UX Designer at Nedbank

Job Purpose
We're seeking a UX Designer to refine Nedbank’s simplicity and apply it to new, amazing, and appealing user experiences. Nedbank has a bunch of projects in the pipeline, and we have an ongoing cycle of revamping our entire experience across our digital platforms. There are countless UX challenges and tons problems to solve. We feel like we're in a unique position to change the way people interact with their digital stuff. You'll be at the forefront of our efforts and be directly responsible for decisions that form the product. You’ll use your full range of skills to build magical experiences. Nedbank Design’s office is filled with all the tools you need, and we're looking for you to join an awesome and delightful team .

Job Responsibilities

• You're actively involved in defining product strategy. 
• Leverage insights from data, such as competitor analysis, user research, analytics and customer feedback. 
• Thinking in terms of design systems and making rational design decisions. 
• You obsess over creating magical experiences for our clients. 
• Constantly pushing your limits and searching for opportunities to become better. 
• Your team collaboration skills are unparalleled. 
• You thrive in an environment with short feedback loops. 

Requirements

• You're an experience whisperer, and you can distil complicated problems into simple and elegant solutions. 
• An understanding of what makes an experience good or bad is critical. You can think through user problems, find reasonable solutions, wireframe them, and work with our research team to test them. 
• We love making things beautiful and hope you feel the same. You have a deep understanding of composition, balance, symmetry, and white space. 
• You have a highly refined aesthetic sense and can both work within and expand the Nedbank style. 
• You're a self-starter who actively seeks ways to make the Nedbank’s experience both visually appealing and easy to use. 
• You look for opportunities to solve problems in unusual and innovative ways. 
• You understand the technical limitations and liberties behind your decisions and have enough chops to communicate your ideas to our developers. 
• Experience designing for the web and understanding how to apply both form and function within it while maintaining simplicity. 
• A good level of understand of IA best practices. 

You want to work on a team of South Africa’s best software designers and developers, building a product that you use every single day! 
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Minimum Experience Level

• 5-8 years design experience

Type of Exposure

• Accuracy of realisation of design
• Analysing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data for accurate design and implementation
• Communicating design guidelines and guidelines to different stakeholders
• Design tools
• Design/ Modelling
• Finding better/new ways to do things / improve / redesign
• Have an in-depth understanding of architecting, designing and the implementation of a DevOps tool chain for an SME business.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Process Design
• Product design
• Relevant design tools
• Writing, editing, proofreading, layout and design skills
• Web Design