Company Description
Our company is a multinational banking and financial services conglomerate based in Johannesburg, South Africa and listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Job Description
We are seeking a creative and detail-oriented UI/UX Designer to join our banking team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing intuitive and seamless user experiences for our digital banking products, ensuring a customer-centric approach. As a UI/UX Designer, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and other stakeholders, to translate business needs into innovative digital solutions.
This role is ideal for a candidate with a passion for creating user-friendly interfaces and improving the overall user experience, specifically within the banking and financial services industry.
Qualifications
Key Qualifications:
- Experience:
- 3-5 years of experience as a UI/UX Designer, preferably within the banking or financial services industry.
- Strong portfolio showcasing UX case studies, user interfaces, and digital product designs.
- Technical Skills:
- Proficiency with design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, or other relevant software.
- Experience with prototyping tools like InVision, Marvel, or Axure.
- Strong understanding of responsive design principles and familiarity with HTML, CSS, and front-end development (a plus).
- User-Centered Design:
- Ability to design customer-centric products by gathering insights from users and applying UX principles.
- Experience in conducting user research, usability testing, and creating customer journey maps and personas.
- Communication and Collaboration:
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and collaborate effectively with stakeholders, developers, and other designers.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams in an Agile or Scrum environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in designing financial services applications (e.g., mobile banking apps, payment systems, digital wallets).
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and how they apply to banking platforms (e.g., WCAG compliance).
- Understanding of security best practices in the design of banking apps.
Additional Information
Key Responsibilities:
- User Experience Design:
- Design customer-focused experiences for digital banking applications, websites, and mobile platforms.
- Conduct user research, interviews, and surveys to understand customer needs, behaviours, and pain points.
- Create user personas, customer journey maps, and wireframes to represent the user experience.
- User Interface Design:
- Design aesthetically pleasing, intuitive, and responsive user interfaces for web and mobile banking products.
- Develop wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs using tools like Sketch, Figma, or Adobe XD.
- Ensure that all designs adhere to the bank’s brand guidelines and maintain visual consistency across platforms.
- User Research & Usability Testing:
- Conduct usability testing sessions and A/B tests to gather user feedback and optimize designs.
- Analyze user behavior and interaction data to refine and enhance user experiences continuously.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate user feedback into design iterations.
- Collaboration with Development Teams:
- Work closely with product managers, developers, and QA teams to ensure the successful implementation of UI/UX designs.
- Provide detailed design specifications, assets, and guidance to developers to ensure the accurate execution of the designs.
- Communicate design ideas and prototypes effectively to both technical and non-technical team members.
- Industry and Market Research:
- Stay up to date on the latest design trends, UI/UX best practices, and emerging technologies, specifically within the banking industry.
- Research competitor products and services to understand current market standards and identify opportunities for innovation in digital banking.
Top Skills
What We Do
Why Indsafri? We believe anything is possible
We humans have the potential to create and build anything we can imagine. we have walked the entire planet, climbed the greatest mountains, sailed once infinite oceans, inspired by birds we decided to fly, in our once impossible quest for space, now we even float in the outer space. Everything started with a simple belief that something is possible, from simple beginnings, we have come a long way, to building technology that is indistinguishable from magic. And we believe that technology is at its best when it can make people smile. If we do it with all our passion & intelligence, together nothing is impossible.In the future, every business will be a technology company, & the future is now.
From food to finance every business is rapidly transforming & embracing cutting-edge technology at its core & good humanistic design at its heart. Indsafri can transform your business for growth, as we have done for numerous organizations big and small, by working as your trusted technology partner and bringing our deep industry experience. If you have a challenging business problem we believe there is always a solution, with the right process, talents & technology anything is possible.
