User Experience Designer (Product Designer)

Posted 12 Days Ago
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Cape Town, Western Cape
Mid level
Fintech • Insurance • Financial Services
The Role
The User Experience Designer will lead the UXD process to create impactful solutions for users. Responsibilities include empathizing with users, collaborating within an Agile team, and applying user insights to improve experiences, particularly in the fintech sector.
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What to expect:

We’re hiring a full- stack User Experience Designer (Product Designer) to help create amazing and memorable experiences by expertly using the User Experience Design (UXD) process. You will use their skills to help lead, understand, empathise and create impactful solutions for our users across various touch points. Additionally, you will help build Ozow to be the most loved FinTech company in Africa. In this role, we encourage you to always have our users at the heart of all of your solutions (either using best practices and / or being informed based on data and insights).   

  

Requirements:  

  • 3+ years of experience in User Experience  
  • Experience in fintech or technology companies  
  • A portfolio or case study of previous work  
  • A certification in User Experience (or something similar, i.e. Interaction Design or Design Thinking)  
  • A clear understanding of Figma  
  • A passion for solving problems for humans  
  • The courage and patience to be in a fast-paced company that is scaling quickly   
  • A fail early, fail quickly and fail inexpensively way of thinking  
  • The ability to champion the user in all your solutions  
  • The ability to learn and receive feedback from Senior/Lead UX Designers and other team members  
  • The drive to always learn and grow your craft  
  • Skills in both applying your UX learnings into your solution  
  • The ability to work closely with a Senior UX Designer and within an Agile team  
  • The passion to always improve and iterate solutions  


In office perks 

  • Healthy breakfast, lunches and snacks (Cape Town) 
  • Healthy lunches and snacks (Johannesburg) 
  • Monthly socials (Cape Town and Johannesburg) 
  • On-site Barista (Cape Town and Johannesburg) 
  • Ozow Library (Cape Town)  
  • Birthday Leave


Perks for South African based employees

  • Medical aid subsidy (permanent staff)
  • Group Risk Insurance (permanent staff)
  • Generous paid annual leave   
  • Learning and Development opportunities 
  • Mentorship programme
  • Quarterly team building 
  • Community initiatives 
  • Employee gifting 
  • Access to cutting edge technology 

 

Our Employee Value Proposition

Join Ozow and become part of an elite force that challenges the ordinary and achieves the extraordinary. If you're driven to make an impact, embrace challenges, and seek unparalleled opportunities for growth, your journey starts here.

Compliance

As a fintech company, we prioritize data security and compliance. Due to the sensitive nature of our work, we require individuals with a high level of integrity and trustworthiness to ensure adherence to financial regulations and industry standards.


Ready to be exceptional? Apply now! 

As a fintech company, we prioritize data security and compliance. Due to the sensitive nature of our work, we require individuals with a high level of integrity and trustworthiness to ensure adherence to financial regulations and industry standards.


Keen to know more? 

Interested in joining our rocket ship?  

To find out more about life at Ozow, head over to our Careers Page here!

Top Skills

Figma
The Company
Cape Town
143 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Ozow is the future of payment as we know it. An oh-so (or Ozow) easy, automated and ultra-secure EFT solution that helps customers pay in just a few seconds, merchants can initiate Ozow payments through a variety of payment platforms, such as SMS, eCommerce, eBilling, QR Code and instore Point-of-Sale (POS). Through Ozow’s precise and secure system (that reduces the risk of charge-backs), merchants get real-time payments with instant transaction notifications and automated bank reconciliations. As no card is required for payment, their products are also more widely available, resulting in less abandoned carts, increased sales and more happy customers. Furthermore, merchants enjoy transaction fees as low as 1,5%, with no monthly costs, setup fees, or minimum charges, enabling them to save their money. As an added bonus, merchants processing up to R1m per month can use Ozow for free in their first year, no strings attached. Ozow is committed to financial inclusion on a continent where many people are disenfranchised by a lack of payments options. Furthermore, Ozow is committed to making it affordable for smaller businesses to take their trade to a wider audience, and to ensure that if traditional payment methods are unavailable, merchants don’t suffer. To date, Ozow has processed over a billion transactions, and has processed a combined value exceeding R5 billion. Ozow is bringing commerce to a wider audience, promoting financial inclusion and innovating for our customers. Paying with us is Ozow easy, Ozow fast and Ozow trusted

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