Product Design Lead

**Requisition Details**
- Product Design Lead (111971)**Cluster**
- Nedbank RBB Digital- Career Stream- Digital**Job Purpose**
- We’re searching for an experienced Product Design leader to join our team. Alongside your Tech, Product and Insight counterparts you’ll solve problems and come up with best-in-class solutions that delight our users. You will be balancing input and strategy from our Commercialisation and Business stakeholders, to deliver exceptional experiences for our users.**Responsibilities**:

- Develop compelling visual artefacts UI layouts, interface elements, prototypes, wireframes etc to effectively communicate UI and UX needs.
- Contribute to information architecture development where applicable.
- Adhere to design standards by understanding and following the Design System.
- Review and critique design artefacts to align with the Design System
- Research the latest visual design, UI and interaction concepts, presentation layer technologies, digital best practices, online trends, and provide recommendations for improvements
- Create and evaluate interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimise the user experience.
- Custodian for developing scalable visual, UI and interaction design assets to be adopted within design system.
- Mentor and encourage growth amongst your design team.
- Evangelise design as a requirement to deliver on our Group strategy, and deliver value through the processes and methodologies we’ve chosen to adopt.
- Adhere to our client centred design process.
- Collaborate with our research and user testing capabilities to effectively assess user experience
- Consider feedback from client interviews and usability testing results in order to deliver the best customer experience.
- Conducting best practice research to develop and improve UI and interaction design to solve end user problems effectively.
- 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.
- Obsess about the data from journeys so as to improve and iterate optimally.
- 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
- 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, aligned and implemented to achieve the user goals.
- Advocate for the end-user throughout the development process and work closely with other members of the Design Strategy, Foundation and Business Design teams to craft a world-class user experience
- Create solid recommendations and prioritization based on technology and business needs.
- Accountable for time management within each project to ensure agreed deadlines are met.
- Essential Qualifications - NQF Level- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
- Preferred Certifications- Design Certification from an accredited Design School
- Minimum Experience Level- 5+ years Senior UX and UI Design experience

**Type of Exposure**
- Solid understanding of design tools: Sketch
- Solid knowledge of prototyping with InVision
- Solid knowledge of product development life cycles and methodologies (Agile, SAFe, Lean etc)
- Basic front-end development understanding (HTML & CSS)
- Experience in design practice of Omni-channel product development so as to attain seamless UX through service design thinking practice.
- Technical / Professional Knowledge- Understanding of User-Centred Design
- Understanding of Interaction Design
- Understanding of colour, typography and layout
- Understanding of Service Design
- Product Design
- Process Design
- Behavioural Competencies- Collaborating
- Continuous Learning
- Customer Orientation
- Decision Making
- Earning Trust
- Innovation
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
+27 860 555 566
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