In 2017, over half the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.
We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. How you'll help us achieve it
We are growing our product design team and looking for an experienced mobile designer to expand features on our Android and iOS apps. You will have the opportunity to make financial services more accessible and inclusive for millions of people through working with thoughtful product managers, researchers, and engineers!
Work closely with product managers, user researchers, engineers, and data analysts from the start to end of a feature.
Create high quality designs, interactions, and prototypes to explore ideas in service of the best solution for the project (Wave uses Figma).
Craft user research plans and work directly with our user researchers to identify problems and validate solutions in user testing.
Contribute to Wave’s design system and component library.
Prototype visual and UX concepts and iterate towards the right solution (Wave uses Claude for mobile prototyping with Android apks).
This is a fully remote role. You'll travel to one of our key markets for a 1 week immersion trip with your immediate team (Wave covers all costs). Outside of this 1 week immersion, you’ll also travel to a market country with our product design lead and PMs, for a total of travel 2x a year. For this role, we are offering a salary of up to $187,000 USD based on your location (paid in your local currency equivalent), plus a generous equity package.




~ Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
~Unlimited vacation with a 20-day minimum requirement, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays
~$Experience with low and high-fidelity design & prototyping with LLMs on Android mobile apps
Fluency in English. French language skills are a plus.
At least 6 years of end-to-end in-house experience, with a consumer focus on product design with mobile apps.
Excellent visual and interaction design skills, with an eye at removing friction from flows
Strong illustration and animation skills. We use After Effects and Lottie at Wave but anything that can be converted to a Lottie file works
Ability to deliver high-quality designs with speed and polish
Identify UX improvements without waiting for the perfect conditions
Ability to think through complex interaction design as well as thinking about tradeoffs of each solution
Are detail-oriented and able to balance multiple projects
Can iterate separate concepts quickly to user test design bets. The ability to move fast and update designs based on customer feedback is an important quality we’re looking for
Think carefully about in-the-weeds details and their role within the design system
Can speak, read, and write in French. This is nice to have but not a strong requirement - we have large markets in West Africa where French will come in handy.
We have a rapidly growing in-country team in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Uganda, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon plus remote team members spread across the world.
We're deeply passionate about our mission of bringing radically affordable financial services to the people who need them most.
You'll own your projects at every stage, from understanding the problem to monitoring your solution in production.
Our world-class investors, include Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa.
We are onY Combinator's top companies by revenue.

📌 Remote Product Designer (Barcelona)
🏢 Wave Mobile Money
📍 Barcelona