Product Designer (UI/UX)

About the role

The Product Designer will help make Cornerstone's financial services easy to understand and comfortable to use—for first‑time digital savers as well as experienced merchants. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to design user flows, interfaces, and content that build trust on everyday devices and low‑bandwidth networks.

Key responsibilities

• Design user flows and interfaces for the app, merchant portal, and dashboards.
• Map and improve conversational flows for USSD and WhatsApp channels.
• Create wireframes, high‑fidelity mockups, and clickable prototypes in Figma.
• Run lightweight usability tests and turn findings into design improvements.
• Maintain and extend a consistent design system and component library.
• Design clear transaction states, confirmations, and error messages.
• Prepare design handoffs and support engineers during implementation.

Required profile

• A portfolio showing UI/UX work (academic, personal, or professional projects).
• Working knowledge of Figma or an equivalent design tool.
• Understanding of user‑centred design, visual hierarchy, and mobile‑first layouts.
• Ability to explain design decisions clearly and openness to feedback.

Required skills

• Figma (or equivalent design tool)
• Design systems and component libraries
• Accessibility design
• Low‑bandwidth and low‑literacy design considerations
• Prototyping and usability testing
• Basic HTML/CSS

What we offer

• Design feedback on building simple, trustworthy financial experiences for real users.
• Flexible, remote‑first working arrangement.
• Practical experience contributing to a developing fintech company.
• Task guidance, feedback, and professional development.
• Exposure to cross‑functional collaboration and startup operations.
• Certificate or reference letter on successful completion of the internship.