Position summary

An exciting career opportunity exists for a meticulous UX/UI designer in a global digital product design studio. 

At Now Boarding we represent the user, challenge thinking and use beautiful design to craft meaningful digital experiences. With offices in Cape Town and Zurich, we work with a wide variety of South African and international clients across various sectors including Fintech, Insurtech, Edutech, E-commerce and SaaS. 
We thrive on creativity and collaborative relationships, and we’re passionate about results-driven, conceptual thinking and pixel-perfect design. We work in a lean and agile environment like to move fast, and have fun while doing it.

We are looking for a driven and experienced UX/UI designer with a fascination for usability and a passion for turning ideas into thoroughly-considered digital products that make a real impact. Candidates must have four+ years of relevant experience and the ability to create simple solutions to complex problems. A basic understanding of development principles would also be advantageous.

If you’re a strong team player and you operate best where people, design and business meet, we’d like to hear from you. 

Key qualifications

We’d like you to…

• Help clients define their user, business and product goals
• Develop User Journeys, Wireframes and UI Design that clearly illustrate how digital products function and look
• Present UI mockups and prototypes to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Design user interface elements, like menus, search fields, buttons, tabs and widgets
• Create original design elements (e.g. illustrations, images, sketches and tables)
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems
• Optimise UX based on user feedback and data-learnings
• Adhere to brand style standards on fonts, colours and images
• Prepare and handoff final assets to developers

The must-haves…

• Relevant tertiary education
• 4+ years of UX/UI Design experience
• Expert knowledge of user-centred design principles
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Meticulous attention to detail while keeping an eye on the big picture
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to effectively work across multiple projects
• Demonstrable mastery of Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, or other design tools
• An outstanding body of work demonstrating the successful delivery of innovative interface design solutions for web, desktop applications and/or mobile devices

We’re looking for someone who…

• Learns fast and is able to grasp the requirements of a project quickly
• Collaborates comfortably with our local and offshore teams and clients
• Is highly detail-oriented
• Works well and effectively under pressure
• Takes initiative, doesn’t wait for instruction and manages their own time
• Is completely dependable

What we hope you’ll love about working with us:

• Challenging projects in a wide variety of industries
• Working with businesses of all sizes, from startups to corporates, both local and international
• Our fun, crazy, talented and incredibly smart team
• Unlimited online training, we love it if you want to learn
• Flexi-time
• Delicious lunches every day
• Our office dogs
• Collaborative relationships with our clients and partners

In our team’s words…

“At Now Boarding, I feel cared about. My professional growth and happiness is a priority. I am not part of a team, but part of a family!”

“No day is ever the same at Now Boarding. You’ll constantly get challenged and therefore learn and grow, which keeps the days interesting and exciting. We have great clients that truly appreciate our work, and the projects we work on really make an impact on people’s lives. We have an unbeatable company culture, with everyone helping each other achieve our collective goals. Oh, and did I mention the delicious daily lunches?”

“I love being surrounded by people that really believe in each other and in what we do.” 

Application requirements

Letter of motivation

CV

Portfolio

Please note no applications will be accepted without the above items. Applications to be submitted to mel@nowboarding.co.za.

Should you not hear back from us within 4 weeks from post date, kindly consider your application unsuccessful.

Note:

We might require that you solve a creative challenge, in order for us to assess creativity and competence.

Posted on 10 Jan 09:20