User Experience Lead at DVT

User Experience Lead 

Here at DVT we have a requirement for a Senior Lead UX / UI Designer to join our team on a client project. We are a team of product designers, UX specialists and UI designers at DVT based in Johannesburg and Pretoria working on medium to large scale mobile and web projects for local and international clients. At DVT we follow a human-centred design approach and make use of methodologies such as Lean UX and design thinking. We strive to collaborate with business stakeholders and software engineers as far as possible, to come up with the best possible solution every time. We are not caught up on tools, but we make use of Sketch, Invision, Illustrator, Adobe XD, Figma, UXPin and many more. If you love all things UX and design, are keen to continue learning and want to be challenged, we have a spot for you!

The successful applicant will have.

• A minimum of 5+ years’ experience as a UX / UI Designer.
• Previous lead experience.
• Understanding of UI for Android, IOS and web patterns.
• Understanding of UX gold standard practices and patterns.
• Able to manage/negotiate stakeholder’s expectations.
• Excellent presentations skills.
• The ability to lead a team of UX & UI designers.
• Ability to review designer’s work.
• Excellent mentoring and guiding skills.
• Good collaboration skills - Collaboration with BA's, PO's, Tech leads and greater design team.
• Excellent Planning/ road-mapping skills.
• Specific tools experience includes JIRA, Confluence, Sketch, InVision and Teams.