UX Designer

StoneX Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm is seeking a talented UX Designer to enhance user experiences across digital platforms. The ideal candidate will work within a collaborative marketing team, focusing on the creation of wireframes, prototypes, and high-quality UX deliverables. Responsibilities also include contributing to user research and facilitating usability testing to optimize user journeys. Proficiency in tools such as Figma and a strong understanding of user-centered design principles are essential for success in this role. This is a permanent, full-time position based in Cape Town.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and digital usability.
• Proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD.
• Experience producing wireframes, prototypes, and user flows.

Responsibilities

• Partner with different teams to create concepts, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed UX designs.
• Contribute to user research and insight-gathering activities.
• Develop clear design documentation including user flows and interaction patterns.

Skills

User-centered design principles

Proficiency with design tools

Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Adobe XD

Job description

Overview

Permanent, full-time, 4 days per week in office

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity.

With 4,500+ employees and over 300,000 commercial, institutional, payments, and retail clients, we operate from more than 70 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, StoneX Group is made up of four business segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Responsibilities

Position Purpose: We are looking for a talented and inquisitive UX Designer to help shape and deliver high-quality user experiences across our websites and digital marketing journeys. You will work within a cross-functional marketing team, contributing to research, design, optimisation, and testing activities that support our global digital marketing ecosystem.

This role suits a designer confident working from concept through to detailed UX design, with a strong focus on creating frictionless, user-centered online experiences that support acquisition, engagement, and conversion.

Primary duties will include:

• Partner with marketers, developers, content specialists, and fellow designers to create and refine concepts, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UX deliverables for websites and marketing journeys.
• Contribute to user research and insight-gathering activities, helping ensure decisions are informed by data and user behavior.
• Develop clear design documentation including information architecture, navigation structures, user flows, and interaction patterns across our marketing platforms.
• Participate in or help facilitate usability testing and A/B testing to validate solutions and optimise performance.
• Support continuous refinement of user journeys, ensuring they remain logical, seamless, and aligned with marketing goals.
• Collaborate closely with developers to support implementation and maintain design quality.
• Stay informed about UX best practice, tools, accessibility standards, and digital marketing trends, proactively contributing fresh ideas.

Qualifications

To land this role you will need:

• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and digital usability.
• Proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD.
• Experience producing wireframes, prototypes, and user flows.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary marketing teams.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with familiarity in interpreting analytics or user-behavior data.
• Understanding of responsive design and web-optimised experiences.
• Experience in financial services or similarly complex environments is beneficial but not essential.

Working environment:

• Permanent, full-time, 4 days per week in office.