous problems.
Clear communication in writing.
Proactive attitude and willingness to conduct research, design and testing hands-on.
Professional working proficiency in English (mandatory).
Expert in Figma, including components, variables, auto layout and prototyping.
Hands-on experience building or maintaining a design system.
Practical research skills: usability testing, contextual inquiry and field interviews.
Android design conventions and Material Design.
Accessibility and legibility fundamentals, including contrast, touch targets, text scaling and low-literacy patterns.
Data literacy sufficient to read funnel, adoption and A/B test results.
Comfortable using AI tools in the design workflow.
Experience designing offline-first or intermittently integrated applications is good to have.
Front-end familiarity with HTML, CSS or React is good to have.
Motion design or illustration is good to have.
Service design experience is good to have.
Exposure to pay-as-you-go, asset finance, microfinance or emerging-market lending is good to have.
Hands-on experience with SQL is good to have.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.