Junior Product Designer — AI-First, Flexible Hours

Candide Limited.; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily catered lunch

Flexible working hours

Choice of equipment (Apple)

Generous training budget

30% Babylonstoren discount

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Job summary

Candide Limited, an AI-first tech company based in the Cape Winelands, is seeking a Junior Product Designer to work across user-facing aspects of its digital products. We build experiences for luxury brand estates and guest services, with a small, high-impact team.

You will research cohorts, craft intuitive experiences, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to elevate design across our brands. Ideal candidates have 1–3 years of design experience, fluency in Afrikaans and English, and a

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in product design, UI/UX, or a closely related field
• Fluent in Afrikaans and English
• A portfolio that shows your thinking, not just your final screens – we want to see the problem, your process, and the trade-offs you made along the way
• Confident working in Figma day‑to‑day
• A sharp eye for detail and an instinct for when something looks and feels right
• Curiosity about how AI tools can speed up or improve parts of the design process
• Collaborative and enjoys working as part of a team
• Eager to learn and continuously improve
• Good communicator, able to ask questions and raise issues early
• Comfortable presenting and defending your decisions to a cross‑functional team

Responsibilities

• Working directly with the design team, product owners and engineers to help build our products and services
• Understanding the needs of our customers, bringing these to life for your teammates and using them to inform your work
• Ensuring consistency in the digital expression of our sister estate brands
• Designing new user journeys and iterating on existing ones to constantly improve our products and services
• Refining interfaces and interactions to create slick, user friendly experiences across our products
• Identifying quick wins or opportunities for driving conversion rates
• Using and following our multi‑brand design system consistently across your work, flagging gaps or inconsistencies as you find them
• Moving quickly, testing ideas at scale and iterating
• Embracing AI‑first tools across the design process – from research to hand‑off – and helping us find faster, better ways of working

Skills

Team collaboration

Strong communication

Curiosity about AI tools

Problem solving

Tools

Figma

Job description

Candide Limited, an AI-first tech company based in the Cape Winelands, is seeking a Junior Product Designer to work across user-facing aspects of its digital products. We build experiences for luxury brand estates and guest services, with a small, high-impact team.

You will research cohorts, craft intuitive experiences, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to elevate design across our brands. Ideal candidates have 1–3 years of design experience, fluency in Afrikaans and English, and a