Jeremiah Aro

Experience

• Senior Product Designer

  The Pika Africa Network Limited

  December 2024 to present · Full-time

  • Product ownership: Lead design across four digital products: Pika App, PikaView Dashboard, Pika Agent App, and Pika Godview Dashboard. Design experiences for retailers, field agents, and enterprise teams, including centralized client onboarding, role-based access management, and consolidated FMCG insights.
  • Commercial impact: Designed and co-developed PikaView, an FMCG data intelligence dashboard supporting a business generating $15K+ in monthly recurring revenue, serving enterprise clients including Champion Brewery, NDL, IDL, and UAC Foods. The business is targeting $100K MRR.
  • Retention and engagement: Took ownership of Pika App design following the previous designer’s departure, leading redesigns and product improvements associated with a 2× improvement in retention. The app has 9,000+ users, with reported month-on-month retention above 70%.
  • Design-to-delivery execution: Partner with frontend, backend, mobile, and data teams to translate product requirements into implementation-ready work, define acceptance criteria, manage dependencies and technical debt, and support predictable releases through Jira.

• Head of Design

  Hephi Studios

  June 2024 to January 2025 · Full-time

  • Design leadership: Led product design strategy and end-to-end UX delivery, translating business objectives and user needs into product requirements, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and implementation-ready designs.
  • Cross-functional delivery: Partnered with engineering and operations teams to deliver web and mobile products, establish reusable design systems, and coordinate scope, timelines, stakeholder feedback, and delivery quality.
  • Project portfolio: Delivered design and digital experience work across ZipKod.ng (web and mobile product design), Picka Logistics (last-mile logistics platform and real-time tracking), and the Hephi Studios website (design and development).
  • Logistics platform architecture (Picka): Designed the web experience for Picka Logistics, contributing to a 20% improvement in last-mile coordination efficiency across 100+ daily deliveries.

• Lead Product Designer

  Telesoftas NG

  March 2024 to June 2024 · Contract

  • End-to-end product design: Led design for the Nigeria Solar Marketplace, translating product requirements into user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity interfaces, and interactive prototypes.
  • Design systems: Developed a scalable design system to support consistency across the product and align interface patterns with implementation requirements.
  • Core user journeys: Designed search, filtering, and KYC verification workflows to improve product discoverability, streamline onboarding, and support user trust.
  • Featured project: Nigeria Solar Marketplace

• Creative Director & Digital Experience Architect

  Nebulla, The Creative Studio

  February 2022 to March 2024 · Full-time

  • Studio leadership: Founded and led a creative studio delivering digital products and experiences, overseeing UX strategy, user research, interaction design, prototyping, and implementation.
  • Experience strategy and execution: Translated client briefs into user journeys, wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and reusable design systems while coordinating design and development delivery.
  • Research and testing: Conducted contextual inquiries, qualitative user interviews, and usability tests to validate product concepts and refine interfaces.
  • Selected projects: Ric Hassani Website Rebrand, The Ric Hassani Education Foundation (TREF), Ad-Promoter and Open Essentials.