USER INTERFACE DESIGNER
RETAIL SECTOR
Cape Town

Leading Retail Organisation seeks qualified / experienced User Interface Designer to join their dynamic team.

The successful candidate will join our Client’s growing Omnichannel team that’s reinventing the shopping experience across Africa. If you enjoy working with cutting edge mobile technology and have a customer service obsession and wish to join a leading retailer with a footprint across Africa, this opportunity is for you!

As a User Interface Designer you will be part of a small, but growing Design Team where you will work closely with the user experience lead and customer facing product managers in all aspects of visual product design. Together, you will create beautiful UI, enjoyable interactions and well crafted design pieces for their web, iOS, Android and other digital products.

We’re looking for someone who is a self starter, passionate about human-centered design and has a genuine interest in current product design trends.

Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelor degree/ three year diploma or equivalent experience in commerce, engineering, marketing or advertising (1-3 years)
• Experience and proven success in user-centered design and UI design tools (1-3 years)
• Skilled at the visual design of digital products, including but not limited to: Mobile applications on Android and iOS and Responsive web (1-3 years)
• Knowledge of applications, Adobe Creative Suite and Invision (1-3 years)
• Communicating interactions using motion design principles as relates to user interface design
• Proven track record of successfully launching new mobile product features (1-3 years)
• Marketing / Advertising experience
• Digital Agency Experience
• Analytics / Big Data Experience (1-3 years)
• Digital customer design development (User Experience design, wireframing, AB Testing, customer research etc.)
• An understanding of analytics in digital product design
• Information technology management
• Understanding of African digital market and customers
• Knowledge of legal compliance (Protection of Personal Information Act, Electronic Information Act, etc.)
• Digital Marketing and traditional media
• User Interface Design
• Strategic Orientation
• Analysing Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Project Management Skills
• Needs Diagnosis
• Presentation Skills
• Writing & Communication Skills

Responsibilities:

Visual Product Design
• Translating Wireframes and Flows
• Visual UI design & asset preparation for production
• Work closely with the User Experience Lead to crafting the best possible interfaces and experiences
• Product Marketing Visuals
• Keep the team updated on product design trends & best practices
• Work closely with external design partners and agencies to produce integrated customer lead digital products
• Create prototype interfaces using tools such as Framer, Origami, and marvel.
Ideation
• Assist the design team and product managers in the conceptualisation of viable and disruptive product ideas
• Innovate using existing and emerging technology
• Identify potential opportunities for new products as well as product, user interaction and design improvements.

Operations
• Drive customer-lead design thinking across omnichannel digital channels
• Adhere to and improve customer service levels across businesses and services
People and finance
• Drive customer centric culture, processes and way of working.
• The ability to iterate over designs, accepting feedback from Product Managers, Developers and design colleagues.
• The ability to look at a problem holistically and from many angles to ensure the right thing is being built, right.
• Work as part of an Agile Product Team to coordinate application development and delivery.
• Communicate well & honestly.