117 Ux Design jobs in South Africa
UX/UI Design Lead | Sandton
Sandton, Gauteng
The Recruitment Council
Posted 20 days ago
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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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UX/UI Design Lead | Johannesburg
Johannesburg, Gauteng
The Recruitment Council
Posted 20 days ago
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Job Description
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, InVision, 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.
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Ux/ui design lead | johannesburg
Johannesburg, Gauteng
The Recruitment Council
Posted today
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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
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Ux/ui design lead | sandton
Sandton, Gauteng
The Recruitment Council
Posted today
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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). #J-18808-Ljbffr
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UX Designer - Design systems
Western Cape, Western Cape
Canonical
Posted 6 days ago
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Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
We are hiring a UX designer for our Design System Team.
You will play a key role making open source software available to the world. Our Design function ensures the experience of the software and infrastructure we build is true to our intentions, and delivers the tools our community and customers need. The Design System UX designer makes that possible by defining, evolving and advocating for a consistent use of design system that scales across our products.
This role sits in the design system team reporting to Design Systems Management
Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.
The role entails
- Building and evolving Canonical's design system, ensuring measurable adoption, consistency, scalability and accessibility across our products
- Collaborating with designers, engineers and stakeholders to translate user needs and brand principles into reusable components, patterns and guidelines
- Championing design system best practices, advocating for cohesive user experience and design, providing documentation and support for cross-functional teams
- Designing and documenting UI components, design tokens and interaction patterns
- Ensuring timely and efficient delivery of the roadmap
- Enabling alignment on design system usage and governance across teams
- Advocating for accessibility, performance, and scalability in design system decisions and iterating based on data and technological advancements
- Staying ahead of industry trends, ensuring innovation and balancing it with system coherence and performance
- Relevant experience in UX/product design, with a strong focus on design systems in complex environments
- A portfolio demonstrating strong expertise in design systems, including component libraries, documentation and handling complex environments
- Exceptional educational achievements in design or related behavioral science discipline
- Expertise in Figma, Storybook and design token workflows
- Experience of collaborating with engineers and bridging design and code
- Proven ability to apply design process and clearly communicate and document design decisions
- Excellent attention to detail and systemic approach to solving complex design challenges
- Commitment to transparent project delivery and owning team deadlines
- A passion for balancing consistency and innovation
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
What we offer colleagues
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
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- Employment type Full-time
- Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
- Industries Software Development
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Design Expert (Ux and Visual Design)
Sandton, Gauteng
Blue Pearl
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We are seeking an experienced Design Expert with a strong background in User Experience (UX)
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We are seeking an experienced Design Expert with a strong background in User Experience (UX)
and User Interface (UI) design to join an Innovation Team. As a key member of our design team,
you will be responsible for designing innovative and user-centered digital products and services
across all digital channels, with a primary focus on iOS. You will work closely with crossfunctional teams to develop design concepts, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that meet
business objectives and user needs.
Responsibilities
- Design innovative and user-centered digital products and services across all digital channels,
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop design concepts, prototypes, and highfidelity designs
- Conduct user research and testing to inform design decisions and improve user experience
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of brand, products, and services to ensure design
- Stay up-to-date with the latest design trends, technologies, and best practices, and apply this
- Provide design expertise and guidance to team and client
- Participate in design reviews and critiques to ensure design quality and consistency
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in UX and UI design, with a focus on digital products and services
- Strong portfolio that showcases your design skills and deep iOS experience
- Excellent design skills, with a focus on user-centered design principles
- Strong understanding of design tools and software, including Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work eVectively with
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to think creatively and critically
- Experience working in an innovation function or similar environment
- Knowledge of design systems and design language systems
- Certification in UX or UI design (e.g. CUA, UX Design Certification
- Seniority level Mid-Senior level
- Employment type Full-time
- Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
- Industries IT Services and IT Consulting
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Designer, Product Design
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Standard Bank of South Africa Limited
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Business Segment: Personal & Private Banking
Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, Baker Street 30
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Designer, product design
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Standard Bank Of South Africa Limited
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Staff Product Designer - Design System
Remote
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Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.
About Remote
Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!
What This Job Can Offer You
This is an exciting time to join Remote and make an impact in the global employment space as a Staff Product Designer, Design System joining our Product Design team. We’re a 40+ multi-disciplinary team of designers, researchers and creatives passionate about crafting the experiences and touch-points that help Remote scale successfully and help customers attract, hire, manage and pay anyone, anywhere
As Staff Product Designer, Design System you’ll lead a newly-formed, cross-functional squad dedicated to evolving, implementing and scaling our design system, Norma. You will be responsible for developing the tools, components, documentation, materials and ways of working that enable designers and engineers to create our world-class experiences - and will be required to advocate and collaborate with product designers, engineers, product managers and stakeholders worldwide to help drive adoption our design system.
What You Bring
- An individual contributor designer who has exemplary experience designing, implementing and evolving a maturing design system - including the tooling, documentation and strategies required to scale effectively.
- An impressive portfolio of both product design and design systems work, including evidence that showcases both an ability to think in scalable systems, and a solid understanding of key visual and interaction design fundamentals.
- You champion the importance of consistency and the impact of building things systematically, but also understand when/where it is necessary to flex or evolve a design system.
- Masterful communication skills that help you build strong narratives around your design work, provide direction and guidance to others, as well as collaborate effectively with peers and stakeholders - with fluent written and spoken English.
- You are comfortable in a high-growth, fast-paced environment with a work history that demonstrates your expert ability to autonomously take ownership of design for complex domains and multiple projects with overlapping organisational lines.
- Strong evidence that you are an effective cross-functional collaborator with your product and engineering counterparts and are able to work effectively to build consensus and resolve debates and drive the business towards impactful outcomes.
- You are a respected voice in an organization whose focus is not only improving the design system and product experience, but influencing quality, culture and ways of working.
- Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex B2B SaaS solutions for industries like HRTech, FinTech etc.
- Candidates that embody and demonstrate our core values at Remote.
- While it is not required to have experience working remotely, it is considered a plus
- Lead design for Remote’s design system, Norma.
- Contribute to nearby product team whose scope overlaps with the design system.
- Collaborate closely with engineering to build scalable, polished components and maintain parity between design and coded artefacts.
- Lead the maintenance, governance and evolution our design system by embedding yourself throughout the organisation and participating in team critiques and discussions.
- Develop the necessary materials and lead internal initiatives that help educate the organisation, drive adoption and improve alignment with the design system.
- Create the required strategies and processes to identify opportunities for improvement, governance and scaling our design system effectively with your engineering counterparts.
- Improve existing design systems components, while also working with the wider design organisation to evolve our visual design language.
- Drive yourself and your peers to deliver the best quality of work, pixel-perfect in every way while embracing and encouraging new methods and ways of working.
- Support the organisation on a daily basis through async troubleshooting and collaboration.
- Champion our experience principles by ensuring usability, scalability and accessibility in all aspects of our design system.
- You'll report to: Design Manager or Senior Design Manager
- Team: Product Design
- Location: Anywhere in the world
- Start date: As soon as possible
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay, along with competitive benefits, in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to nor encourage cheap-labor practices, and therefore, we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - but here is some context. At Remote, we have international operations and a globally-distributed workforce. We use geo-ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy, to remain competitive in various markets we hire in globally.
The base salary range for this full-time position is between USD 71,700 to USD 201,700. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, location and titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferrable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
Application process
- Interview with Recruiter
- Interview with Design Manager
- Case study presentation (async)
- Interview with the team
- Interview with a Bar Raiser
- Interview with an Executive
- Offer + Prior employment verification check(s)
At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
The annual salary range for this full-time position is
$71,700—$201,700 USD
Benefits
Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:
- work from anywhere
- flexible paid time off
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- mental health support services
- stock options
- learning budget
- home office budget & IT equipment
- budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.
If that sounds like something you want, apply now!
How To Apply
- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.
At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. Seniority level
- Seniority level Mid-Senior level
- Employment type Full-time
- Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
- Industries Human Resources Services
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Job category: Other: Engineering, Technical, Production and Manufacturing
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: No
About our companyHesto
IntroductionHesto Harnesses is looking for a dynamic and energetic candidate to join the Engineering Department.
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- Evaluate and manage design changes.
- Analyse production drawing and prepare product specifications for implementation into production.
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