UX/UI Designer
- Contract
Company Description
Job Description
We have an exciting opportunity for a creative UI/UX Designer to join a software company's Design team. The Designer will be working on projects side-by-side with other talented and experienced team members. The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of professional UI/UX design experience.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Product team membership:
- Contributing member of the Product team, taking part in delivering the goals of the organisation.
- Assisting other UI/UX Designers and conducting peer reviews.
- Establish and implement comprehensive style guides and libraries.
- Adhering to standards for UI/UX design.
- Identify bottlenecks and come up with novel ways to solve them.
- Maintain compliance with business processes and policies.
Project and Scrum Team Engagements:
- Working within the Project Team as UI/UX designer.
- Working with the other team members to investigate problems.
- Translating business requirements into UI elements (initial wireframe to pixel perfect design) which are ready for coding.
- Support the entire product lifecycle.
- Participating in customer UX design workshops.
- Participating in daily stand-ups.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional UI/UX design experience.
- Experience with HTML 5, Sass, and CSS experience.
- Understanding of JavaScript.
- Experience with prototyping and design tools (Adobe XD, Photoshop, Balsamiq, etc.)
- Experience with web design and mobile design.
- Experience with testing.
- Customer-facing experience.
- Understanding technical capabilities of products.
- Direct experience working in an Agile environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Good eye for aesthetics and be very precise.
- Experience working in a software development company.
- Strong understanding of mobile platforms, particularly iOS and Android.
- Certifications in interaction design are a bonus.
Additional Information
Working conditions/Environment:
- May be required to work beyond office hours as required by the needs of the department and this position as well as the needs of the organization.
- This position is located in Durbanville, Cape Town. Working hours are flexible but a minimum of 8 hours work per day is required.
- Some team members are located internationally and ability to effectively communicate and manage through technology platforms like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom is required.
- Small amount of Travel may be required.
- Ability to attend and conduct presentations is required.
- Manual dexterity required to use laptop, iPad and peripherals.