Lead Product Designer: Design Systems
Old Mutual Limited 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
The Lead Product Designer is responsible for creating intuitive user experiences, delivering exceptional design solutions, and advocating for design systems while supporting the Portfolio Design Lead with problem-solving. Key duties involve defining user research requirements, executing product UX/UI design from discovery through high-fidelity prototypes, and collaborating closely with cross-disciplinary teams in Agile sprints.
Responsibilities
- Create intuitive user experiences across platforms, delivering exceptional design solutions
- Support the Portfolio Design Lead with impactful problem solving
- Apply design thinking, UX and UI skills to design solutions from products and features
- Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, including product managers, engineers, data scientists and design partners
- Present and engage with stakeholders
- Lead initiatives or major tasks within the overall design project or workstream
- Direct the efforts of more junior product designers
Requirements
- NQF Level 4: Grade 12 or equivalent
- 3+ years working in the field of product design, 1+ within roles that involved personally leading significant workstreams or product design outcomes
- Proficiency in user research and design methodologies, including interviews, surveys, usability testing, wireframing, prototyping, accessibility and visual design
Benefits
- Opportunity to work with a premium African financial services organisation
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment
- Professional growth and development opportunities
Key Skills
About Old Mutual Limited
Old Mutual Limited is a premium pan-African financial services group that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key markets in 14 countries. We have been helping our customers achieve their lifetime financial goals for over 170 years by investing their funds in ways that create positive futures for them, their families, their communities and broader society. In this way, we significantly contribute to improving the lives of our customers and their communities while ensuring a sustainable future for our business. We employ more than 30 000 people and operate in 14 countries across two regions Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan and eSwatini) as well as Asia (China) So why work here? We believe you can shape the future with us – a future where we build a better Africa together. That’s why we’re committed to creating opportunities that will give yo
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