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Résumé

7+ years

Senior Product Designer working across fintech, the creator economy and SaaS, turning ambiguous financial workflows into products people trust.

thedanielokpara@gmail.comLinkedIn

Lagos, Nigeria. Open to remote.

Experience

  1. Jan 2023–Present

    Senior Product Designer

    Mainstack

    Creator economy & social commerce platform

    • Led end-to-end design of invoicing and payments for creators: billing, payment collection and transaction tracking across thousands of active users, built to reduce cognitive load and increase payment confidence for people with no financial training.
    • Designed the bookings and hosted-courses checkout experience, including pricing configuration, payment gating and post-purchase confirmation states, applying financial UX principles to reduce drop-off and increase transaction completion.
    • Drove onboarding activation from 23% to 61% through a comprehensive redesign of the creator onboarding flow, grounded in user research and iterative usability testing across multiple cohorts.
    • Led design of Marie, Mainstack's AI assistant, including a strategic proposal to evolve her from a reactive chat tool into a proactive ambient co-pilot. Built the product brief, interaction model and executive presentation that won leadership alignment.
    • Contributed to V4 platform work: design system development, component standardisation and cross-squad design consistency in a multi-product environment.
    • Ran user research with creators, surfacing insights that directly shaped product decisions on community, tribes and financial management.
    • Payments
    • Financial UX
    • Design systems
    • AI product
  2. Apr 2022–Jun 2023

    Product Designer

    Inawo

    Event management & payments platform

    • Redesigned the core payments and transaction flow for event organisers, contributing to a 40% increase in transaction volume, building financial trust through clear confirmation states, transparent fee breakdowns and robust error handling.
    • Redesigned onboarding for event hosts and attendees, reducing time-to-first-transaction and improving early-stage activation.
    • Led user research with event organisers to understand friction in financial management, translating findings into a prioritised redesign roadmap presented to the founding team.
    • Built and maintained a shared design system unifying payment UI components across web and mobile, significantly reducing design-to-development handoff time.
    • Worked with engineering to define API response states for payment flows (loading, success, partial failure and error) so the UI communicated financial status accurately at every step.
    • Payments
    • Research
    • Design systems
    • Onboarding
  3. Jun 2018–May 2022

    Product Designer

    WeStudios

    Creative technology & design studio

    • Designed digital products and platforms for clients across fintech, media and consumer technology, focused on clear, trustworthy experiences for people managing money or making financial decisions.
    • Owned end-to-end delivery across concurrent client projects: research, IA, wireframing, prototyping and final UI.
    • Produced design systems and component libraries that improved consistency and accelerated delivery across multiple client products.
    • Presented design decisions and research findings directly to client stakeholders, aligning teams around user needs and business goals.
    • Client work
    • End-to-end
    • Design systems

Education

  • BSc, Computer Science

    University of Ibadan · 2021

Skills

  • Financial UX
  • Payment flows
  • Transaction management
  • Systems thinking
  • Design systems
  • Design tokens
  • User research
  • Usability testing
  • Journey mapping
  • AI-supported design
  • Interaction design
  • Executive storytelling
  • Cross-functional facilitation
  • Stakeholder alignment

Tools

  • Figma
  • Miro
  • Mixpanel
  • Maze
  • Notion
  • ClickUp
  • Claude
  • Loom