Job Description
Job Summary
At KPMG, you’ll find a world of opportunity, where our people give clients and communities the insights, they need to build a sustainable future. This role seeks an experienced professional to lead our team of UI/UX designers in researching, designing, and implementing digital products that are seamless, intuitive, and delightful to users. The UX Lead plays the strategic role of aligning product roadmaps with consumer/market needs, thereby, creating balanced and elegant product solutions amidst constraints in the product’s technical framework.
Responsibilities
Strategy
- Provide technical UX support to the Africa digital transformation team
- Work with relevant functional areas and service lines across the Firm to deliver on client engagement and sales initiatives
- Leverage local and global KPMG artefacts, SMEs, and other network assets to advance the firm’s UX agenda
- Manage, coach and grow the UX team
- Research products or services to understand audience and market positioning
- Understand the psychology and motivation of users to position the product or service in a way that supports this
- Structure and label information architecture and wireframe to demonstrate look and feel of the experience
- Create prototypes of websites, applications, or products to further demonstrate user experience
- Participate in the development and publication of thought leadership
Client Impact
- Lead the design of seamless, intentional experiences for customer, employee and partner ecosystems of clients across Africa
- Develop and implement user experience strategies that align with business objectives and deliver measurable results
- Provide leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of user experience projects
- Promote awareness of KPMG’s User Experience capabilities and artefacts
- Identify business opportunities across Africa and develop new client relationships to expand the business and ensure a rich pipeline
- Develop practice through thought leadership, sales enablement and training
- Identify and evaluate emerging user experience trends that can position clients for better competitive advantage
- Champion a data-driven approach to understanding user behaviour, buying preferences and patterns which can inform an effective user experience strategy
- Test the user experience and iron out any issues before launch
Finance
- Deliver on targets and goals (including sales goals)
- Provide annual budget input for the area of responsibility for approval and integration into service line/ growth area budget
- Manage the annual budget, including costs for designated area
Requirements
- At least 10 years or more experience in user experience design
- Proven track record of developing and implementing successful user experience strategies
- Hands-on and solid background in conceptualizing, designing, and creating first-class product experiences for consumers
- Exceptional customer-focus with expert knowledge of ecommerce, usability and experience design
- Demonstrable experience in delivering fun, innovative and cross-device/responsive interface designs that have delivered commercial success
- Proven experience with prototyping tools such as Figma and Adobe XD
- Expert knowledge of visual design tools
- Good understanding of platform constraints, browsers and accessibility guidelines
- Experience with optimising websites for mobile devices, social merchandising and user-generated content
- Strong leadership skills and experience managing cross-functional teams
- Experience in monitoring and driving product development from creation of design concepts to the final launch of the product as well as post-launch monitoring and analysis
- Self-starter and able to work independently including across multiple priorities and complex matrixed roles and responsibilities
- Confident, tactful and able to effectively influence others and deal effectively with senior leaders
- Strong communicator, including listening skills with an ability to translate insights across business and technology teams and to develop and present new ideas and conceptualize new approaches and solutions
- Strong team and work ethic, comfortable with ambiguity, change and challenge
- Comes from a digitally focused or relevant industry background with experience of working with digital/technology solutions and experience of managing projects for internal or external clients
- Have a demonstrable knowledge of innovation principles, frameworks and practices
- Sector experience in retail, telco, and financial services will be an added advantage
- Proven track record of the design thinking ethos of human centred design and ability to adopt it to solve client issues
- Strong understanding of agile methodology in product development
Closing: 10, June 2023