Design Lead

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Sandton, City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZAF
In-Office
600-600 Hourly
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • Software • Consulting
The Role
Leads the end-to-end design vision for a broker platform, including UX strategy, customer and broker research, journey mapping, service design, design governance, and experience measurement. The role drives user-centered product development, establishes design standards, oversees UX direction, facilitates stakeholder collaboration, and translates research insights into intuitive digital experiences.
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The Design Lead: Broker Platform drives the end-to-end design vision for Hollard's broker platform and associated digital experiences. The role combines customer research, broker journey design, service design, UX strategy, and design governance to ensure the platform delivers meaningful business outcomes and exceptional broker experiences.

 

The incumbent acts as the voice of the broker and customer, translating needs, behaviours, and pain points into intuitive, user-centred digital solutions.

Requirements

Design Strategy and Vision

  • Define platform design principles and experience strategy
  • Drive experience-led product development
  • Establish and maintain design standards

 

Broker Research and Insight

  • Lead broker and user research programmes
  • Conduct discovery workshops and interviews
  • Translate insights into actionable opportunities

 

Customer Journey and Service Design

  • Map broker and customer journeys
  • Identify friction points and transformation opportunities
  • Design future-state service experiences

 

Platform User Experience Leadership

  • Own UX direction across platform initiatives
  • Review and approve design outputs
  • Ensure consistency across journeys and channels

 

Design Governance

  • Establish and maintain design system governance
  • Ensure consistency and accessibility standards
  • Drive adoption of design best practices

 

Stakeholder Management

  • Facilitate co-creation workshops
  • Align business, product, and technology teams
  • Influence decision-making through evidence-based design

 

·        Minimum 8 years' experience in UX, service design, or product design

·        Experience designing enterprise digital products

·        Strong research and journey mapping experience

·        Experience leading design teams and initiatives

·        Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design leadership

Relevant degree in Design, Human Factors, Psychology, or related discipline

Benefits

Behavioural Competencies

Technical Competencies

1.      Human-centred thinking

2.      Storytelling and communication

3.      Facilitation and collaboration

4.      Strategic thinking

5.      Curiosity and innovation

6.      Stakeholder influence

  1. Service design
  2. UX strategy
  3. User research
  4. Design systems
  5. Journey mapping

6.      Experience measurement

 

12 Month, renewable contract, paying up to R600 MAX - depending on years of experience and qualifying skills. 

Skills Required

  • Minimum 8 years of experience in UX, service design, or product design
  • Experience designing enterprise digital products
  • Strong research and journey mapping experience
  • Experience leading design teams and initiatives
  • Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design leadership
  • Relevant degree in Design, Human Factors, Psychology, or a related discipline
  • Service design competency
  • UX strategy competency
  • User research competency
  • Design systems competency
  • Journey mapping competency
  • Experience measurement competency
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The Company
550 Employees
Year Founded: 2000

What We Do

CyberPro Consulting (Pty) Ltd is a South African IT professional-services firm founded in 2000. It helps mid-sized and large enterprises enhance digital capabilities through enterprise, web, and mobile software, data engineering, analytics, data science, AI, cloud architecture and migration, DevOps, cybersecurity, business analysis, project management, testing, and digital transformation services. Its expertise spans banking, insurance, wealth, retail, and telecommunications clients, supporting customer journeys and user-interface design.

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