Techsavanna Company
Position
Title: UI
/ UX Designer
Location: Techsavanna
Company, Nairobi
Role
Purpose: The UX designer will be required to
understand business and user requirements and facilitate the organizations
product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and
user-testing experiences for digital products.
The UX designer will also be expected
to design the overall look and feel of the product in order to ensure a great
user experience and iterate upon it in accordance with user- testing findings.
Key
Responsibilities
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Gather and evaluate user requirements
in collaboration with product managers and stakeholders
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Facilitate user experience design
thinking sessions to identify business and technical requirements for
technology, research and business initiatives to ensure that designs are
successfully created and implemented to achieve the user goals.
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Provide guidance on incorporating
user research methodologies into the product design and development lifecycles.
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Develop overall user experience,
interaction design and information architecture for technology and business
initiatives at the level of detail and rigor needed by those who must base
their work on the design.
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Use a variety of analytical
techniques to gather and analyze design requirements (e.g. interviews,
facilitated workshops, surveys, site visits, use cases, workflow analysis,
observations, etc.) This includes creating site maps, flows, wireframes,
prototypes and design specifications; analyzing usability test results; and
developing user experience design briefs.
·
Evaluate information gathered from
multiple sources with the aim of resolving conflicts and providing information
to support interaction design prioritization and tradeoff decisions.
·
Define process improvements for the
user experience team and works with the leadership team to communicate and
uphold user experience standards.
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Work with creative & visual leads
and technical leads to understand technical systems and constraints so that
design solutions are technically feasible and optimal and to co-evolve
experience solutions through an iterative design process.
·
Develop expert level knowledge of
competitive and complementary design strategies to ensure a “best approach”
design with every project
·
Establish and promote UX guidelines,
best practices and standards.
·
Act as an internal consultant and
subject matter expert by staying on top of changing UX design technologies, as
well as corporate, organization, and industry standards to ensure leading-edge
interpretation and execution of design applications and to provide business and
technical guidance where appropriate
Agile/Digital
Experience
·
Strong leader, collaborator, team
player, and individual contributor
·
Strong communication skills with
comfort in speaking with business stakeholders
·
Strong problem solver with ability to
manage and lead the team to push the solution and progress
·
Passion to challenge the status quo
and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas – loves and embraces
change
Candidate
must possess the following Requirements
The successful jobholder will be
required to possess the following qualifications: –
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A Bachelor’s degree in an IT related
field or Business related field with relevant IT Professional qualifications.
Graphic or Visual Design, Digital Media Design, other visual specialty or any
other related qualifications will be an added advantage.
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At least 3 years’ relevant work experience
in a role directly related to web design, UX Design / Front-end mobile-web
development experience, product design, product management, production
management, marketing.
·
Strong technical proficiency with UX
tools such as Axure, Balsamiq, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite.
·
Creative problem solver with
experience leading projects and building consensus with multiple stakeholders
and cross-functional teams.
·
Demonstrated ability to scope and
estimate efforts accurately, prioritize tasks and goals independently and
rapidly produce deliverables in a fast-paced iterative environment.
Position Title: Product
Owner
Location: Techsavanna
Company, Nairobi
Key Responsibilities
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Identifies Stakeholder(s)
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Helps develop a Collaboration Plan
·
Helps develop the Team Building Plan
with Scrum Master(s)
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Creates Epic(s) and Personas
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Prioritizes Prioritized Product
Backlog Items
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Defines Done Criteria
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Creates Release Planning Schedule
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Helps determine Length of Sprint
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Helps create User Stories
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Defines Acceptance Criteria for every
User Story
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Works with Scrum Team to commit User
Stories
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Explains User Stories to the Scrum
Team while creating the Task List
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Provides guidance and clarification
to the Scrum Team in estimating effort for tasks
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Clarifies requirements to the Scrum
Team while creating the Sprint Backlog
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Clarifies business requirements to
the Scrum Team
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Grooms the Prioritized Product
Backlog
·
Accepts/Rejects Deliverables
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Provides necessary feedback to Scrum
Master and Scrum Teams
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Helps deploy Product Releases and
coordinates this with the customer
·
Participates in Retrospective Sprint
Meetings.
Agile / Digital Experience
·
Strong leader, collaborator, team
player, and individual contributor
·
Strong communication skills with
comfort in speaking with business stakeholders
·
Strong problem solver with ability to
manage and lead the team to push the solution and progress
·
Passion to challenge the status quo
and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas – loves and embraces
change
Individual Skills, mindset and behaviors
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Strong leader, collaborator, team
player, and individual contributor
·
Strong communication skills with
comfort in speaking with business stakeholders
·
Strong problem solver with ability to
manage and lead the team to push the solution and progress
·
Passion to challenge the status quo
and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas – loves and embraces
change
·
Believes in a non-hierarchical
culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust
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Not afraid to “roll up the sleeves”
and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn – pushes teams to do the same
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Empowers others to fail, learn, and
grow experimental mindset to drive innovation.
Candidate must possess the following Requirements
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Bachelors and/or Masters in Computer
Science, Engineering or a similar relevant field.
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Knowledge of Agile processes and
principles
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Outstanding communication,
presentation and leadership skills
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Solid Understanding and Application
of the Scrum Framework
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Evolving the Agile Organization
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Previous working experience as a
Product Owner or Project Manager
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Excellent organizational and time
management skills
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Creative thinking
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Attention to detail
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Ability to work collaboratively
across the business, and to engage internal and external stakeholders
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Strong independent decision-making,
organizational, planning and problem solving skills
·
Confident, enthusiastic and strategic
with strong leadership and influencing skills
How to Apply
If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess
the necessary qualification and experience, please send your resume with your
cell phone contact indicating your experience and why you are the most suitable
candidate for the role, clearly quoting the job title and job reference to the
address below.
info@techsavanna.technology