UX & UI Manager

Ad Talent Africa; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

Ad Talent Africa is seeking a skilled UX & UI Manager to lead the design and user experience across its portfolio of websites. This senior role combines UX strategy and UI execution, overseeing the end-to-end digital journey. The ideal candidate will demonstrate significant experience in designing cohesive web experiences and maintaining design systems.

Responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams, conducting user research, and advocating design thinking across the business. A portfolio showcasing your design work is essential for this role, set in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing websites with strong UX and UI skills.
• A portfolio demonstrating web work across the full design lifecycle.
• Experience owning cross-site user journeys and managing projects end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Own the design of the website portfolio end-to-end.
• Partner with product, marketing, and engineering teams for web experiences.
• Conduct user research and turn insights into design decisions.

Skills

User experience strategy

User interface design

Prototyping in Figma

Team collaboration

Tools

Figma

Web analytics tools

Job description

Overview

A high-growth international business is looking for a hands‑on UX & UI Manager to lead the design and user experience across a portfolio of websites, shaping seamless and engaging digital journeys across every touchpoint.

This is a senior role suited to someone who combines strong UX strategy with polished UI execution and enjoys taking ownership from concept through to delivery.

You will drive the end‑to‑end website experience, improve how users move between platforms and set the standard for design across the portfolio. The environment is entrepreneurial and fast‑paced, ideal for someone proactive, commercially minded and comfortable building within ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Own the design of our website portfolio end‑to‑end, leading projects from discovery and ideation through wireframing, prototyping, visual design and final execution with engineering
• Take ownership of the parent journey - the overarching user experience that connects our websites - ensuring consistency, coherence and a seamless flow across properties
• Define how individual sites relate to one another within the wider ecosystem, balancing the needs of each site against the holistic experience
• Partner closely with product, marketing, content and engineering teams to translate business goals and user needs into well‑crafted web experiences
• Conduct and commission user research - including interviews, usability testing and data‑informed analysis and turn insights into design decisions
• Build and maintain design systems, patterns and guidelines that scale across the portfolio and keep the sites visually and functionally aligned
• Set the quality bar for UI craft across the portfolio: typography, layout, interaction design, accessibility, responsive behaviour and visual polish
• Use analytics, heatmaps and conversion data to continuously refine journeys and identify opportunities for improvement
• Advocate for the user and for design thinking across the business, influencing roadmaps and digital strategy
• Identify opportunities proactively, spotting problems worth solving, proposing solutions and driving initiatives without needing to be asked

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing websites, with strong UX and UI skills - equally comfortable in a research workshop and pushing pixels in Figma
• A portfolio demonstrating shipped web work across the full design lifecycle, ideally including multi‑site or portfolio‑level thinking
• Demonstrable experience owning cross‑site or end‑to‑end user journeys, not just individual pages or flows
• Experience leading projects end‑to‑end, managing competing priorities and collaborating with cross‑functional teams
• An entrepreneurial, self‑directed approach, takes initiative and moves fast
• Strong communication skills: able to articulate design decisions, facilitate workshops and bring stakeholders along
• Fluency in modern design tools (Figma or equivalent), prototyping and design systems
• A solid grasp of responsive design, web accessibility (WCAG) and the practical constraints of designing for the web
• Experience working with analytics and data to inform design decisions