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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

UX/UI Product Designer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

  • R Undisclosed
  • Contract Senior position
  • Johannesburg
  • Posted 05 Nov 2025 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
  • Job 2626548 - Ref 878000013085444

About the position



Purpose of the Role
As a Product Designer, you will lead multidisciplinary initiatives that align user needs, business goals, and technological possibilities. Your role goes beyond UX and UI execution, encompassing product strategy, scalable design practices, and AI-driven innovation. You will guide design teams, foster strong client relationships, and position design as a catalyst for measurable business outcomes. The role demands foresight to create sustainable, tangible solutions that can be tested, validated, and seamlessly embedded into daily experiences, ensuring both immediate impact and long-term value.





Key Responsibilities
Lead UX, UI, and interaction design work streams, ensuring high-quality outputs across multiple projects and platforms. Oversee multidisciplinary design teams and large-scale, multi-market design programmes integrating strategy, design, and technology.
Translate research insights into user stories, flows, and tangible design [URL Removed] product roadmaps, define scalable design practices, and embed human-centred design across teams and markets. Define and evolve design vision, embedding systematic practices across organisations. Present and justify design decisions, using storytelling to influence stakeholders and clients. Shape client relationships, aligning design with business goals and measurable outcomes. Act as a strategic partner to senior executives, positioning design as a driver of business transformation. Apply and evolve design systems to ensure accessibility, consistency, and scalability. Implement governance models, design operations, and AI-enabled workflows. Champion design innovation at scale, driving AI adoption and identifying growth opportunities. Mentor and coach designers on craft, process, and stakeholder engagement. Build and grow design capability, culture, and talent pipelines across the organisation.



Requirements

  • 7+ years in UX, UI, and product design, ideally in consultancy or digital product environments.
  • Tertiary qualification in Design, HCI, or a related field.
  • Proven ability to lead teams, scale systematic design practices, and embed efficient workflows.
  • Strong expertise in Figma, prototyping software, and the MS Office suite, with knowledge of AI-assisted design technologies.
  • Comprehensive understanding of branding, marketing, data, social media, business analysis, and development.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating both craft-level design and systems-level thinking.
  • Excellent facilitation, storytelling, and influencing skills for senior stakeholders.
  • Ability to perform under pressure, meet deadlines, and maintain organisational efficiency.
  • Empathetic, collaborative, proactive, and positive mindset, with a willingness to be challenged and continuously grow.


Desired Skills:

  • Figma. Prototyping tools
  • design
  • AI
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Testing
  • Research
  • Analysis

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Diploma

About The Employer:


DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

About the agency

Dedicated to the recruitment of IT professionals Sabenza iT is a South African registered business focusing on Finance, Engineering, SAP and general iT recruitment. We have over 18 years' experience in recruiting in South Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia and have worked with a number of large companies offering the best service. We at Sabenza iT understands the changing market and we mold our services around each of our client's needs to offer a personal service. Sabenza iT has forged strong relationships with both Clients and Consultants by ensuring both parties get the most out of every placement. Our Head Office is based in South Africa and we have a satellite office in the UK so that we can keep in contact with expats who may consider returning to South Africa and so that we can offer our services globally for Consultants looking to go to South Africa and Consultants who are looking for opportunities abroad. We at Sabenza recognize the difference it makes to maintain good client relationships and we are keeping our client base niche and manageable in order to give the best service possible. We have gained a good reputation in the market place and have built a very large network and database of consultants that we draw from for each role. We are able to send applications within 24 hours of receiving a role profile or spec. We use one of the best Database software tools available to keep our database up to date and very fast to search. Sabenza iT does not only use job-sites, we headhunt and we use our network to find our clients the right Candidates. We have a strong Facebook presence and we have over 12,000 LinkedIn connections. For further information, please visit our website www.sabenzait.co.za or call me at any time on Tel: 0330040131.

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