Cynthia Kiprotich

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Senior Product Designer at Paystack · Brand and marketing design · typography, illustration

Paystack
Nairobi, Kenya · EAT (UTC+3)
7+ years experience
Lagos Business School
English, Swahili
AdvisingOpen to work
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Overview

Senior Product Designer at Paystack, focused on brand and marketing design. Built a component library 69 engineers ship with every day.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in brand and marketing design
  • Advice on brand and marketing design
  • Second opinions on web design decisions
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Generic networking requests
Skills
typographyfintechweb designillustrationbrand design
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for first design hires: brand and marketing design and fintech

Topics
brand and marketing design, typography, illustration
Format
Office hours
Terms
Paid
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Engineers moving into leadership

7 years of brand and marketing design. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Nairobi, Kenyaweb designtypographyillustration
Open
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Product Designer in fintech, Nairobi or hybrid

Target roles
Product Designer
Level
Senior
Industries
Consumer apps, B2B SaaS
Work mode
Remote
Available
30 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Kenya
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (seed) where brand and marketing design is core to the product.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

7 years in brand and marketing design. Strongest at brand design and typography. Open to the right conversation.

Nairobi, Kenyatypographyillustrationweb design
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Product Designer
    Sep 2023 - Present
    Paystack · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Shipped the brand redesign that lifted task completion 23%.
    • Cut support tickets about brand by 40% with clearer copy and states.
    • Ran 93 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.
  2. Product Designer
    Dec 2020 - Sep 2023
    Jumia · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Brought the brand flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.
  3. Product Designer
    Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
    Ecobank · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Cut support tickets about brand by 53% with clearer copy and states.

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Education

  1. Lagos Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2020 - 2022
  2. Strathmore University
    BCom, Human-Computer Interaction
    2015 - 2019

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