Lead UX Designer at Salt South Africa

Job description

Our client's looking for a UX practitioner who's got the industry knowledge to lead their design team as well as be hands-on with current & new projects. If you so far feel that you're the perfect fit, take a look at the spec below.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to confirm business objectives and define user objectives and flows.
• Build wireframes and convert wireframes into a working prototype.
• Collaborate with technical leads in order to design innovative and engaging user experiences within platform constraints and technical limitations.
• Work closely with the UI designers to ensure adherence to design guidelines and best practices across all platforms.
• Facilitate user testing and evaluate user feedback to further improve the concept or existing products.
• Work closely with the development & QA teams to ensure successful implementation of the specified designs.
• Measure the effectiveness of each initiative & refine.
• Research interaction design trends.
• Research technology trends.

Skills

Design skills:

• Information architecture and information design
• Interaction design
• Persona creation
• User-centered design
• UI design
• Wireframing and prototyping
• Copywriting

Research skills:

• Ethnography
• Task analysis
• Market research
• Usability testing
• A/B testing
• Data analysis
• Web analytics

Technical skills:

• Deep understanding of what’s possible and doable in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Strong understanding of common software development practices

Business skills:

• Business analysis
• Communication skills (written, verbal and visual)
• Chairing workshops and meetings
• Project and people management
• Collaboration

Tools:

• Strong working knowledge of the following web design tools
• Wireframing tools (e.g. Axure, Balsamiq, etc)
• Process flow tools (e.g. Visio, etc)

Experience and qualifications:

• At least three to five years’ experience in a UX design role.
• Proven experience designing user-centric iOS and Android native mobile applications.
• Proven experience building wireframes and converting wireframes into a working prototype.
• Experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies across multiple platforms
• Relevant tertiary qualifications