Senior Product Designer

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**Overview** Sanlam Fintech x (SFTx) is a small business unit within the Sanlam Group office. This role, reporting to a Head of Design, is part of the central Digital Product & Design function within SFTx. The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for designing key parts of the product experience for SFTx's digital products and channels. The role supports relevant stakeholders, leveraging innovative design outcomes to give customers confidence during digital engagements and experiences of their financial services. **What you will do** As a Senior Product Designer, you will be expected to: * Use and apply current and relevant design methodologies, tools, frameworks, and practices to solve for, and design experiences that enable and support Sanlam's customers. * Define interactions and services based on relevant business, technical, and design considerations. * Conduct user research and usability testing to ensure validated design solutions, capturing insights and testing data, packaged for distribution and feedback sessions. * Own the UX and Interaction Design deliverables as agreed upon during performance contracting. * Make design ideas tangible for the project team and stakeholders through visual storytelling, UX and interaction design techniques. * Present, explain and discuss design decisions eloquently, and give design feedback. * Execute product design tasks and maintain a high quality of deliverables. * Collaborate with UX Architects, Service Designers, BAs, Product Managers and other stakeholders to understand objectives and key business outcomes, user needs and behaviours to inform the design solutioning. * Collaborate with Front End Developers, Product teams, the Design System team, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure that final product code delivery is representative of the most feasible and preferred design solution. * Support digital channel management through use of front-end interactive technologies, encompassing usability, design, user interface, and device strategy. * Facilitate an understanding of engagement metrics and provide regular performance analysis. * Produce multiple concepts and prototypes to design digital products/services. * Design and coordinate implementation of differentiating customer experience initiatives, tools, and processes. * Complete research and analyze data to develop and/or support a sound understanding of customer segments, trends, needs, and expectations. * Lead implementation and performance of techniques, such as voice of the customer initiatives, journey mapping, and qualitative touchpoint analysis, to identify customer pain points, challenges, and hurdles; advise on approaches to eliminate negative experiences and enhance customer interactions. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Bachelor of Design Product Design with experience / exposure to Interactive and UX Design. * At least 8 years of experience in the discipline of Product Design across varied customer personas, business problems and devices, including mobile. * Experience with UX design for mobile is required. * Experience working in cross-functional product teams as a senior product designer, UX designer or comparable role. * Experience with multimedia. * Experience designing for financial products and markets. * **Required Behavioural Competencies:** * Ownership Mindset: Looking for ways to do, instead of reasons not to. Being accountable for actions and decisions, owning both successes and mistakes, and learning and growing from each experience. * Growth Mindset: Always learning and improving, getting better each time. Embracing challenges and failures as opportunities for growth. * Customer Centricity: A deep understanding of the customer seen in everything you do. Being led by customers, their feedback and their behaviours. * Innovation Jugaad: Where some see impossible, seeing a way. Doing more with less, applying creativity to turn obstacles into opportunities, chance into change. * Velocity: Moving fast and fixing things. Working iteratively to deliver customer value without sacrificing long-term value for short-term results. * Inclusion: Seeking out and valuing different perspectives. Believing that when we change how we look at things, how things look for us also changes, making tomorrow not just different, but better. * **Required Skills:** * User Experience Design Techniques - Advanced: Works at an advanced level to direct user behavior by providing accessibility and desirability in the interaction with a product. * Creative Design - Fully Competent: Works with full competence to produce design concepts and visualize them, oversee design changes and improvements, integrate technical and visual solutions into a concept and assist with prototype development. * Graphical User Interface Development - Fully Competent: Works with full competence to use systems and software to design and build user interfaces for computer applications. * Media Management and Utilization - Fully Competent: Works with full competence to assess and utilize media channels and opportunities in order to gain maximum benefit for the brand, product or service. * Document and Model User Requirements - Advanced: Works at an advanced level to utilize the appropriate modeling tools to diagram the requirements from data and state changes, process and process improvements, as well as use cases and user stories. * Data Collection and Analysis - Advanced: Works at an advanced level to determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making. * **General Experience:** Minimum 8 years experience enabling job holder to deal with the majority of situations and advise others. * **Managerial Experience:** Managerial experience not required but should be able to lead cross functional projects with teams. **Who should apply** An individual with a Bachelor of Design Product Design (with Interactive and UX Design exposure) and at least 8 years of product design experience across varied customer personas, business problems, and devices, including mobile. They must have experience with UX design for mobile, working in cross-functional product teams (as a senior product designer, UX designer or comparable role), multimedia, and designing for financial products and markets. The ideal candidate will demonstrate an Ownership Mindset, Growth Mindset, Customer Centricity, Innovation Jugaad, Velocity, and Inclusion. They should be able to work independently, provide guidance in advanced skill areas, and lead cross-functional projects. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/senior-product-designer-sanlam-3 Source: myjobmag

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