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.
Professional Experience
Mar 2021 — Present
Senior Product Designer
Paystack
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
Jun 2018 — Feb 2021
Product Designer
Jumia
Owned end-to-end design for the seller onboarding experience.
- Cut onboarding time from 12 minutes to 4
Key Projects
Merchant Dashboard Redesign
End-to-end redesign of the merchant-facing analytics and payouts dashboard.
View projectCheckout Design System
A reusable component library that unified checkout across web and mobile.
View projectCredentials
Certifications
- Google UX Design Certificate, Google
Awards
- Design of the Year — Fintech, Awwwards
Publications
- Designing Trust into Checkout Flows, UX Collective
Core Competencies
Product DesignDesign SystemsFigmaUser Research
Languages
Englishnative
Frenchconversational
Education
B.Sc., Computer Science
University of Lagos
Sep 2013 — Jun 2017
References
Chinedu Okafor
VP Design, Paystack
Let's work together
Have a role or project in mind? I'd love to hear from you.
amara@example.com