Product Designer

Our Mission

At Pemo, we believe that all business owners deserve to be successful. Business owners deserve to spend their time and money doing what they do best - running their businesses. They deserve to stay in control of their finances, at any point in time, effortlessly! That's why we have built the all-in-one spend management platform that empowers MENA business owners and their teams. With Pemo, company spending becomes easy, fast and transparent. Teams can spend smarter and autonomously. Business owners can run more efficient workplaces and keep control of their finances. Pemo gives superpowers to businesses so they can be bold and fast.

At Pemo, we ...

→ nurture a friendly & safe environment

→ foster a strong sense of collaboration

→ trust each other and are positive challengers

→ encourage everyone to make courageous decisions

→ are no-ego doers

→ shoot for the moon and work backwards!

Our fast growing team at Pemo is currently looking for a Product Designer to join our Design department. We’re searching for a skilled designer that knows how to take ownership of tasks and embraces uncertainty with seniority. We’re a small group of two designers and we’re searching for the third one who is more of a jack of all trades, and can focus on the bigger picture, not experts in only one field. He/she is going to take on features and challenges from start to finish, while ensuring efficiency and continuing to elevate our operations on a monthly basis.

What You’ll do:

• Design new and existing product features. Lean mentality to quickly test and iterate.
• Design financial “Jobs to be Done” for business owners, accountants and all employee members to improve their financial operations.
• Integrate into our working process as a Product Designer. Working for desktop and mobile (Web app, iOS and Android). Conceptualize with the product team, create and improve every process till the final designs are ready for implementation.
• User Research. Develop qualitative and quantitative tests to improve our knowledge of our user behaviors and scoping of new features.
• Excellent communication skills to co-create during the whole design process.
• Coordinate, structure and improve our design system to create a working process that is agile and purpose-effective. Promote it through the product team and to the entire organization.
• Present new features to colleagues and users.
• Improve and optimize design operations.
• Negotiate and prepare the final Handover for the tech team.
• Develop brand & company designs.
• Software quality assurance tests.
• Understand, set and follow-up product metrics.
• Overdeliver mentality on quality standards.
• Learn together with the team.

What we love about you:

• +3 years of experience in product design. Web, iOS and Android. Startup experience is preferred over years of experience.
• Is fluent in Arabic and English.
• Figma, Notion, Jira and Adobe experience.
• You prototyped and made user interviews, qualitative and quantitative.
• You have great taste for UI design.
• You’ve worked with Design Systems in a collaborative way.
• You have worked with product metrics in order to make a product grow exponentially.
• You have strong experience building complex flows and screens.

Nice to have, but not essential:

• Previous Fintech experience
• Experience working in Squads/Cross-functional (x) teams
• Some knowledge about the MENA region

In addition, here are skills and attributes we value:

• Goal mindset
• Organized
• Resolutive
• Ambition to grow together
• Creativity
• Adaptability and Flexibility
• Lean and user-first mentality
• Problem solving capacity
• Team player attitude
• Knowledge of most common product metrics
• Organizational skills
• A desire to always over-deliver

How is the design culture at Pemo?

We are a small team building an exceptional design foundation for the upcoming years. The company founders understand the business value design brings to the company and supports its growth strongly. 

The new Product Designer would report directly to the Product Design Manager, which has a long startup background building products from scratch and scaling them quickly. He has experience on creating personal development plans for each team member and allocates resources accordingly. 

Some of the design goals for next year are:

• Continue building a scalable design system for all products involved (Web, mobile apps and product marketing)
• Clean up the whole user experience working on all the main flows
• Create an international design team that compliments and grows on top of each other
• Keep prioritizing on top of quarter OKRs and planning our roadmaps in a collaborative way

What will you love about us:

We like to make sure everyone in the team is comfortable and has the best environment for them. We offer flexible hours, remote working (within 4 hours of GMT+4) and have a relaxed attitude to taking personal time - focusing only on whether work gets done. Benefits are optional and can be tweaked on an individual basis depending on what makes you most productive. 

Some cool stuff at Pemo:

• You will work with an international team of experts
• We give you the freedom to explore and suggest
• You will learn new things and enter a sector which is growing and will have a direct impact on the company’s future
• You will be involved in a pre-series A startup backed by prominent international investors (Augmentum Fintech, Shorooq, Cherry Ventures, Fintech Collective, Speedinvest, and others) as well as the CEOs of some of the most successful Fintech scale-ups in Europe and South East Asia, such as Nium, Qonto, Billie, or Spenmo
• We’re happy to offer a competitive salary based on experience