Moniepoint
Who we are Moniepoint Inc. is Africa's all-in-one financial ecosystem, helping 10 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, and business management tools since 2019. As Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer, it powers most of the country's Point of Sale (POS) transactions. Through its subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes $22 billion monthly for its customers while operating profitably. As a Product Design Manager, you will own the execution of our design vision, managing a small team of designers across multiple teams to prioritise initiatives, drive strategic projects, and foster a culture of excellence. Balancing leadership with hands on design, you will ensure we deliver business driven, user centred solutions that elevate the user experience. This role requires strong leadership, UX/UI expertise, and cross functional collaboration. You will work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to remove blockers, streamline workflows, and create scalable, accessible designs that align with both user and business needs. What you'll do Lead and manage a small team of product designers, ensuring project prioritisation, team alignment, and timely execution of high quality design work. Mentor and inspire your team, fostering a culture of feedback, learning, and innovation through regular critiques, coaching, and skill development. Manage project timelines, roadmaps, and design workflows, ensuring the team delivers high quality work on schedule. Maintain a hands on approach, contributing directly to key design projects while balancing leadership responsibilities. Partner with product managers, engineers, and executives to translate strategic goals into user friendly design solutions. Advocate for user centred design by leveraging qualitative and quantitative research, usability testing, and behavioural insights to make informed design decisions. Ensure design consistency and scalability through the use of design systems and atomic design principles. Champion accessibility (a11y) and inclusive design, ensuring our products are usable by a diverse audience. Collaborate with analytics and product teams to measure the impact of design and optimise experiences based on data. What you need to succeed A strong portfolio demonstrating your ability to lead design teams and deliver end to end product design solutions across platforms, backed by user research and measurable impact. Experience leading and developing design teams, fostering collaboration, mentorship, and performance driven growth. Expertise in UX/UI principles, interaction design, and user research methodologies, with a proven track record of delivering results driven digital products. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence cross functional teams and advocate for design at all levels. Strategic mindset, with the ability to translate product goals into scalable, flexible, and user centric design solutions. Experience managing design workflows, tools, and operational processes to improve team efficiency and output. Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment, effectively balancing multiple priorities while maintaining design excellence. Experience in fintech or SaaS, with a strong understanding of financial products, compliance, security, and designing for trust. What you'll get A leadership role in shaping the future of fintech - your work will influence design strategy and impact millions of users. Opportunities for career growth - mentorship, leadership development, and the ability to scale and shape a high performing design team. Autonomy and influence - own design decisions, drive cross functional collaboration, and define best practices. A high performing and collaborative team - work alongside talented designers, engineers, and product managers in a culture that values design excellence. A culture of experimentation - we encourage bold ideas, rapid iteration, and data driven design improvements. Competitive compensation and benefits. Remote friendly work culture with support for professional development and engagement with the design community. What to expect in the hiring process Application & portfolio review: we assess your experience, leadership impact, and UX case studies that demonstrate strategic thinking, process, and measurable outcomes. Preliminary phone call with recruiter: a brief conversation to discuss your background, leadership experience, and expectations. Interview with senior leadership: a deep dive into your leadership approach, design philosophy, and ability to drive impact. This includes a discussion on past projects and collaboration with cross functional teams. Design leadership challenge: a scenario based assessment to evaluate both strategic thinking and leadership skills while balancing UX/UI expertise. Final executive conversation: a discussion with senior leadership to assess alignment with our vision, strategic thinking, and team building philosophy. Help Us Support Diversity at Moniepoint At Moniepoint, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, orientation, or other personal characteristics. To help us track and improve our recruitment efforts and ensure we are meeting our gender inclusion goals, we kindly ask you to answer the following demographic questions. Your responses are voluntary and will not impact your application in any way. Thank you for helping us build a more inclusive team.
Who we are Moniepoint Inc. is Africa's all-in-one financial ecosystem, helping 10 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, and business management tools since 2019. As Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer, it powers most of the country's Point of Sale (POS) transactions. Through its subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes $22 billion monthly for its customers while operating profitably. As a Product Design Manager, you will own the execution of our design vision, managing a small team of designers across multiple teams to prioritise initiatives, drive strategic projects, and foster a culture of excellence. Balancing leadership with hands on design, you will ensure we deliver business driven, user centred solutions that elevate the user experience. This role requires strong leadership, UX/UI expertise, and cross functional collaboration. You will work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to remove blockers, streamline workflows, and create scalable, accessible designs that align with both user and business needs. What you'll do Lead and manage a small team of product designers, ensuring project prioritisation, team alignment, and timely execution of high quality design work. Mentor and inspire your team, fostering a culture of feedback, learning, and innovation through regular critiques, coaching, and skill development. Manage project timelines, roadmaps, and design workflows, ensuring the team delivers high quality work on schedule. Maintain a hands on approach, contributing directly to key design projects while balancing leadership responsibilities. Partner with product managers, engineers, and executives to translate strategic goals into user friendly design solutions. Advocate for user centred design by leveraging qualitative and quantitative research, usability testing, and behavioural insights to make informed design decisions. Ensure design consistency and scalability through the use of design systems and atomic design principles. Champion accessibility (a11y) and inclusive design, ensuring our products are usable by a diverse audience. Collaborate with analytics and product teams to measure the impact of design and optimise experiences based on data. What you need to succeed A strong portfolio demonstrating your ability to lead design teams and deliver end to end product design solutions across platforms, backed by user research and measurable impact. Experience leading and developing design teams, fostering collaboration, mentorship, and performance driven growth. Expertise in UX/UI principles, interaction design, and user research methodologies, with a proven track record of delivering results driven digital products. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence cross functional teams and advocate for design at all levels. Strategic mindset, with the ability to translate product goals into scalable, flexible, and user centric design solutions. Experience managing design workflows, tools, and operational processes to improve team efficiency and output. Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment, effectively balancing multiple priorities while maintaining design excellence. Experience in fintech or SaaS, with a strong understanding of financial products, compliance, security, and designing for trust. What you'll get A leadership role in shaping the future of fintech - your work will influence design strategy and impact millions of users. Opportunities for career growth - mentorship, leadership development, and the ability to scale and shape a high performing design team. Autonomy and influence - own design decisions, drive cross functional collaboration, and define best practices. A high performing and collaborative team - work alongside talented designers, engineers, and product managers in a culture that values design excellence. A culture of experimentation - we encourage bold ideas, rapid iteration, and data driven design improvements. Competitive compensation and benefits. Remote friendly work culture with support for professional development and engagement with the design community. What to expect in the hiring process Application & portfolio review: we assess your experience, leadership impact, and UX case studies that demonstrate strategic thinking, process, and measurable outcomes. Preliminary phone call with recruiter: a brief conversation to discuss your background, leadership experience, and expectations. Interview with senior leadership: a deep dive into your leadership approach, design philosophy, and ability to drive impact. This includes a discussion on past projects and collaboration with cross functional teams. Design leadership challenge: a scenario based assessment to evaluate both strategic thinking and leadership skills while balancing UX/UI expertise. Final executive conversation: a discussion with senior leadership to assess alignment with our vision, strategic thinking, and team building philosophy. Help Us Support Diversity at Moniepoint At Moniepoint, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, orientation, or other personal characteristics. To help us track and improve our recruitment efforts and ensure we are meeting our gender inclusion goals, we kindly ask you to answer the following demographic questions. Your responses are voluntary and will not impact your application in any way. Thank you for helping us build a more inclusive team.
Moniepoint
Ranked in 2024 by the Financial Times, Moniepoint is Africa's fastest-growing fintech, trusted by over 10 million business and individual accounts, processing billions of Naira in transactions monthly. Our mission is to enable financial happiness for every African, everywhere. About the role: We're looking for a Data Scientist to sit at the heart of how we fight fraud, building the models, experiments, and detection systems that protect millions of customers and merchants across our platform. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of machine learning, product, and engineering, where your work will directly shape how Moniepoint detects and responds to emerging fraud threats. We are looking for a data-driven, intellectually curious Data Scientist who is energised by hard problems in fraud and financial crime. You'll prototype and ship ML models, design experiments, and uncover new fraud signals across our ecosystem, partnering closely with engineers, product managers, and analysts to turn your work into production grade systems. Responsibilities: Model Development: Prototype, evaluate, and help productionize machine learning models for fraud detection; own their ongoing monitoring and retraining cycles. Experimentation: Design and run experiments to measure the impact of fraud interventions, balancing customer experience against loss reduction. Risk Assessment: Size fraud typologies across our product lines to inform prioritisation and investment decisions. System Maintenance: Build and maintain anomaly detection systems to surface novel fraud vectors before they scale. Cross Functional Collaboration: Work closely with fraud operations, engineers, product managers, and data analysts to translate model outputs into real-world mitigations. We would love to hear from you if A strong foundation in statistics with a degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar) 5+ years of experience in data science, decision science, or risk analytics within fraud, payments, or financial crime Hands on experience building and deploying machine learning models in a production environment, fraud, risk, or financial services experience is a strong plus Solid grounding in data science fundamentals: experimentation, statistical inference, model evaluation, and feature engineering Proficiency in Python and SQL; comfort working across the full model development lifecycle An investigative instinct, you enjoy digging into data to find patterns others miss The ability to communicate technical findings clearly to non technical stakeholders and translate insights into action Comfort working in fast paced, cross functional teams with high ownership expectations What we can offer you Culture: We put our people first and prioritise the well being of every team member. We've built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human. Learning: We have a learning and development focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks. Compensation: You'll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, monthly bonuses, plus other benefits What to expect in the hiring process A preliminary phone call with the recruiter An interview with a business lead Technical take home task (SQL/Python test and case study) A behavioural and technical interview with the Head of Data Science and a member of the executive team Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.
Ranked in 2024 by the Financial Times, Moniepoint is Africa's fastest-growing fintech, trusted by over 10 million business and individual accounts, processing billions of Naira in transactions monthly. Our mission is to enable financial happiness for every African, everywhere. About the role: We're looking for a Data Scientist to sit at the heart of how we fight fraud, building the models, experiments, and detection systems that protect millions of customers and merchants across our platform. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of machine learning, product, and engineering, where your work will directly shape how Moniepoint detects and responds to emerging fraud threats. We are looking for a data-driven, intellectually curious Data Scientist who is energised by hard problems in fraud and financial crime. You'll prototype and ship ML models, design experiments, and uncover new fraud signals across our ecosystem, partnering closely with engineers, product managers, and analysts to turn your work into production grade systems. Responsibilities: Model Development: Prototype, evaluate, and help productionize machine learning models for fraud detection; own their ongoing monitoring and retraining cycles. Experimentation: Design and run experiments to measure the impact of fraud interventions, balancing customer experience against loss reduction. Risk Assessment: Size fraud typologies across our product lines to inform prioritisation and investment decisions. System Maintenance: Build and maintain anomaly detection systems to surface novel fraud vectors before they scale. Cross Functional Collaboration: Work closely with fraud operations, engineers, product managers, and data analysts to translate model outputs into real-world mitigations. We would love to hear from you if A strong foundation in statistics with a degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar) 5+ years of experience in data science, decision science, or risk analytics within fraud, payments, or financial crime Hands on experience building and deploying machine learning models in a production environment, fraud, risk, or financial services experience is a strong plus Solid grounding in data science fundamentals: experimentation, statistical inference, model evaluation, and feature engineering Proficiency in Python and SQL; comfort working across the full model development lifecycle An investigative instinct, you enjoy digging into data to find patterns others miss The ability to communicate technical findings clearly to non technical stakeholders and translate insights into action Comfort working in fast paced, cross functional teams with high ownership expectations What we can offer you Culture: We put our people first and prioritise the well being of every team member. We've built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human. Learning: We have a learning and development focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks. Compensation: You'll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, monthly bonuses, plus other benefits What to expect in the hiring process A preliminary phone call with the recruiter An interview with a business lead Technical take home task (SQL/Python test and case study) A behavioural and technical interview with the Head of Data Science and a member of the executive team Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.