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Senior UI/UX Designer – Shape the Future of Digital Experiences!

Are you a visionary Senior UI/UX Designer who thrives on pushing creative boundaries? Do you dream in Figma, obsess over user experience, and love mentoring designers to elevate their craft? If so, we need YOU to take the lead in designing innovative, user-friendly, and visually stunning digital products!

What’s in it for you?

• Own the creative direction of cutting-edge applications and design systems.
• Work alongside brilliant Front-End Engineers & Product Managers to bring ideas to life.
• Mentor and guide a team of senior designers , shaping the future of our design culture.
• Leverage UX research, competitive analysis, and user testing to build data-driven, intuitive experiences.
• Design and refine high-impact applications & features that make a difference.

What you bring to the table:

• 7+ years of UI/UX design experience (at least 3 years leading creative direction).
• A killer portfolio showcasing your problem-solving and design thinking skills.
• Mastery of Figma and expertise in scalable design systems .
• Passion for user-centered design, usability, and accessibility standards (WCAG) .
• Strong collaboration with Front-End Engineers (bonus points if you understand Angular, Ionic, TailwindCSS ).
• Leadership skills – you’ll mentor, inspire, and elevate the design team.
• Experience with user testing tools & analytics to drive decision-making.

If you’re ready to lead, innovate, and create the future of UI/UX, let’s talk!

Apply now and let’s design something extraordinary together!

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering, Design, and Information Technology

• Market Research, IT System Data Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting

Business Segment: Business & Commercial Banking

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, 30 Baker Street

Role Overview: To challenge interface design assumptions and scope the most appropriate interface design for products by understanding product and client requirements. Execute the full spectrum of user interface design to contribute to a seamless customer experience.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 5-7 years of demonstrated workplace experience within the area of specialization, with evidence of contribution to the experience design practice.

Business Segment: Business & Commercial Banking

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, 30 Baker Street

Role Overview: To challenge interface design assumptions and scope the most appropriate interface design for products by understanding product and client requirements. Execute the full spectrum of user interface design to contribute to a seamless customer experience.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 5-7 years of demonstrated workplace experience within the area of specialization, with evidence of contribution to the experience design practice.

We are currently looking for a UX / UI Designer to join the Ditto product team. In this role, we are looking for an individual who will drive the design of our core products. You will work on three of our core products, including a stealth project launching later this year.

About us

Ditto is a technology company creating products that recruiters and candidates love to use. Recruiters use Ditto to source and place top candidates, while candidates use Ditto to connect with new opportunities worldwide. If you're ready to reach new heights and have your product in the hands of over 1 million users per month, Ditto is the place for you.

What you’ll do :

• Understand the insights and needs of our users.
• Participate actively in the ideation, strategy, and design of our products, features, and user journeys.
• Conduct research, brainstorming, sketching, prototyping, and collaborate with engineers to ship great features and products.
• Design reusable components.
• Develop and maintain standardized UI kits and design guidelines.
• Implement and maintain design systems.
• Work closely with engineering teams to ensure design consistency.
• Design and prototype user interfaces.
• Ensure best design practices are followed continuously.
• Assist in quality assurance processes.

What you’ll need :

• At least 5 years of experience in UI/UX or Product Design (less if your previous work is exceptional).
• Relevant tertiary qualification.
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment and work well with teams.
• Excitement about building new things.
• Strong communication, design, and creative thinking skills.
• Extensive experience using Figma.

What We'll Give You

• Competitive compensation.
• Hybrid work setup, with in-person brainstorms and catchups preferred.
• Comprehensive time-off and generous leave policies.
• Excellent working environment with talented colleagues.
• Collaborative, transparent, and fun office culture.
• Opportunities for accelerated professional development.
• Ongoing learning and growth.

Sound good? Apply and help us change the way people find work.

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The clientis a digital marketing agency whose main focus is helping eCommerce brands grow their most profitable revenue channels. We are seeking a passionate UX/UI Designer to join our growing marketing team. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of user experience principles and a proven ability to create visually appealing and intuitive interfaces. As a UX/UI Designer, you will play a critical role in shaping the user experience of our client’s products and services.

Responsibilities

● User Research: Conduct user research to understand user needs, behaviors, and pain points.

● Wireframing and Prototyping: Create wireframes, prototypes, and mockups to visualize design concepts.

● Interface Design: Design visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces that align with brand guidelines.

● Usability Testing: Conduct usability testing to evaluate the effectiveness of design solutions.

● Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., developers, product managers) to ensure successful project execution.

● Stay Updated: Keep up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in UX/UI design.

Qualifications

● 2+ years of experience in UX/UI design.

● Agency experience is a plus.

● Strong proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, etc.

● Experience designing for ecommerce platforms is a significant plus.

● Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

● Strong communication and collaboration skills.

● Portfolio demonstrating successful UX/UI design projects.

Location: Hybrid | Cape Town CBD | Fridays in-office (Innovation City)
Type: Permanent

Now Boarding is a specialist digital product design studio based in Cape Town. We partner with startups, scale-ups, and established businesses to bring exceptional digital products to life. Our team is passionate about creating intuitive, beautiful and effective design solutions, primarily for product-led businesses, rather than just traditional websites.

Our work spans industries like fintech, proptech, edtech, and healthtech. Past and present clients include names like SnapScan, SwissBorg, Private Property, AutoTrader, Everything.Insure, Averly, and Betterhome Group. We also have a number of stealth projects currently in studio, exploring how to incorporate AI technology into interfaces in natural, intuitive ways.

We believe in designing beautifully-crafted, user-centred digital experiences, and we’re looking for someone who shares that mindset.

We're looking for a UI/UX Designer who’s comfortable designing visually-engaging, user-friendly interfaces and shaping product experiences from the ground up. While this role leans into both UX skill and UI execution, strong visual design capability is essential. You should be able to create polished, modern interfaces that support the needs of the end user while also looking fantastic.

You’ll join a small, focused design team that thrives on collaboration and clear thinking. Our culture supports independence but we work with strong, established structures and processes to maintain quality and ensure designers have the space to focus. We work at a fast pace but never at the expense of clarity, feedback, and purposeful design.

• Designing end-to-end product experiences
• Creating wireframes, user flows and prototypes for complex interactions
• Conceptualising new UIs from scratch and building design systems
• Crafting modern, on-brand visual designs with high attention to detail
• Visualising information clearly through layouts, dashboards and UI components
• Working closely with developers and project managers throughout delivery
• Contributing to internal design systems and reusable component libraries

• Has 3 - 5 years of design experience, ideally with agency or multi-client exposure
• Has a strong portfolio showcasing both UX thinking and refined UI design
• Is highly proficient in Figma (or similar)
• Has a deep understanding of layout, typography, colour theory and responsive design
• Is open to feedback, collaborative by nature, but not afraid to speak up
• Brings new ideas to the table and enjoys solving problems creatively
• Is comfortable working independently but values being part of a strong, supportive team

• Work with clients doing exciting things in real digital product spaces
• Join a design-led business where your craft is truly valued
• Be part of a culture that encourages learning, feedback, and quality
• Collaborate in person every Friday at our Innovation City studio in the Cape Town CBD
• Enjoy the benefit of structured support so no one burns out or gets stuck

Send your CV and portfolio to . We’d love to see examples of both UX work (flows, wireframes, prototypes) and UI work (final interfaces, visual design systems). Tell us a little about yourself and what kind of work energises you.

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With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Junior Designers work within well-established teams to solve design problems. Junior Designers contribute to product and service teams by solving specific functional-level design problems. Junior Designers follow the established standards in their discipline.

Junior Designers have a passion for one or more of the core design disciplines (user experience design, user interface design, service design, customer research, prototype engineering and content strategy) and continually grow by contributing to one project at a time.

A successful Junior Designer is a self-starter that has a passion for solving problems and creating solutions for customers. They must have a growth mindset and a willingness to learn. They should work well within a team and are able to manage their own time and work deliverables effectively.

Job Description

ACCOUNTABILITY: PROBLEM SOLVING AND EXECUTION

• Follow an approach defined by the team
• Defined by the team
• Conduct research (primary and secondary) to understand users pains, gains and needs
• Execute on design work based on steer from design project leads
• Adapt designs based on feedback from customers and team leads
• Present design work back to business stakeholders with the support of design project leads
• Be an advocate and representative of the design thinking methodologies and practices.
• Create final production ready designs
  
  

• Create creative and innovative design solutions to create a world-class customer experience
• Contribute to the design within the project
• Apply design thinking and best practice standards in developing design with the support of senior designers
• Leverage insight and data, such as market analysis, customer feedback, and user research analytics to ensure that Products⁄Services⁄Solutions are truly designed around the customer and deliver improved experience
• Design mock-ups and prototypes as necessary for each stage of the project, continuously iterating to achieve the optimal output
• Align the design to the design standards and brand guidelines to ensure consistent experience to the customer across the ABSA Ecosystem
  
  

• Continuously build your own expertise by, for example, actively seeking and incorporating feedback, and following external trends and best practices.
  
  

• Basic UX understanding (user journeys, usability principles)
• Proficiency in design tools (Figma)
• Portfolio demonstrating user-centered designs
  
  

• Understanding of accessibility standards
• Basic knowledge of how designs translate to development
• Experience with design systems or component libraries
  
  

• Thoughtful problem-solving approach
• User-centered thinking in portfolio work
• Curiosity about financial services design
  
  

• NQF 7 Qualification
• Minimum of 1 year of technical design experience or customer experience in financial services
• Relevant examples of customer centric design work
• Examples of experience conducting research, for example benchmarking, heuristic reviews, surveys, analytics, stakeholder interviews, focus groups, contextual inquiry, and usability testing (examples can include university done)
• Ability to communicate ideas through drawing, digital tools, prototyping, model making, journeys etc.
  
  

• Good understanding of what it means to be customer obsessed
• Basic understanding of user experience design, user interface design, service design, customer research, prototype engineering or content strategy.
• Effective time management and planning skills
• Problem-solving skills – ability to work tirelessly and think creatively in order to find solutions to simple problems.
• Basic ability to execute design work in a core design discipline.
• Literacy of design tools (advantageous but not mandatory)
  
  

• Ability to provide creative and innovative ideas and concepts to push the thinking on customer experience
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
• Attention to detail
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Upholding standards by adhering to principles and values
• Continuous learning and researching to develop core expertise
• Ability to work within a team
  
  

• Seniority level Not Applicable

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

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Time left to apply: End Date: August 28, 2025 (8 days left to apply)

Job requisition ID: R-15977280

With over 100 years of rich history and positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of an exciting growth journey, to reset our future, and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Junior Designers work within well-established teams to solve design problems. They contribute to product and service teams by addressing specific functional design challenges, following established standards in their discipline.

They have a passion for core design disciplines such as user experience, user interface, service design, customer research, prototype engineering, and content strategy. They grow by contributing to one project at a time, working as self-starters with a growth mindset, and collaborating effectively within teams.

Job Description

Accountability: Problem Solving and Execution

• Follow team-defined approaches
• Conduct primary and secondary research to understand user needs
• Execute design work based on project leads' guidance
• Adapt designs based on feedback
• Present designs to stakeholders with support from project leads
• Advocate for design thinking methodologies
• Create final production-ready designs

Accountability: High-Quality Design

• Develop creative and innovative designs to enhance customer experience
• Contribute to project design efforts
• Apply design thinking and best practices with guidance from senior designers
• Leverage insights, data, and customer feedback to ensure user-centric solutions
• Design mock-ups and prototypes, iterating for optimal results
• Align designs with standards and brand guidelines for consistency across the ecosystem

Accountability: Building Capabilities

• Continuously develop expertise through feedback, trends, and best practices

Essential Skills:

• Strong UI fundamentals: typography, color, layout, visual hierarchy
• Basic UX understanding: user journeys, usability principles
• Proficiency in Figma
• Portfolio demonstrating user-centered designs

Preferred Experience:

• Web and responsive design experience
• Understanding of accessibility standards
• Knowledge of design-to-development translation
• Experience with design systems or component libraries

Values:

• Thoughtful problem-solving
• User-centered thinking
• Curiosity about financial services design

Education and Experience:

• NQF Level 7 Qualification
• At least 1 year of design or customer experience experience in financial services
• Examples of customer-centric design work and research experience
• Ability to communicate ideas visually and through prototypes

Knowledge and Skills (max 6):

• Customer obsession understanding
• Basic UX/UI knowledge
• Time management and planning
• Creative problem-solving
• Design tool literacy (advantageous)

Competencies (max 8):

• Innovative ideas for customer experience
• Results delivery and customer satisfaction
• Attention to detail
• Communication skills
• Adherence to standards and values
• Continuous learning
• Teamwork ability

Education

Bachelor's Degrees in Physical, Mathematical, Computer, or Life Sciences required.

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and inclusion. We reserve the right not to appoint to the advertised position.

Absa Group Limited is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups, listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, offering a comprehensive range of banking, wealth, and insurance services across Africa and beyond.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Job Description

ACCOUNTABILITY: PROBLEM SOLVING AND EXECUTION
• Follow an approach defined by the team
• Defined by the team
• Conduct research (primary and secondary) to understand users pains, gains and needs
• Execute on design work based on steer from design project leads
• Adapt designs based on feedback from customers and team leads
• Present design work back to business stakeholders with the support of design project leads
• Be an advocate and representative of the design thinking methodologies and practices.
• Create final production ready designs

ACCOUNTABILITY: HIGH QUALITY DESIGN
• Create creative and innovative design solutions to create a world-class customer experience
• Contribute to the design within the project
• Apply design thinking and best practice standards in developing design with the support of senior designers
• Leverage insight and data, such as market analysis, customer feedback, and user research analytics to ensure that Products⁄Services⁄Solutions are truly designed around the customer and deliver improved experience
• Design mock-ups and prototypes as necessary for each stage of the project, continuously iterating to achieve the optimal output
• Align the design to the design standards and brand guidelines to ensure consistent experience to the customer across the ABSA Ecosystem

ACCOUNTABILITY: BUILDING CAPABILITIES
• Continuously build your own expertise by, for example, actively seeking and incorporating feedback, and following external trends and best practices.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

Strong UI design fundamentals (typography, color, layout, visual hierarchy)

• Basic UX understanding (user journeys, usability principles)

• Proficiency in design tools (Figma)

• Portfolio demonstrating user-centered designs

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

Web design experience, including responsive design

• Understanding of accessibility standards

• Basic knowledge of how designs translate to development

• Experience with design systems or component libraries

WHAT WE VALUE:

• Thoughtful problem-solving approach

• User-centered thinking in portfolio work

• Curiosity about financial services design

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
• NQF 7 Qualification
• Minimum of 1 year of technical design experience or customer experience in financial services
• Relevant examples of customer centric design work
• Examples of experience conducting research, for example benchmarking, heuristic reviews, surveys, analytics, stakeholder interviews, focus groups, contextual inquiry, and usability testing (examples can include university done)
• Ability to communicate ideas through drawing, digital tools, prototyping, model making, journeys etc.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS: (MAXIMUM OF 6)
• Good understanding of what it means to be customer obsessed
• Basic understanding of user experience design, user interface design, service design, customer research, prototype engineering or content strategy.
• Effective time management and planning skills
• Problem-solving skills – ability to work tirelessly and think creatively in order to find solutions to simple problems.
• Basic ability to execute design work in a core design discipline.
• Literacy of design tools (advantageous but not mandatory)

COMPETENCIES: (MAXIMUM OF 8 COMPETENCIES)
• Ability to provide creative and innovative ideas and concepts to push the thinking on customer experience
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
• Attention to detail
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Upholding standards by adhering to principles and values
• Continuous learning and researching to develop core expertise
• Ability to work within a team

Education

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised