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Senior Specialist CX and UX Designer

Tipp Focus Holdings

South Africa · On-site Full-time Lead 2d ago

About the role

About The Employer

Process

Key Responsibilities

  • Shape, design, and guide customer and user experience strategies to solve complex problems.
  • Lead the development of complex, multifaceted business process solutions.
  • Ensure that Organisation services are structured according to the needs, expectations, and behaviours of both customers and employees.
  • Provide thought leadership in embedding user- and human-centred design principles throughout the organization.
  • Drive user research and innovation initiatives to create impactful, user-focused experiences that contribute to business growth.
  • Translate consolidated feedback and insights into strategic design solutions that enhance service delivery, improve accessibility, and encourage voluntary compliance.
  • Operate at a strategic level, influencing cross-functional and cross-product policies, service design efforts, and digital transformation projects to deliver consistent, intuitive, and seamless experiences across all customer and employee interactions.
  • Lead multidisciplinary design and engineering teams.
  • Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.
  • Develop and ensure implementation of own practices to build delivery excellence, encouraging others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
  • Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
  • Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ensure customer and user input is integrated across all business design domains.
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive UX and UI design systems, as well as service design standards and principles.
  • Establish effective connections between customer experience research and functional design implementation.
  • Provide strategic design leadership for digital and process-driven service initiatives with a focus on the customer perspective.
  • Facilitate service design sprints and co-design workshops in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Support the end-to-end management of the service lifecycle, from discovery through delivery and ongoing improvement.

Requirements

Must have Knowledge on:

  • Understands a situation or problem by breaking it into smaller pieces/tracing the implications of situation in a step-by-step way.
  • Has good general knowledge with some detailed knowledge of products/functions.
  • The knowledge and interpretation of the functional policies and procedures, including monitoring their consistent application internally within Organisation.
  • Apply practical and applied knowledge and act authoritatively on methods, systems, and procedures to identify trends and potential risks.

Desired Skills:

  • Fairness and Transparency
  • Business Knowledge
  • Process Auditing
  • Conducting User research and usability testing

Desired Work Experience:

  • 5 to 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

Qualifications and Experience:

  • Honors or Master's degree in UX Design, HCI, Computer Science, Public Administration, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of experience in UX/UI or CX designs, with at least 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level working in the financial services, public sector, digital government, or service design for regulated industries.
  • At least 3-4 years' experience in designing end-to-end business process solutions, integrating CX and UX design principles to ensure solutions are intuitive, user-friendly, and aligned with customer needs.
  • Between 3-4 years' experience in leading large complex and multi-facet design projects.
  • Between 3-4 years' experience overseeing and mentoring cross-functional teams of technical specialists, ensuring alignment between business objectives, technical feasibility, and user experience.
  • Solid experience in establishing process governance framework.
  • Solid experience in dealing with and interacting with executive leadership within an organization.
  • Proven extensive business process management experience.

Behavioural competencies:

  • Fairness and Transparency
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Accountability
  • Conceptual Ability
  • Fairness
  • Honesty & Integrity
  • Trust
  • Respect
  • Problem Solving and Analysis
  • Attention to Detail
  • Commitment to Continuous Learning
  • Organisational Awareness
  • Building Sustainability
  • User Empathy
  • Agility
  • UX Leadership
  • Problem Solving
  • Technical Expression of User Requirements
  • Agile and Adaptable
  • Curious
  • Customer Service
  • Innovation
  • Critical Thinking: Analysing complex problems and evaluating multiple solutions.
  • Communication: Clearly articulating design decisions and rationale to stakeholders.
  • Adaptability: Adjusting decisions based on feedback and changing requirements.

Requirements

  • Understands a situation or problem by breaking it into smaller pieces/tracing the implications of situation in a step-by-step way.
  • Has good general knowledge with some detailed knowledge of products/functions.
  • The knowledge and interpretation of the functional policies and procedures, including monitoring their consistent application internally within Organisation.
  • Apply practical and applied knowledge and act authoritatively on methods, systems, and procedures to identify trends and potential risks.
  • Honors or Master's degree in UX Design, HCI, Computer Science, Public Administration, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of experience in UX/UI or CX designs, with at least 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level working in the financial services, public sector, digital government, or service design for regulated industries.
  • At least 3-4 years' experience in designing end-to-end business process solutions, integrating CX and UX design principles to ensure solutions are intuitive, user-friendly, and aligned with customer needs,
  • Between 3-4 years' experience in leading large complex and multi-facet design projects.
  • Between 3-4 years' experience overseeing and mentoring cross-functional teams of technical specialists, ensuring alignment between business objectives, technical feasibility, and user experience.
  • Solid experience in establishing process governance framework
  • Solid experience in dealing with and interacting with executive leadership within an organization
  • Proven extensive business process management experience.
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Accountability
  • Conceptual Ability
  • Fairness
  • Honesty & Integrity
  • Trust
  • Respect
  • Problem Solving and Analysis
  • Attention to Detail
  • Commitment to Continuous Learning
  • Organisational Awareness
  • Building Sustainability
  • User Empathy
  • Agility
  • UX Leadership
  • Problem Solving
  • Technical Expression of User Requirements
  • Agile and Adaptable
  • Curious
  • Customer Service
  • Innovation
  • Critical Thinking: Analysing complex problems and evaluating multiple solutions.
  • Communication: Clearly articulating design decisions and rationale to stakeholders.
  • Adaptability: Adjusting decisions based on feedback and changing requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Shape, design, and guide customer and user experience strategies to solve complex problems.
  • Lead the development of complex, multifaceted business process solutions.
  • Ensure that Organisation services are structured according to the needs, expectations, and behaviours of both customers and employees.
  • Provide thought leadership in embedding user- and human-centred design principles throughout the organization.
  • Drive user research and innovation initiatives to create impactful, user-focused experiences that contribute to business growth.
  • Translate consolidated feedback and insights into strategic design solutions that enhance service delivery, improve accessibility, and encourage voluntary compliance.
  • Operate at a strategic level, influencing cross-functional and cross-product policies, service design efforts, and digital transformation projects to deliver consistent, intuitive, and seamless experiences across all customer and employee interactions.
  • Lead multidisciplinary design and engineering teams.
  • Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.
  • Develop and ensure implementation of own practices to build delivery excellence, encouraging others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
  • Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
  • Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ensure customer and user input is integrated across all business design domains.
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive UX and UI design systems, as well as service design standards and principles.
  • Establish effective connections between customer experience research and functional design implementation.
  • Provide strategic design leadership for digital and process-driven service initiatives with a focus on the customer perspective.
  • Facilitate service design sprints and co-design workshops in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Support the end-to-end management of the service lifecycle, from discovery through delivery and ongoing improvement.

Skills

CXHCIUXUX DesignUX Leadership

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