Junior Product Designer

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. Pastureloop operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month. Support shifts are shared, so engineers spend a few hours a quarter answering customer tickets.

Position summary:

Pastureloop has an opening for a Junior Product Designer. We're looking for a designer who shows their process, takes critique well and knows when a design is good enough to ship. This is a hybrid role. Most of the team is in the Pretoria office Tuesday to Thursday.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Work with product managers to define problems and success measures
• Present work in design critiques and respond to feedback
• Run usability tests with customers, moderated or through Maze or UserTesting
• Map current workflows and pain points using research and support data
• Write handoff specs covering states, edge cases and responsive behaviour
• Partner with content design on microcopy and error messages
• Design user flows, wireframes and high-fidelity screens in Figma

What you need:

• 1+ years of product or UX design experience on digital products
• Working knowledge of WCAG accessibility guidelines
• Understanding of interaction design principles and usability heuristics
• Expert in Figma, including auto layout, components and variants
• Comfort running basic user research and usability tests
• Experience designing for both web and mobile

Preferred qualifications:

• B2B or data-heavy interfaces
• Basic HTML and CSS

Salary range: R41,000 - R53,000 pcm

Perks and benefits:

• Hybrid working

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Pastureloop.