Senior Product Designer

About the role

Yoco is a South African fintech building payment hardware and software for small businesses. Yoco serves more than 400,000 South African merchants and is expanding into business banking and lending. The Senior Product Designer owns the design experience across one of Yoco’s product surfaces (merchant app, business banking, capital, or in-store hardware UX). Application deadline 15 August 2026.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design for a major Yoco product surface: research, exploration, prototyping, delivery, post-launch iteration.
• Partner daily with product managers, engineering, content, and research.
• Run customer research with South African small business owners.
• Contribute to and evolve the Yoco design system.
• Mentor mid-level designers and shape the team’s design practices.

Requirements

• Six or more years of professional product design experience including two or more years in fintech, SaaS, or commerce.
• Strong portfolio showing shipped consumer or SMB-facing product surfaces with measurable outcomes.
• Proficiency in Figma and modern design system practices.
• Comfortable running customer research independently.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

Nice to have

• Prior experience designing for payments or banking products.
• Background in service design or interaction design for hardware.
• Experience working across multi-platform surfaces (mobile, web, in-store).

How to apply

Open the Yoco careers page at the apply link, search for “Senior Product Designer”, and submit through Yoco’s recruitment portal. Portfolio review, design exercise, hiring manager interview, and panel interviews follow. Closing date 15 August 2026.