Product Designer at Sahara Group

Accountabilities

• Be involved in the full product development cycle: from early research and product strategy to design and developer hand-off.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers and other team members and partners to set design requirements and effectively communicate complex business functionality.
• Collaborate within the end-to-end iterative design process with product teams to conduct user research; develop user personas, user stories, user journeys and information architecture, and wireframes and prototypes; and deploy user testing methods.
• Recommend tools and technologies by staying abreast of the latest design trends and techniques.
• Collaborate with engineers in implementation and testing.
• Gather and analyze feedback for product improvement.

Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience designing and shipping both web and mobile products and tools in an agile team environment.
• Strong visual and user experience sensibilities, and care deeply about the end-user experience.
• Demonstrated experience in all phases of the design process including user research, UX writing, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, and usability testing.
• A well-rounded portfolio demonstrating a strong understanding of user research and user centric design to solve problem and communicate business objectives.
• Ability to clearly iterate and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions 
  to team and stakeholders.
• The ability to leverage a product strategy perspective and clearly articulate design decisions.
• Experience with design software (Figma, Adobe XD etc.)
• Experience with graphics editing tools (e.g. Photoshop, illustrator) and visual design (2D, 3D and motion) is an added advantage.
• Basic front-end development competence (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) is an added advantage