Head of UX Design
Cape Town CBD

We’re looking for a Head of UX Design who provides strong leadership skills to successfully lead a team of UX Designers and has a passion for crafting intuitive, consistent, and delightful user experiences for brand.
You should be an excellent communicator, self-starter, and collaborative enthusiast. You should also have a knack for visual details as much as holistic systems thinking.

Minimum Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree with a focus on design would be highly desirable, however, we believe equivalent industry experience and a can-do attitude goes a long way.
- 3+ years as a UX Design leader & manager.
- 5+ years UX design experience with apps and web.
- Experience in application user interface design and interactive application design.
- Experience designing wireframes and creating interactive prototypes with InVision app, Flinto or Principle.

Duties & Responsibilities
- Direct, manage, motivate and mentor a team of UX designers.
- Advise on best practices to design delightful user experiences.
- Put in place right-sized processes and standards to scale team capabilities and productivity.
- Take ownership of designing and developing UX designs across the company’s app & web portfolio.
- Responsible for wireframing, designing and producing UX/UI designs.
- Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes; knowing when to apply pixel-perfect attention to detail, and when to make low-fi sketches and prototypes.
- Produce interactive prototypes using InVision app, Flinto or Principle.
- Refine and iterate designs based on outcomes of user testing to create the delightful user experiences.
- Work with small multi-disciplinary teams. You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, and business folks to find elegant but practical solutions to design challenges.
- Ensure products have a consistent look and feel across platforms with platform specific enhancements, ensuring platform specific best practices are adhered to.
- Create and maintain design systems, guidelines for visual assets and style guides.
- Ensure smooth handover to engineering using Zeplin or Sympli.