Sanlam Fintech is a newly established digital first business within the Sanlam Group on a mission to democratize financial advice and solutions for everyone across the African continent. We exist to pioneer inclusive financial confidence helping people build strong foundations to bridge the gap in generational wealth. Our culture us that of agility and constant deployment, we believe in learning fast, learning cheap and learning forward. Our aim is to provide a work environment where knowledge workers can accelerate the development of their ideas and bring innovation to market, at the same time provide compelling career and development proposition that will enable them to realize their dreams.
About Indie
Were on a mission to empower and guide people to financial freedom, and we need your big beautiful brain to do it right. We love using technology to solve problems big or small. We dont do jargon or confusion, because empowering people means we keep it simple and honest. And were here for everyone so were dedicated to closing the gaps in understanding money.
We're looking for someone to join our User Experience (UX) team, helping us build world-class financial products for a mobile-native generation. Sanlam Indie looks, feels and works like a startup, but has the backing and expertise of a leading South African insurance and investment giant - Sanlam.
If you love working in cross-functional teams, and come alive building things to solve real-world problems, youll love working at Indie.
What will you do?
As a Product Designer at Indie, we'd like you to help us create great customer experiences with user-centred and visual design principles on web. Youll be working in conjunction with designers while collaborating with stakeholders such as the marketing team, product owners and tech teams to identify problems and design appropriate solutions.
Youll most likely be doing the following most of the time:
- Effectively communicate your designs to developers and other key stakeholders.
- Conduct industry research and stay up-to-date on best practices.
- Assist with and sometimes conduct, observe and analyse usability testing sessions.
- Develop standard UI components and contribute to the design system.
- Use various techniques such as sketching, user flows, low fidelity prototypes and wireframes to ideate and communicate interaction and design concepts.
- Produce high quality polished UI design solutions such as responsive website designs and applications.
- Create clickable prototypes to demonstrate and communicate the interaction of your design solutions.
- Mentoring and coaching other designers.
- Support the QA team to make sure features are implemented as intended.
- Present designs to stakeholders, solicit and process feedback.
- Youre a self-starter, you find what needs to be done and do it.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, and ability to present work to stakeholders.
- A willingness to extend yourself and assist other team members.
- When it comes to design, you care as much about what it is and how it works, as you do about what it looks like.
- The idea of incorporating user feedback, data-derived insights and research into your design process excites you more than youd like to admit.
- Ability to innovate and develop out-of-the-box solutions to complex user interaction problems.
- Strong presentation skills and the ability to explain design decisions in a convincing manner
- You are an expert in the craft of both UX and UI for websites and web applications
- You contribute to the design system
- You are able to assist with and sometimes plan, conduct or observe usability testing sessions.
- You are expected to provide a greater contribution to cross functional meetings
- You are able to present and articulate clear rationale for your design decisions.
- We supply your equipment (Macbook Pro) and software.
- There is a budget for books and learning material/courses.
- A significant amount of leave days to balance your work and life.
- Hybrid work - work is something you do, not a place you do it at, we work remotely most of the time, but do encourage face time with teams to build relationships and make solutioning easier.
As a member of the Indie team, youll have the opportunity to play a key role in the transformation of the personal finance industry in South Africa. Youll work with a group of smart, driven and fun people, in an environment where youll be given responsibility and freedom to do great work and solve really challenging problems.
What weexpect from Indie team members
- A large part of our work is done remotely, so we place a lot of value on effective communication. Were looking for people who can communicate extremely well across different mediums and have a desire to build collaborative relationships and teams.
- Our work is never done, and sometimes the goal posts change more than wed like, so adaptability, empathy and proactivity are a must.
- Personal accountability and drive to constantly improve are key ingredients in our team.
Were all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Turnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
