Position Title: Associate UX/UI Designer (Product Development)
Employer: Abyssinia Bank
Employment: Full-Time | Permanent
Place of Work: Addis Ababa - Ethiopia
Posted date: 3 months ago
Deadline: Submission date is over
Job Objective:
Designs user experiences (UX) and user interfaces (UI) for products with growing independence and ownership.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Executes design tasks across research, wire framing, prototyping, and visual design, while receiving guidance from senior designers and continuously advancing their skills.
- Conduct user research through interviews, surveys, usability tests, field studies, and competitor analysis.
- Assist in conducting UX research and translating findings into low-to-mid fidelity wireframes.
- Participate in defining and refining personas using research insights.
- Support the creation of intuitive UI elements such as icons, layouts, components etc.
- Support the Help design of user flows, interaction models, and screen transitions.
- Organize content and features using information architecture and sitemap planning.
- Contribute to maintaining UI/UX documentation and design libraries.
- Collaborate with IT team to ensure UI implementation reflects design intent.
- Participate in design critiques and agile team discussions to refine design output.
- Learn and apply core UX principles like usability, hierarchy, and user psychology.
- Test the developed application to ensure the implemented UI/UX by the IT team matches the approved designs.
- Support problem definition by summarizing user needs and challenges from research data.
- Explore multiple ideation techniques such as sketching, storyboarding, and card sorting to contribute design ideas.
- Assist in developing user scenarios and use cases to validate design direction.
- Practice version control and design history tracking to maintain a clear design process.
- Responsible for the day-to-day aspects of the team, including planning/scheduling, process management, and task delivery with regard to assigned responsibilities.
- Assist in establishing and monitoring metrics to ensure customer satisfaction
- Prepare, consolidate, review and deliver periodic reports.
- Act upon the duties of UX/UI Designer in his/her absence.
- Perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Qualification
- BSC Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering or other related fields. Certificate in UX/UI/graphic design is advantageous.
- Minimum of 4 years’ professional experience, of which 3 years in the area of UX/UI or Graphic Design. Experience in banking industry is advantageous.
