Progressive Edge is a Boutique firm specialising in IT / Tech & Data related recruitment services across a range of industry sectors, predominantly within the Cape Town Area.
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The company is looking for an exceptional UX Manager to join their product design team. You will be responsible for scaling their UX design process, managing a team of designers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve the product vision.
Responsibilities:
Lead and manage a team of UX designers while setting design standards and supporting best practices
Articulate vision and design decisions to stakeholders; meet deadlines on multiple projects
Conduct design sessions and help scale our UX processes with the product design team
Plan and schedule your UX design work and collaborate with different teams to ensure alignment across product and engineering teams
Comfortable working with, shaping, and leading consistent design standards
Act as an ambassador for the UX design team across the company & clients
Requirements:
5-7 Years UX experience with 2-3 years of UX management experience with a SaaS-based company
Tertiary qualification in design
Proficient with a variety of design and prototyping tools such as Figma
Experience in running usability testing
Experience using quantitative and qualitative research to inform design iteration
Expert communication skills (storytelling, visualisation) and the ability to get buy-in on those ideas through an organisation
6+ years working knowledge in designing for different platforms
Communicates well and has excellent design abilities
Build and maintain team values and positive culture
Support team in career growth and resourcing
A solid design portfolio of work demonstrating a core UX/UI experience that demonstrate a body of skills across a variety of project types (e.g. discovery, user journeys, wireframes, design, and usability testing) is required