Head of Design

Outsidecapital

Job Location:

Cape Town - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 8 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description

Our client is a dominant force in the financial services sector specifically focusing on empowering financial advisors and intermediary partners. They are on a mission to completely transform how financial professionals engage with their business by building a world-class coherent and highly intuitive digital ecosystem.

Performance Objectives for Year One:

Lead the Strategic Design Overhaul: Architect and deliver a unified end-to-end user experience for a flagship intermediary digital platform ensuring high usability and a coherent journey across multiple complex business lines.
Build and Scale the Design Capability: Re-engineer and nurture a high-performing design team. Establish strong design governance processes and tools while creating a compelling inclusive culture for design talent.
Implement an Enterprise Design System: Define launch and act as the primary custodian of a scalable design system and shared assets to unify standards and ensure consistent delivery across multiple cross-functional product teams.
Drive Human-Centered Innovation: Establish a rigorous user research and usability testing engine that translates raw data and qualitative insights into validated high-impact design directions that directly improve user efficiency.
Champion the Experience Vision: Evangelize a clear user-centric design approach at the executive level (including partnering closely with the CIO) influencing the broader transformation of the business into a digitally enabled experience-led organization.

Required Experience:

Director

Job DescriptionOur client is a dominant force in the financial services sector specifically focusing on empowering financial advisors and intermediary partners. They are on a mission to completely transform how financial professionals engage with their business by building a world-class coherent and...