product-designer

Girls For Girls Africa Mental Health Foundation is an organization focused on improving mental health across Africa. Their work involves a global community of mental health innovators including researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, and advocates. Their mission includes promoting mental health, supporting mental health integration into general healthcare, and providing innovative resources and ideas to improve mental health services. They focus on addressing mental, neurological, and substance use disorders and provide platforms for sharing knowledge and innovations in mental health services across different parts of the world.

We work with Women, girls and adolescents who have been affected by ‘sexual and gender-based violence’  (SGBV) in Mombasa and the coast province of Kenya. G4G also provides support to their  caregivers and is developing a corporate wellness support program for corporations. 
Mission: Empowering survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and marginalized individuals to  reclaim their autonomy, fostering resilient communities with access to justice and holistic well being. 
Vision: 
A future where every survivor's journey from trauma to empowerment becomes a beacon of  hope, transforming communities and driving societal change. 

#Survivor led #TraumaInformed NGO  Offering Psychosocial Support to Survivors,Caregivers & Adolescents| 2022 Innovator 
@Ember_mh
 & UNICEF-AU |ED 
@AuthorQueentah

Girls For Girls Africa Mental Health Foundation

• Play a central role in how Tiko understands user needs, frames problems, and delivers inclusive, intuitive experiences.
• Lead the full design process, from discovery through to delivery, bringing systems thinking and curiosity to every stage of our product development.
• Design for a broad and diverse set of users: adolescent girls, community mobilisers, healthcare providers, and internal operational teams.
• Tackle challenges like low connectivity, limited device access, and varying literacy levels, ensuring that our digital platform remains a safe, accessible, and respectful space for everyone it serves.
• Partner with Product Managers and field teams to uncover genuine user needs and define clear problem statements.
• Conduct interviews, usability tests, and surveys to validate assumptions and guide design decisions.
• Translate findings into user journeys and hypotheses that shape the strategic direction of our products.
• Design intuitive flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity, accessible UIs, iterating quickly based on user feedback and behavioural data.
• Work closely with engineers to ensure design quality during builds and collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate intelligent automation in a user-centred way.
• Adapt designs for low-resource and 'low-tech' settings, ensuring usability and respect for users facing infrastructure constraints.
• Contribute to Tiko’s emerging design system through reusable components and foundational patterns.
• Take the initiative to embed design thinking and usability across the entire delivery lifecycle.
• Participate meaningfully in discovery sessions, critiques, and retrospectives, sharing best practices across the organisation.
• Advocate for accessibility and evidence-based design, ensuring we always understand why we are building before what we build.

Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer at Tiko focused on delivering inclusive digital experiences for adolescent girls, community mobilisers, and healthcare providers in low-resources contexts.

KingMakers is the leading Sports and Digital Entertainment platform in Africa, dedicated to engaging and rewarding audiences through innovative technology. By providing unique sports and digital entertainment experiences, KingMakers connects fans and communities to the sports and games they love. The company emphasizes customer insight and talent to enhance the enjoyment of African sports fans, while also fostering community involvement through its agent network.

KingMakers is the leading sports and digital entertainment platform company across the African continent.
 
We are focused on creating opportunity. Opportunity that allows individuals and communities to realise their dreams – to be the best they can be. Opportunities to grow, to change, to build a business, to make a difference. Opportunity for individuals. Opportunity for our communities.
 
Our proprietary technology, delivered through our agency and online platforms, brings sports fans and their communities closer to the games they love.
 
We do this by building products and content experiences that delight our customers daily, that empower our partners and sustain their communities.
  
That’s why at the heart of KingMakers is a passion to empower individuals and to give back to the community. We do this by allowing agents in our network to grow their own business and in so doing enrich the communities in which we operate.
 
Our goal is always to put the customer first : by combining technology, customer insight and talent we strive to give African sports fans a superior, more rewarding and engaging experience, online, offline 24/7.

Our Values:
• Customer Focus
• Passion & Dedication  
• Openness, Honesty & Directness
• Innovation & Big Thinking
• Ownership & Accountability
• Speed & Focus
• Low Ego
• Fun


KingMakers

• SuperSportBet is recruiting a lead designer to join the marketing team in Cape Town.
• The core outcome of the role will be to establish and lead the in-house design function including the skills development of the 3 designers.
• The role is tasked with developing brand led concepts and managing resource to roll out the required assets.
• The role acts as a brand custodian, ensuring single minded brand identity is achieved across all touch points while still delivering a quality and on time response to the brief.

Lead Designer

Lead Designer joining SuperSportBet's marketing team in Cape Town. Overseeing design function, developing brand concepts, and ensuring brand identity across platforms.

Old Mutual Limited is a listed company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and has secondary listings on the London, Malawi, Namibia and Zimbabwe stock exchanges. As a Pan-African financial services company, we are focused on Africa, her needs and her people.

Together with you, we have educated our children, given more homes warmth and light, empowered small businesses and improved infrastructure in Africa. Our story will continue #WithAfricaForAfrica.

Old Mutual Limited

• Create intuitive user experiences across platforms
• Deliver exceptional design solutions
• Apply design thinking, UX and UI skills to design solutions
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and design partners
• Facilitate design thinking sessions and stakeholder interviews
• Conduct user research leveraging best practice methodologies
• Develop prototypes from low fidelity sketches to high-fidelity visual designs
• Support the handover process of designs to development

Lead Product Designer – Design Systems

Lead Product Designer at Old Mutual focused on creating intuitive user experiences and exceptional design solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive impactful problem-solving and design outcomes.

StructureIt is a technology consultancy that designs, builds and delivers custom software solutions and data platforms for capital markets and financial services. The company focuses on data engineering, application development and Artificial Intelligence to automate workflows, unify fragmented datasets, and provide audited, compliant reporting (SOC2/FSQS) for banks, asset managers, lenders, trustees and other financial institutions. StructureIt combines domain expertise in structured credit and commercial real estate with engineering and AI capabilities to offer B2B products and managed projects across small to enterprise clients.

CRE & Credit Market Tech Experts. Helping you achieve your business goals through innovative technology.

StructureIt

• In collaboration with PM’s, BA’s & Developers, gather and/ or evaluate user and business requirements
• Translate requirements & insights, into usable interfaces.
• Create wireframes, user flows, process flows, site maps, interactive UI prototypes and associated specifications to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to development.
• Ensure experiences meet accessibility, responsiveness, and performance best practices.
• Visually and verbally present product solutions & artefacts to internal and external stakeholders.
• Facilitate UX workshops with internal and external stakeholders
• Execute responsive website rollouts.
• Collaborate with developers and BA's to solve UX problems, and provide thoughtful UX reviews of work in progress.
• Front-end build reviews (device testing) and analysis

Senior Experience Designer

Senior Experience Designer developing UX/UI processes and solutions in a fintech environment. Collaborating with teams to create user-focused digital experiences and interfaces.

• Lead the UX design team across multiple squads
• Ensure the highest levels of consistency and quality across all UX projects.
• Work closely with product owners to define user experience goals.
• Communication with BA’s, Dev leads and other team members to ensure designs are feasible and implemented accurately.
• Assist in planning and assisting in usability tests and other design research activities.
• Take the user feedback and iterate designs accordingly to enhance user experience and satisfaction.
• Stay abreast of UX trends, tools, and technologies.
• Propose innovative design solutions that enhance user experience and drive digital banking forward.
• Mentor designers, providing guidance and feedback to help them grow in their UX design skills.

Lead UX Designer

Lead UX Designer at OM Bank responsible for delivering user-centered digital banking designs. Collaborating across teams and mentoring junior designers to enhance user experience.

• Create high-fidelity prototypes and wireframes for digital banking applications.
• Assist in planning and assisting in usability tests and other design research activities.
• Work closely with product owners, developers, and other team members to ensure designs are feasible and implemented accurately.
• Stay abreast of UX trends, tools, and technologies.
• Mentor junior designers, providing guidance and feedback to help them grow in their UX design skills.

Intermediate UX Designer

Intermediate UX Designer creating seamless digital banking experiences for Old Mutual in South Africa. Collaborating with teams on innovative user interface design and UX trends.

Hybrid Product Designers roles in South Africa

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6 jobs found

Senior Product Designer

Girls For Girls Africa Mental Health Foundation

Lead Designer

KingMakers

Lead Product Designer – Design Systems

Old Mutual Limited

Senior Experience Designer

StructureIt

Lead UX Designer

Old Mutual Limited

Intermediate UX Designer

Old Mutual Limited