Amara Chukwu
Senior Product Designer
“Product designer with 8 years of experience leading design for fintech and e-commerce platforms across three continents. I turn ambiguous problems into shipped, measurable outcomes.”
Experience
Paystack
Senior Product Designer
Mar 2021 — Present
Lead designer for the merchant dashboard and payments checkout flow.
- — Redesigned checkout, lifting conversion 18%
- — Built and shipped the company's first design system
- — Mentored 4 junior designers
Jumia
Product Designer
Jun 2018 — Feb 2021
Owned end-to-end design for the seller onboarding experience.
- — Cut onboarding time from 12 minutes to 4
Key Initiatives
Merchant Dashboard Redesign
End-to-end redesign of the merchant-facing analytics and payouts dashboard.
Learn more →Checkout Design System
A reusable component library that unified checkout across web and mobile.
Learn more →Competencies
Product DesignDesign SystemsFigmaUser Research
Education
B.Sc., Computer Science
University of Lagos
Awards
Design of the Year — Fintech
Awwwards · Nov 2022
Certifications
- Google UX Design Certificate — Google
Publications
- Designing Trust into Checkout Flows — UX Collective
Languages
English (native) · French (conversational)
References
Chinedu Okafor
VP Design at Paystack
Let's work together
Have a role or engagement in mind? I'd love to hear from you.
amara@example.com