UX Designer | Remote (South Africa)

Intermediate UX Designer

Permanent

Remote (South Africa)

Offices in Stellenbosch for those who prefer the office.

We are an innovative software development company builds (cloud) software that grows our clients’ businesses. Our work covers a variety of industries and a range of apps and IoT software projects. Our clients include startups, scale-ups and enterprises that need brand new cloud software or upgrade or replace existing software.

Here’s a very small sample of our projects:

• Well known retail mobile apps
• Big four Banks foreign exchange app
• Energy Partner’s home energy system app (energy & utilities industry)
• Open Learning Technologies’ student administration system (education industry)
• real-time personnel management app (labour industry)
• A shipping pump manufacturer’s predictive maintenance backend (manufacturing industry) ...and many more.

Join a creative team of product managers, UX designers & researchers, software architects, software developers and QA analysts & engineers dedicated to delivering software that delivers value to our clients and engaging experiences to users.

We are serious about always learning new things. We create the time and opportunities for you to learn and develop new skills and actively promote and compensate you for taking on more responsibility aligned with your career goals.

What does working with us look like?

• Exposure to a range of industries, projects and technologies
• Bringing B2C, B2B and B2E apps to life
• Work in teams of product managers, UX designers & researchers, software developers and QA
• Work remotely but not in isolation
• Continuously learn about new shiny things with allocated training budget and time
• A mentor with the experience in the skills that you want to develop

Responsibilities

• Assist in gathering requirements from clients and stakeholders
• Help clients to understand the value of UX by having constant communication with them. You''''''''re not working for them but with them
• Empathise with users by conducting UX research, or more often, collaborating with the dedicated UX Researcher
• Understand the underserved need that the product needs to address
• Understand the user’s journey through the product
• Produce relevant artefacts e.g: Job stories, User flows, Information architecture, Wireframes & Prototypes
• Low & High-fidelity design of product user interface About you

Knowledge and skills

• Skills in prototyping and visual design tools like Adobe XD and/or Figma
• Able to function in an Agile software development team
• Communication skills that allow you to collaborate and explain your process, approach and motivation to various stakeholders
• Able to work well in a team as well as individually
• Excited about learning, pushing creative limits and finding new solutions
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• A propensity to fail fast and learn fast and share both failure and learning with others
• Prioritising learning over being right. Understanding others rather than becoming defensive
• Demonstrated ability to learn independently

Experience

• Minimum 3 years of work experience

Education, qualification and certifications

• Either Relevant tertiary qualification in Multimedia and/or Visual Communication and/or UX Design
• Or An additional 3 years of work experience in the absence of a degree

Nice to haves

If you tick all the required boxes, the following things will give you an edge:

• Data visualization experience
• Responsive web design experience