Twitter is looking for a highly entrepreneurial Staff Designer to help establish a bespoke product strategy for Twitter in Africa and execute against it with support from a dedicated local team. Ghana and Nigeria will be the first countries in Africa in which we pilot this new approach of building an in-market team to locally tailor our global product to the needs of a specific region.

Twitter is looking for someone who has proven success in collaborating to achieve product-market fit with consumer products in Africa with specialization in West African markets such as Ghana and Nigeria, either through a new venture or within a larger company. You’ll be experienced with partnering with researchers to gain local insights and translating these insights into products that people love. You have a strong, customer-centric approach to product design and have repeatedly used this to deliver past successes. You are a rare blend of product management, product design and engineering.

If this sounds like it might be you, you probably have:

• An ability to develop a deep understanding and empathy for customers whose daily life, circumstances and needs might be very different than your own.
• A strong quantitative and qualitative background to support data-informed decision-making.
• Excellent interpersonal skills which allow you to excel at collaborating with your team and connect with the customers that you’re serving.
• Demonstrated success working in a resource-constrained, highly-ambiguous environment, such as at a startup or new venture.
• A willingness to travel to spend time with your customers and our product teams around the world.
• An ability to leverage systems thinking in your approach to solving problems quickly and efficiently.
• Proficiency in understanding technical constraints and working with Engineering counterparts to find ways to take designs from concepts to production scale.

Qualification Required & Experience

• Experience driving product strategy in collaboration with Product and Engineering leaders.
• Experience working in startups or on highly ambitious zero-to-one projects.
• Proficiency in at least one local language in West Africa region
• 5+ years of experience with user interfaces, interaction paradigms, and visual design patterns as well as experience with a wide variety of software engineering tools and practices.
• Experience prototyping user interfaces for Android, prototyping for iOS using Swift or Objective-C, SwiftUI or UIKit, and building with web technologies (React/JS) are all a plus.
• Strong understanding of accessibility best practices for design and software development.
• You’ve designed end to end product experiences for web and mobile applications.
• You understand software engineering best practices, including agile development, code reviews, design documentation, debugging, and troubleshooting.
• Great communication skills - you’re able to clearly articulate ideas and collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers, and researchers to drive progress.
• Growth mindset and a desire to learn, teach, and mentor.

Location: Ghana

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Closing Date: 12 May, 2021