Senior Content Designer

About the job

About Us:

Moniepoint Group is a financial technology company digitizing Africa’s real economy by building a financial ecosystem for businesses, providing them with all the payment, banking, credit and business management tools they need to succeed. At Moniepoint, we are a customer-focused community, dedicated to crafting solutions that redefine our industry. We have several products that provide essential services for businesses such as credit, overdrafts, bank integration, payment gateway, etc. We leverage artificial intelligence and data to make our decisions, but also have the technology and data-driven best practices used to support our businesses.

About this role:

As a Senior Content Designer, you take ownership of the quality and strategic direction of content across your squad or product area. You bring expert content design judgment, deep user insight, and a collaborative mindset to shape product experiences that are clear, inclusive, and emotionally engaging. You support junior content designers, influence cross-team content strategy, and play a vital role in driving alignment across product, design, and engineering. You display an exceptional grasp of design thinking and content design expertise and are comfortable delivering well-thought out ideas to senior stakeholders and driving content design strategy each day.

What you’ll do

• You are responsible for end-to-end content design strategy and execution on a project, from discovery through delivery, launch, and ongoing iteration.
• Partnering closely with product managers, product designers, and engineers to embed content strategy in product discovery and delivery, shaping scope, trade-offs, and sequencing.
• Define for exceptional, accessible, and inclusive content that builds trust, clarity, and meaningful user engagement.
• Comfortable wireframing and prototyping and delivering your work in Figma, with clear rationale, adhering to a design systems and content design principles.
• Define content design strategy that aligns with business objectives and technical feasibility, ensuring content is not just clear but emotionally intelligent and on brand.
• Craft high-quality content for complex product flows, interface text, microcopy, error messaging, help content, and documentation, setting the bar for tone, clarity, and consistency.
• Take a strong role in qualitative and quantitative research methods (user interviews, usability tests, A/B experiments, content audits, analytics) using insight as a core design input.
• Collaborate deeply, proactively shaping product direction, surfacing trade-offs, and influencing delivery approaches.
• Drive the evolution of content design style guides, working closely with brand, marketing, and communications teams.
• Design thoughtful content that enhances usability, emotional impact, and user satisfaction.
• Balance speed and rigour with strong judgment on when to ship versus polish, especially on complex or fast-moving environments.
• Support junior content designers on the team and supports in terms of stakeholder management.
• Lead alignment and collaboration across teams and stakeholders, clearly communicating content design rationale and facilitating strategic working sessions.
• Set a high standard for product teams, fostering a culture of sound content design practices, constructive feedback, and shared accountability.
• You are able to justify content design decisions to senior stakeholders with clear rationale and delivers work in a standardised format that you help to evolve. You are able to deliver multiple variations, informed by insights and can confidently explain the pros and cons of particular solutions.

What you need to succeed

• 5+ years of experience working as a content designer.
• You are incredibly comfortable with the design aspect of content design – understanding this role is deeper than 'just words'.
• Strong stakeholder management skills are a must for this role.
• You must be able to work in a fast-changing environment where processes are still being defined.
• Exceptional knowledge of content design principles and end-to-end product thinking.
• Experience with A/B testing, UX metrics, and data interpretation and the ability to drive your own research initiatives.
• Exceptional product intuition - understanding user needs, business constraints, and technical feasibility.
• Good knowledge of Figma - how to collaborate, create prototypes, and work to produce agile solutions quickly, with little to no help.
• Experience using AI a plus. Great if you’ve built workflows/tools using AI.
• Excellent knowledge of working in cross-functional teams. Able to advocate for content design across various company areas and embed content design early in product planning.
• Actively contributes to a content design system, creating reusable patterns and components
• Experience in fintech or SaaS environments is a strong advantage.
• Strong communication skills - able to explain the “why” behind your decisions
• Strong stakeholder management is a must for this role

Recruitment Process

• Application & portfolio review - we’re looking for exceptional content design case studies, showing examples of end-to-end product thinking, driven by research and illustrating impact.
• Recruiter conversation - light intro on your background, team experience, and motivations.
• Leadership interview - deep dive into your skills and expertise with the lead content designer.
• Content design task and portfolio presentation - a short task to assess how you approach content design and you’ll present a case study from your portfolio

Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.