Jobs at Accenture

Job Description

• As a Product Designer at Accenture South Africa, you will lead multidisciplinary initiatives that align user needs, business goals, and technological possibilities. Your role goes beyond UX and UI execution, encompassing product strategy, scalable design practices, and AI-driven innovation. You will play a pivotal part in guiding design teams, shaping strong client relationships, and positioning design as a catalyst for measurable business outcomes. The role demands foresight to create sustainable, tangible solutions that can be tested, validated, and seamlessly embedded into people’s daily lives, ensuring both immediate impact and long-term value.

Responsibilities

Design Leadership & Delivery

• Lead design workstreams and ensure high-quality outputs across UX, UI, and interaction design (Level 9).
• Oversee multidisciplinary design teams and manage delivery across multiple projects or platforms (Level 8).
• Drive large-scale, multi-market design programmes that integrate strategy, design, and technology (Level 7).

Strategy & Vision

• Translate insights into user stories, flows, and tangible design deliverables (Level 9).
• Influence product roadmaps, define scalable design practices, and embed human-centred design (Level 8).
• Define and evolve design vision, embedding systematic practices across organisations and markets (Level 7).

Stakeholder & Client Engagement

• Present design decisions clearly, using storytelling to influence stakeholders (Level 9).
• Shape client relationships, ensuring design aligns with business goals and measurable value (Level 8).
• Act as the primary partner to senior executives, framing design as a driver of business transformation (Level 7).

Systems & Innovation

• Apply and evolve design systems to ensure accessibility, consistency, and scalability (Level 9).
• Implement governance models, design operations, and AI-enabled workflows (Level 8).
• Champion design innovation at scale, driving adoption of AI and identifying new opportunities for growth (Level 7).

Team Development & Culture

• Mentor junior designers on craft, process, and stakeholder engagement (Level 9).
• Coach and develop teams to balance strategic thinking with executional excellence (Level 8).
• Build and grow design capability, culture, and talent pipelines across the organisation (Level 7).

Activities

• As a Product Designer, you will be hands-on in shaping and delivering user-centred digital products. Your activities will span research, design, collaboration, delivery, and continuous evolution of products.

User Research & Analysis

• Conduct user research through interviews, surveys, and usability testing to uncover needs, behaviours, and pain points.
• Analyse qualitative and quantitative data (research insights, analytics, and market trends) to inform design decisions.
• Create and maintain user personas, journey maps, and empathy maps to ensure design solutions align with target audiences.
• Perform competitor benchmarking and best practice analysis to identify opportunities for differentiation and optimisation.

Interaction Design

• Define information architecture to structure content and functionality for clarity and ease of use.
• Map and design browsing flows that allow users to intuitively explore products and complete tasks.
• Develop low- to mid-fidelity wireframes that establish structure, hierarchy, and interaction notes with detailed specifications.
• Create interaction models that describe how users engage with an interface, ensuring behaviours and responses feel intuitive.

Visual Design & Prototyping

• Design polished, functional, and accessible interfaces that align with the product vision and user needs.
• Apply systematic design practices, contributing to and extending enterprise design systems and UI libraries.
• Iterate on design solutions based on feedback from users, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
• Build interactive prototypes to test and validate design concepts, ensuring seamless and engaging experiences.

Collaboration & Communication

• Work closely with Product Owners and stakeholders to refine requirements, align design with business goals, and prioritise features.
• Partner with Developers to ensure accurate implementation of designs, providing specifications, guidance, and clarifications.
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives) to keep design integrated into delivery.
• Present and articulate design concepts and rationale to teams and stakeholders, adapting communication styles for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Create case study assets and showcases that highlight the value of design, reinforcing its impact within the organisation and with clients.
• Support business development by contributing to bids, proposals, and pitch materials, demonstrating how design can generate value and differentiate Accenture’s offering.

Testing & Validation

• Plan and conduct usability testing to validate design concepts and uncover improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, and Data Analysts to design and run A/B tests, using data to guide design refinements.
• Incorporate insights from testing, feedback, and analytics to optimise experiences against user needs and business KPIs.

Continuous Improvement

• Stay up to date with emerging design trends, tools, and methodologies, applying them to enhance practice.
• Advocate for user-centred, inclusive design across the product lifecycle, ensuring accessibility and equity are built in.
• Contribute to retrospectives and team reflections, identifying opportunities to improve workflows, tools, and ways of working.

Qualification

Job Requirements

• 6 years in UX, UI, and product design, ideally in consultancy or digital product environments.
• Tertiary qualification in Design, HCI, or a related field.
• Proven ability to lead teams, scale systematic design practices, and embed efficient workflows.
• Strong expertise in Figma, prototyping software, and the MS Office suite, with knowledge of AI assisted design technologies.
• Comprehensive understanding of branding, marketing, data, social media, business analysis, and development.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating both craft level design and systems level thinking.
• Excellent facilitation, storytelling, and influencing skills for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to perform under pressure, meet deadlines, and maintain organisational efficiency.
• Empathetic, collaborative, proactive, and positive mindset, with a willingness to be challenged and continuously grow.

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Job Description

Shape the Future of Strategy in the Age of AI

• If you are driven by complex problems, inspired by industry transformation, and eager to build real impact early in your career, this programme is your gateway into the world of modern strategy consulting.
• Step into Accenture's Vacation work and lead the AI revolution - where bold ideas meet the human spirit, empowering you to grow your AI Skills and shape the future of work while unlocking your brightest potential.
• Over two immersive weeks, you’ll work alongside our consultants to solve strategic challenges for some of Africa’s most influential organisations, helping them grow, transform, and compete in an AI-powered future. This is not observation. It is contribution.

What You'll Do (Your Impact)

Across the programme, you will:

• Collaborate in cross-functional teams to solve real client challenges, from growth strategy to operational transformation.
• Drive your own workstreams, applying analytical thinking, structured problem-solving, and clear communication.
• Explore the intersection of strategy and technology, gaining hands-on experience with how AI, data, and digital platforms reshape industries.
• Engage directly with clients and senior leaders, contributing insights and presenting recommendations.
• Develop actionable solutions that support both immediate outcomes and long-term value creation.
• Build consulting fundamentals through workshops, case studies, problem-solving sessions, and personalised mentoring.

You will experience the real pace, expectations, and responsibility of strategy consulting, supported by a team committed to your success.

Your Growth (What You’ll Gain)

• This programme is designed as an accelerator for high-potential talent.

You will have:

• Apprenticeship & mentorship: Continuous coaching from consultants and leaders who invest deeply in your development.
• Learning that sticks: Immersive training on structured problem-solving, hypothesis-driven thinking, client communication, and AI-enabled strategy.
• A Voice that matters: Your ideas will shape team discussions and client recommendations from day one.
• Exposure to real consulting life: You’ll see how teams operate, how strategy is built, and how transformation unfolds on the ground.
• A pathway into Accenture: High-performing participants may receive interviews for full-time roles, giving you a head start towards joining one of Africa’s most dynamic consulting teams.

Qualification

• What We’re Looking For (Qualifications & Attributes)
• We’re looking for final-year students who demonstrate both capability and character.

You must be:

• Completing your final year of study in 2026
• Maintaining a 65%+ university average
• Able to be at our Midrand office for the full two weeks
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments

Preferred Degrees:

Commerce

• BCom General, Economics, Finance, Information Systems, Business Information Technology
• Master of Management in Commerce fields
• Postgraduate Diploma in Commerce

Engineering:

• Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Industrial Engineering
• Computer Science

Key Strengths We Value:

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Structured problem-solving
• Clear, confident communication
• High learning agility and curiosity
• Ability to create clarity from ambiguity
• Initiative, ownership, and a collaborative mindset
• Integrity, judgment, and a commitment to delivering high-quality work

Documents Required for Application

• Please upload the following in the CV/Resume attachment section:
• Copy of your ID document Full academic record CV (maximum 2 pages recommended

Who We Are

• Accenture is a global professional services leader operating at the intersection of strategy, consulting, technology, AI, and operations. With more than 800,000 people across 120+ countries, we help organisations transform and create sustainable value.
• In Strategy & Consulting, we partner with leaders across industries to reimagine their businesses, drive growth, and build resilience - powered by technology and shaped by human ingenuity.

Ready to shape the future?

• Apply now to join a community of thinkers, problem-solvers, and change-makers. Step into two weeks that will challenge you, grow you, and give you a genuine preview of life as an Accenture strategy consultant.