User Experience Designer (Product Designer)

What to expect:

We’re hiring a full- stack User Experience Designer (Product Designer) to help create amazing and memorable experiences by expertly using the User Experience Design (UXD) process. You will use their skills to help lead, understand, empathise and create impactful solutions for our users across various touch points. Additionally, you will help build Ozow to be the most loved FinTech company in Africa. In this role, we encourage you to always have our users at the heart of all of your solutions (either using best practices and / or being informed based on data and insights).   

  

Requirements:  

• 3+ years of experience in User Experience  
• Experience in fintech or technology companies  
• A portfolio or case study of previous work  
• A certification in User Experience (or something similar, i.e. Interaction Design or Design Thinking)  
• A clear understanding of Figma  
• A passion for solving problems for humans  
• The courage and patience to be in a fast-paced company that is scaling quickly   
• A fail early, fail quickly and fail inexpensively way of thinking  
• The ability to champion the user in all your solutions  
• The ability to learn and receive feedback from Senior/Lead UX Designers and other team members  
• The drive to always learn and grow your craft  
• Skills in both applying your UX learnings into your solution  
• The ability to work closely with a Senior UX Designer and within an Agile team  
• The passion to always improve and iterate solutions  

 

In office perks 

• Healthy breakfast, lunches and snacks (Cape Town) 
• Healthy lunches and snacks (Johannesburg) 
• Monthly socials (Cape Town and Johannesburg) 
• On-site Barista (Cape Town and Johannesburg) 
• Ozow Library (Cape Town)  
• Birthday Leave

 

Perks for South African based employees

• Medical aid subsidy (permanent staff)
• Group Risk Insurance (permanent staff)
• Generous paid annual leave   
• Learning and Development opportunities 
• Mentorship programme
• Quarterly team building 
• Community initiatives 
• Employee gifting 
• Access to cutting edge technology 

 

Our Employee Value Proposition

Join Ozow and become part of an elite force that challenges the ordinary and achieves the extraordinary. If you're driven to make an impact, embrace challenges, and seek unparalleled opportunities for growth, your journey starts here.

Ready to be exceptional? Apply now! 

 

 

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