Senior Product Designer – Rewards
Old Mutual Limited
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Johannesburg • 🇿🇦 South Africa
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Senior
About the role
- Lead the design strategy and vision for the product
- Lead cross-functional workshops and ideation sessions
- Direct and oversee the execution of design projects, from concept to delivery
- Integrate the multi-disciplinary design team to deliver business and customer outcomes
- Conduct and guide user research and testing activities
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders
- Drive the creation of user-centred design solutions
- Advocate for design excellence and experience best practices
- Create a clear understanding of the drivers of design quality
- Establish quality management within the product design team
- Build and sustain effective relationships with key stakeholders
- Present design concepts, progress, and performance metrics to senior leadership
- Lead the collaboration of cross-functional teams to incorporate feedback
- Emphasise mentorship and personal growth within the design team
- Support the design team in crafting user-centred designs
- Ensure consistency across all aspects of the product design
- Execute product design personally at a high-level of quality and efficiency.
Requirements
- NQF Level 4: Grade 12 or equivalent
- 6+ years working in the field of product design
- 2+ years within roles that involved product design leadership
- Experience working in an Omni-Channel Digital and Agile environment
- Proven track record of delivering high-performance team and quality outcomes across complex, omni-channel design environments
- Proficiency in user research methodologies
- Deep understanding of UX/UI methodologies
- Strong expertise in design tools (e.g., Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite)
- Strong ability to translate user insights into actionable design solutions
- Strong ability in visual design and management of the relationship between UX and UI activities within a project
- Expertise in developing workflows, interaction flows, information architecture, and navigational flows
- Up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies
- Experience in senior design leadership, motivating teams to excel
- Experience with agile methodologies and working collaboratively in cross-functional teams
- Deep appreciation and experience with the application of, and contribution to, design systems and component libraries.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development opportunities
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
product designuser research methodologiesUX/UI methodologiesvisual designworkflowsinteraction flowsinformation architecturenavigational flowsdesign systemscomponent libraries
Soft skills
leadershipmentorshipcollaborationrelationship buildingcommunicationadvocacy for design excellenceuser-centred designquality managementteam motivationpersonal growth
Certifications
NQF Level 4Grade 12 or equivalent