Head, Design Recruitment at TechAdvance

TechAdvance is a payment application development company with a strategic focus in developing and deploying niche payment companies to serve the needs of large public and private sector organisations in Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Head, Design
Job Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer

Job Purpose

• The purpose of this role is to collect, research, investigate and evaluate user requirements and deliver an outstanding user experience providing an exceptional and intuitive application design.

Responsibilities

• Design the information architecture and interaction models for technology products. This may include websites, mobile experiences, or other graphic related work.
• Work in close collaboration with business development and product management teams to develop strategy - addressing product, brand, marketing, content, and overall user experience.
• Conduct user research including contextual interviews and usability testing, and present findings to customers/partners as well as take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
• Create internal and external deliverables including conceptual diagrams, site maps, interaction flows, storyboards, schematics/wireframes, and detailed functional specifications.
• Work iteratively; develop ideas from sketches to prototypes.
• Collaborate with visual designers, design engineers, technical partners and project managers to generate superb design work.
• Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, icons, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Identify design problems, devise elegant solutions as well as make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
• Lead and manage both the overall process and rest of the team.

Requirements

• UX Writing and Research.
• Wireframing and prototyping.
• User communication.
• User empathy.
• Expert in use of JavaScript, CSS and HTML5.
• Solid understanding of usability, UX, UI, interaction design.