Product Design Lead

Chowdeck is a food technology company that provides a food delivery hub that connects both food vendors and consumers. This allows food vendors to deliver meals seamlessly while also providing consumers with a platform to order meals from their favourite restaurants in their city. In between the consumers and vendors sits our riders who are the superstars of Chowdeck. At Chowdeck, we unite people through innovative meal-ordering and delivery technology, putting smiles across faces and ensuring satisfaction in bellies. We empower food businesses with essentials to foster new growth horizons while creating a better standard of living for their communities. We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Design Lead

Location: Ikoyi, Lagos (Hybrid) JoB Description As the Product Design Lead at Chowdeck, you will lead product design across our customer, vendor, operations and trust products. You will be responsible for design quality, growing the team, our research practice, our design system, and how designers work with every other function. This is a player-coach role. You will lead and develop designers and build stronger systems, while still rolling up your sleeves on important product problems whenever the team needs senior design judgement. You will report to the Product Executive and coordinate dependencies with other functional teams. You will lead the central Product Design function and help shape how designers are assigned as the organisation grows.

Responsibilities

What you will own: The quality and coherence of Chowdeck’s product experiences across customer and internal surfaces. The product design team, including hiring, coaching, performance support and allocation across product teams. Product design principles, critique standards and decision quality. The design system and reusable interaction patterns across our products. The product research practice and the quality of evidence behind design decisions. Design operations, including planning, documentation, file organisation and cross-functional collaboration. In this role you’ll be required to: Set a clear product design vision and turn it into practical standards for the team. Coach designers through discovery, interaction design, prototyping, validation and delivery. Run critiques that make the work better and help designers sharpen their judgement. Partner with functional leads to shape problems early, not just review interfaces at the end. Build and maintain the design system with clear ownership and adoption expectations. Improve how customer research and operational insight feed into product decisions. Plan design capacity, spot hiring needs and make sure priority teams get the right level of support. Collaborate with other design disciplines while keeping clear ownership of the product experience. What success looks like Product teams get consistent, high-quality design support and bring Design in early enough to shape decisions. Designers have clear expectations, useful feedback and visible paths to grow. Shared patterns cut down on inconsistency and repeated design work across products. Research and usability evidence genuinely shape prioritisation and product decisions. The design team can support more product areas without lowering quality or burning people out. Chowdeck’s product experiences stay simple and coherent as the company expands.