Product Designer

Join Andela as a Staff Product Designer, where you will shape the future of work for millions of people. You will tackle complex product challenges, define design frameworks, and oversee the evolution of our design language. You will also mentor and elevate the design team, communicate the value of design to non-design stakeholders, and lead cross-functional initiatives.

Lead the design of complex, multi-sided marketplace flows, ensuring seamless transitions between client hiring needs and talent career growth.

Act as a peer to Product and Engineering, helping to define the product roadmap by identifying user-centric opportunities that align with Andela’s commercial goals.

Player-coach: You fly high (create strategy) AND low (know the details that matter). You roll up your sleeves and get scrappy. You do this proactively collaborating with your team while actively engaging in important details

Exceptional Leadership: As an Andelan, you’ll serve as a role model for the rest of the company. Think about the feedback your peers typically give you – if it usually sounds like the below, we want to hear from you:

About Andela

• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Operations, and commercial teams in a remote or distributed organization
• Great listener, hungry for feedback: You’re always seeking to improve – our product, our business, yourself. You solicit diverse opinions and deeply listen
• One team mentality: You break silos across teams. You put the company and mission first above your team alone

Responsibilities

• Oversee the evolution of our component library to ensure accessibility, consistency, and a world-class aesthetic, acting as the "Source of Truth" for our design language.
• Communication: Mastery of the "pitch." You can articulate the ROI of design to non-design stakeholders and build consensus across a global, async organization

Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years in Product Design, with a significant track record of delivering high-impact B2B, SaaS, or Marketplace products
• Product Sense: You think like a Product Manager. You understand trade-offs, technical constraints, and how to ship "Minimum Viable Products" (MVP) to learn fast
• The Stack: Experience of Figma paired with professional-grade proficiency in React.js, TypeScript, and CSS-in-JS (or Tailwind)
• Tooling: Expert-level Figma skills, including advanced prototyping, auto-layout, and library management
• Systems Thinker: You have a deep understanding of how design scales. You can think through edge cases, global localization, and complex state management without needing to see it in code first
• Business problem solver: You’re not just a functional expert; you consistently get praise for approaching your function through the lens of solving business problems
• 3+ years in a marketplace, platform, or multi-sided network business model
• Owner, not renter: You see a problem, you fix it or find someone who will. The buck stops with you
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred
• Low ego, low drama, servant leader: You share credit, take blame. You like being wrong because it means someone else had an even better idea

Preferred

• 2+ years managing or mentoring direct reports