Product Design Manager

2 weeks ago

Umhlanga, South Africa iKhokha Full time

Company Description

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.

**Job Description**:
iKhokha is searching for an ingenious and perspicacious **Product Design Manager** to join our rapidly growing iKTribe. We are looking for someone who has the ability to manage, coach, mentor and provide that out-of-the box thinking to our talented team of Product Designers.

If you are a solution driven, customer-centric individual who is passionate about design, this could be your next career move.

**So, what will you do?**

You will be responsible for leading a Product Design team, that is embedded within cross-functional Pods, working on a dynamic mix of product challenges.

You will craft the product design strategy, providing guidance on the team’s output, enabling collaboration between silos and ensuring high-quality execution

**Deal Breakers**
- A minimum of 5 years as a Product or User Experience Designer and
- A minimum of 2+ years’ experience in a management position, directly managing and leading people.
- Specific knowledge of People management, Design strategy, Design thinking, User experience design, User interface design.
- Demonstratable business understanding of Product and Technology.

**What would you be responsible for?**

**Manage people**:

- Craft growth paths for Product Designers within the organization
- Take on mentorship of Product Designers
- Give and solicit feedback from designers and the broader product team to continually raise our bar of quality
- Ensure a healthy psychological work environment for Product Designers
- Ensure that Product Designers have all the resources needed to perform
- Advocate for the interests of the Product Design team at a leadership level

**Lead design projects and strategies**:

- Formulate design strategies to assist the business in achieving quarterly and annual key results and objectives
- Plan and organize design projects and sprints to solve identified customer and business problems
- Delegate responsibilities to Product Designers within projects to maximize efficiency and quality of output
- Coordinate design tasks and designers across different Pods
- Ensure high-quality Product design outputs
- Make design trade-offs to meet project objectives

**Lead design chapter**:

- Participate and contribute to envisioning, defining, documenting, and evangelizing the Product Design practice
- Setup and facilitate design peer reviews to build camaraderie and raise our bar for quality
- Setup, organize and contribute to the ongoing maintenance and updating of shared design documentation repositories
- Keep the entire Product Design team abreast of industry leading processes, strategies and technology within the Product Design space.

**Qualifications**:
A Design Degree or Interaction/User Experience/Product Design Certification.

Additional Information
**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.

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