Specialist CX and UX Designer at Interfront SOC Ltd.

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape, design, and guide customer and user experience strategies to solve complex problems, by creating a seamless user experience.
• Combine design thinking with technical skills to build intuitive user centered products.
• Create impactful user experiences.
• Drive user satisfaction and engagement.
• Collaborate on design with the engineering teams. And all relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure that SARS’ services are structured according to the needs, expectations, and behaviours of both customers and employees.
• Drive user research and innovation initiatives to create impactful, user-focused experiences that contribute to business growth.
• Translate consolidated feedback and insights into design solutions that enhance service delivery, improve accessibility, and encourage voluntary compliance.
• Influencing cross-functional and cross-product policies, service design efforts, and digital transformation projects to deliver consistent, intuitive, and seamless experiences across all customer and employee interactions
• Lead design and engineering teams.

Process

• Research and understand the user and gather insights.
• Define the problem statement and goals.
• Design using wireframes and protypes.
• Ensure customer and user input is integrated across all business design domains.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive UX and UI design systems, as well as service design standards and principles.
• Establish effective connections between customer experience research and functional design implementation.
• Provide for digital and process-driven service initiatives with a focus on the customer perspective
• Facilitate service design sprints and co-design workshops in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the end-to-end management of the service lifecycle, from discovery through delivery and ongoing improvement.

Governance

• Develop and /or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.

People

• Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.
• Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.

Finance

• Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.

Client

• Develop and ensure implementation of own practices to build delivery excellence, encouraging others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
• Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
• Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in UX Design, HCI, Computer Science, Public Administration, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in UX/UI or CX designs, with at least 3–4 years ideally at operational specialist level working in the financial services, public sector, digital government, or service design for regulated industries.
• The ability to identify patterns or connections between situations that are not obviously related and to identify key or underlying issues in complex situation.
• This is the ability to formulate new concepts based on information gathered.
• Must have the ability to document information pertaining to information systems and or process and operational specifications.
• Ability to implement internal audit functions in alignment to the organisations strategic plan and the organisations strategy for change.
• Ability to create reports for various SARS stakeholders as relevant, in a lucid and effective manner, keeping in mind the purpose of the reports.

Closing date: 16th of March 2026