UI / UX Designer

Optimal Growth Technologies; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in South Africa is looking for an experienced UI/UX Designer to join their agile team in Midrand. In this 12-month contract role, you will harness your skills in user experience design, collaborating with product teams to create intuitive mobile and web interfaces. You will play a key role in enhancing customer experiences and influencing product strategy through user-centered design practices.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in UX Design.
• Strong Visual (UI) design experience.
• Proficient in design and prototyping tools.

Responsibilities

• Drive user-centred design, delivering wireframes and prototypes.
• Collaborate across departments to define problem statements.
• Conduct usability tests and validate solutions with users.

Skills

UX research

Visual design

Prototyping

Usability testing

Collaboration

Tools

Figma

Sketch

InVision

Adobe Photoshop

Job description

Role title: UI/UX Designer

Contract duration : 12 months

Location: Midrand

• You will work in an agile, collaborative team; and working directly with Product teams and developers to define and deliver various user experiences, from initial ideation to sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and implementation of final UI designs.
• The role is core to delivering exceptional customer experience across our digital ecommerce channels and will have a direct influence on the digital revenue metrics.
• You will creatively translate user needs into elegant, intuitive, and effective design solutions.
• You will identify and understand customer needs, behaviours, and pain points and use this to define problem statements that inform the teams focus.
• You will work in a fast-paced team of engineers, product managers, and product designers to deliver impactful solutions across our online portals and mobile apps.

Your responsibilities:

Strategic

• Drive a user-centred design approach. Influence the product direction and/or roadmap through evidence-driven UX.
• Collaborate with teams across various departments (product, engineering, marketing etc.) and digital channels on product discovery and the delivery of solutions.

Discovery

• Close collaboration with the product lead, stakeholders, and the development team to define problem statements, success metrics, and identify product opportunities.
• Host workshops with the product team, stakeholders and developers for continuous product discovery with identified problems and opportunities.
• Use discovery methods such as prototyping, usability testing and focus groups, and conduct user interviews to validate identified solutions with real customers, before solutions are developed.

UX research

• Work with the product team on defining success metrics, crafting A/B tests and analyzing results to enable data-driven decisions, ensuring a positive impact on the user experience.
• Deliver and communicate insights collected from user research, in effective and engaging presentations and user journeys.

Delivery (UX/UI/Visual)

• Deliver wireframes, journeys, high and low fidelity prototypes and final UI design requirements for online portals and mobile apps.
• Work together with various product teams to ensure visual consistency throughout on the platform, by leveraging from and contributing to our design system.
• Conceptualize and develop micro-interactions, demo videos and animations.
• Ensure design works as comfortably across our markets and languages.
• Own and advocate Platform accessibility in both UX and UI.
• Translate your design journeys into Product demo videos.

Leadership

• Together with the Product team, you help to shape and drive our product strategy and vision.
• You partner up with product and engineering leaders to ensure deliverables are well-defined, provide high business value, and are successfully executed.
• Recommend new tools and technologies by staying abreast of the latest trends and techniques in Product design.

About you

• You have experience across the entire product design cycle including UX research, copy writing, wireframes, and prototypes, final UI design (visual design), implementation, and post-release optimization.
• 5- 8 years of experience in UX Design with a proven record of successfully shipped mobile app consumer-oriented experiences.
• You have a strong Visual (UI) design experience with a good understanding of both Apples and Googles design guidelines/principles.
• You can present your Portfolio showcasing your knowledge of native mobile UI design and case studies to explain your process.
• Live app store examples of an app/s you have worked on is a plus.
• You have excellent attention to detail and experience working with Mobile first customer facing products in evidence-driven design/product teams.
• Proficient in design tools (such as Figma, Sketch, InVision, Zeplin , Adobe Photoshop).
• Proficient in prototyping tools (such as InVision, proto.io).
• Know-how in the field of research: interviewing users, setting up surveys and usability tests as well as interpreting the results (both Qualitative & Quantitative)
• You love solving problems in ways customers love yet work for the business.
• You have an intuitive eye for customer needs beyond the obvious.
• You can effectively communicate and persuade around design concepts