Product Designer

Job Description

As a Product Designer you will own responsibility for the aesthetic quality and functional usability of one or more of the products and/or features from the set of Products that Paga delivers to it’s external and internal customers.

Requirements

• 3+ years of product design or product UI/UX experience
• Agile product development methodology experience
• Bachelor’s degree
• Excellent visual design skills
• Experienced at using digital product design tools
• Good user interface coding skills
• Highly observant with an attentiveness to detail
• Excellent in team and cross team collaboration skills
• Great verbal/written communication skills
• Strong multi-tasking and self-management skills
• Curious, self-driven and empathetic
• Have great user empathy to translate user needs into tangible design.
• Have an excellent sense of aesthetics and visual design that is appropriate for financial service product delivery
• Be able to keep abreast of design trends and innovations in design and software technologies that allow more compelling and usable product design.
• Have strong software component implementation skills including using collaborative visual design tools and standard UI software development technologies (eg. HTML & CSS)
• Be able to communicate your design ideas clearly
• Have the ability to multitask and effectively prioritize a competing number of objectives simultaneously
• Be comfortable with rapid change and be willing to take ownership to deliver results in a high-pressure product development environment
• Be able to work well in a team comprised of multiple product development skills including other product designers

Responsibilities

• Product design activities – Execute specific product designs including visual product interfaces, flows and prototyping/coding of product interfaces using software user interface tools/languages
• Product development team design growth – Development of product development team design resources and skill such as component libraries and design thinking skills
• work with peer and junior product managers (and more generally - product development team at large) to grow over product development team aesthetic sense
• User engagement - Engaging with end-users in collaboration with product managers and other business owners to gain usability insights and translating to product design
• Engaging external and internal customers to understand user behaviour and needs and translating that into concrete product design artifacts
• Designing and improving product functional usability through user feedback and metrics
• Developing and executing clear design principles and guidelines for Paga products
• Collaborating in designing and implementing user interface and component libraries to standardize and simplify the task of UI product development
• Reviewing providing feedback on implemented products to drive delightful product aesthetics
• Helping champion design principles and aesthetic sensibility with product managers and software engineers

Skills

About Pagatech Limited

Pagatech was founded in early 2009 with a vision to enable a cashless society and bank the unbanked in Africa. Our first product offering, Paga, is a direct to consumer mobile payments service. Paga is an innovative, open, secure, and interoperable mobile payments platform that allows any person who has a mobile phone to transact electronically

Deadline: Not Specified

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