The Web Designer will be responsible for designing, building and deploying cutting edge website solutions while delivering the best user experience across our digital properties by designing user-facing applications that make user experience appealing.
Responsibilities:
Create and implement new visual and interactive web designs
Optimize existing user interface design in line with improving our KPIs
Test for intuition and experience
Conduct an ongoing user research
Design new user-facing applications and features
Collaborate with the Product Manager to ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
Create/maintain documentation on the new and existing web features
Experiment with design oriented methods to grow our online community from 600k to 2mn people e.g homepage redesigns
Maintain the website and design innovative ways to increase engagement
Requirements:
Has the ability to live and work in Lagos, Nigeria
Has 3 years or more experience in Web/UI-UX/digital design
Has a design portfolio
Has Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Has the ability to discuss and explain design options
Is detail oriented
Is a critical thinker
Is a problem solver and customer-centered
Has a good knowledge of Adobe range of products including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat and Dreamweaver
Has 2-3 years of experience with HTML5 /CSS3/Wordpress and knowledge about best practices for preparing digital assets for web development
Awareness of UI/UX design
Has a can do attitude and is flexible enough to take on any task we throw at them
Is passionate, hungry and eager to build SLA into a world class institution
Has high professional and ethical standards i.e. understands that there’s no such thing as African time – you’re just late
Is comfortable taking and giving feedback
Has a good sense of humor – because we’ll be working hard so we better keep each other entertained
Is comfortable working in a startup environment where we’re making the rules up as we go along.
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