Senior Product Designer - Mobile

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Product Designer - Mobile based in South Africa.** As a Senior Product Designer, you will take end-to-end ownership of the mobile experience across iOS and Android for a global B2B and B2C product. You’ll shape how users manage their businesses, interact with customers, and stay productive wherever they are. The role combines strategic product thinking with hands-on UX/UI craft, from discovery and research through prototyping, native design, and implementation. You’ll use data, customer insights, and AI-powered tools to identify opportunities and create experiences that drive adoption, retention, and growth. As a senior individual contributor, you’ll influence product strategy and design standards through expertise rather than formal authority. You’ll work closely with product and engineering teams in a highly distributed, international environment. This is an opportunity to define the future of a complex mobile product while maintaining a strong focus on usability, accessibility, and design quality. ### Accountabilities - Own the end-to-end mobile design lifecycle across iOS and Android, taking initiatives from strategic discovery and research through interaction design, prototyping, native UI delivery, and implementation support. - Lead an AI-augmented design process, using AI tools to accelerate research synthesis, ideation, concept exploration, prototyping, and validation while applying strong senior-level judgment throughout. - Translate user needs, behavioral data, and business objectives into intuitive mobile-first experiences that improve adoption, retention, engagement, and overall product growth. - Identify opportunities through research and quantitative insights, define high-impact design opportunities, and help shape the mobile product roadmap and strategic direction. - Champion the user in product decisions while balancing customer value, business priorities, technical considerations, and long-term product scalability. - Evolve and maintain mobile design standards and systems, raising the bar for quality, accessibility, consistency, and interaction design across iOS and Android experiences. - Partner closely with product and engineering teams to influence product direction, solve complex problems, and deliver high-quality experiences without relying on formal authority. ### Requirements - 7+ years of experience designing complex digital products, ideally within SaaS or similarly sophisticated product environments, with a strong portfolio demonstrating shipped native mobile experiences across iOS and Android. - Deep expertise in mobile UX/UI, information architecture, interaction design, accessibility, platform-specific design patterns, and interactive prototyping, with a strong eye for product quality and craft. - Strong technical fluency and adaptability within modern design workflows, including experience working with code-based sources of truth and tools such as Claude Code, alongside decreasing reliance on traditional design-file workflows. - Demonstrated ability to use AI tools throughout the design thinking process, including research synthesis, ideation, prototyping, and validation, while understanding where human judgment and expertise remain essential. - Expert-level knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods, with the ability to turn customer insights and behavioral data into meaningful product decisions. - Proven experience collaborating with product and engineering teams to influence strategy, align stakeholders, and drive measurable outcomes without formal management authority. - Strong communication, problem-solving, strategic thinking, and collaboration skills, combined with a high degree of autonomy and ownership. ### Benefits - **Competitive Compensation:** Pay is benchmarked against market rates in the candidate’s country of residence. - **100% Remote:** Work fully remotely from within your country of residence, with the flexibility to choose your preferred working environment. - **Equity:** Stock options are provided as part of the overall compensation package, allowing employees to share in the organization’s long-term success. - **Professional Growth:** Access to significant learning, development, and career advancement opportunities within a rapidly growing environment. - **Annual Paid Leave:** Paid time off aligned with applicable country-specific and/or contract-specific norms. - **Geographic-Specific Benefits:** Depending on location, benefits may include healthcare, pension contributions, and other locally customary provisions. - **International Team Culture:** Collaborate with a diverse, global team spanning more than 40 countries, bringing together different perspectives, expertise, and experiences. - **Values-Driven Environment:** Work in a culture where clearly defined values actively guide both strategic and day-to-day decisions.