Amara Okonkwo
Senior Product Designer
About
Product designer with 8 years shaping fintech and health products used by millions across Africa. I work end to end — research, systems, prototypes — and I like shipping small and often.
Experience
Senior Product Designer · Paystack
Lead designer for merchant onboarding across 12 markets.
- Cut time-to-first-transaction by 41% by rebuilding a 9-step KYC flow into 3 progressive steps.
- Built the design system now used by four product teams and 20+ engineers.
- Ran the quarterly research programme — 60+ merchant interviews to date.
Product Designer · Helium Health
Designed clinical workflows used in 200+ hospitals.
- Reshaped the patient records experience after a 6-week contextual study in three teaching hospitals.
- Mentored two junior designers, both since promoted.
Projects
End-to-end redesign of a 9-step KYC flow into 3 progressive steps, tested with 40 merchants.
- Research
- Design systems
- Fintech
Skills
Education
BSc, Computer Science
University of Lagos
Awards
Best Product Experience
Africa Tech Awards
Speaking
Designing for low-trust markets
Africa Design Week
Keynote on building payment products where trust has to be earned twice.