Product Designer
Exusia
- South Africa
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- 8+ years hands-on experience in software application design & development
- Understand scope, requirements, and drive innovative solutions aligned with business goals and UX metrics
- Develop compelling visual artifacts to effectively communicate UI and UX needs.
- Develop and maintain design elements, mock-ups, and specifications as needed
- Create and evaluate interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimize the user experience
- Effectively communicate ideas, both verbally and visually to gain stakeholder agreement
- Collaborate actively and work effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure designs are successfully created and implemented to achieve the user goals
- Advocate for the end-user throughout the development process and work closely with other members of the Service Design Team to craft a world-class user experience
- Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.
- Product and process design using relevant design tools
- Experience in digital design & user centric design.
- UI/UX and web design experience is mandatory. Should have hands-on experience with creating UI layouts, interface elements, prototypes, high-level storyboards, mock-ups, wireframes etc.
- Develop user experience flows and integrating them to mock-ups, usage scenarios, prototypes,specifications, navigation maps, and other design documents
- Proven experience in facilitating discussions around proposed updates and tradeoffs and incorporating the feedback into overall product design.
- Collaborating with research teams to shape appropriate user insight gathering activities
- Persuasively presenting overall design solutions and rationale to business partners and key stakeholders.
- Certification from any accredited design school
- Some prior exposure as developer or product owner will be desirable
- Exposure to Lending, Mortgage and broader understanding of Banking domain will be desirable
- Exposure to Azure cloud services to design & build scalable and reliable applications