Senior / Staff Product Designer Dubai, UAE · UAE work-authorised on own visa
Product designer with 10+ years across fintech, complex platforms, offline-first education, design systems, operational products and AI-assisted tools.
I design products for people who can’t afford ambiguity — when money is moving, connectivity is unreliable, several people share one workflow, or software has to survive live operations. I was the first design hire at Farmcrowdy, spent four years on Kolibri’s offline-first learning platform, and co-founded Mular and Earlybean. Today I lead Product & Technology at Lion Hospitality Partners while staying hands-on in design.
I work from actors, states, permissions, handoffs and failure paths, turn repeated problems into reusable system patterns, and stay through implementation — increasingly carrying the same decisions into working software.
I design the point where a user has to trust a financial product enough to commit: the first sponsorship, the exchange rate before payout, the permissions over shared money, the state after a bank delay. As the first design hire at Farmcrowdy I rebuilt first-time sponsorship from 18% to 60% conversion. I co-founded Mular, a stablecoin-to-Naira payments product that has processed $2.1M+ across 19K+ transactions, and Earlybean, where parents, children, schools and merchants hold different authority over the same balance.
Earlier, at Venture Garden Group, I designed crypto-monitoring and policy tooling for CBN- and SEC-facing contexts. The common problem is not fintech UI: it is making money state, authority and failure legible before the user has reason to trust the system.
first-time sponsorship conversion after rebuilding the mobile flow at Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first digital agriculture crowdfunding platform.
+85% discoverability · −60% failed imports
usability testing on Kolibri content import, an offline-first platform reaching 13M+ learners across 220+ countries and territories.
15,402 paid orders · 14 venues · first 15 weeks
the shared order, payment, kitchen, stock and fulfilment platform I design at Lion Hospitality Partners.
Experience
Head of Product & Technology — Lion Hospitality Partners
Lead hands-on product and technology work across POS, ordering, kitchen display, CRM, inventory and dispatch, defining how payment, preparation, stock and handoff states move through live service.
Apr 2026 — Present
Co-founder, Product Design & Growth — Mular
Co-founded and led product design for crypto-to-Naira payments built around legible rates, fees, transaction states and recovery; $2.1M+ processed across 19K+ transactions.
Aug 2024 — Present
Senior Product Designer — Learning Equality
Designed complex learning and administration workflows for Kolibri, including content discovery and import, assessment, coaching workflows and the shared design system.
Aug 2022 — May 2026
Co-founder / Creative & Product Design Lead — Neustack Studio
Led product, brand, digital and visual design across technology, consumer, public-sector and enterprise clients including Lufthansa, Waitrose and Lagos State Government.
2011 — Present
Co-founder & Product Lead — Earlybean
Led product and growth design for a family-finance platform spanning youth money, parent permissions, school payments and merchant interactions.
Designed creation, asset-library, brand-control, versioning and review workflows that helped enterprise teams produce and manage multimedia advertising content without losing continuity.
May 2022 — Feb 2023
Product Designer, Contract — RIIID Labs
Designed AI-assisted education products including Jarvis, a teacher dashboard, and Shaipe, an LSAT companion, translating diagnostics into useful teaching and study actions.
2021 — 2022
Founding Product Designer, later Head of Marketing & Product Development — Farmcrowdy
Joined as the first designer and grew into product and growth leadership; redesigned mobile sponsorship, moving conversion from 18% to 60%.
Apr 2017 — Oct 2020
Product & Visual Design Consultant — Venture Garden Group
Designed financial and regulatory dashboards, data visualisation and cryptocurrency-monitoring concepts for CBN- and SEC-facing contexts, alongside policy and executive communication materials.
2016 — 2021
Independent and studio build work
Product decisions carried into working software through AI-assisted design and build workflows.
ApplyOS
Automated job-search and scoring engine — architecture, interaction design and calibration, from eligibility resolution through evidence governance to candidate-reviewed submission.
Fleetpass
Production fleet-document compliance product where AI extraction becomes a trusted record only after human verification, then drives reminders, renewals and audit history.
Studio builds — OUI Life, Stratfortis, Kalvia
Brand and product strategy taken into working acquisition systems: manufacturing enquiry journeys, consultation routes, CMS-managed content and production lead capture.
Skills
Product strategy and direction · UX research and usability testing · Interaction and interface design · Information architecture and systems modelling · Prototyping and design-engineering handoff
Design systems and reusable interaction patterns · Accessibility, internationalisation and Arabic RTL · Offline-first and low-bandwidth UX · Multi-sided permissions and operational workflows · Fintech trust, transaction states and recovery
Cross-functional product leadership · Design critiques and capability building · Workshop facilitation and research synthesis · Founder-side product and venture direction · AI-assisted prototyping and workflow design
Recognition
Company recognition earned during my time in each role — not individual awards.
App of the Year2018
Best AgriTech Solution2018
Finalist, Farmcrowdy2018
Farmcrowdy digital agriculture platform honouree2019
Applying for a specific role?
The same work, ordered for the way a particular team reads it — the argument at length, with the case studies behind each claim.