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DESIGN LEAD

Job Ref
269139
Job Type
Permanent
Employer Type
Company
Date Added 23 Nov 2016
Expiry Date 21 Dec 2016
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Employer:
dHub ( a division of Liberty )

Location:
Gauteng

Salary:
Market related

Benefits:


Role details:
Despite being part of a large, multinational organization, Liberty digital unit works more like a start-up. Our product teams are small, flexible and use agile and lean methods to quickly provide customers and employees with innovative digital solutions. We combine the latest technologies with customer-centric design to consistently deliver exciting online and on-board innovations for Liberty’s customers, financial advisors and employees alike.

OVERVIEW
At the Liberty digital, the design leads primary responsibility will be to drive user experience design from end-to-end, including discovery, ideation, conception, detailed design, prototypes and validation across multiple products and areas
Working across multiple cross-functional product teams, the Design Lead will seek to create and influence the creation of elegant user experiences that facilitate the capture of business impact (e.g., customer, employee, advisor engagement and productivity)
The design lead will work closely with Liberty digital unit executives, Product Leads, Product Owners along with brands, marketing and business stakeholders to design and deliver user-centric experiences.
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RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead a team of UX/UI Designers in providing engaging and intuitive user experiences for digital products
Lead user research, persona development, usability testing, contextual inquiry, and task analysis.
Champion user-centered design practices when solving design requests and challenges.
Constantly monitor analytics, customer feedback, digital entertainment leaders and best practices in order to practice insight-driven optimization and innovation.
Collaboratively work with Product Leads, Product Owners to understand their digital product roadmaps and requirements and to ensure UX is tightly integrated into the roadmaps
Work with cross-functional product development teams to build designs that meet those requirements – including design specification documents, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, etc.
Develop, communicate and enforce user experience guidelines for each of our digital solutions.

REQUIREMENTS
Extensive years design experience in a digital product environment
Bachelor’s degree in Design or equivalent area
Experience with designing quality consumer products, as well as enabling business capability and objectives through technology
Entrepreneurial self-starter who is self-motivated, but also a team player with a professional presence
Well rounded user-centered design portfolio that spans some combination of web, mobile, tablet, TV, and wearables.
Graphical and Visual design skills, including hands on experience with diverse set of software such as Adobe suite, OmniGraffle, Balsamiq, Azure, or other tools for graphic design, visual design.
Experience with conducting user research, usability testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping
Knowledge of Agile software development process
Languages: English required



 
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