# Rey Mungai

**Designer · Nairobi, Kenya**

Product design leader with 11+ years building and shipping digital products at scale;  including M-PESA, where I designed statement verification for 50M+ users. I have led design teams of junior and mid-weight designers, built design systems that hold quality across multiple squads, and worked in regulated and infrastructure-constrained environments where some of the the biggest design problems are trust and access.

Profile: https://path.cv/reymungai

*Last updated: August 2026*

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## Experience

### Founder & Design Lead at Suluhu Studio
*Jan 2025 – Present*

Founded and run a design and product studio serving founders across Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Advise client teams on raising design maturity and build AI-native products.

### Senior Product Designer, Platform at KOKO Networks
*Jan 2023 – Jan 2025*

Owned UX across the full customer lifecycle for a clean cooking platform serving 1M+ households. Introduced Design QA and documentation systems to reduce rework.

### Senior Product Designer at Safaricom PLC
*Jan 2021 – Jan 2023*

Designed digital statement verification for M-PESA’s 50M+ users, significantly reducing support tickets. Owned design system governance across a distributed, multi-team organisation.

### Senior Product Designer at YLabs
*Jan 2020 – Jan 2021*

Co-designed and launched Bohoka, a mobile-first mental health platform for youth in Rwanda. Conducted co-design workshops and behavioural testing in low-connectivity settings.

### UX/UI Designer at Kwara
*Jan 2020 – Jan 2020*

Redesigned SACCO digital banking onboarding for members with low prior digital banking exposure. Improved onboarding conversion post-launch.

### Product Design Lead at Ajua Inc.
*Jan 2019 – Jan 2020*

Led UX and product design for a customer-experience intelligence platform. Built the company's first design system and structured handoff documentation.

### Product Designer at Jumia Group
*Jan 2017 – Jan 2019*

Shipped e-commerce interfaces across multiple African markets. Introduced A/B testing to core conversion funnels.

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## Skills

Product Design · Design Systems · DesignOps · Interaction Design · Information Architecture · Mobile-first UX · Prototyping · A/B Testing · Usability Testing · Figma · Framer · SQL · AI Product Building

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## Projects

### Kauli

An AI diagnostic product designed and built end-to-end using Claude API, Replit, Vercel, and Airtable.

### Daro

A cohort education programme for founders designed with behavioural change as the primary success measure.

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## Education

### Certificate in Behavioural Science in Public Policy
*World Bank Group*
Jan 2026 – Present

### Certificate in UX Research at Scale
*University of Michigan*
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Certificate in Design Thinking for Business Strategy
*University of Sydney*
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Certificate in Audio Production
*Music Technology Academy*
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Certificate in JavaScript & Android Development
*eMobilis Institute*
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

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## Links

- **LinkedIn**: https://linkedin.com/in/reymungai
- **Portfolio**: https://reymungai.framer.website/