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UI/UX Design Lead

The Opportunity 

You will strategize, execute and iterate on design decisions to deliver the best user experience for our customers by collaborating cross-departmentally. You will shape the processes of our workflows to build a design-centric team.

Things you'll do 

  • Work closely with various stakeholders to determine and evolve features across our suite of enterprise SaaS products
  • Lead user research and interviews, and help define process for collecting quantitative and qualitative user feedback
  • Plan and conduct design thinking workshops
  • Run collaborative sessions to shape the brand and product experience
  • Plan, prioritize, and lead user experience audits, reviews and heuristics evaluations
  • Implement a data-driven philosophy informed by user-centric mindset in our workflows
  • Gather and translate high-level requirements and use cases into detailed process flows, wireframes, and prototypes

Skills you'll need 

Technical

  • 1+ years of experience as a design team lead, 5+ years in the UX design industry.
  • Ability to facilitate design sprints
  • Experience working with developers to implement design and interaction specifications
  • Knowledge in building a living style guide to communication the brand's design system
  • Define UI elements across web and mobile apps for different products, while building and maintaining coherence for our brand
  • Skilfully communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively
  • Proficient in design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Framer and other similar tools
  • Strong understanding about requirements discovery and testing methods

Attitude

  • Unafraid to challenge the team if you feel something can be done in a better way
  • A spirit of collaboration, clear and adaptive communication skills

Bonus skills and attributes

  • Fluent in HTML, CSS, Javascript
  • Knowledge in visualising data
  • A keen eye for interaction design, including strong grasp of graphic design fundamentals (typography, layout, color theory, etc.)
  • Have previous experience working in startups

Koku

Our FX technology solutions enable small to large non-bank money transfer operators such as remittance houses and other liquidity providers to easily tech up and advance their business operations, to provide better and cheaper remittance services to their customers around the world. We’re always looking for talented folks with a great attitude to join our team. Our offices are spread across 2 countries — Singapore and Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 

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