Purpose of the Job:
As a Design Generalist at VALR, you will be at the forefront of shaping the brand experience and driving engagement through both marketing and product design. Your role is pivotal in designing intuitive, aesthetically pleasing, and functional designs that enhance the user journey and align with VALR’s business goals. You will leverage your expertise to address a variety of design challenges, including creating compelling marketing assets and supporting product design initiatives.
What will you be doing:
- Develop and implement design strategies for new features and product enhancements, focusing on user-centered solutions that align with VALR’s objectives and enhance user satisfaction.
- Support marketing efforts by creating engaging digital assets, including GIFs, animations, and videos.
- Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and marketing teams to ensure design feasibility and alignment with technical constraints.
- Provide design support across various teams, facilitating seamless integration of design elements into product development and marketing initiatives.
- Contribute to the ongoing evolution and maintenance of our design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across all products.
- Implement and refine design standards and best practices to uphold high-quality and cohesive visual outputs.
What we look for in you:
- A minimum of 5 years of proven experience as a Designer, preferably within the financial services industry.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating your design process and problem-solving capabilities.
- Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and prototyping tools.
- A solid understanding of UX/UI principles and best practices.
- Experience with design platforms such as Squarespace and Sendgrid is advantageous.
- Capability to support both marketing and product teams with animation, digital design, and product design.
- Ability to interpret data and research insights to make well-informed design decisions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions and rationale.
- A strong team player with experience working within cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- A keen eye for detail and a commitment to producing high-quality, engineer-ready designs.
- Ability to adhere to strict deadlines and manage multiple priorities efficiently.
- Comfortability with the urgent and fast-paced nature of marketing design, and maintaining high-quality work under pressure.
What can you expect from VALR:
- Competitive salary: Get paid well to work in an exciting industry.
- Leave: Compliance with statutory leave required by individual countries, in addition to flexible leave.
- Remote work: You can work from wherever you like. However, to work effectively remotely, employees must ensure that there is secure, stable internet connectivity.
- Home office setup: A Mac laptop and a discretionary allowance to buy all the extras needed to work happily from home—all of it yours to keep after three years. Terms and Conditions will apply.
- Learning fund: An annual upskilling budget of R20,000 per employee, which will be converted to the respective currency of the employee's payment, in addition to scheduled VALR training.
- Performance bonus: When you contribute to VALR’s success, you’ll be rewarded with discretionary bonuses.
- Regular get-togethers outside of work.
- Annual company retreats.
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What We Do
VALR bridges the gap between our traditional financial system and the new world of cryptocurrencies. Here's why: There is a socio-financial transition taking place in the world. The organisation of our world into nation-states no longer ministers to the needs of humanity. Humanity yearns to be unified; yet our structures continue to divide us. Money is one of those structures, predominantly defined by the nation-state. The divisions and frictions caused by our antiquated nation-state system have permeated our financial system. These frictions license financial intermediaries to extract financial value from humanity’s cross-border relationships, often at exorbitant rates. “It is expensive to be poor” is truer in the financial industry than any other. We need a new organisational paradigm for society that transcends the nation-state. This in turn will remove some of the frictions in our financial system. But our political systems are mired in vested interests that a deliberate transition by those in power to a system that puts the whole ahead of its constituent parts seems unimaginable, propagating the financial frictions. In the absence of a societal paradigm that eliminates these man-made frictions, cryptocurrencies (and crypto assets in general) have emerged and rise above national borders. Cryptocurrencies hold the promise of being the most frictionless asset class humanity has ever seen. Yet the process to access these assets from our traditional financial system remains difficult. Our mission is to usher in a new financial paradigm. Join us in building a financial system that recognises the oneness of humanity.
