Our client in the IT sector based in Johannesburg is currently looking to employ a Senior UX/UI Designer.
The role will be responsible for managing the User Experience Design Process, artefacts, and delivery at our client. Will be responsible for taking ownership and managing stakeholder discovery workshops, review sessions and presentations. Able to work in a team, but also complete delivery independently. Need to act as a team leader and integrate seamlessly into any environment.
A wonderful career opportunity awaits you.
Requirements:
- BA/BSC/Relevant Tertiary qualification.
- CX/UX certificate.
- Valid code B driver’s license, own transport/public transport.
- Passed credit and criminal checks.
- South African Citizen or valid South African work permit.
- 5+ years’ work experience.
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of the ‘Design Thinking Methodology’.
- Agile/lean work experience.
- Stakeholder and customer interviews.
- Usability testing.
- Heuristic reviews.
- Wireframing and Prototyping.
- Presentation and communication skills.
- Receive constructive feedback and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Systems: Microsoft Office, Teams, Miro, Figma, Sketch.
Technical:
- Agile.
- Prototyping, wireframing, user flows, and mock-ups.
- Visual design, communication, and design software.
- User research and usability testing.
- Analytics.
- Data synthesis.
- UX Writing Skills.
- Typography Skills.
- Interaction Design.
- Information architecture.
- Workshop facilitation.
- Strategic design and structures.
- UX/UI methodologies and standards.
Responsibilities and expectations but not limited to:
- Work alongside business stakeholders to unpack business requirements.
- Facilitate workshops and collaborate with the agile team to define problem statements.
- Lead and create an environment of learning and sharing UX principles, methods, and standards.
- Create persona and user journeys to reflect the business and user problems.
- Articulate a proposed solution by means of low and high-fidelity wireframes and clickable prototypes.
- Display the ability to follow and set (new) ‘Design system’ rules.
- Manage and engage with customers to validate the solution.
- Ensure the business are informed of the research by creating customer interview packs and reports.
- Provide UX strategy by showcasing competitor analysis reports to business and UX team.
- Ensure websites and applications are aligned to international standards for Information Architecture. Make use of techniques with users to validate IA, such as card sorting.
- Present to user’s design options for feedback in the form of A/B Testing.
- Encourage post development quality assurance by means of logging and addressing user issues post go-live.
- Critique existing applications and websites through detailed heuristic reviews.
- Provide strategic insight based on desktop research.
- Showcase the ability to take stakeholders along the design thinking journey using effective story telling.
Please note should you not receive a response within two weeks of applying you may assume that your application was unsuccessful.
Desired Skills:
- Senior UX/UI Designer
- UX/UI Designer
- UX certificate
- CX certificate
- Design Thinking Methodology
- Agile
- lean