Senior Product Designer
Yoco
Product, Design
Cape Town, South Africa
Posted on Mar 26, 2025
Who We Are
Yoco is one of Africa's largest fintech companies, building an ecosystem of intuitive, dynamic payments and business tools. These connected tools are easy to tailor to diverse business needs, enabling brave businesses to do better and grow.
Founded in 2015, we now process over US$3 billion annually for over 400,000 businesses.
We are powered by over 330 people across our three talent hubs in the Netherlands and South Africa. We come from different backgrounds and have different viewpoints, so we can keep building cutting-edge financial tools for growing businesses.
We’re growing fast. With growth comes compelling challenges, which means that if you’re an ambitious problem-solver with big ideas you will be challenged, stimulated, and grow with us at Yoco. You have a passion for doing good. You’re bright and grounded, experimental and brave.
We believe growing together is a commitment and that it means being uncomfortable and overcoming problems, and when faced with such problems seeing opportunities where others see barriers. But we know it’s not for everyone.
We don’t stop pushing, we break things to rebuild, we challenge ourselves, and inspire each other. We’re constantly evolving - and we’re doing it fast.
Be Brave and Grow With Us.
About The Product Design Team
At Yoco, design is a key driver of business success. We believe that thoughtful, human-centered product experiences help businesses start, run, and grow with confidence.
About The Role
As a Senior Product Designer, you will be embedded within a specific product team or tribe, working closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and other Designers to design, and refine high-impact product experiences.
This is a hands-on role where you will take ownership of end-to-end design work, from problem definition and research to execution and iteration. You will have the opportunity to directly engage with customers, run your own research, and leverage existing insights to inform and validate your work.
Your role will be to design, refine, and scale impactful product experiences while ensuring that our design system, brand, and experience principles are upheld across all customer touchpoints.
What You Will Be Doing
Understand & Define
Make the Intangible Tangible
Preserve Original Intent & Reduce Learning Costs
Own the Design Journey amplifying the Ecosystem Experience
Strategic Participation
We’re looking for brave people who want to grow. And as Yoco grows we hope they stay with us, long term.
Growing can be a daunting task and it’s not for everyone. We never stop pushing, we break things to rebuild, we challenge ourselves, and inspire each other to push further.
So, who are you? You’re a curious problem-solver with a passion for doing good. You’re bright and grounded, experimental and brave. You play open cards and get stuck in. You’re not afraid of change. You close the loop.
Find Out More About Who We Are Here.
We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply and ask that you please send your application in English and help us reduce unconscious bias by leaving out your picture, age, address, and other unnecessary information in your CV.
Yoco is one of Africa's largest fintech companies. We enable small businesses to thrive through open commerce.
Founded in 2015, we have helped over 400,000 small businesses across South Africa accept card payments and access capital–often for the first time.
We have over ±350 team members across our key hubs in South Africa and the Netherlands, all working to deliver world class payments and software solutions to small businesses.
We have raised $170M from some of the leading institutional investors in the world such as TPG, Dragoneer, Partech, Velocity, Quona, Raba, 4DX and many more.
Yoco is one of Africa's largest fintech companies, building an ecosystem of intuitive, dynamic payments and business tools. These connected tools are easy to tailor to diverse business needs, enabling brave businesses to do better and grow.
Founded in 2015, we now process over US$3 billion annually for over 400,000 businesses.
We are powered by over 330 people across our three talent hubs in the Netherlands and South Africa. We come from different backgrounds and have different viewpoints, so we can keep building cutting-edge financial tools for growing businesses.
We’re growing fast. With growth comes compelling challenges, which means that if you’re an ambitious problem-solver with big ideas you will be challenged, stimulated, and grow with us at Yoco. You have a passion for doing good. You’re bright and grounded, experimental and brave.
We believe growing together is a commitment and that it means being uncomfortable and overcoming problems, and when faced with such problems seeing opportunities where others see barriers. But we know it’s not for everyone.
We don’t stop pushing, we break things to rebuild, we challenge ourselves, and inspire each other. We’re constantly evolving - and we’re doing it fast.
Be Brave and Grow With Us.
About The Product Design Team
At Yoco, design is a key driver of business success. We believe that thoughtful, human-centered product experiences help businesses start, run, and grow with confidence.
About The Role
As a Senior Product Designer, you will be embedded within a specific product team or tribe, working closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and other Designers to design, and refine high-impact product experiences.
This is a hands-on role where you will take ownership of end-to-end design work, from problem definition and research to execution and iteration. You will have the opportunity to directly engage with customers, run your own research, and leverage existing insights to inform and validate your work.
Your role will be to design, refine, and scale impactful product experiences while ensuring that our design system, brand, and experience principles are upheld across all customer touchpoints.
What You Will Be Doing
Understand & Define
Make the Intangible Tangible
- Engage deeply with customer problems and product challenges, conducting your own research and leveraging existing insights to identify real opportunities.
- Use systems thinking to define patterns, causality, and drop-offs that impact the customer experience.
- Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to align on problems, priorities, and solutions that balance customer needs with business goals.
Preserve Original Intent & Reduce Learning Costs
- Design end-to-end customer journeys and experiences within your product area, ensuring seamless interaction across touchpoints.
- Prototype, test, and iterate—rapidly turning concepts into tangible, testable solutions.
- Take the lead on interaction and interface design, delivering high-quality, human-centered solutions.
- Balance speed and craftsmanship, knowing when to move fast and when to go deep to refine critical details.
- Work closely with engineers to ensure designs are feasible, scalable, and executed to a high standard.
Own the Design Journey amplifying the Ecosystem Experience
- Take existing product journeys and improve them by identifying pain points, inconsistencies, and areas for optimization.
- Design with scalability and long-term maintainability in mind, ensuring solutions work for current and future needs.
- Collaborate with the broader Design team to ensure consistency across our Design System, Brand, and Product Experience.
- Advocate for accessibility and inclusivity, ensuring our products work for all merchants.
Strategic Participation
- Be an active voice in product and design discussions, helping to shape what we build and how we build it.
- Facilitate design critiques, working sessions, and feedback loops to align stakeholders and improve design outcomes.
- Work closely with Product Marketing and Brand teams to ensure our design language is consistent, intentional, and impactful.
- Help foster a culture of design excellence by sharing knowledge, mentoring junior designers, and contributing to the continuous improvement of our practice.
- 5+ years of experience in product design, with a portfolio showcasing impactful work in digital products.
- Comfortable working within a dedicated product team, balancing execution with problem-solving.
- A self-sufficient designer who can conduct your own research, synthesize insights, and apply them to product decisions.
- Proficient in interaction design, prototyping, and visual design, with a deep understanding of user-centered methodologies.
- Ability to work fast, iterate, and test assumptions while maintaining high design quality.
- A meticulous designer with a sharp eye for aesthetics and detail in both macro and micro-interactions, ensuring high-quality execution in every aspect of the product experience.
- You’re a systems thinker, but also a pragmatic decision-maker—you know when to push for a new approach and when to work within existing frameworks.
- Not afraid to challenge assumptions, but also open to feedback and alternative perspectives.
- You understand trade-offs—balancing user experience with feasibility, scalability, and technical constraints.
We’re looking for brave people who want to grow. And as Yoco grows we hope they stay with us, long term.
Growing can be a daunting task and it’s not for everyone. We never stop pushing, we break things to rebuild, we challenge ourselves, and inspire each other to push further.
So, who are you? You’re a curious problem-solver with a passion for doing good. You’re bright and grounded, experimental and brave. You play open cards and get stuck in. You’re not afraid of change. You close the loop.
Find Out More About Who We Are Here.
We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply and ask that you please send your application in English and help us reduce unconscious bias by leaving out your picture, age, address, and other unnecessary information in your CV.
Yoco is one of Africa's largest fintech companies. We enable small businesses to thrive through open commerce.
Founded in 2015, we have helped over 400,000 small businesses across South Africa accept card payments and access capital–often for the first time.
We have over ±350 team members across our key hubs in South Africa and the Netherlands, all working to deliver world class payments and software solutions to small businesses.
We have raised $170M from some of the leading institutional investors in the world such as TPG, Dragoneer, Partech, Velocity, Quona, Raba, 4DX and many more.