Associate Product Designer (UIUX)

at  Megaexe

JOB DESCRIPTION/REQUIREMENTS

At Megaexe, we’re committed to an environment where everyone has the autonomy and freedom to thrive and the support of like-minded colleagues motivated by a common goal: Transforming businesses.
We have multiple opportunities for designers to join our emerging team in Nigeria.
You’ll be part of a growing team, delivering value to our clients through creative product designs.
You’ll work closely with the product development team, influencing the direction of products and helping the team get there. You’ll collaborate with developers, designing frames that you are proud of and delivering exceptional results that users love.
If you live and breathe modern designs and nerd out on delivering scalable products that enable teams to move with speed, then we would love for you to join the team. As a designer, you will be dedicated to user experience, love solving problems, and thrive on variety; this is an excellent opportunity. If you want to impact products people rely on and use daily, this is an outstanding opportunity.
You’ll work on exciting design initiatives and deliver cutting-edge designs. You will be involved in early-stage research and ideation, implementation, and iteration. Ultimately, you’ll be responsible for crafting a powerful and intuitive user experience for Developers.
You will define and conduct research that informs our ultimate mission and feeds the design, strategy, and development of software products. You will join an innovative, passionate team that works together to improve our research craft and our ability to help Megaexe build better experiences for our clients and partners.
You will be given broad autonomy to work with your engineering and product counterparts in crafting new experiences and features to grow our software products and those of our partners. This is an excellent opportunity for designers who love experimenting and working collaboratively to find new opportunities for our client base.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Design and deliver unique and beautiful solutions that support the latest design system, UI Foundations, components, and service experience from an accessibility point of view
• Design, experiments, and validate hypotheses related to company and client needs
• Contribute to creating seamless end-to-end experiences that directly shape the future of Businesses.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Content Design, Research, Marketing, and customer-facing teams
• Be a true champion for our users while solving complex problems, with a focus on improving experience quality
• Report to a Product Manager and conduct research using generative and evaluative methods to help improve products.
• Communicate research insights in credible, creative ways to help teams understand the needs of our clients.
• Work on designing the core user experiences for Software Products.
• Facilitate workshops with engineers, product managers, and customers for potential solutions to the identified problems in the most effective way.
• Design experiences that make complex tasks simple for users

On your first day, we’ll expect you to have:

• 1+ years of hands-on professional experience as a UX Designer or Product Designer
• Proficiency in designing with tools such as Figma, Framer, Mural, Adobe Stack, Afinity
• A flexible and iterative approach to working with teams
• Excellent knowledge of design systems and modern visual design practices
• Experience conducting customer research and applying insights to your work
• The ability to make tradeoffs, solicit feedback, communicate design decisions, and facilitate design discussions
• You will bring 2+ years of hands-on experience designing and conducting user research. We would love to hear stories of how your research influenced product roadmaps, informed design decisions, and product development.
• You will have experience with qualitative (and some quantitative) research methods and know when, why, and how to apply them. We value your ability to be creative when thinking about the research problem you’re trying to solve.
• You will be proficient in data management, analysis, and insights generation. We will look for engaging techniques for sharing research recommendations and the ability to bring teams along on the research journey.
• Work across the entire end-to-end design process, from very early-stage research and ideation to iteration and implementation.
• A passion for design thinking methods with a deep understanding and a high degree of empathy for the people who experience your work
• Anticipate design problems and decisions and recommend alternatives
• Show solid research knowledge, i.e. you can define what user research needs to be done (and you’re excited to do some yourself) and use existing research findings in your work
• Designing for inclusive and accessible experiences is your area of expertise
• Knowledge of Accessibility requirements (e.g., Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, WCAG)
• Experience working with people with disabilities and knowledge of Assistive Technologies on mobile platforms
• Experience in implementing Accessibility in UI components, including interoperability with Assistive Technologies
• Facilitation and collaboration skills: you can demonstrate the ability to work with multiple teams, solicit and summarise feedback, and facilitate design discussions
• Be comfortable with facilitation, communication, and collaboration. Have a flexible and friendly approach to working with teams, and the attitude to always strive for the best outcomes.
• Work alongside a fellow designer, product manager and engineers to optimize the experience for how customers interact with product experiences.

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• Design and deliver unique and beautiful solutions that support the latest design system, UI Foundations, components, and service experience from an accessibility point of view
• Design, experiments, and validate hypotheses related to company and client needs
• Contribute to creating seamless end-to-end experiences that directly shape the future of Businesses.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Content Design, Research, Marketing, and customer-facing teams
• Be a true champion for our users while solving complex problems, with a focus on improving experience quality
• Report to a Product Manager and conduct research using generative and evaluative methods to help improve products.
• Communicate research insights in credible, creative ways to help teams understand the needs of our clients.
• Work on designing the core user experiences for Software Products.
• Facilitate workshops with engineers, product managers, and customers for potential solutions to the identified problems in the most effective way.
• Design experiences that make complex tasks simple for user