Midweight UX/UI Designer

Go Up; Cape Town; A distancia; ZAR 391.000 - 502.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

25 days holiday per year

Descripción de la vacante

Go Up in Cape Town is recruiting a UX/UI Designer to work with our London-based Head of UX on diverse client projects. You will translate business goals and user needs into intuitive journeys, wireframes, and polished interfaces while embracing AI-assisted design and maintaining accessibility.

You’ll contribute to building our SA team, collaborating with UK specialists and an SEO colleague, and delivering measurable improvements in user experience and conversions.

Formación

• Portfolio of commercial UX/UI work.
• Experience taking briefs through stakeholder feedback, revisions and delivery.
• Sound understanding of UX and UI principles, responsive design and accessibility.
• Ability to explain design decisions in relation to user needs and business goals.
• Clear communication, good organisation and the confidence to ask questions or flag problems early.
• Ability to manage workload independently while collaborating with a manager overseas.
• Experience using AI tools and judgement to refine results.

Responsabilidades

• Designing websites, landing pages and improvements from wireframes to polished UI and prototypes.
• Turn business goals and user needs into clear journeys and layouts.
• Collaborate with Head of UX and SEO to make content easy to discover and act on.
• Create responsive, accessible designs with strong typography, spacing and interaction.
• Develop reusable components and document design decisions for developers.
• Incorporate feedback and balance priorities across clients.
• Explore AI tools for ideation and production and apply design judgement.
• Use research, user feedback and performance data to inform designs and identify further usability testing.

Conocimientos

UX design

UI design

Communication

Independent work

Herramientas

Figma

Descripción del empleo

Location: Cape Town or surrounding areas; remote initially

Employment: Full-time

Salary: R35,000–R45,000 per month, depending on experience

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:30am–6pm UK time

Holiday: 25 days per year

Reporting to: Head of UX, London

Start: As soon as practical, allowing for your notice period

Good design should look great, make life easier for users and have measurable impact on the business.

At Go Up, we help brands get discovered through organic search, AI search and digital PR. UX and UI are an important part of that work: helping people find what they need, understand what a business offers and take the next step.

We’re looking for a UX/UI Designer in Cape Town to work closely with our London-based Head of UX across a varied client portfolio.

You’ll bring strong visual design skills , thoughtful UX skills and curiosity about how AI can improve the way we work. You’ll also help build our South African team, be part of our growing South African team working alongside an SEO colleague and collaborating with our UK specialists.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing websites, landing pages and improvements to existing client sites, from early wireframes through to polished UI and prototypes.
• Turning business goals, user needs and search insights into clear journeys, intuitive navigation and effective page layouts.
• Working with our Head of UX and SEO team to make content easy to discover, understand and act on.
• Creating responsive, accessible designs with care for typography, spacing, hierarchy and interaction.
• Developing reusable components, documenting design decisions and collaborating with developers through implementation.
• Working through feedback and revisions, explaining your decisions and balancing priorities across clients.
• Exploring AI tools for ideation, prototyping and production, applying your own judgement to refine the results.
• Using existing research, user feedback and performance data to inform and improve designs, and identifying where further research or usability testing would be useful.

What we’re looking for

You’ll probably have around two to five years of professional UX/UI experience, ideally in an agency or a similarly busy commercial environment.

You should have:

• A portfolio of commercial work showing strong visual design and the thinking behind it.
• Experience taking briefs through stakeholder feedback, revisions and delivery.
• A sound understanding of UX and UI principles, responsive design and accessibility.
• Confidence using Figma or comparable design and prototyping tools.
• The ability to explain your design decisions in relation to user needs and business goals.
• Clear communication, good organisation and the confidence to ask questions or flag problems early.
• The ability to manage your workload independently while collaborating with a manager based overseas.
• Experience using AI tools and the judgement to recognise what works and what needs improving, alongside a willingness to experiment and keep learning.

We expect you to bring some hands-on experience using AI in your design workflow. Show us what it helped you achieve, what you needed to change and where your own design judgement made the difference. If your experience is still developing, we’d welcome examples from personal projects or experiments that demonstrate your approach.

Experience working with SEO specialists, designing around search intent or improving website conversions would be a strong advantage. You don’t need to be an SEO expert, but you should be interested in how people discover websites as well as how they use them.

An understanding of branding, including how to use colour, typography and imagery to create a consistent visual identity, would also be an advantage as we take on more website design and build projects. If you have experience in this area, we’d love to see examples in your portfolio. This isn’t essential for the role.

What you can expect

You’ll work directly with our Head of UX, with support, feedback and room to take ownership of your work. You’ll gain experience across different businesses and briefs, and see how your design decisions contribute to wider marketing and commercial goals.

You’ll also be part of our growing South African team, working closely with an SEO colleague locally while staying connected to the UK team.

The role offers a salary of R35,000–R45,000 per month, depending on experience, and 25 days’ holiday per year.

Location and working arrangements

You should be based in Cape Town or the surrounding area. The role will initially be remote.

Working hours are 9:30am–6pm UK time, Monday to Friday. In South Africa, this means 11:30am–8pm during the UK winter and 10:30am–7pm during the UK summer.

We may establish a Cape Town office in future, so we’re looking for someone open to working from a local office if that happens. We would discuss the location and arrangements before making any change.