Product Designer at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Job Summary

• The Product Designer position on offer will be responsible for creating the “logic” for all tools, platforms and systems via wireframes and prototypes. The role demands superior communication skills and entails conducting research, competitive analyses, user testing and UI roll out. The environment is fast moving, constantly pivoting and he/she is expected to handle high pressure situations, while maintaining excellent quality output that is on-time as determined by rigorous project schedules.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers & business stakeholders to confirm business objectives and define user objectives & flows.
• Build wireframes & convert wireframes into a working prototype.
• Collaborate with AGO technical leads in order to design innovative & engaging user experiences within platform constraints and technical limitations.
• Work closely with the other designers to ensure adherence to design guidelines & best practices across all platforms.
• Create high fidelity design files that follow the existing design patterns, for hand over to developers.
• Add new components to our design system as you create them.
• 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.
• Champion the importance of design.

Skills and Experience Required

• Proven UX and UI experience and the ability to demonstrate how you have managed to enhance user satisfaction by improving the usability and accessibility of previous tools, products or systems you have developed.
• Demonstrable product design thinking skills with a strong verifiable portfolio which must be presented for review.
• Solid experience in creating wireframes, prototypes, user journeys, written specifications, information architectures and hand-over-ready high fidelity designs.
• Solid experience in conducting research, competitive analyses, data analysis and user testing.
• Understanding of the technical consequences of design decisions, with the ability to compromise but also to stand your ground to defend your designs.
• Proficiency in tools such as Invision, Figma, Sketch, Axure
• Ability to present your designs in order to sell your solutions to various stakeholders.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Up-to-date knowledge of the latest design trends, techniques, and technologies.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 4-8 years’ experience in a UX/UI design role, (finance or investment environment advantageous)
• Experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies across multiple platforms
• Relevant tertiary qualifications