Product Designer (Contracting)
Overview
Iqbusiness South Africa is seeking highly skilled Product Designers to join their dynamic team. The ideal candidate should possess 4-8 years of product design experience along with a strong foundation in user-centered design and design thinking, enabling them to operate effectively within fast-moving, collaborative environments.
Requirements
- A professional portfolio showcasing recent and relevant product design work, including examples of journey mapping and end-to-end experience design.
- 4–8+ years’ experience in product design, UX/UI design, or a related discipline.
- Strong grounding in user‑centred design principles, interaction design, visual design, and design thinking.
- Proficiency in design tools such as Figma and/or Sketch.
- Proven experience collaborating within cross‑functional and, where applicable, internationally distributed teams.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver high‑quality, user‑centred digital product experiences across web and mobile platforms.
- Apply strong UX/UI principles to create intuitive, accessible, and visually engaging interfaces.
- Translate complex business and user needs into clear, effective design solutions across the end‑to‑end user journey.
- Plan and conduct user research activities, including discovery, validation, and usability testing.
- Create and maintain user journey maps, service journeys, and experience maps to understand end‑to‑end user interactions, pain points, and opportunities.
- Use journey mapping and research insights to inform design decisions, prioritisation, and experience improvements.
- Apply design thinking methodologies to frame problems, explore solutions, and iterate based on user and business feedback.
- Work closely with product managers, developers, and cross‑functional teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Partner with development teams to support accurate, high‑quality implementation of design solutions.
- Confidently engage stakeholders to gather requirements, facilitate design workshops (including journey mapping sessions), and present design concepts and outcomes.
- Demonstrate curiosity and continuous learning, staying engaged with evolving design practices, tools, and trends.
- Quickly understand technical concepts and terminology to enable effective collaboration with engineering teams.
- Adapt design approaches to suit different client contexts, constraints, and delivery models common to consulting environments.
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