Old Mutual was established in Cape Town in 1845 as South Africa's first mutual life assurance society. Our purpose is to help our customers thrive by enabling them to achieve their lifetime financial goals, while investing their funds in ways that will create a positive future for them, their families, their communities and broader society.
Maintain the design system, create, and update documentation, and library components.
Establish design standards and principles accompanying the design system for scalability, efficiency, and consistency.
Evaluate and improve usability and accessibility of components, and be a champion for the user.
Lead the design and implementation of visual languages and the tools, resources and documentations to support the system.
Continuously conduct end-to-end audits of our UI, visuals and design system, come up with designs to solve for discrepancies and push the visual design system forward, while considering iOS, Android and Web design guidelines.
Maintain and improve a contribution model to streamline the process of multiple autonomous product teams building components for one-off use cases, moving to systematized items.
Identify, prioritize, and monitor task, progress of design, development, and documentation across team members.
Present the Design System’s mission, library, and process to other groups, including product managers, content specialists, and other design and development teams throughout the enterprise.
Provide design leadership and guidance to teams around using shared patterns, and identify opportunities to create new patterns and components within their workstreams.
Provide a thinking and implementation framework for accessibility and inclusion in both the design and development process.
Hold retrospectives & gather input from director-level peers of product design and development teams.
Conduct regular one-on-one reviews with team members to identify successes, challenges, perspectives and preferences.
Identify and nurture team growth and culture, identifying opportunities for team members to drive and lead system aspects.
Follow Agile methodologies (SAFE/SCRUM / Kanban)
Apply engineering principles for design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of software
Client engagement to drive new products/ features and to ensure operational excellence
Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, developers, UX/UI designers, business analysts
Ensure systems are scalable, responsive, robust and secure through monitoring and responding to application performance, stability and availability
Experience & Qualification Requirements:
Matric, with a degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Mathematics or related
6+ years experience in one or more of: interaction design and/or information architecture.
Advantage if experience on product management of web-based sites and/or applications, front end development, or business analysis
3+ years of experience in leading application development
Certification in design systems UI & UX
Native and responsive technology experience
Experience with coding, low code platform applications
Deep understanding of how to create usable, accessible, and modular designs that can scale to millions of users
Proven track record of creating and managing impactful design systems and processes
Knowledge of, and experience in web and mobile frameworks and technologies such as:
Collaboration tools e.g., Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack
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