Who are Future Forex?
Our mission is to transform the Forex industry in South Africa through premium support, automation, innovation (i.e. Blockchain), and complete transparency. In addition to this, we also continue to enhance our Crypto Arbitrage investment product, which to date yields returns leagues ahead of traditional investments, making it one of the best-performing investment products in South Africa.
Future Forex is powered by a young, open-minded team that values autonomy and works remotely. We’re looking to grow exponentially in the Forex space and need to scale our service efficiently to do so.
Why is now a good time to join us?
We recently rolled out our cutting-edge Forex platform and mobile app, and have some exciting projects planned. This means you’ll play a massive role in setting product direction, designing high-impact solutions and be perfectly positioned to become an integral part of the team as we continue growing. Going forward, we aim to expand globally and leverage our agility, inventiveness and drive to improve the livelihoods of billions. Joining now offers the rare opportunity to play a massive role in this goal.
The opportunity
To grow our service offering, we need to enhance our existing platform, expand our Forex and Crypto Arbitrage services with new features, and continuously improve the user experience and visual design of our products.
The ideal candidate for the Product Designer role is someone with a strong UX/UI background, ideally in the Finance space, who can deeply understand our business goals and work closely with leadership to turn product requirements into high-quality, intuitive, and user-focused design solutions.
You’ll take ownership of the design process from start to finish, working closely with the Product and Engineering team to shape our platform’s interface, user journeys, and overall look and feel to help us deliver easy-to-use products that users love. You’ll play a key role in growing our internal design capability and ensuring the quality of the platform. This includes coordinating with external design resources, and over time managing an in-house team.
This is a great opportunity for someone passionate about designing usable solutions and solving real-world problems in the fintech space.
What you’ll do
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Collaborate with Product Owners and relevant stakeholders to lead the visual and UX/UI design process, from requirements gathering and ideation through to final quality control and post-release evaluation
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Coordinate with external design resources, and over time, managing an in-house team
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Design and refine user journeys, ensuring a seamless and intuitive experience across devices
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Translate product requirements into wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mock-ups
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Leverage your experience, UX/UI best practices and competitor analysis to rapidly solve design problems
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Iterate designs based on internal feedback, product constraints, and user needs
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Help evolve and maintain our brand identity, interface components, and design standards
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Work closely with Developers to ensure accurate implementation of your designs through quality assurance and user testing
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Put yourself in the client’s shoes to continuously analyse, improve and adapt products for the best possible user experience
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Ensure new features are easy to use and visually polished before release
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Contribute to the continuous improvement of our products and design practice
What you’ll need
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At least 3 years' experience in a Product Design, UX/UI or similar role
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Experience designing platforms in the finance/SaaS space is beneficial, but not necessary
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A strong portfolio, demonstrating UX/UI intuition, high-quality wireframes, clean user flows and high-fidelity designs
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Proficiency with Figma
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Solid understanding of user-centred design principles and Design Thinking
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Strong visual design skills, user-centricity and attention to detail
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Experience working with cross-functional teams, coordinating deliverables closely with product and engineering
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A start-up mindset, comfortable with products failing and having to be proactively and rapidly iterated
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Comfortable as a self-starter working remotely, managing multiple requests with a fast-paced turnaround time
What it’s like to work here
- We’re deliverable focused: Working a set number of hours a week is not important to us. What matters is how quickly we can bring high quality deliverables to production. If you’re focused and effective, you’ll find yourself well-rewarded!
- We reward excellence: We deeply appreciate anyone who relishes making a real impact and is happy to go the extra mile in doing so. We are quick to reward those who overachieve with deserving performance bonuses.
- We don’t like micromanaging: We want to integrate you quickly so you can manage your own time and projects. That being said, we love collaboration, so we’re always happy to help one another and will never leave you in the dark!
- We’re all about transparency: We believe transparency is key to our success and have made it the cornerstone of our investment offering, giving clients full access to their funds and trading history at all times. We also focus on transparency amongst our team, creating an enjoyable and inclusive workplace.