Senior User Interface Designer at The Shoprite Group of Companies

Purpose of the Job    

As a Senior User Interface Designer, you will be part of a small, but growing Shoprite Design Team where you will work closely with the user experience lead and customer-facing product managers in all aspects of visual product design. Together, you create beautiful UI, enjoyable interactions and well-crafted design pieces for our web, iOS, Android, and other digital products. We’re looking for someone who is a self-starter, passionate about human-centred design and has a genuine interest in current product design trends. 

The Senior User Interface Designer will own design for several features and mid to large-sized projects, working across a multi-disciplinary team and integrating business, market and customer research and insights to define and design unique solutions that elevate the user experience. 

Role Description

• Visual Product Design
• Translate complex wireframes and flows. 
• Visual UI design and asset preparation for production. 
• Provide expertise and input into crafting the best possible interfaces and experiences. 
• Create product marketing visuals. 
• Keep the team updated on product design trends and best practices. 
• Work closely with external design partners and agencies to produce integrated customer lead digital products. 
• Create prototype interfaces using tools such as Framer, Origami, proto.io and marvel.  
• Work collaboratively with the design team and product managers to co-create in the conceptualisation of viable and disruptive product ideas. 
• Innovate using existing and emerging technology.  
• Identify best practices and potential opportunities for new products as well as product, user interaction and design improvements.  

Operations 

• Drive customer-lead design thinking across omnichannel digital channels. 
• Adhere to and improve customer service levels across businesses and services. 

Team Collaboration

• Drive a customer-centric culture, processes, and ways of working  
• Support and guide the iteration of designs, integrating feedback from Product Managers, Developers, and Design colleagues.  
• Work as part of an Agile Product Team to coordinate application development and delivery.  
• Work collaboratively with key stakeholders across disciplines and functions to ensure holistic problem investigation and integration to design and develop the right solutions.  
• Maintain ongoing and effective communication with the team to ensure fit-for-purpose design and solutions.  

Qualifications    

• Degree or Diploma in Commerce, Engineering, Marketing or Advertising – (essential).  

Experience    

• +4 years’ experience in a similar capacity or role with proven success in user centered design and UI design tools – (essential).  
• Deep knowledge and experience are necessary to challenge and, where appropriate, to work beyond the brief to produce a design with greater functionality or improved user flow - (essential). 
• Solid experience communicating interactions using motion design principles as relates to user interface design – (essential).  
• Experience successfully launching new mobile product features – (essential).  
• Marketing/advertising experience – (essential). 
• Digital agency experience – (essential). 
• Experience with analytics and big data – (essential) 

Knowledge and Skills    

• Highly skilled in visual design of digital products, including but not limited to: Mobile applications on Android and iOS and Responsive web; Adobe Creative Suite and Invision – (essential).  
• Digital customer design development (UX design, wireframing, AB Testing, customer research etc.) – (desired). 
• An understanding of analytics in digital product design – (desired). 
• Information technology management – (desired). 
• Understanding of African digital market and customers – (desired). 
• Knowledge of legal compliance (POPIA, Electronic Information Act, etc.) – (desired). 
• Knowledge of digital marketing and traditional media – (desired). 

Closing Date: 17th, June 2022