Mid Product Designer

Accenture; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 600 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company on a transformational journey reshaping Africa's digital landscape. As a Product Designer, you'll leverage your UX and UI skills to create impactful digital products that empower millions. This innovative role offers the chance to work on diverse projects, from user research to prototyping and testing, ensuring high-quality design outputs. Collaborate with talented teams and contribute to a vision of a more connected future. If you are passionate about design and technology, this is your opportunity to make a difference in the digital world.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio showcasing product and platform design work.
• Ability to articulate design decisions and create scalable component libraries.

Responsibilities

• Combine UX and UI capabilities to deliver value for businesses.
• Conduct user surveys, testing, and feature validation.

Skills

Product Design

UX Design

UI Design

Prototyping

User Testing

Data Analysis

Agile Methodologies

Collaboration

Education

Relevant Tertiary Qualification

Tools

Figma

Adobe Suite

Job description

Job Description

Are you ready to be part of a transformational journey that will reshape the digital landscape of Africa? Accenture has partnered with a leading Pan-African telecommunications company and has launched a groundbreaking Centre of Excellence (COE); dedicated to building future-focused digital products designed to empower and revolutionize the continent. This is your opportunity to join an innovative team and grow your career at the forefront of technological advancement, as we accelerate towards a brighter, more connected future for Africa.

Key Responsibilities:
As a Product Designer in the CoE, you are a multi-skilled individual that is able to combine UX and UI capabilities to deliver value for businesses and their customers. The role requires foresight to produce sustainable outputs that can be tested, validated, and integrated into the daily lives of millions across Africa. At all times you will assess the value of the designed experience and ensure a high level of craft within your work. You will have the chance to work across a broad range of projects that enable the business to scale, bring new products to market, and captivate customers through powerful digital experiences.

Daily activities include but not limited to:

1. Discover

• Requirements elicitation
• Behavioural data analysis
• User surveys and interviews
• Personas and mental models
• Empathy maps
• Current product analysis
• Competitor product analysis
• Best practice analysis
• User testing and feature validation

Describe

• Solutioning workshops
• Feature listing and prioritization
• UX definition and principles
• Browsing flows
• Low-medium fidelity wireframing
• Functional prototyping
• Accessibility implementation guidelines
• User stories and product roadmap contribution

Design

• Look and feel establishment
• Graphic user interface design
• Accessibility implementation and testing
• Micro-copy and UX writing
• Multi-device design and rollout
• Design system utilisation and extension
• Micro-interactions and motion prototyping

Develop

• Annotated design specifications
• Visual asset preparation
• Development implementation review
• Product experience testing
• Content quality assurance checks
• Design system governance support

• Applicant requirements:

  • Relevant tertiary qualification
  • Strong portfolio of product and platform design work
  • Proficient in utilising prototyping software, Figma and the Adobe suite
  • A superb eye for design with strong attention to detail
  • Good understanding of branding, marketing, data, media, social UI, UX, business analysis and technology trends
  • Ability to articulate and defend design decisions
  • The ability to create scalable component libraries
  • Good understanding of the development process and agile methodologies
  • Ability to work well alongside internal and external client teams
  • Take initiative and follow a self-leadership approach
  • Positive can-do attitude
  • Organised and efficient
  • Deadline oriented
  • Empathetic towards others
  • Strong team player contributing towards positive and respectful collaboration
  • Willingness to be challenged
  • Be able to perform within a high-pressure environment

Next Steps:
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About Accenture:
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance public services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes through our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.