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Our client is looking for an individual to join their growing IT team as an UX/UI Design Lead to Lead the design of user interface and the visual and user-experience elements of digital products. Applying an advanced level of expertise, guide stakeholders and team members in the practice of product design and lead the translation of high-level requirements into interactive designs

Responsibilities:

Design and Conceptualisation

• Lead a collaborative digital product/service design process by gathering input across all product/service portfolios to define a design system that is viable and scalable, and which strengthens the brand. Lead a cross-portfolio, multidisciplinary team that contributes to the evolution of the system.

Customer Experience Mapping:

• Lead implementation and performance of techniques such as voice of the customer initiatives, journey mapping, and qualitative touchpoint analysis to identify customer pain points, challenges, and hurdles; advise on approaches to eliminate negative experiences and enhance customer interactions.

Internal Client Relationship Management:

• Manage relationships with internal clients and act as a business partner to them, building high levels of professional credibility and mutual trust, and managing the deployment of appropriate internal and/or external resources to support in delivering business strategy and plans.

Product and Solution Development:

• Is responsible for managing the definition, development and delivery of a significant product or service within the product development and engineering program, ensuring alignment with customer requirements.

Improvement / Innovation:

• Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organisation’s change management program. Involves working with guidance from senior colleagues.

Personal Capability Building:

• Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

Building Capability:

• Work within existing development framework to build own capabilities and those of direct reports. Provide specialised training or coaching to others throughout the organisation in area of expertise.

Recommendations:

• Recommend changes to policies, processes, standards and practices that would improve operational support.

Customer Needs/Experience Research

• Lead the design and execution of customer research projects by collecting and analysing customer and market data to develop an understanding of customer segments, trends, needs, and expectations.

Customer Experiences Implementation:

• Design and coordinate implementation of differentiating customer experience initiatives, tools, and processes.

Performance Management:

• Respond to personal objectives and use performance management systems to improve personal performance. OR Monitor the performance of the team; allocate work and review completion, take appropriate corrective action to ensure timeliness and quality; contribute to formal individual performance management and appraisal.

Behavioral Competencies:

Balances Stakeholders:

• Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders. For example, shares stakeholder feedback while inspiring others to consistently seek input and learn from their internal and external stakeholders. Promotes an environment of high ethical standards and cross-cultural sensitivity in working with all stakeholders.

Manages Complexity:

• Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. For example, asks questions to encourage others to think differently and enrich their analyses of complex situations. Accurately defines the key elements of complex, ambiguous situations.

Decision Quality:

• Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. For example, ensures that people’s decisions comply with policies and standards. Integrates analysis, experience, and other inputs to make effective decisions. Accepts workable decisions and also seeks better alternatives.

Cultivates Innovation:

• Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. For example, offers creative ideas, finds unique connections between previously unrelated elements. Actively encourages and supports others’ creativity; builds upon and strengthens new solutions in a positive and collaborative manner.

Drives Results:

• Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances. For example, emphasizes the importance of results; encourages a sense of urgency in others; challenges poor outcomes or unproductive behaviors. Provides assistance or encouragement to help others over obstacles.

Action Oriented:

• Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. For example, encourages others to take timely action and take on new challenges with a can-do attitude. Secures new business opportunities.

Nimble Learning:

• Learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder. For example, gives people opportunities to try new things; urges people to try new ways to find best solutions. Helps the team leverage the lessons from their successes and failures when facing new situations.

Ensures Accountability:

• Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. For example, measures and tracks team’s and own performance, and helps the team learn from success, failure, and feedback. Adheres to, and enforces, goals, policies, and procedures.

Interpersonal Savvy:

• Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people. For example, recognizes even subtle social cues and nimbly responds to others’ needs and preferences. Helps to defuse difficult interpersonal situations by showing high levels of tact, sensitivity, and consideration. Builds rapport with ease.

Being Resilient:

• Rebounds from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations. For example, deals effectively with crises and volatile situations. Puts people’s failures in perspective and helps them move forward. Maintains calm in adversity; stays objective. Uses hardships and difficult experiences as an opportunity for personal and team growth.

Business Insight:

• Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals. For example, leverages insights to shape and drive critical initiatives. Shares industry developments with the team; helps them grasp business and industry fundamentals and understand how they contribute.

Directs Work:

• Provides direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done. For example, delegates tasks, providing generally clear expectations to staff. Coordinates and integrates the team’s work, reducing duplication. Measures team progress using the right indicators; recognizes when problems or shortfalls occur.

Skills:

Interaction Design:

• Apply comprehensive knowledge / skill, acts with independence and provide guidance and training to others.

Prototyping:

• Apply comprehensive knowledge / skill, acts with independence and provide guidance and training to others.

Information Architecture:

• Apply comprehensive knowledge / skill, acts with independence and provide guidance and training to others.

Computer skills:

• Support business processes with comprehensive understanding and the effective use of standard office equipment and standard software packages, while also providing guidance and training to others.

Assessment:

• Use comprehensive knowledge and guide and train others on analysing data from multiple sources to draw appropriate conclusions and make suitable recommendations.

Verbal and Written Communication:

• Apply comprehensive knowledge and guide and train others to use clear and effective verbal and written communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies.

Market Research and Analysis:

• Provide technical guidance when required to use research and analysis to develop a comprehensive understanding of market conditions in order to facilitate the success of a brand, product or service.

Planning and Organising:

• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently and provide guidance and training to others to plan, organise, prioritise and oversee activities to efficiently meet business objectives.

Education:

• Matric / Grade 12/ SAQA Accredited Equivalent (Essential).
• A relevant design related qualification (degree / diploma / certificate) (Essential).

Experience:

• 5 or more years’ UX/UI design experience (Essential).
• Experience in the Financial Services industry (Advantageous).
• 1 or more years’ experience of general supervision of more junior colleagues (Essential).

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Our client is seeking an experienced UX/UI Design Lead to head the design of user interfaces and the visual and user-experience elements of digital products. This role involves guiding stakeholders and team members in product design and leading the transformation of high-level requirements into interactive, user-friendly designs.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design and Conceptualisation:
   • Oversee a collaborative design process for digital products/services, incorporating input from various portfolios to create a scalable and robust design system that enhances the brand. Lead a multidisciplinary team to evolve this system.
2. Customer Experience Mapping:
   • Implement and manage techniques such as voice of the customer initiatives, journey mapping, and qualitative touchpoint analysis to identify and address customer pain points, improving overall customer interactions.
3. Internal Client Relationship Management:
   • Foster and maintain relationships with internal clients, acting as a trusted business partner. Manage the deployment of internal and/or external resources to support the delivery of business strategies and plans.
4. Product and Solution Development:
   • Oversee the definition, development, and delivery of key products or services within the product development program, ensuring alignment with customer needs.
5. Improvement / Innovation:
   • Identify and implement improvements in existing business practices, and manage projects or work streams within the organization’s change management program, with guidance from senior colleagues.
6. Personal Capability Building:
   • Serve as a subject matter expert in specific technology, policy, regulation, or operational management areas. Stay updated on current and emerging technologies and industry best practices through professional development.
7. Building Capability:
   • Enhance your own capabilities and those of your direct reports within the existing development framework. Provide specialized training or coaching to others across the organization.
8. Recommendations:
   • Suggest changes to policies, processes, standards, and practices to improve operational support.
9. Customer Needs/Experience Research:
   • Lead customer research projects, collecting and analyzing data to understand customer segments, trends, needs, and expectations.
10. Customer Experiences Implementation:
    • Design and manage the implementation of initiatives, tools, and processes to enhance customer experiences.
11. Performance Management:
    • Monitor team performance, allocate tasks, review progress, and take corrective action as needed. Contribute to formal performance management and appraisals.

Competencies:

1. Balances Stakeholders:
   • Effectively balance and anticipate the needs of multiple stakeholders, fostering an environment of high ethical standards and cultural sensitivity.
2. Manages Complexity:
   • Navigate complex and ambiguous situations by asking insightful questions and enriching analyses.
3. Decision Quality:
   • Make timely, effective decisions, ensuring compliance with policies and standards. Integrate analysis and experience to make informed decisions.
4. Cultivates Innovation:
   • Encourage and support creative ideas, fostering a collaborative environment to develop new solutions.
5. Drives Results:
   • Achieve outstanding outcomes by emphasizing urgency and challenging unproductive behaviours.
6. Action Oriented:
   • Approach new opportunities and challenges with high energy and enthusiasm, encouraging others to do the same.
7. Nimble Learning:
   • Learn from successes and failures, promoting experimentation to find the best solutions.
8. Ensures Accountability:
   • Hold yourself and others accountable for meeting commitments, tracking performance, and learning from feedback.
9. Interpersonal Savvy:
   • Build rapport and maintain productive relationships with diverse groups, showing tact and sensitivity in difficult situations.
10. Being Resilient:
    • Maintain composure in crises, using hardships as opportunities for growth and learning.
11. Business Insight:
    • Apply business knowledge to drive organizational goals, sharing industry insights with the team.
12. Directs Work:
    • Provide direction, delegate tasks, and remove obstacles to ensure work gets done efficiently.

Skills:

1. Interaction Design, Prototyping, Information Architecture:
   • Apply comprehensive knowledge, act independently, and provide guidance and training to others.
2. Computer Skills:
   • Support business processes using standard office equipment and software, providing training to others. Proficient in Microsoft Office and design tools like Adobe Suite, Zeplin, Figma, Sketch, InVision, Axure, and Miro.
3. Assessment:
   • Analyze data from multiple sources to draw conclusions and make recommendations, providing guidance to others.
4. Verbal and Written Communication:
   • Use clear and effective communication skills to express ideas and formulate plans, providing training to others.
5. Market Research and Analysis:
   • Conduct research and analysis to understand market conditions and facilitate the success of brands, products, or services.
6. Planning and Organising:
   • Plan, organize, prioritize, and oversee activities to meet business objectives efficiently, providing guidance and training to others.

Qualifications:

• Matric / Grade 12 / SAQA Accredited Equivalent.
• Relevant design-related qualification (degree/diploma/certificate).

Experience:

• 5+ years of UX/UI design experience.
• Experience in the Financial Services industry preferred.
• At least 1 year of supervisory experience.

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Our client is seeking an experienced UX/UI Design Lead to head the design of user interfaces and the visual and user-experience elements of digital products. This role involves guiding stakeholders and team members in product design and leading the transformation of high-level requirements into interactive, user-friendly designs. Key Responsibilities: Design and Conceptualisation: Oversee a collaborative design process for digital products/services, incorporating input from various portfolios to create a scalable and robust design system that enhances the brand. Lead a multidisciplinary team to evolve this system. Customer Experience Mapping: Implement and manage techniques such as voice of the customer initiatives, journey mapping, and qualitative touchpoint analysis to identify and address customer pain points, improving overall customer interactions. Internal Client Relationship Management: Foster and maintain relationships with internal clients, acting as a trusted business partner. Manage the deployment of internal and/or external resources to support the delivery of business strategies and plans. Product and Solution Development: Oversee the definition, development, and delivery of key products or services within the product development program, ensuring alignment with customer needs. Improvement / Innovation: Identify and implement improvements in existing business practices, and manage projects or work streams within the organization’s change management program, with guidance from senior colleagues. Personal Capability Building: Serve as a subject matter expert in specific technology, policy, regulation, or operational management areas. Stay updated on current and emerging technologies and industry best practices through professional development. Building Capability: Enhance your own capabilities and those of your direct reports within the existing development framework. Provide specialized training or coaching to others across the organization. Recommendations: Suggest changes to policies, processes, standards, and practices to improve operational support. Customer Needs/Experience Research: Lead customer research projects, collecting and analyzing data to understand customer segments, trends, needs, and expectations. Customer Experiences Implementation: Design and manage the implementation of initiatives, tools, and processes to enhance customer experiences. Performance Management: Monitor team performance, allocate tasks, review progress, and take corrective action as needed. Contribute to formal performance management and appraisals. Competencies: Balances Stakeholders: Effectively balance and anticipate the needs of multiple stakeholders, fostering an environment of high ethical standards and cultural sensitivity. Manages Complexity: Navigate complex and ambiguous situations by asking insightful questions and enriching analyses. Decision Quality: Make timely, effective decisions, ensuring compliance with policies and standards. Integrate analysis and experience to make informed decisions. Cultivates Innovation: Encourage and support creative ideas, fostering a collaborative environment to develop new solutions. Drives Results: Achieve outstanding outcomes by emphasizing urgency and challenging unproductive behaviours. Action Oriented: Approach new opportunities and challenges with high energy and enthusiasm, encouraging others to do the same. Nimble Learning: Learn from successes and failures, promoting experimentation to find the best solutions. Ensures Accountability: Hold yourself and others accountable for meeting commitments, tracking performance, and learning from feedback. Interpersonal Savvy: Build rapport and maintain productive relationships with diverse groups, showing tact and sensitivity in difficult situations. Being Resilient: Maintain composure in crises, using hardships as opportunities for growth and learning. Business Insight: Apply business knowledge to drive organizational goals, sharing industry insights with the team. Directs Work: Provide direction, delegate tasks, and remove obstacles to ensure work gets done efficiently. Skills: Interaction Design, Prototyping, Information Architecture: Apply comprehensive knowledge, act independently, and provide guidance and training to others. Computer Skills: Support business processes using standard office equipment and software, providing training to others. Proficient in Microsoft Office and design tools like Adobe Suite, Zeplin, Figma, Sketch, In Vision, Axure, and Miro. Assessment: Analyze data from multiple sources to draw conclusions and make recommendations, providing guidance to others. Verbal and Written Communication: Use clear and effective communication skills to express ideas and formulate plans, providing training to others. Market Research and Analysis: Conduct research and analysis to understand market conditions and facilitate the success of brands, products, or services. Planning and Organising: Plan, organize, prioritize, and oversee activities to meet business objectives efficiently, providing guidance and training to others. Qualifications: Matric / Grade 12 / SAQA Accredited Equivalent. Relevant design-related qualification (degree/diploma/certificate). Experience: 5+ years of UX/UI design experience. Experience in the Financial Services industry preferred. At least 1 year of supervisory experience. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Our client is looking for an individual to join their growing IT team as an UX/UI Design Lead to Lead the design of user interface and the visual and user-experience elements of digital products. Applying an advanced level of expertise, guide stakeholders and team members in the practice of product design and lead the translation of high-level requirements into interactive designs Responsibilities: Design and Conceptualisation Lead a collaborative digital product/service design process by gathering input across all product/service portfolios to define a design system that is viable and scalable, and which strengthens the brand. Lead a cross-portfolio, multidisciplinary team that contributes to the evolution of the system. Customer Experience Mapping: Lead implementation and performance of techniques such as voice of the customer initiatives, journey mapping, and qualitative touchpoint analysis to identify customer pain points, challenges, and hurdles; advise on approaches to eliminate negative experiences and enhance customer interactions. Internal Client Relationship Management: Manage relationships with internal clients and act as a business partner to them, building high levels of professional credibility and mutual trust, and managing the deployment of appropriate internal and/or external resources to support in delivering business strategy and plans. Product and Solution Development: Is responsible for managing the definition, development and delivery of a significant product or service within the product development and engineering program, ensuring alignment with customer requirements. Improvement / Innovation: Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organisation’s change management program. Involves working with guidance from senior colleagues. Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media. Building Capability: Work within existing development framework to build own capabilities and those of direct reports. Provide specialised training or coaching to others throughout the organisation in area of expertise. Recommendations: Recommend changes to policies, processes, standards and practices that would improve operational support. Customer Needs/Experience Research Lead the design and execution of customer research projects by collecting and analysing customer and market data to develop an understanding of customer segments, trends, needs, and expectations. Customer Experiences Implementation: Design and coordinate implementation of differentiating customer experience initiatives, tools, and processes. Performance Management: Respond to personal objectives and use performance management systems to improve personal performance. OR Monitor the performance of the team; allocate work and review completion, take appropriate corrective action to ensure timeliness and quality; contribute to formal individual performance management and appraisal. Behavioral Competencies: Balances Stakeholders: Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders. For example, shares stakeholder feedback while inspiring others to consistently seek input and learn from their internal and external stakeholders. Promotes an environment of high ethical standards and cross-cultural sensitivity in working with all stakeholders. Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. For example, asks questions to encourage others to think differently and enrich their analyses of complex situations. Accurately defines the key elements of complex, ambiguous situations. Decision Quality: Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. For example, ensures that people’s decisions comply with policies and standards. Integrates analysis, experience, and other inputs to make effective decisions. Accepts workable decisions and also seeks better alternatives. Cultivates Innovation: Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. For example, offers creative ideas, finds unique connections between previously unrelated elements. Actively encourages and supports others’ creativity; builds upon and strengthens new solutions in a positive and collaborative manner. Drives Results: Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances. For example, emphasizes the importance of results; encourages a sense of urgency in others; challenges poor outcomes or unproductive behaviors. Provides assistance or encouragement to help others over obstacles. Action Oriented: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. For example, encourages others to take timely action and take on new challenges with a can-do attitude. Secures new business opportunities. Nimble Learning: Learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder. For example, gives people opportunities to try new things; urges people to try new ways to find best solutions. Helps the team leverage the lessons from their successes and failures when facing new situations. Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. For example, measures and tracks team’s and own performance, and helps the team learn from success, failure, and feedback. Adheres to, and enforces, goals, policies, and procedures. Interpersonal Savvy: Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people. For example, recognizes even subtle social cues and nimbly responds to others’ needs and preferences. Helps to defuse difficult interpersonal situations by showing high levels of tact, sensitivity, and consideration. Builds rapport with ease. Being Resilient: Rebounds from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations. For example, deals effectively with crises and volatile situations. Puts people’s failures in perspective and helps them move forward. Maintains calm in adversity; stays objective. Uses hardships and difficult experiences as an opportunity for personal and team growth. Business Insight: Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals. For example, leverages insights to shape and drive critical initiatives. Shares industry developments with the team; helps them grasp business and industry fundamentals and understand how they contribute. Directs Work: Provides direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done. For example, delegates tasks, providing generally clear expectations to staff. Coordinates and integrates the team’s work, reducing duplication. Measures team progress using the right indicators; recognizes when problems or shortfalls occur. Skills: Interaction Design: Apply comprehensive knowledge / skill, acts with independence and provide guidance and training to others. Prototyping: Apply comprehensive knowledge / skill, acts with independence and provide guidance and training to others. Information Architecture: Apply comprehensive knowledge / skill, acts with independence and provide guidance and training to others. Computer skills: Support business processes with comprehensive understanding and the effective use of standard office equipment and standard software packages, while also providing guidance and training to others. Assessment: Use comprehensive knowledge and guide and train others on analysing data from multiple sources to draw appropriate conclusions and make suitable recommendations. Verbal and Written Communication: Apply comprehensive knowledge and guide and train others to use clear and effective verbal and written communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies. Market Research and Analysis: Provide technical guidance when required to use research and analysis to develop a comprehensive understanding of market conditions in order to facilitate the success of a brand, product or service. Planning and Organising: Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently and provide guidance and training to others to plan, organise, prioritise and oversee activities to efficiently meet business objectives. Education: Matric / Grade 12/ SAQA Accredited Equivalent (Essential). A relevant design related qualification (degree / diploma / certificate) (Essential). Experience: 5 or more years’ UX/UI design experience (Essential). Experience in the Financial Services industry (Advantageous). 1 or more years’ experience of general supervision of more junior colleagues (Essential). #J-18808-Ljbffr

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• 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.
  
  
  

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
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type Contract

Job function

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting

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Gopele is an AI-driven EdTech platform transforming education across South Africa and the African continent. Our platform supports underserved communities with multilingual, curriculum-aligned learning tools that close gaps in comprehension and promote long-term academic success. Built for mobile-first and offline-first access, Gopele integrates AI, learner profiling, and adaptive content delivery to ensure every learner thrives.

About the Opportunity

Are you passionate about creating human-centered digital experiences? Gopele is looking for a UI/UX Designer to join our team and help refine, enhance, and expand our learner- and teacher-facing interfaces. You’ll work with our existing Figma design system and contribute new user flows, interaction patterns, and accessibility improvements across web and mobile platforms.

You will be instrumental in designing intuitive, engaging, and inclusive user experiences that support learners from diverse linguistic and digital literacy backgrounds. This is a unique opportunity to shape how African learners interact with a cutting-edge educational tool while building a strong portfolio in EdTech UX design.

Key Activities

• Review, refine, and extend Gopele’s Figma-based design system (components, typography, color, etc.).
• Improve UX flows for key features: learner onboarding, lesson progression, teacher dashboards, quizzes, and AI insights.
• Design wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes for new features and pages.
• Work collaboratively with backend/frontend developers to ensure design implementation accuracy.
• Conduct heuristic reviews and recommend enhancements for accessibility and mobile usability.
• Participate in UI consistency audits and propose component reuse and layout improvements.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Figma (component libraries, prototyping, and collaborative workflows).
• Strong foundation in UX principles, responsive design, and accessibility.
• Portfolio or examples demonstrating UX case studies or UI design for web/mobile apps.
• Self-driven, detail-oriented, and comfortable working asynchronously in a global team.

Duration

• 3 hours/day, Monday to Friday
• Fully remote

Acquired Skills

• End-to-end UI/UX design experience for an actively developing MVP in education.
• Hands-on application of Figma for systems thinking and collaborative iteration.
• Exposure to learner-centered design principles for low-resource educational settings.
• Experience in working closely with dev teams for real-world design delivery.

Once your contribution is successfully completed, Gopele will provide:

• A testimonial on your SkilledUp Life profile
• A LinkedIn and CV endorsement
• Permission to list Gopele on your portfolio and LinkedIn experience

Disclaimer

This is a voluntary, unpaid position. There is no direct financial compensation or guarantee of future paid employment. The value lies in the impact you make, the experience you gain, and your contribution to transforming African education.

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Location: Cape Town, Western Cape (On-Site)

Overview

Our client, a top-tier South African company, is looking for a skilled UI / UX Designer to help shape the future of digital experiences.

In this role, you will develop digital products for renowned brands by harnessing cutting-edge technology and a sophisticated tech stack.

Key Responsibilities

• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for web and mobile using tools like Figma or Sketch.
• Ensure alignment of your designs with the existing design system, contributing to its evolution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure technical feasibility, high-quality outcomes, and alignment.
• Advocate for user needs by conducting usability tests and iterating designs based on feedback.
• Analyze user data and behavior to inform design decisions and deliver intuitive solutions.
• Regularly communicate and present your design ideas to stakeholders.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree / Diploma in Design
• 3-5 years of experience in UI / UX design.
• Proficient in Figma (auto-layout, components, prototyping) and Sketch.
• Knowledge of working with design systems and usability testing tools.
• Experience with usability testing and user research.
• A sharp portfolio showcasing design thinking and cross-platform projects.

Core Competencies

• A design-forward and problem-solving outlook with attention to detail.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards to ensure inclusive design.
• Ability to understand South African audiences' digital behavior.
• Clear communication skills to articulate ideas and facilitate discussions.
• Strong user research skills and the ability to synthesize data into actionable insights.
• Ability to align design deliverables with functional and technical requirements.

Preferred (Nice-to-have) Experience

• Experience with news/media platforms or high-traffic digital products.
• Knowledge of analytics tools like Google Analytics or Hotjar.
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks or Scrum environments.
• Understanding of South Africa's digital audience and engagement patterns.
• Basic familiarity with HTML / CSS.

Benefits of Working at Dynamic

• Flexible work schedule with core hours in Cape Town offices between 10AM to 3PM and optionally remote.
• AI-forward culture leveraging AI to unlock new opportunities.
• Continuous learning & growth opportunities, including access to Udemy, nanodegrees, and Microsoft certification training.
• Bursary opportunities.
• Stay ahead by attending tech events and expos.
• Personalized benefits such as optional medical aid and retirement options.
• Volunteer days to support community causes.

Note: Given the employment equity policy of Media24, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups.

Additional Details

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting

Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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At 24.com, our team of engineers, data scientists, product managers and UX/UI design specialists develop exceptional digital products for renowned brands including News24 and Netwerk24. By harnessing cutting-edge technology and a sophisticated tech stack, we deliver world-class solutions. Our vibrant, people-focused culture, commitment to innovation, and strong societal mission are at the heart of everything we do. At 24.com, we empower Media24 brands to inform, entertain, and inspire millions across South Africa.

What will you do?

• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for web and mobile using tools like Figma or Sketch.
• Ensure alignment of your designs with the existing design system, contributing to its evolution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure technical feasibility, high-quality outcomes, and alignment.
• Advocate for user needs by conducting usability tests and iterating designs based on feedback.
• Analyze user data and behavior to inform design decisions and deliver intuitive solutions.
• Regularly communicate and present your design ideas to stakeholders.
  
  

What should you have?

• Bachelor's degree/Diploma in Design
• 3-5 years of experience in UI/UX design.
• Proficient in Figma (auto-layout, components, prototyping) and Sketch.
• Knowledge of working with design systems and usability testing tools.
• Experience with usability testing and user research.
• A sharp portfolio showcasing design thinking and cross-platform projects.
  
  

What will you need?

• A design-forward and problem-solving outlook with attention to detail.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards to ensure inclusive design.
• Ability to understand South African audiences' digital behavior.
• Clear communication skills to articulate ideas and facilitate discussions.
• Strong user research skills and the ability to synthesize data into actionable insights.
• Ability to align design deliverables with functional and technical requirements
  
  

Nice to Haves

• Experience with news/media platforms or high-traffic digital products.
• Knowledge of analytics tools like Google Analytics or Hotjar.
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks or Scrum environments.
• Understanding of South Africa's digital audience and their engagement patterns.
• Basic familiarity with HTML/CSS.
  
  

Benefits Of Working At 24.com

Dynamic work schedule: We enjoy flexible working hours, with core hours in our Cape Town offices between 10AM to 3PM and optionally remote for the balance of your working hours.

AI-forward culture: We actively look for opportunities to leverage AI to unlock new opportunities. We harness cutting-edge AI technology and tools to supercharge productivity, efficiency and results and we encourage our teams to explore and experiment.

Continuous learning & growth: Dive into a wealth of learning opportunities backed by our parent company, the Naspers group. Gain free access to platforms like Udemy, pursue nanodegrees to enrich your skills or take advantage of complimentary Microsoft certification training. We also offer bursary opportunities.

Stay ahead: Attend cutting-edge tech events and expos to stay on top of industry trends and innovations.

Personalised benefits: Choose from optional medical aid and customisable retirement funding options to suit your needs.

Give back: Each year, take up to 3 days of Volunteers24 leave to make a meaningful impact in the community while supporting causes you care about.

Given the employment equity policy of Media24, preference will be given to suitable candidates from the designated groups.

Seniority level

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

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• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries Media Production

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Reverside is an IT services provider; we are always looking for professional candidates to join our team in Software Development, providing opportunities to work on exciting projects, within our well-established client base. We are looking for a UI/UX Designer with 5 to 8 years of experience. Working closely with the Product team, you will define and deliver user experiences from ideation to implementation. This role includes a mix of strategic, research, discovery, and leadership responsibilities.

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KPIs

• Exceptional user experience, measured through usability scores (NPS) and user feedback.
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Requirements

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• Experience across the entire product design cycle including UX research, copywriting, wireframes, prototypes, final UI design, implementation, and post-release optimization.
• An understanding of Apple and Google's design principles.
• A portfolio showcasing knowledge of native mobile UI design. Live App Store examples are a plus.
• Proficiency in design tools (Figma, Sketch, InVision, Zeplin, Adobe Photoshop)
• Proficiency in prototyping tools (InVision, proto.io etc.).
• Qualitative and quantitative research abilities.

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