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Job Description

Old Mutual is looking for a Senior User Interface Designer to play a Front-end Design, Creative direction and Componentisation Role in our Smart Goals Experience & Rewards Digital Strategy program which seeks to provide our customers with best-in-class digital experience making Customer’s 1st Choice in tracking & managing and attaining their Financial goals. As the Senior UI Designer, your goal will be to gain a deep understanding of the Financial goals and Rewards ecosystem as well as the Old Mutual Visual language and use that to drive Visually aligned and aesthetically elevated, human-centred Designs for the Smart Goals Native App, Web platform, relevant digital comms, and Rewards capability. Although your focus will be on the visual treatment and micro-interaction design, the ideal candidate is one who understands how engagement and native app design, across all channels (incl. outbound communications), can be leveraged for a User & Service experience that attains customer and business outcomes through great UI and UX.

As the Smart Goals & Rewards UI Designer, you will lead our efforts in:

Creative direction of the Smart Goals experience (working with Design and Brand teams)

Leveraging and Extending the Old Mutual Design system in Figma

Componentisation, Templatisation & documentation

Alignment of visual & interaction language with other Digital platforms

Creating user testing prototypes and experimentation (A/B, Multi-variet testing) artefacts · Differentiating this Smart Goals platform in the market

Collaborate with :

Users (Customers and intermediaries)

The product Manager & Owner · Platform Partners

Tech & Engineering

Design Chapter Leads(UX, UI, SD, Quant & Qual Research ) and broader Design community

Personalisation team

Role Description & Key Result Areas:

Introducing and applying expert art direction to the visual design across digital projects

Ensuring a high standard of visual execution across all digital touch points

Reviewing the work of UI Designers across and providing direction and feedback

Manage and plan the User Interface Design activities on digital product development and continuous improvement initiatives in the Digital Financial Services space

Ensure collaboration and alignment with all associated disciplines of Feature, Content, UX and Design thinking in the various phases of the digital product development

Drive the use of knowledge management and collaboration platform(s) for Design processes, tools and artefacts

Drive the re-use of components and broader design system · Ensure adherence to design system and standards Technical Expertise

Create, improve and define creative direction through use of mood boards, prototypes, style guides, user flows

Atomic design & Design Systems · Componentisation, Templatisation & documentation

Present and defend decisions. All your design decisions should be based on the overall design roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles (i.e. color theory, visual weight, etc.) Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in your industry’s standard · Understanding of basic front-end languages

Solid Understanding of Visual Design principles

Agile and lean UX · Run Ideation, Co-creation, Rapid-prototyping sessions · Actively contribute to the Old Mutual design system, frameworks and UCD artefacts · Ensures creation of interactive high-fidelity prototypes of user interface designs that visually and textually communicate the behavior of digital products where applicable or feasible

Collaborate with on high-quality visual and interaction design and front-end development to generate engaging and enriched UI design, in line with UX prototypes and design strategies

Drive on-project/in-delivery adoption of reusable design systems that allow for consistency, embedded quality and design efficiency within the digital products

Collaborate with other design & technology teams to fully leverage technology capabilities while supporting continuous delivery. Business Acumen

Use systems thinking to address problems and questions at scale

Plans and scopes design execution that will improve product and service experience outcomes at scale

Creates, analyses & manages work that provide direct business impact

Demonstrates some knowledge of how industry trends & competitive landscape impact Old Mutual Digital

Sees cross platforms patterns to help drive a Omnichannel Experience for Old Mutual Customers

Hands-on experience mapping & creating Storytelling artefacts Management Effectiveness

Develops peers and possibly direct reports through mentoring and coaching

Drives operational excellence through area of supervision

Leads service delivery

Contributes towards operational capability enhancement (people, process and technology) for experience design - facilitates feedback loop between execution and capability

Manages supplier relationships in delivery

Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience :

Matric

Bachelor’s Degree

Experience using tools such as Figma

A minimum of 5 years of professional UX design experience, with deep knowledge and skills in generating digital interface outcomes

A minimum of 3 years of professional experience in people and team management

Proficiency in Figma is a must

Experience in Financial Industry Digital and Ecommerce

Exposure to Design Systems and Design Leadership

Demonstrated strong understanding of Agile and Lean UX methodologies Experience & Proficiency in User Research & Testing

Skills

Education

Closing Date

21 February 2024

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.

Please refer to the Old Mutual’s Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail. Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.

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