Senior User Experience Designer

 

Recruiter:

IOCO

Job Ref:

iOCO01187

Date posted:

Monday, May 9, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Negotiable


JOB SUMMARY:
The Role:

We are recruiting a Senior User Experience Designer to join our team on a remote opportunity.

Senior User Experience Designer will lead a growing team of talented design professionals, providing mentorship to broaden their skills and manage their career growth. Proficiency with Sketch, InVision, Adobe InDesi...

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Role:

We are recruiting a Senior User Experience Designer to join our team on a remote opportunity.

Senior User Experience Designer will lead a growing team of talented design professionals, providing mentorship to broaden their skills and manage their career growth. Proficiency with Sketch, InVision, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Zeplin,â?¯etc.

 

Skills and Experience:

Essential Qualification:

  • 6 years or more design experience
  • Grad Bsc / BTech, BA (Post grad strongly recommended)
  • Computer science
  • Psychology
  • Cognitive and/or Behavioral Science
  • Information Technology
  • Portfolio of UX-focused work samples for web and mobile applications

Preferred Qualification:

  • Professional HCI / UX / Design Thinking certifications are advantageous
  • Knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, and modern JS libraries/frameworks
  • Experience designing for omni-channel services a big plus
  • An advanced degree in a relevant field, e.g. design, innovation, etc.
  • Experience spreading the gospel of design through teaching, publishing, speaking etc.

Experience required:

  • 6 years or more design experience
  • Design certification from accredited design school
  • Portfolio of UI-focused work samples for web and mobile applications
  • Professional HCI / UX / Design Thinking certifications are advantageous
  • Knowledge of Java script and other modern JS libraries/frameworks
  • Experience designing for omni-channel services a big plus
  • An advanced degree in a relevant field, e.g. design, innovation, etc.
  • Experience spreading the gospel of design through teaching, publishing, speaking etc
Key Accountabilities:

Essential functions:

  • Proficiency with Sketch, InVision, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Zeplin,â?¯etc.
  • Lead a growing team of talented design professionals, providing mentorship to broaden their skills and manage their career growth
  • Collaborating on user experience planning with technical leads and product owners
  • Build strong relationships with client stakeholders 
  • Understand scope, requirements, and drive innovative solutions aligned with business goals and metrics
  • Crafting UX and Service design strategies, processes, policies and methodologies
  • Champion user testing, surveys, and formal evaluations, as well as iterate work based on quantitative data and qualitative feedback
  • Demonstrate expertise in creating compelling design artefacts (user stories, personas, sitemaps, wireframes, prototypes, storyboards etc.), that bring complex solutions to life creatively, efficiently and powerfully
  • Reinforce consistent design patterns across platforms and adherence to principles
  • Lead/drive projects, anticipate challenges, and meet deadlines
  • Advocate for the end-user throughout the development process and work effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure that designs are successfully created and implemented to achieve the user goals 
  • In-depth understanding of product development life cycles and methodologies (Agile, Lean, etc.)
  • Self-motivated, a good communicator, and able to balance quality deliverables with tight deadlines
  • Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and enthusiastic about working in a culture of critique and iteration with all team members
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in order to present your ideas and communicate every aspect of your designs
  • Flexibility and adaptability - as a UX designer you will be required to wear many hats
  • Empathy for users an absolute must
  • Ability to work as a team with fellow UI/UX designers, developers, stakeholders and the like
  • Problem-solving ability with a knack for both creative and critical thinking
  • Passionate and intimately knowledgeable about design standards in UX and service design both for web and mobile
  • Entrepreneurial bias for action with ability to resolve problems with limited resources and input
Other:

Travel:

  • Remote work 

 

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