Maya Okafor

Senior Product Designer

Lisbon, PTmaya@example.com+351 912 345 678mayaokafor.design

Summary

Product designer with 8+ years shipping consumer and developer tools. I work across research, systems, and visual craft — most often in fintech and dev infrastructure.

Experience

Senior Product Designer · Beacon

Mar 2023 — Present

Lisbon · Remote

Led the rewrite of merchant onboarding — completion up 38% across four markets.
Own a 120-component design system used by 12 product teams.
Mentor three mid-level designers; run a quarterly portfolio crit.

Product Designer · Quill

Aug 2020 — Feb 2023

London

Shipped the editor's collaborative cursors, presence, and inline comments.
Ran weekly research sessions with paying customers across six industries.
Reduced churn in the trial cohort by 21% through onboarding refresh.

Designer · Studio Mor

Jun 2017 — Jul 2020

Lagos

Brand and product work for 14 early-stage African fintech and health startups.
Co-led pitch design for a 2019 seed round that raised €1.4M.

Education

BA, Visual Communication · Central Saint Martins

2013 — 2017

London

First-class honours. Thesis on iconography in financial UIs.

Skills

Product strategy
Design systems
Prototyping (Figma, Framer)
UX research
Accessibility (WCAG 2.2)
Brand & identity
Front-end (HTML/CSS, light React)

Projects

Field Guide

example.com/field-guide

Open-source pattern library for fintech UI conventions. 1.4k stars on GitHub.

Quiet Cities

example.com/quiet-cities

A side project illustrating a year of urban observation — print zine and web.