UX Lead
Location | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of |
Date Posted | March 25, 2024 |
Category | IT / Information Technology |
Job Type | Full-time |
Currency | TZS |
Description
Summary
We're looking for a UX Lead with strong skills in UX/UI Design, excellent communication, and team leadership skills to help us make the performance of complex tasks an intuitive, elegant, and satisfying user experience. You will be leading a growing team of innovative and dedicated UX designers and work alongside product teams focused on creating B2B software that is powerful, feature-rich, yet easy to use.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Create user-centered designs for applications and tools through research, user interviews, and usability testing.
- Work with product teams and engineers to design or refine solutions throughout a product lifecycle from concept to launch to continuous improvements.
- Design and develop key interactions, wireframes, user flows, mockups, visual design comps, interactive prototypes and user interface design specifications in a fast-paced environment.
- Efficiently and intelligently iterate designs, adjusting to technical requirements, and incorporating usability findings into the designs.
- Work within and help refine product brand design guidelines.
- Create and maintain UX component library, pattern library and style guides.
- Lead a small team that consists of a product designer and UX researcher.
- Manage UX tools, develop processes, and track projects.
Required profile for job ad : UX LeadMust Haves:
- 7+ years of experience designing UI/UX improvements for Enterprise Web and Windows Desktop Applications.
- 2 years of UX lead experience.
- Portfolio of completed professional design projects that show hands-on UI/UX track record.
- Bachelor’s Degree in design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), or related field.
- Extensive experience conducting user research (observational studies, surveys, and user interviews), performing research analysis, creating supporting UX documentation, building mockups and interactive prototypes, user testing, defining design requirements and maintaining a product design system.
- Demonstrated experience having translated abstract requirements into user workflows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
- Excellent conceptualization and visual communication abilities.
- Expert knowledge of Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, Zeplin and other design tools.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable working remote while collaborating with global remote product teams.
- A solid grasp of user-centered design and testing methodologies, best practices, and usability principles, interaction design and accessibility concerns.
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects.
Preferred skills:
- Experience designing for enterprise applications and/or testing tools with data-intensive UI’s.
- Experience designing for products with large, established customer bases.
- Experience working in waterfall and Agile development cycles.