UX & UI Manager (Johannesburg)

19 hours ago 5

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Remuneration:	market-related
Location:	Johannesburg
Job level:	Mid/Senior
Type:	Permanent
Company:	Ad Talent Africa

Job description

A high-growth international business is looking for a hands-on UX & UI Manager to lead the design and user experience across a portfolio of websites, shaping seamless and engaging digital journeys across every touchpoint.

This is a senior role suited to someone who combines strong UX strategy with polished UI execution and enjoys taking ownership from concept through to delivery.

You will drive the end-to-end website experience, improve how users move between platforms and set the standard for design across the portfolio. The environment is entrepreneurial and fast-paced, ideal for someone proactive, commercially minded and comfortable building within ambiguity.

What you’ll be doing:

Own the design of our website portfolio end-to-end, leading projects from discovery and ideation through wireframing, prototyping, visual design and final execution with engineering
Take ownership of the parent journey - the overarching user experience that connects our websites - ensuring consistency, coherence and a seamless flow across properties
Define how individual sites relate to one another within the wider ecosystem, balancing the needs of each site against the holistic experience
Partner closely with product, marketing, content and engineering teams to translate business goals and user needs into well-crafted web experiences
Conduct and commission user research - including interviews, usability testing and data-informed analysis and turn insights into design decisions
Build and maintain design systems, patterns and guidelines that scale across the portfolio and keep the sites visually and functionally aligned
Set the quality bar for UI craft across the portfolio: typography, layout, interaction design, accessibility, responsive behaviour and visual polish
Use analytics, heatmaps and conversion data to continuously refine journeys and identify opportunities for improvement
Advocate for the user and for design thinking across the business, influencing roadmaps and digital strategy
Identify opportunities proactively, spotting problems worth solving, proposing solutions and driving initiatives without needing to be asked

What we’re looking for:

Significant experience designing websites, with strong UX and UI skills - equally comfortable in a research workshop and pushing pixels in Figma
A portfolio demonstrating shipped web work across the full design lifecycle, ideally including multi-site or portfolio-level thinking
Demonstrable experience owning cross-site or end-to-end user journeys, not just individual pages or flows
Experience leading projects end-to-end, managing competing priorities and collaborating with cross-functional teams
An entrepreneurial, self-directed approach, takes initiative and moves fast
Strong communication skills: able to articulate design decisions, facilitate workshops and bring stakeholders along
Fluency in modern design tools (Figma or equivalent), prototyping and design systems
A solid grasp of responsive design, web accessibility (WCAG) and the practical constraints of designing for the web
Experience working with analytics and data to inform design decisions

Requirements

Analytics

Data

UX / UI

Posted on 19 May 12:13, Closing date 18 Jun

We are niched in the communications industry with offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town from where we service all of South Africa, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the rest of the world. Our portfolios include Digital, Creative and Client Service in Advertising, Marketing, Media, Public Relations and Corporate Communications.