Purpose of role
As a Product Designer at Travelstart, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams that include Engineers, Product Owners, QA and stakeholders in an agile environment to design and develop the Travelstart product.
Your purpose is to deliver innovative and consistent product experiences across multiple platforms to fulfil business needs and the team’s collective objectives.
Responsibilities
- Design the overall experience for the Travelstart web & mobile products
- Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver on key changes to be made on existing/new products
- Develop a solid knowledge of design standards and trends, and techniques for web and mobile software products Craft, refine, implement, and communicate design vision and strategy
- Ensure creative, consistent and high-quality design output
- Design a project in its full cycle, from ideation to re-iteration
Core Skills
- User interface design
- User experience design
- Wireframing and Prototyping
- Communication and Presentation
- Project and time management
Expectations
Based on seniority, we expect the following on top of the default expectations:
JUNIOR
- Makes sure to understand the business reason behind design changes required
- Designs according to guidelines, trying to understand applicable best practices
- Does basic prototyping of simple flows to illustrate design concept
MEDIOR
- Works closely with stakeholders to identify new business problems and opportunities
- Understands how their work fits into the larger project and identifies problems with requirements
- Designs screens and flows that aim to solve the user problem at hand; consistently follows stated best practices
- Uses data and feedback to continuously improve designs
- Reviews designs of others and gives constructive feedback for improvement
- Constructs and deconstructs the flows to ensure different scenarios are covered
- Collaborates with the Product Development team to find the best way to deliver on goals
- Consider user-centred design principles and methodologies and is driven by design thinking
SENIOR
- Understands the trade-offs between technical, analytical and product needs and leads to solutions that take all of these needs into account
- Provides valid & constructive feedback in design reviews
- Mentors and coaches Junior - Medior designers
- Understands and contextualises the user journey throughout the entire Product experience
- Understands and actively contributes towards the Travelstart design language framework
- Identifies and proposes strategies around technical problems affecting their team, communicates standards and gets buy-in on solutions
- Researches and proposes new processes, technologies and approaches
- Communicates effectively to stakeholders of all levels from concept to conclusion
- Coordinates dependencies with other Product Designers to ensure there is a consistent overall product direction
- Addresses processes with the Development team to continuously improve the delivery
- Consider user-centred design principles and methodologies and is driven by design thinking
PRINCIPAL
- Consistently able to reduce the complexity of projects and processes in order to get more done with less work
- Owns and is an expert on large sections of our design language framework
- Recognized as a prolific contributor to core and side projects
- Continuously able to find new ways of leveraging design and technical capabilities to develop the Travelstart product
- Has made an obvious positive impact on the entire company's Product and overall design trajectory
- Shapes our Product on a strategic level and contributes to the overall Design Vision of the brand and product
- Able to constructively review even very complex design changes
- Ability to develop creative and technical skills across different creative disciplines, with experience delegating, coaching, mentoring and providing effective direction and feedback
- Champion user-centred design principles and methodologies – “evangelize” design thinking throughout the company
To apply for this awesome opportunity please send us your CV (maximum 3 pages), to:
recruitme@travelstart.com Please include a copy of your academic certificate and transcript (marks). The reference
for this opportunity is “Product Designer”.
Please insert this into the
subject line of your email application. Any applicants not meeting the minimum requirements will not receive a response. Please
note
that we reserve to right to amend, freeze the role or not hire. The final appointment will be at the
discretion
of Travelstart.
Travelstart is committed to transformation and redressing of past inequalities. Our employment equity
goals will be taken into account in our selection process.
Good luck!