Senior Product Designer: Strategy, UX & Leadership

Red Badger; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Badger in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Product Designer to drive value from ideation to implementation. You will champion human-centred design, brand cohesion, and Lean/Agile practices while mentoring junior designers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative digital products.

You will facilitate workshops, shape the product vision, and ensure solutions balance business goals with user needs, delivering high-quality outcomes for clients.

Qualifications

• Experience with lean/agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
• Proficiency with industry-standard tools (Figma) and ability to learn new tools
• Led product design in cross-functional teams with engineers, data insights, researchers and QA
• Led design activities, presented concepts to stakeholders, ran workshops
• Designed mobile-first responsive and native digital products
• Deep knowledge of Human-Centred Design, Design Thinking, UX, Visual Design
• Knowledge of brand application and UI design, design systems such as Atomic Design
• Experience with user research and moderating sessions

Responsibilities

• Lead client-facing product design in cross-functional teams
• Develop and implement design strategy from discovery to delivery
• Focus on end-user needs to deliver high-impact products
• Create prototypes to test with users and share findings with stakeholders
• Build and contribute to design systems, style guides and assets
• Facilitate workshops and design sprints; work within Agile/Lean processes
• Coach junior designers and promote Red Badger design principles
• Influence product roadmaps and backlog prioritisation to achieve outcomes

Skills

Lean

UX

Branding

Figma

Workshop facilitation

Design thinking

Human-centred design

Cross-functional team

Communicate with stakeholders

Tools

Figma

Job description

Red Badger in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Product Designer to drive value from ideation to implementation. You will champion human-centred design, brand cohesion, and Lean/Agile practices while mentoring junior designers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative digital products.

You will facilitate workshops, shape the product vision, and ensure solutions balance business goals with user needs, delivering high-quality outcomes for clients.