SUMMARY:
We are is seeking a highly skilled and versatile Product Designer to be the sole designer on our team. This individual will be responsible for the full spectrum of UX activities, including conducting workshops, user research, and usability testing. They will also design and refine the user interface, ensuring it meets the highes...
POSITION INFO:
We are is seeking a highly skilled and versatile Product Designer to be the sole designer on our team. This individual will be responsible for the full spectrum of UX activities, including conducting workshops, user research, and usability testing. They will also design and refine the user interface, ensuring it meets the highest standards before handing it over to the development team for implementation. As the only designer, they will play a critical role in shaping the user experience and will work closely with the rest of the team, while the Design Lead focuses on strategic priorities.
What you’ll do:
- Concept Development: Lead the creation of innovative concepts for the SME platform and present them to business and tech stakeholders to gain alignment and drive implementation of user-centered solutions.
- Detailed Design: Deliver high-quality UX and visual design solutions that align with user needs and business goals, ensuring a seamless and aesthetically pleasing user experience.
- Design System Development: Collaborate with teams to expand and refine the design system, building on its existing components to ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across the platform.
- Research Experimentation: Conduct and facilitate research activities to gather insights, validate hypotheses, and inform iterative design improvements. This includes running usability tests and gathering user feedback to refine proposed solutions.
- Facilitation Collaboration: Lead collaborative solutioning sessions with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring alignment on customer-centric design outcomes.
- Prototype Demonstration: Build and refine prototypes to showcase proposed concepts and solutions, driving alignment and securing buy-in from stakeholders.
Your expertise:
- Versatile Design Skill Set: A generalist designer comfortable switching between user research, prototyping, detailed design (UX and visual), and design validation. Skilled in creating scalable design systems and adapting to evolving needs in a fast-paced environment.
- Customer-Centric Mindset: Strong ability to empathize with users and create solutions tailored to the unique needs of Business/SME customers, ensuring their goals and pain points are at the center of the design process.
- High Impact Delivery: Ability to solve complex design challenges within tight timeframes, producing tangible outcomes aligned with strategic objectives.
Other information applicable to the opportunity:
- Contract Position:
- Location: Johannesburg
Why work for us?
Want to work for an organization that solves complex real-world problems with innovative software solutions? At iOCO, we believe anything is possible with modern technology, software, and development expertise. We are continuously pushing the boundaries of innovative solutions across multiple industries using an array of technologies. 
You will be part of a consultancy, working with some of the most knowledgeable minds in the industry on interesting solutions across different business domains. 
Our culture of continuous learning will ensure that you will have all the opportunities, tools, and support to hone and grow your craft. 
By joining IOCO you will have an open invitation to developer inspiring forums. A place where you will be able to connect and learn from and with your peers by sharing ideas, experiences, practices, and solutions.
