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UX Designer I

Remitly πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa

Onsite Full-time Mid-level

The UX Designer I supports projects under senior guidance, suggesting new design patterns while primarily working within existing frameworks. Responsibilities include iterating on user experience concepts using tools like wireframes and prototypes, and collaborating with developers to ensure correct implementation.

Responsibilities

  • Keep up to date on news/incidents and understand what is happening in the market and with competitors
  • Contribute to discussions about the future of the product or organisation
  • Iterate on defined user experience concepts and components for the product or project using tools such as wireframes, prototypes, and process flow diagrams
  • Work closely with visual designers and web developers to ensure the UX is implemented as designed
  • Work with existing design patterns and style guides, occasionally introducing new patterns
  • Proactively use data to establish key metrics for projects
  • Explore data from analytics packages, customer insight or other sources to understand context of research work
  • Regularly test design work with users in partnership with UX Research team
  • Proactively identifies needs for training in technical skills

Requirements

  • A minimum of 2-4 years experience as a UX Designer supporting small to medium design projects
  • Strong user-centred design understanding, including familiarity with UX frameworks
  • Proficiency on UX concepts using wireframes, prototypes, and process flow diagrams, and contribute to customer-facing product and application designs
  • Strong personal and interpersonal competencies Collaboration skills across disciplines
  • Data-informed design approach, including using analytics, customer insights, and user testing to validate and iterate design solutions
  • Advanced knowledge of relevant design tools, such as Axure, Sketch, and InVision (intermediate level), and tools used to communicate designs to developers

Benefits

  • Medical Aid
  • Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
  • Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
  • Study Leave
  • Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
  • Numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals

Key Skills

UX design User-centred design UX frameworks Wireframes Prototypes Process flow diagrams Customer-facing product and application designs Collaboration skills Data-informed design approach Analytics Customer insights User testing Axure Sketch InVision Communication skills Technical skills Design patterns Style guides Visual design Web development Data analysis Research skills UX research Design systems Figma Adobe XD Photoshop Illustrator InVision Framer Agile Scrum Design Thinking User-Centered Design Cross-functional Collaboration Leadership Mentoring

About Remitly

Remitly is an international payments company that leverages digital channels, including mobile phones, to send money internationally. Remitly's digital products are fundamentally faster, less expensive, and far more convenient for customers to send money across borders.

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