Location: Cape Town
Description:
Online Shopping Clubs, a division within MIH Internet Africa centered in Cape Town currently has a vacancy for a UX Designer
The ideal candidate will be:
- A digital native with a head in the digital space and feet firmly grounded in the fundamentals of advertising and design
- A strategic thinker, with the ability to translate commercial imperatives into design solutions
- A planner, who can rapidly execute a series of ongoing site update tasks in a continual learning environment
- A consumer focused approach to design, mixing the value of insight with the learnings from analytics and a consumer UX research
- Proven ability to drive complex design issues across organizations and disciplines
- Be able to work on multiple projects simultaneously and as part of a project team
- Be acutely detail oriented and comfortable with regular feedback
Qualifications:
- A portfolio of work, showing proficiency and success in magazine design, SEM, photographic editing and video based/viral advertisin
- Superb command of interaction design, information architecture, navigation system, and page patterns and common controls
- Advanced understanding of composition, layout hierarchy, typography, and colour
- Proficient in interaction design, information architecture, visualization and able to work from a brief and research results to develop creative solutions in a budget driven environment
- Have a broad understanding of agile development methods in an IT development process
- Have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in visual/graphic design or
- Ability to code ad design in (amongst others) HTML (4 & 5), XML, Java Script, Flash(up to x9), PHP, ASP
- Use (amongst others) Adobe Photoshop, Premier, After Effects & InDesign
- Proficient in the use of Google Analytics
- Have a broad understanding of PPC, although this will not be a functional requirement of the role
Experience:
- Experience working in e-Commerce would be an advantage
- Experience working with Magento based e-Commerce sites would be an advantage
- 8+ years of experience in product/web/interaction design AND 2+ years management experience, ideally as a Creative Director (Corporate experience preferred in addition to agency or other experience)
-Experience managing a departmental budget
Contactable references will be required for all employment history.
Portfolio of work to be submitted digitally in either .pdf or .avi format
To find out more, please visit : http://www.36boutiques.com/store/default/careers.html
Apply to this job
Description:
Online Shopping Clubs, a division within MIH Internet Africa centered in Cape Town currently has a vacancy for a UX Designer
The ideal candidate will be:
- A digital native with a head in the digital space and feet firmly grounded in the fundamentals of advertising and design
- A strategic thinker, with the ability to translate commercial imperatives into design solutions
- A planner, who can rapidly execute a series of ongoing site update tasks in a continual learning environment
- A consumer focused approach to design, mixing the value of insight with the learnings from analytics and a consumer UX research
- Proven ability to drive complex design issues across organizations and disciplines
- Be able to work on multiple projects simultaneously and as part of a project team
- Be acutely detail oriented and comfortable with regular feedback
Qualifications:
- A portfolio of work, showing proficiency and success in magazine design, SEM, photographic editing and video based/viral advertisin
- Superb command of interaction design, information architecture, navigation system, and page patterns and common controls
- Advanced understanding of composition, layout hierarchy, typography, and colour
- Proficient in interaction design, information architecture, visualization and able to work from a brief and research results to develop creative solutions in a budget driven environment
- Have a broad understanding of agile development methods in an IT development process
- Have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in visual/graphic design or
- Ability to code ad design in (amongst others) HTML (4 & 5), XML, Java Script, Flash(up to x9), PHP, ASP
- Use (amongst others) Adobe Photoshop, Premier, After Effects & InDesign
- Proficient in the use of Google Analytics
- Have a broad understanding of PPC, although this will not be a functional requirement of the role
Experience:
- Experience working in e-Commerce would be an advantage
- Experience working with Magento based e-Commerce sites would be an advantage
- 8+ years of experience in product/web/interaction design AND 2+ years management experience, ideally as a Creative Director (Corporate experience preferred in addition to agency or other experience)
-Experience managing a departmental budget
Contactable references will be required for all employment history.
Portfolio of work to be submitted digitally in either .pdf or .avi format
To find out more, please visit : http://www.36boutiques.com/store/default/careers.html
Apply to this job