Hello from SovTech 👋
Are you looking to become part of a team that is changing the way businesses across the world build software? Our mission is to design, build, deploy and maintain innovative custom software that allows our clients to start, run and grow world-class businesses with globally distributed teams based in Johannesburg, London, Nairobi, and Cape Town 🌍
We invest in people who can see the future & who work hard to achieve it. SovTech has a young, dynamic, and fast-growing team. We’re only looking for outstanding people – those unique individuals who are brilliant, always happy to help, socialise, get involved, work hard, and enjoy what they do! We have a continuous learning culture that allows our people to grow and develop in the opportunities across our various teams. Keep reading to learn about what else we have to offer 🙌
About the role:
Who are we looking for?
We are searching high and low for our next Product Designer to join our world-class team.
Discipline overview
- Work together with product management and engineering to build innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience
- Participate in all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering
- Develop original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to complex design roadblocks
- Prepare wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
- Discuss designs and key milestone deliverables with peers and executive level stakeholders
- Perform user research and evaluate user feedback
- Set design guidelines, best practices, and standards
- Stay up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
- The production of high-fidelity prototypes
- Gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with our Product and Engineering teams, including the adjustment of specs and deliverables to meet product requirements and limitations.
- Working with the Product, Engineering, and Project Management teams to bring new product features to life
- Working as a UX Researcher and utilise a variety of testing techniques to inform and validate the direction of your design.
- Keep abreast of competitors’ products and industry trends.
Skills & Experience required
- Demonstrable work experience as a Product/UI/UX Designer.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills make you adept at working to tight deadlines.
- Passionate about all things design, with the ability to demonstrate this through your work and when communicating with internal and external stakeholders.
- Constantly looking to hone your design instinct through user feedback, whether through hands-on user research or designing options for multi-variant testing.
- Proficient in industry-standard tools for producing designs, assets, and clickable prototypes; including Figma.
- Fluent in current UX best practices and usability principles, interaction, and UI design trends.
- Good understanding of front-end development to inform high-quality, implementable solutions. N.B. Programming skills are not a requirement, but certainly beneficial.
- Confident in presenting and promoting your ideas, thinking, and design processes to a wider team, both across Product and Engineering, even with strong-willed and fast-paced teams
- Profound UI design skills with a solid portfolio of design projects
- Experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, and site maps
- Significant experience with Figma (bonus)
- Strong visual design skills with a good understanding of user-system interaction
- Strong presentational and team player abilities
- Strong problem-solving skills with a creative approach
- A passion to be an incredible Product Designer and design incredible products!
