Senior Product DesignerMeltwater • Cape Town, ZA

Senior Product Designer

Meltwater • Cape Town, ZA

30+ days ago

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Job title : Senior Product Designer

Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town

Deadline : November 22, 2025

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What We’re Looking For

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer to join our innovative team at Meltwater. This role is ideal for a passionate designer who thrives on setting new standards in UX and UI, leads with ownership, and leverages the latest GenAI technology to create best-in-class digital experiences. You will focus on comprehensive UX workflows, larger user journeys, and play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing our design system.

What You’ll Do

Lead End-to-End UX Workflows : Own the design of complex, platform-wide user journeys, ensuring seamless and intuitive experiences that address both user and business needs.

Drive Design System Excellence : Set and evolve standards for our design system, creating scalable, reusable components and patterns that ensure consistency and efficiency across products.

Leverage GenAI Tools : Utilize advanced GenAI platforms (V0, Lovable, Bolt, or Cursor) to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and workflow automation, driving innovation and efficiency.

Champion User-Centered Design : Lead user research, persona development, journey mapping, and usability testing to inform design decisions and iterate rapidly based on insights.

Collaborate and Influence : Partner independently with key stakeholders, product managers, engineers, and executives to align on vision, strategy, and execution, advocating for user needs at every stage.

Set New Standards : Establish and evangelize best practices in UX / UI, accessibility, and modern design methodologies, mentoring and uplifting the broader design team.

Deliver with Precision : Produce pixel-perfect, development-ready assets, flows, wireframes, and final visuals, maintaining meticulous attention to detail and quality throughout the product lifecycle.

Lead Strategic Initiatives : Identify and pursue high-impact design opportunities, driving product innovation in emerging areas and ensuring business impact across global use cases.

Foster a Culture of Excellence : Inspire a passionate design mindset, continually seeking opportunities to elevate the user experience and championing a relentless pursuit of best-in-class solutions.

What You’ll Bring :

6+ years of experience in Product Design (UI / UX), with a strong background in enterprise-grade SaaS applications.

Strong verbal and written communication skills in English are required, as this role involves regular collaboration with global teams.

Mastery of Figma and modern design / prototyping tools.

Hands-on expertise with GenAI tools such as V0, Lovable, Bolt, or Cursor.

Proven leadership in setting and maintaining design systems and standards.

Portfolio demonstrating recent (last 1–2 years) product launches with a focus on UX workflows, large user journeys, and design systems.

Advanced user research skills : Experience building personas, mapping user journeys, and translating insights into actionable design solutions.

Exceptional communication : Ability to present, justify, and advocate for design decisions with stakeholders at all levels.

Independent ownership : Comfortable leading projects, making decisions, and driving outcomes with minimal supervision.

Collaborative mindset : Extensive experience partnering with engineering and product teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Adaptability : Thrive in a fast-paced, evolving SaaS environment, responding quickly to change and ambiguity.

Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or a related field.

Bonus : Experience with React and third-party design system tools.

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