User Experience Specialist - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 26-10-2016 8:48:08 AM
23-11-2016 8:48:08 AM
Ringier One Africa Media is looking for an enthusiastic UX specialist to work in our Cape Town office. Become an essential part of our UX team helping to optimise our 20 African based websites to delight users, optime conversion rates, and who will own user experience initiatives from conceptualisation to post implementation analysis. We are a great team, with a fun, informal working environment where you can enjoy training opportunities and a competitive salary.

Liaising directly with the Head of User Experience, your responsibilities will include:
Recommend mobile/desktop user experience and CRO improvements for our blogs and websites based on customer feedback and analytics.
Create wireframes based on analytics to support smoother user flows.
Track the impact of implemented changes, and recognise opportunities to optimise our website flows.
Code and a/b split test landing pages to assist reaching KPI's.
Staying up to date with new developments in your field.
Conduct user testing across countries, and produce user profiles
Increase the social share ability of our websites from a technical point of view.

Requirements
Understanding of the principles of usability, engagement and CRO
Experience creating user flows
UX related studies, and three+ years' work experience
Social, build relationship with developers and UI colleagues
Metric analysis skills, Google Analytics and heatmaps.
Proficient in front-end coding (HTML, CSS and JavaScript)
Understanding of user flows, user profiling.
Wireframing experience
Excellent spoken and written English skills
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Advantageous
One+ years' experience in an African based market such as Kenya
Experience working with classifieds websites.
Experience with wireframing tool Balsamiq
Experience with Jira and Invision