Senior UI Designer

Senior User Interface Designers craft high quality, intuitive, and scalable digital interfaces that enable exceptional customer experiences across Absa’s digital ecosystem. They solve complex customer and business problems through deep expertise in visual design, interaction design, and design systems, combined with a strong understanding of customer behaviour and platform constraints.

• Partner with Design Project Leads, Product Designers, and Design Managers and Business stakeholders to unpack complex problems and translate customer needs into clear UI-focused problem statements.
• Lead the definition of UI approach, scope, outputs, and milestones for projects within your discipline.
• Translate complex product, technical, and customer concepts into clear, intuitive, and aesthetically strong interface solutions.
• Execute day-to-day high-quality UI design across multiple journeys or products, solving one complex or several interconnected customer problems.
• Design optimal interface solutions through rapid exploration, iteration, testing, and refinement.
• Advocate for and apply human-centred design and design thinking practices, with a strong emphasis on usability and clarity.
• Take ownership of UI standards adherence, constructively challenging decisions that compromise quality, scalability, accessibility, or consistency.
• Proactively collaborate with design, product, and engineering teams working on related journeys to ensure cohesive experiences.

• Matric (mandatory)
• Degree or diploma in a Design discipline (NQF level 7) such as Interaction Design, Digital or Visual Design, Graphic or Communication Design, Multimedia Design, Product or Service Design
• Minimum 8 years experience in design craft
• Strong technical, craft and AI skills
• Proven track record of delivering complex, high-quality interface design solutions with measurable customer and business impact.
• Experience working across the full product delivery lifecycle (analysis, design, build, launch, iteration).
• Strong ability to communicate ideas visually through sketches, design tools, prototypes, interaction flows, and presentations.