The products changed. The work stayed the same.
Over the last five years I've worked across enterprise HR, financial infrastructure, workforce technology, AI, and design systems. Although the products changed, the work remained consistent: understanding complex problems, simplifying them, and building systems that help products and teams scale.
Today I work at the intersection of product design, systems thinking, and AI, helping organizations build products that are easier to use, easier to maintain, and easier to grow.
Product Design Lead · Based in Nigeria · Available for remote and relocation
How I Think
The same operating model, every time.
01
Understand
Understand the product, people, and business before proposing solutions.
02
Simplify
Reduce complexity to the decisions that matter.
03
Standardize
Turn successful decisions into reusable patterns.
04
Scale
Help teams build consistently through shared systems.
This model runs through every case study on this site. The homepage states it. The work proves it.
Experience
Lead, DesignOps & AI-UX
SeamlessHR
Lead Product Designer · Founding Product Team (Contract)
Rivva
Lead Product Designer
SeamlessHR
Product Designer (Founding Member)
ClearPrice
Senior UX Contractor
Fets
Founder & Design Lead
The UX Company
Independent practice. Product design, design systems, and UX strategy engagements across fintech, enterprise SaaS, and early-stage startups in Nigeria and remote markets.
UX Coach & Mentor
Utiva / ADPList
Beyond Delivery
Teaching what I practice.
I speak about design systems and AI at events like DevFest Lagos and AIDA, write about enterprise product design, and mentor designers building careers in African product companies. The through line is the same as the work: making complex things understandable.
Read my writing →If this way of working sounds like what your team needs, I'd like to hear about it.
jon4ohio@gmail.com →