Senior Product Designer

Nintex; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 700 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automation company in Johannesburg is seeking a Senior Product Designer to drive user experience consistency across digital products. This role involves leading design processes, conducting user research, and mentoring junior designers. An ideal candidate will be user-focused and analytical, with a passion for improving usability and design. The position offers a hybrid working model along with various perks and benefits.

Benefits

Global Gratitude and Recharge Days

Flexible, paid time off policy

Employee wellness programs

Meaningful peer recognition and awards

Paid parental leave

Invention/patenting assistance

Community impact and paid volunteer time

Intercultural learning and celebration

Tools for learning and growth

Qualifications

• Experience in leading design processes and mentoring junior designers.
• Ability to conduct user research and develop user scenarios.
• Familiarity with usability testing and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design process and ensure consistency across digital interfaces.
• Conduct user research and usability testing to improve designs.
• Assist in maintaining design standards and mentoring junior designers.

Skills

User-focused

Analytical

Mentorship

Usability testing

Knowledge of design principles

Job description

About Nintex

At Nintex, we are transforming the way people work, everywhere.

As the global standard for process intelligence and automation, we're trusted by over 10,000 public and private sector organizations across 90 countries. Our customers, from industry giants like Amazon, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft, rely on the Nintex Platform to accelerate their digital transformation journeys by managing, automating, and optimizing business processes quickly and efficiently. We improve their lives through the technology we build.

We are committed to fostering a workplace that supports amazing people in doing their very best work every day. Collaboration is constant, our workplace is fun, the environment is fast‑paced, and we value our people’s curiosity, ideas, and enthusiasm. Driven by passion and accountability, we take initiative, measure progress, and deliver results. Our culture fosters innovation and problem‑solving, fueled by curiosity and a commitment to thinking big. Together, we move with agility, prioritize customer needs, and build unity through empathy, leaving a positive impact wherever we go.

About the role

The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for the experience consistency across their domain as well as digital interfaces including software, websites, mobile and all other applications. This role will also create, evaluate and modify prototypes to support evolving software application development. Individuals in this role must be user-focused and analytical. As a senior member of the team this role will be responsible for thought leadership and mentorship of junior product designers on interaction design, usability, and research.

Your contribution will be

Design Process

The Senior Product Designer will play a key role leading the design process in their domain and working collaboratively with design peers to drive consistency across the organization. The Senior Product Designer is responsible for the end‑to‑end ownership of the user experience and product design process including ideation, concept development, usability testing and consultation with engineering teams during implementation. The Senior Product Designer will research with our customer base to feed into designs, and will design and build sketches, prototypes, mock‑ups, wireframes and storyboards.

Research

The Senior Product Designer thinks strategically about how to improve the user experiences overall and will research and develop user scenarios which will be used during the design and development process. In this role, the individual will both conduct research and mentor other designers, using various methods to explore user needs and identify potential usability issues, and design opportunities. Upon research completion, this role will be responsible for mentoring another designer in the analysis of research findings, writing reports and communicating results to the design and product teams. Key stakeholders including Directors, Engineering, Product Managers and other Product Designers will be kept informed of research progress verbally and through appropriate documentation.

Testing and Best Practice

The Senior Product Designer will execute usability testing, ideally prior to engineering implementation, to ensure that solutions provided and researched will be accessible and intuitive. Recommendations and enhancements will be made as needed. The ability to stay on top of current trends in usability best practices and methods will be crucial to the success of this role and the Senior Product Designer will continuously research in this field and share with other designers within the organization.

Process and Standards

This role will lead by example and help to ensure that user‑centered design principles are applied through the project lifecycle. In addition, the success of this role will depend on the Senior Product Designer participating in the development and implementation of research policies, processes and standards. The Senior Product Designer will assist in maintaining the design library and toolkits and ensuring that the standards and processes are adhered to by junior designers they are mentoring. In the spirit of continuous improvement and thought leadership, the Senior Product Designer will also help in the design of metrics to measure the impact of design changes.

Work Complexity and Business Requirements

The Senior Product Designer will be a valued member of their team and add value to processes within the Product Design team. This role will work on multiple moderate to complex tasks / projects, working well as part of the team to collaborate with the research and development organisation to define and fulfil business concepts and solutions aimed at the success of Nintex in the short and long term.

You may be directed to perform other reasonable tasks by your manager.

To be successful, we think you need

What’s in it for you?

Nintex has a hybrid working model, enabling us to build culture, learn, and grow together. We intentionally connect and collaborate, while emphasizing flexibility with a blend of at‑home and in‑office work. This role is a hybrid role in our local Nintex office.

While our offerings differ from country to country, we offer our entire global workforce an array of exciting perks and benefits, including

• Global Gratitude and Recharge Days
• Flexible, paid time off policy
• Employee wellness programs and counseling resources
• Meaningful peer recognition and awards
• Paid parental leave
• Invention/patenting assistance
• Community impact, paid volunteer time, and opportunities
• Intercultural learning and celebration
• Multiple tools through which to learn and grow, and an incredible global community

View more about our benefits here: https://www.nintex.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Global-Perks-and-Benefits.pdf .

Equity Statement

Preference will be given to People Living with Disability who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Company.