Vacancy title:
Design Lead

Jobs at:
Bank of Kigali

Deadline of this Job:
30th November 2018

Duty Station:
Kigali, Rwanda

Summary
Date Posted: 12th November 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:

Business Unit

Bank of Kigali Digital factory

Key Accountabilities

• Design Lead’s primary responsibility will be to drive end-to-end user experience design, including discovery, ideation, conception, detailed design, prototypes and validation across multiple products and areas
  
• Working across multiple cross-functional product teams, the Design Lead will seek to create and influence the creation of elegant user experience to create business impact (e.g., customer, employee and advisor engagement /productivity)
  
• The design lead will work closely with digital factory executives, Product Leads, Product Managers along with marketing and business stakeholders to design and deliver user-centric experiences.
  
• Lead a team of UX/UI Designers in providing engaging and intuitive user experiences for digital products
  
• Lead user research, persona development, usability testing, contextual inquiry, and task analysis.
  
• Champion user-centred design practices when solving design requests and challenges.
  
• Constantly monitor analytics, customer feedback, digital entertainment leaders and best practices in order to practice insight-driven optimization and innovation.
  
• Collaboratively work with Product Leads, Product Managers to understand their digital product roadmaps and requirements and to ensure UX is tightly integrated into the roadmaps
  
• Work with cross-functional product development teams to build designs that meet those requirements – including design specification documents, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, etc.
  
• Develop, communicate and enforce user experience guidelines for each of our digital solutions.
  

Experience

• Strong experience in design and development
  
• Experience with designing quality consumer products
  
• Experience with user-centered design portfolio that spans some combination of web, mobile, tablet, TV, and wearables
  
• Experience with Graphical and Visual Design, including use of a diverse set of software such as Adobe suite, OmniGraffle, Balsamiq, Axure, InVision, Sketch or other tools for Graphic Design, Visual Design
  

Purpose of the job

Design Lead will be involved in partnering with the Chief Digital Officer and digital factory leadership team to develop effective product strategies, visions and execution plans. His/her mission will be to shape and deliver digital solutions that transform customer experiences

Qualifications

• Diploma and above
  
• A design portfolio that demonstrates design principles for web and/or mobile platforms
  

Knowledge

• Extensive design experience in a digital product environment
  
• Experience with designing quality consumer products, as well as enabling business capability and objectives through technology
  
• Entrepreneurial self-starter who is self-motivated, but also a team player with a professional presence
  
• Experience with conducting user research, usability testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping