Mid Product Designer

Boardroom Appointments; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments in Midrand, South Africa, seeks a Product Designer in the CoE to blend UX and UI to deliver value for businesses and customers across Africa.

You will work across diverse projects to scale products, bring new offerings to market, and craft digital experiences with meticulous attention to detail and accessibility considerations.

Qualifications

• Experience in product and platform design.
• Ability to create scalable component libraries.
• Attention to detail and strong craft in digital design.

Responsibilities

• As a Product Designer in the CoE, deliver UX/UI value for businesses and customers across Africa.
• Assess design value and maintain high craft across projects to scale and bring new products to market.
• Contribute to product roadmap with user-centered insights and best practices.

Skills

Strong portfolio

UI/UX design

Figma & Adobe

Branding understanding

Agile methodologies

Team collaboration

Communication of design decisions

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

• 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
• Organised and efficient
• Deadline orientated
• 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

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:

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