Product Designer at Venture Garden Nigeria (VGN)

Location: Ikeja, Lagos

Job Description

• Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to ensure optimal product, tech and design collaboration.
• Comfortably scoping and facilitating user research and usability testing; to deepen customer understanding and quickly iterate designs to better meet our customer’s needs
• Develop wireframes, interactive prototypes, specification and other design documents to communicate design ideas and intent to team/s.
• Be a champion of a lean and human-centred design approach to product development
• Effectively manage differing priorities, needs and timelines.
• Facilitate workshops with a diversity of stakeholder for input and review of designs.
• Contribute to an establishing design system to create efficiency in prototyping and development
• Show understanding of all product brands and cascade down to the team members
• Be an advocate for the customer Gather insights and feedback
• Evaluate user experience to affect strategy and roadmaps
• Evangelise research amongst colleagues.

Qualifications

• BSc Certificate holder, NYSC Certificate holder
• Minimum of 3 years of work experience as a product or User Experience Designer
• Maximum of 6 years experience as a product designer
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with stakeholders empathize directly with customers 
• Has a design portfolio documenting design processes and works from previous experiences
• Comfortable with modern design tools (Figma, Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite etc) and prototyping tools (of your choice)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with stakeholders and empathize with users 
• Experience working with developers for the implementation of designs.

Advantage for Considerations but not mandatory:

• Master's Degree in any field
• Sector Knowledge (any VGG related sector being recruited for)
• Front-end development skills using HTML, CSS AND JavaScript would be beneficial but not essential
• Certification from any recognized design institution or course
• Experieence working on Enterprise products.

Additional Information:

• Working Conditions: Flexibility is important. 

Remuneration
Competitive based on experience.