Lead Product Experience (Design, Research, Architecture)
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience 5 years
- Location Lagos
- Job Field ICT / Computer 
Job Description
- As the Lead for Product Experience, you will champion the convergence of design, research, and architecture to craft holistic digital products. Your core mission is to ensure our products offer a seamless, intuitive, and aesthetically compelling experience for our users, underpinned by thorough research and robust architectural foundations.
Key Responsibilities
Architectural
- Define and maintain a solid product architecture, supporting the company’s overarching goals and ensuring scalability.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to define product requirements, user stories, and design objectives.
- Uphold the architectural cohesiveness and functionality of all digital touchpoints.
- Lead the development of wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to effectively communicate design concepts and interactions.
Product Design Leadership
- Drive the product design strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals, user needs, and market trends.
- Direct the design team in conceptualizing and realizing user-centric digital products.
- Drive visual design excellence, including color palettes, typography, iconography, and other visual elements, to create visually stunning and cohesive product interfaces.
- Ensure the seamless integration of visual and interactive design elements, creating a delightful user journey.
Maintaining Design Consistency
- Develop and sustain a unified design system, endorsing consistency across our digital suite.
- Create & maintain design systems, design documentation & style guides to ensure consistency and scalability across products.
- Set forth design guidelines and best practices for both design and development teams.
User Centric Research
- Lead research endeavors to gather user insights, preferences, and behaviors.
- Utilize research data to refine and inform design choices and product strategies.
- Put in place a continuous feedback and mechanism around our digital products to gain user insights.
Innovation, Continuous Learning & Interdepartmental Collaboration
- Engage proactively with product managers, developers, and stakeholders, ensuring design seamlessly complements the product development lifecycle.
- Remain abreast of contemporary design trends, emerging technologies, methodologies, and tools to continually enhance the team’s skills and drive innovation.
Required Skills
- User-centric mindset (Emphasis on understanding & prioritizing user needs to enhance user experience).
- Stellar communicator with a positive attitude.
- Analytical & research skills.
- Innovative, Creative/critical thinker.
- Stakeholder Collaboration & Interpersonal skills (able to work well with colleagues, managers, vendors).
- Flexible and able to adapt to changes.
- Ethical Judgement (Ensuring that all design & research practices adhere to ethical standards, prioritizing user privacy & security).
- Resilience, staying power and foresight.
- Demonstrable leadership and team management acumen.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Continuous Learning (Commitment to professional growth).
- Problem-solving.
Academic and Qualifications and Experience:
- Engage proactively with product managers, developers, and stakeholders, ensuring design seamlessly complements the product development lifecycle.
- Remain abreast of contemporary design trends, emerging technologies, methodologies, and tools to continually enhance the team’s skills and drive innovation.
- Minimum of 5 years in product design, emphasizing digital platforms. Demonstrated expertise in user research and constructing design systems.
- Robust portfolio reflecting user-oriented design solutions and sound product architecture.
- Mastery over design tools such as [Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, etc.] and a basic grasp of development paradigms and frameworks.
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