Product Design Lead

**Requisition Details**
- Product Design Lead (114824)**Cluster**
- Nedbank RBB Digital**Job Family**
- Information Technology**Career Stream**
- Digital**Job Purpose**
- Facilitate user experience into the design of products and services and design interfaces to effectively communicate the brand and enrich the customers experience.**Responsibilities**:

- Develop compelling visual artifacts (UI layouts, interface elements, prototypes, high-level storyboards, mock-ups, wireframes etc.) to effectively communicate UI and UX needs.
- Develop and maintain design elements, mock-ups, and specifications as needed
- Research the latest visual design, UI and interaction concepts, presentation layer technologies, digital best practices, online trends, and provide recommendations for improvements
- Custodian for developing visual, UI and interaction design assets to be adopted within design system
- Conducting best practice research to develop and improve UI and interaction design to solve end user problems effectively.
- Formulate testing parameters to effectively assess user experience
- Conduct competitor research to develop and improve features of products and to balance user needs, technical constraints, and business objectives to solve user problems effectively
- Understand scope, requirements, and drive innovative solutions aligned with business goals and UX metrics
- Develop user experience flows and integrating them to mock-ups, usage scenarios, prototypes, specifications, navigation maps, and other design documents
- Create and evaluate interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimize the user experience
- Effectively communicate ideas, both verbally and visually to gain stakeholder agreement
- Collaborate actively and work effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure designs are successfully created and implemented to achieve the user goals
- Advocate for the end-user throughout the development process and work closely with other members of the Service Design Team to craft a world-class user experience
- Create solid recommendations and prioritization based on technology and business needs
- Adhere to design standards by understanding and following the Design System
- Adhere to our client centred design process
- Consider user feedback from user testing results in order to deliver the best customer experience.
- Accountable for time management within each project to ensure agreed deadlines are met.
- Adhere to consistent design patterns and principles.
- Align to technical infrastructure of the Group.
- Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values by ensuring delivery of process, services and solutions.
- Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
- Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
- Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
- Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.
- Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc).
- Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (e.g. Green Strategy).
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.

**Essential Qualifications - NQF Level**
- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

**Preferred Qualification**
- Design Certification from an accredited Design School
- Minimum Experience Level- 5-8 years Senior UX and UI Design experience
- Type of Exposure- Accuracy of realisation of design
- Analysing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data for accurate design and implementation
- Communicating design guidelines and guidelines to different stakeholders
- Design tools
- Design/ Modelling
- Finding better/new ways to do things / improve / redesign
- Have an in-depth understanding of architecting, designing and the implementation of a DevOps tool chain for an SME business.

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Process Design
- Product design
- Relevant design tools
- Writing, editing, proofreading, layout and design skills
- Web Design
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
+27 860 555 566
_