Product Designer job in Cape Town

Our client is on a mission to positively impact the lives of their users. Through cutting-edge tech, insightful analytics and beautiful design they want to help their users build their financial confidence and make better financial decisions.

With a working environment that encourages you to be your best, they trust everyone to work in a way that suits them-focusing on output, not time spent at a screen. This is an inclusive culture where everyone is encouraged to look after their own wellbeing whilst growing and developing their career.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a fast-paced, rapidly growing team of talented designers, helping to build revolutionary experiences that will help millions of users manage and better understand their finances.

The role:

You will be responsible for design delivery as well as looking after your design team. Working in a strategic partnership with the Head of Delivery and forging strong relationships with product managers and developers.

What you’ll get to do

• Create products that are used by millions of people around the globe to improve their financial decision making
• Act as a vital link between Product, Engineering and Design.
• Solve complex problems, humanise product ideas and develop these ideas through concepts and prototypes into beautiful and elegant application design
• Work with Product Managers and Engineers to grow large strategic concepts through design exploration, ideation and user validation
• Oversee the user experience of products from conception through launch as well as additional ongoing iterations
• Present design solutions to stakeholders and company executives, defend design decisions and incorporate feedback into the design cycle
• Give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise the bar for quality

Requirements

What you bring to the role

• 3-5 years of experience designing digital products that have been released to the market
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end (from brief to shipping) digital products within a cross-functional team environment with an iterative approach that leverages quantitative and qualitative measurement
• Ability to define problems & goals, map user flows, prototype interactions, and oversee the development process across different client platforms
• Demonstrated ability to think at a high level about product strategy but also act-with speed and precision-to identify and deliver the tactical pieces that realise it
• Thorough knowledge and experience across a range of design approaches, methodologies, including low and high fidelity prototyping skills

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