Job title : Senior Product Designer
Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town
Deadline : October 18, 2025
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- 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.ICT jobs