Experienced UX / Graphic Designer at VPD.Money

VPD.Money is one of Nigeria’s leading digital banking platform, that provides its users’ lifestyle financial services unifying wallet and digital banking experience in order to bridge the gap between Africa and the global e-commerce market. Enabling connectivity that drives performance powered by individuals, African – International SMEs, and the diaspora community seeking to trade or complete transactions in / with Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Experienced UX / Graphic Designer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time

Job Description

We are looking to hire an experienced Graphics and UX designer interested in designing innovative experiences for financial services products. The ideal candidate MUST have a minimum of 3 years experience with good design portfolio and knowledge of design tools.
Preferred candidates should be a creative designer with enough front-end experience to build out his or her designs using clean, compliant HTML and CSS.

Responsibilites
To succeed in this role, the following will be expected:

Think creatively and develop new design concepts, graphics and layouts
Create graphics designs for online and offline usage
Developing and maintaining website content and layout;
Drive the user experience across all product offerings and create aesthetically appealing UI designs that clearly articulate functionality.
Define the product audience and produce user personas and scenarios
Development of all marketing and packaging design materials-development of all marketing and packaging design materials;
Manage usability testing and market research working closely with product teams
Continuously evaluate products and feed learnings back into the product development process.
Design a wide range of user experiences, including websites, mobile apps, in-store digital engagement services.
Creating design briefs, project plans, scenarios and product storyboards.
Assisting with social media campaign graphics.
Demonstrate proven graphic designing experience
Keep abreast of emerging technologies in new media, particularly design programs such as InDesign, QuarkXPress, FreeHand, Illustrator, Photoshop, 3ds Max, Acrobat, Director, Dreamweaver and Flash
Developing concepts, graphics and layouts for product illustrations, company logos, and websites
Using innovation to redefine a design brief within the constraints of cost and time
Possession of creative flair, versatility, conceptual/visual ability and originality
Demonstrable graphic design skills with a strong portfolio
Ability to interact, communicate and present ideas

Job Qualification

Should possess HND / B.Sc qualification
Minimum 3-5 Years of Experience

Skills Set:
What is required:

Can produce engaging experiences, enjoys usability research, and solve UI challenges through a design thinking process
Can create functional designs for HTML, CSS, XHTML, JQuery applications and User Interface Standards Principles
Ability to provide illustration and wireframing for product development.
Good knowledge of design tools (e.g Sketch, Illustrator and Photoshop)
Analytical skill, artistic ability, innovative competence
Be able to interact, communicate and present ideas creatively
Ability to meet deadlines and time management skills
Candidate should include samples of works done (between 3 & 5) in application
Up to date with industry-leading software and technologies (In Design, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Photoshop etc.
Gather requirements and generate rapid prototypes to help illustrate complex user experience solutions or interaction designs
Collaborate with digital media and strategy team lead, project office and engineering team to drive seamless product development processes.
Produce visual assets for inclusion in corporate and marketing communications (e.g presentations and products.
Improve the user experience of existing products