We are looking for a talented Designer / UI expert to drive cutting-edge designs, UX on our website and in our activities online. The successful candidate will take the graphic and user interface of our website to the next level and beyond. We want to talk to you if your portfolio includes clean, modern, responsive websites with outstanding and bullet-proof navigational structures. If you understand which design decisions should be driven by aesthetics and which ones by data this is the right role for you.About AluOur purpose is to catalyze change in Africa and around the world by building the world’s most innovative university. Our engaging learning experiences integrate technology, personalized learning, real world projects and entrepreneurial leadership to create innovators, game-changers, and problem-solvers. We ask our students to declare a ‘mission’ for their lives instead of declaring an academic major. Our two undergraduate campuses—Mauritius and Rwanda—are well in operation, as is our graduate School of Business. Moving forward, we plan to scale across the continent and then around the world, ultimately developing 3 million entrepreneurs and leaders by 2035. We are growing rapidly: student enrollment increased by 1,200% between 2015 and 2017 and revenue grew by 650% in 2017. In 2017, the New York Times described ALU as one of ‘8 places in the world where history is being made’, and in 2016, Fast Company named ALU the ‘third most innovative company in Africa’ while CNN described ALU as the ‘Harvard of Africa’.About The Ux/Ui TeamUX/UI Designers at ALU work to facilitate this transition by building responsive technology to communicate with stakeholders and hear from them in a seamless way. The UX and UI team will support the design and integration of the different marketing components of the user experience to all the different key stakeholders of ALU by providing user perspectives, prototypes/mock-ups, design frameworks, processes, and best practices to the various teams. The team will also be in charge of evaluating whether ALU is delivering on its promise by tracking the performance and reception of its various products and initiatives. In addition, the team manages the ALU website ensuring its up to date will information related to ALU that will be valuable to key stakeholders.About The RoleThe role reports to the VP of Marketing, and entails the strategy and management of web design, including UX and UI management. More specifically your responsibilities will include:
Driving our visual identity across all online channels
Participating, implementing and managing effective UX and UI strategies
Supporting the onboarding of new user journey tools and processes
Creating prototypes, wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, site maps and mock-ups to communicate interaction and design ideas
Conceptualising original website design and UX ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex tasks
Executing visual design stages from concept to implementation within WordPress
Overseeing, testing and optimising materials for optimum user flow on our website
Establishing and promoting design guidelines, best practices and standards
Creating PSDs for visual layout of web pages and convert each design into HTML and CSS
Maintaining and updating all JQuery plugins for website
Tracking on-site KPIs (e.g. user-flows, conversions) in order to manage site performance
Keeping abreast of the latest designs and UX trends
Requirements
BS, MS or BA in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design or a Visual Arts, Marketing or Business
Minimum 3+ years of experience, or equivalent expertise in Design, UX and UI
Demonstrable visual and graphic design skills with a clear understanding of the importance of user-centred design and design thinking
Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design
A solid grasp of user-centred design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns
Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and sitemaps
Strong analytical skills and the ability to build and generate reports on UX performance
Process-driven but yet flexible, creative with the ability to drive projects independently based on briefs
Experience working in an agile company environment where employees are expected to lead from the front with integrity
Ability to perform under pressure and cope with tight deadlines
Superior written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
Strong passion to succeed, contagious energy and desire to have fun in the process
Leave a Reply