Product Design Lead

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Capital Recruit Full time

The Product Design team oversees the strategy, ideation, design, plan and execution of all digital products and features created for our members.

Our client is seeking a Product Design Lead to join their team.


As a Product Design Lead, you will have the opportunity to play the role of "player-coach." You will continue to flex your honed set of individual contributor skills, while also cultivating the people growth of a small team of direct reports.

We are looking for someone who welcomes the opportunity to nurture quality craft in their people, as well as to demonstrate quality craft through design.


What you'll do:

  • Lead the design of highquality products that provide measurable value to our clients and end users.
  • Work closely with product, engineering, research, and other functional areas to help shape the product strategy and vision.
  • Own and drive the entire design process from early ideation of design concepts to detailed deliverables and production assets.
  • Advise and help guide user research studies.
  • Help develop and evolve our design system, Atlas, to be used across platforms.
  • Evangelize usercentered thinking and the value of design across the organization.
  • Take ownership and quality check the deliverables of the design team to ensure the outputs meet the project requirements.
  • Look into ways to continuously improve the design process and daily team interactions to add to the overall quality output of every job delivered by the design team.
  • Coordinate design efforts across multiple workstreams.
  • Mentor, train and coach product designers to become high performers in the team.
  • Build strong relationships and help the team collaborate across the organization.
  • Contribute to other initiatives for the team.
  • Manage and coordinate schedules, task timelines and team resources.

Skills needed for success in this role:

  • 5+ years of product design experience with 1-2 years of experience managing people.
  • You thrive in ambiguous environments and bring clarity to teams through mastery of the design process.
  • Ability to facilitate design workshops with diverse product and functional teams.
  • Desire to learn, grow and teach skills to further your abilities and the abilities of your team.
  • Confidence to think about highlevel product vision, understand constraints, and contribute to a fantastic user experience.
  • Solid understanding of the design thinking process, as well as a passion and knowhow for influencing design strategy.
  • Expert knowledge of Sketch and InVision or similar design and prototyping tools.
  • Have the ability to think bigpicture about the highlevel user flows, but be a perfectionist about the details of the UI.
  • Experience partnering with user researchers and crossfunctional teams.
  • Ability to independently seek out feedback and buyin from the right people at the company in order to keep a project moving and get approvals.
  • A solid and uptodate understanding of best practices, developments, and trends in web, iOS, and Android.
  • Good verbal communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration.
  • A great attitude, collaborative spirit, and openness to giving and receiving feedback.
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.

Desired values:

  • Solid understanding of both the agile software development lifecycle and usercentered design philosophies.
  • User centric in approach with a strong capacity to understand how to design to meet both business and user needs.

Share your work
A portfolio of relevant work is required upfront with the CV.

Salary:
R750.00 per hour

COVID-19 considerations:

Application Question(s):

  • What is your required salary PER HOUR?
Application Deadline: 2023/01/16

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