iKhokha is one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in Africa. As you'd expect, our pace is fast-moving and ever-changing. We like it that way.
Our office is a high performance environment where we push each other to challenge the status quo. If that doesn’t appeal to you, you probably shouldn’t work here.

iKhokha is looking for a Product Designer to join the hustle. This customer-centric individual will not only dedicate their time to problem solving but to also create original and complex design concepts.  

So, what will you do?

• You will be responsible for building, maintaining and governing the design system.
• You will facilitate the design of user-friendly interfaces that solve customer and business needs.
• You will work with multidisciplinary teams to frame challenges, understand customer behaviours, facilitate solutioning and validating hypotheses.

Deal Breakers:

• A minimum of 3 years as a Product or User Experience Designer

Specific Knowledge:

• Design system building and maintenance, Design thinking, User experience design, User interface design, Design chapter contribution.

Business Understanding:

• Product and technology

What would you be responsible for?

Design System Building and Maintenance:

• Set up and maintaining a design system that is user-friendly, on-brand, scalable, usable, user-friendly and well documented
• Partner with Front-end developers to set up and scale a front-end coded design system
• Create processes for other Product Designers to request updates to the design system
• Assist Product Designers by developing or enhancing components for their use cases
• Update the design system based on user feedback, industry best-practice and usability heuristics

Design Thinking and User Experience Design:

• Identify opportunities for human-centered problem solving within Pod
• Frame design challenges early in projects that incorporate customer and business problems, including hypotheses and assumptions
• Choose design methodologies that are fit for the challenge and allocated time frames
• Work closely with Research Analyst to facilitate the relevant research method/s to inform and validate hypotheses
• Facilitate synthesis of data into actionable insights
• Facilitate the ideation of product solutions
• Design flows and experiences that adhere to usability heuristics and user insights

User Interface Design:

• Ensure that the final design solves the intended customer and business problem in a manner that is usable, delightful, accessible and on-brand
• Utilize and contribute scalable components to the product design system
• Handover designs and flows to developers in a manner that is easy for them to understand and consume
• Review developed work to ensure that it meets the envisioned design
• Keep abreast of global best-practice user interface design

Design Chapter Contribution:

• Participate and contribute to envisioning, defining, documenting and evangelizing the Product Design practice
• Review and contribute towards peers’ design work to raise our bar for quality
• Contribute to the ongoing maintenance and updating of shared design documentation repositories

• A Design Degree or Interaction/User Experience/Product Design Certificate

Perks of joining the Tribe?

• You get to work in a high growth company. Sink your teeth into meaningful work with tangible results you are accountable for.
• Hybrid, remote and in office work models.
• Remuneration & Benefits. We offer Company contributions to Medical Aid and a Group Risk Scheme.
• Visionary Leadership. 
• Study leave.  
• Access to on demand learning and development.
• A friendly, collaborative culture and a team of all-round-lekker humans (it’s true, we surveyed our Employees and they told us so).
• If you find yourself at HQ, coffee on tap and a selection of hot beverages provided by our onsite Barista.