Senior Mobile App UI Designer

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Senior Mobile App UI Designer to join our Product team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored if you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

We’re looking for an empathetic problem-solver, experienced in product design, to help us deliver the best e-commerce experience possible. Our design team loves creating meaningful and authentic product experiences. We’re a flexible and collaborative team guided by data, feedback, and a user-centered approach to our process.

We start from the very early stages: finding the right problem to tackle, exploring ideas for how to solve it and then refining it into a coherent solution. Our product designers carry out research, brainstorming, sketching, prototyping, and collaboration with our engineers to ship great products. We are empathetic user advocates and respect our users’ opinions through interviews, usability testing, and data analysis, as well as wire-framing, flowcharting, and journey mapping to show the different stages that customers go through.

Reporting to the Design Manager.

You should apply if:

You have at least 5 years experience in a Product Design role with a portfolio that demonstrates experience in product thinking where you have previously shipped designs for Mobile App products.

You are a designer that is constantly inspired – motivating those around you through your passion and drive for what you do.

You shine through your designs and you’re excited by regularly coming up with new ideas, shipping new products and features that address your users’ real needs.

You thrive in a collaborative workplace; partnering with other designers, engineers, product owners and other disciplines throughout the company.

You appreciate big picture thinking. While details are everything, creating an experience that always keeps our users in mind is equally as important.

You are a problem solver that’s excited by a challenge. You enjoy sitting in a room and white-boarding ideas to confidently come up with simple, elegant solutions that everyone can move forward with.

You enjoy a little flexibility in your work. Our growth means there are constantly new things to work on every day, as such it’s likely that you’ll often be working across the board on new and exciting projects.

Sketch is your tool of choice. If you are good at AE or any other motion design tool, we’ll love you even more.

The Environment:

takelot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.

We have fun, work hard, take ownership, collaborate to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas about how we can improve.

We are short on ego and high on output.

We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all.

We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extraordinary Mind who:

is forthright but respectful.

is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute.

is analytical, able to use data to make decisions.

is competitive, self-directed and strives to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours.

is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience.

is entrepreneurial, thrives with change, accepts change is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster.

thinks about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input.

is curious and challenges the status quo.

is innovative and enjoys iteration.

is collaborative.

will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.

thinks like an owner of the business.

is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING.

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind, so come join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.