Job Description

I'm with the Brand! We have a fabulous hybrid opportunity for a Senior Lead UX/UI Brand Designer at an independent, international B2B Brand agency's Cape Town studio. Your UX/UI experience will highly advantageous. You'll be joining a small but growing team committed to delivering stand-out work in B2B Brand Communications for clients across a wide range of disciplines and geographies.We're looking for a Lead Brand Designer who will be responsible for shaping the agency's clients' brands and leading the Digital Design experiences for their clients, taking ownership for the design and user experience for a range of key client's digital engagement platforms. You will help advance the clients' Digital Design and Customer Experiences through the creation of visionary and inspirational design ideas, employment of intuitive UX expertise and best practice - whilst also bringing to the table new themes in Digital Design and Customer Experience engagement trends.Part of this role is also mentoring and leading other designers in the Cape Town office. Helping them to grow and lead them in projects, offering advice and making sure their approach is right and they have the tools and expertise required to produce high-quality work. The role will make you grow into a Design Director role if you are the right fit, meeting clients and being an extension of the agency's Creative Director in their Cape Town office.Naturally, your work needs to be great. But beyond that, we're looking for someone who inspires teams and clients through their ideas and approach; someone who's always curious, who is always looking for the next thing, before it's a thing.This independent brand agency based in London and Cape Town, offers integrated Brand Communications to a diverse set of clients in the B2B area, they believe that collaboration achieves greatness. The agency's work balances rigour with imagination, a sharp eye for detail with a playful soul.As Lead Brand Designer, your responsibilities will include brief creation and interpretation, and establishing the Digital experience principles for clients across their entire Digital platform and customer interfaces (mainly developing websites and microsites and expanding to Digital products, all on the communications side of the business). You will be working with strategists, wider creative teams, and internal research experts.The agency boasts a culture of learning and development, so you'll have access to industry leading training and development programmes, plus you'll be able to develop personal projects that empower your creativity and skills. Most importantly, you'll be part of a passionate and collaborative team and you'll work in an environment where you are supported and developed. Sounds rather fabulous don't you think? Apply today!Responsibilities

• As a UX Designer you will be working on designing and providing strategic guidance for the digital product value proposition, defining the content, process and functionalities.
• As a UI Designer you will translate the UX into fully functional and beautifully designed interfaces with passion, dedication, and skill to create original designs for websites and digital products. You will then handover the design to developers who you will follow and support throughout the implementation.
• As a Brand Designer you will help transform the Creative Director's vision into the visual world, helping develop concepts for brands, shaping stories to help clients connect with their audiences, crafting brands from logotypes to visual language, shaping brand books from initial steps to completion, prototyping brands look and feel applied into the digital space.
• You will work closely and report to the Creative Director. Ensuring that the CD's vision is implemented and maintained through the whole process. This might involve client meetings and presentation support as well as leading other designers to achieve best results.
• You will plan, design, prototype and present digital projects with your assigned team. You will take full ownership of the projects you lead, from initial brief to completion. Ideally including client's presentations and developer's hand over.
• Follow a Human Centred Design approach and adhere to UX best practices.
• Deliver pixel-perfect graphic assets that are aesthetically pleasing.
• Create inspirational Digital concept ideas and designs that help bring brands and user journeys to life in an engaging and effective way.
• Be the Lead Digital storyteller - using your skills to help create designs that can communicate key brand messages, value propositions and guide users on emotional and functional journeys as required.
• Lead development of intuitive UX approaches that form the basis for final design interaction, such as journey mapping, information architecture and wireframes, as well as technical specifications documents to brief developers and ensure best results.
• Create high-end digital design prototypes (Experience in platforms such as Adobe XD or Figma and After Effects) to help bring your vision to life.

RequirementsThe successful candidate must have/be:

• Bachelor's Degree in a Design-related discipline is preferable.
• 6+ years of experience doing visual/UI design for web, desktop and mobile applications.
• A portfolio of relevant UX/UI design work
• Knowledge of conventional design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite (for Print/Digital)
• Motion design experience will be very valuable, After Effects prototyping required.
• Have experience designing for component-based design systems.
• Good understanding of WordPress, Webflow and SEO and social media platforms.
• Ability to multi-task and keep organized in a dynamic environment.
• Experience in an enterprise business environment and Agile (ideally within Asana, Jira or similar).
• Great communication skills to attend meetings and lead other designers.

Please submit a PDF/link to a relevant portfolio along with your CV on application.Should you not receive a response within 10 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.City: Cape TownLevel of Expertise: SeniorRemuneration: NegotiableConsultant: ChristineReference Number: #Chris2430

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