First Product Designer — AI-Driven Ecommerce

Solenya; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 550,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Own design direction

High ownership from day one

Fast learning and steep growth

Opportunity for senior design leader

Job summary

Solenya is seeking its first Product Designer to shape the product experience from day one. You’ll work directly with the founding team, engineers, data scientists and customers to transform complex data and AI into intuitive experiences for merchants.

You’ll own the design direction, build foundations of the design system, and create polished demos for customers and investors while balancing simplicity with powerful functionality.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio showing complex product thinking and excellent UX.
• Experience designing dashboards, analytics tools or data-rich applications.
• Experience simplifying complex workflows and information.
• Strong understanding of information architecture and interaction design.
• Experience designing in Figma, including interactive prototypes and component libraries.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve Solenya's merchant portal for intuitive configuration, monitoring and optimisation.
• Design dashboards and workflows to help merchants make better decisions.
• Transform complex data into intuitive dashboards and visualisations for merchants.
• Design AI-powered search, recommendation and merchandising experiences.
• Prototype new ways for users to explore large product catalogues.
• Collaborate with customers to understand decision processes and missing information.
• Build polished demos for customers and investors.
• Create interfaces balancing simplicity with powerful functionality.
• Work closely with engineers and data scientists to bring designs into production.

Skills

Product design

UX design

UI design

Data visualisation

Dashboard design

Figma

Prototyping

Information architecture

Tools

Figma

Job description

Solenya is seeking its first Product Designer to shape the product experience from day one. You’ll work directly with the founding team, engineers, data scientists and customers to transform complex data and AI into intuitive experiences for merchants.

You’ll own the design direction, build foundations of the design system, and create polished demos for customers and investors while balancing simplicity with powerful functionality.