About the Role
We are looking for a Full-Stack Product Lead. You will own the entire lifecycle of our digital experience, bridging the gap between high-level business strategy (PM) and pixel-perfect execution (Design).
What You'll Do
Shape the Product Strategy: Translate business goals, editorial priorities, and user needs into clear product bets and structured six-to-eight-week shipping cycles.
Own End-to-End Design: Create user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity interfaces, interactive prototypes, and a scalable design system (Figma primary).
Lead User Research & Testing: Recruit and run sessions with African business professionals, investors, and executives; synthesize insights to directly inform both product strategy and UI design.
Design Core Platform Experiences: Build seamless experiences for content discovery, deep-dive reading, interactive reports, data dashboards, country/opportunity trackers, paywalls, and newsletter integration.
Partner Daily with Engineering: Work in tight cycles to resolve unknowns early, iterate on designs based on technical constraints, make smart trade-offs, and ensure high-quality delivery.
Drive Growth-Oriented Features: Own the UX for personalization, search, subscriptions, data exports, and tools that support both free and premium users.
Establish Foundational Processes: Help set the blueprint for how we discover problems, prioritize, prototype, test, and ship in a fast-moving, early-stage startup environment.
What We're Looking ForMust-Haves
The Full-Stack Skillset: Proven experience acting as a PM + Design hybrid (either a Product Designer with strong product strategy/roadmap ownership or a Product Manager with elite UI/UX design execution).
Figma Fluency: You are incredibly comfortable producing production-ready designs, components, and interactive prototypes daily.
Shipped B2B/SaaS Experience: A track record of shipping digital web apps or platforms used by professionals or data-heavy industries.
Autonomous Researcher: Ability to recruit your own users, run testing sessions, and convert raw qualitative data into immediate product iterations.
A Strong Portfolio: Must demonstrate both strategic product thinking (the "why") and beautiful, clean visual/UI design (the "how"), specifically for content-rich or data-heavy platforms.
Startup Mindset: Comfort working in a founder-led, fast-paced environment with ambiguity and high standards.
Nice-to-Haves
Experience with market intelligence, financial data, media, or subscription platforms (e.g., Bloomberg, Statista, The Information, Substack).
A background in data visualization, interactive dashboards, or complex information design.
Familiarity with African markets, emerging economies, or international business intelligence.
Experience with Webflow, Framer, or basic frontend collaboration.
Knowledge of growth design, conversion optimization, or premium paywall/subscription flows.