User Experience Designer at Accenture

Key Responsibilities:

• As a Product Designer, you are a multi-skilled individual that combines UX and UI capabilities to deliver value for businesses and their customers. The role requires foresight to produce sustainable outputs that can be tested, validated, and integrated into the daily lives of many. At all times you will assess the value of the designed experience and ensure a high level of craft within your work.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

Relationship management:

• Team member check-ins and support
• Integration relationship building
• Client team relationship management

Analysis:

• Requirements elicitation
• Behavioural data analysis
• User surveys and interviews
• Persona's and mental models
• Empathy maps
• Current product analysis
• Competitor product analysis
• Best practice analysis
• User testing and feature validation

Ideate:

• Solutioning workshops
• Feature listing and prioritization
• UX definition and principles
• Browsing flows
• Low-medium fidelity wireframing
• Functional prototyping
• Accessibility implementation guidelines
• User stories and product roadmap contribution

Create:

• Look and feel establishment
• Graphic user interface design
• Accessibility implementation and testing
• Micro-copy and UX writing
• Multi-device design and rollout
• Design system setup and documentation
• Micro-interactions and motion principles

Integrate:

• Annotated design specifications
• Visual asset preparation
• Development implementation review
• Product experience testing
• Content quality assurance checks
• Design system integration and governance

Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualification
• Strong portfolio of product and platform design work
• Proficient in utilising prototyping software, Figma and the Adobe suite
• A superb eye for design with strong attention to detail
• Good understanding of branding, marketing, data, media, social UI, UX, business analysis and technology
• Ability to articulate and defend design decisions
• The ability to create flexible design systems and component libraries
• Good understanding of the development process and agile methodologies
• Ability to work well alongside internal and external client teams
• Take initiative and follow a self-leadership approach
• Positive can-do attitude
• Organised and efficient
• Deadline orientated
• Empathetic towards others
• Strong team player contributing towards positive and respectful collaboration
• Willingness to be challenged
• Be able to perform within a high-pressure environment

Why join us?  

• We are a top employer in South Africa with certified excellence in employee conditions
• We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues 
• You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools 
• Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards 
• You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends 
• You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live