Job Description

Mission

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At Wealthbit, we're on a mission to transform financial well-being, empowering individuals and families to live lives full of choice and opportunity. Our Financial Freedom Programme (FFP) equips employees through a powerful combination of our cutting-edge app, monthly workshops, and personalised financial coaching. Within this initiative, we partner with forward-thinking companies who prioritise staff well-being, enabling them to offer impactful support that genuinely enhances employees' lives.


As the first and

Lead Designer

, you'll play a critical role in shaping the design of the Wealthbit platform to achieve the goals of Wealthbit's Financial Freedom Programme, including our new mobile app and other digital touch points for the user. You'll also create systems to scale and optimise design at Wealthbit.

Outcomes

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Improved product usability:

The product feels more intuitive, cohesive, and polished, leading to higher user satisfaction and retention by translating complex requirements into clean, user-friendly experiences.

Stronger alignment between design, product, and engineering:

Design is embedded and influential at Wealthbit. Strong, cross-functional relationships are built, ensuring that design contributes meaningfully to strategy, prioritization, and execution.

Established or Evolved Design Systems:

Develop and improve consistent design systems and UI libraries to reduce design decision fatigue and improves product consistency and delivery speed.

Establish processes for evidence based decision making

User research, testing, and iteration are built into the product process. The team moves from assumption-based design to evidence-based decisions, embedding feedback loops at every stage.

Responsibilities

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Shape and influence product direction:

Contribute to our flavour of the Shape Up process (https://basecamp.com/shapeup/webbook) by identifying opportunities to improve the product and advocating for design solutions that address user pain points.

Lead and execute UX/UI design for key projects:

Develop user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that solve real problems for users.

Define and refine Wealthbit's design language:

Create and maintain design systems, component libraries, and style guides to ensure brand consistency and scalability across all digital touch points people have with Wealthbit.

Prototype designs:

Work with the head of product to illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and the occasional design prototype in order to minimise risk before implementation.

Conduct and oversee ad-hoc user research:

Occasionally design and run usability tests, surveys, and interviews to uncover insights and validate design decisions.

Role-Specific Competencies & Background

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Proven Track Record:

You have 5+ years of UI/UX design experience with demonstrable success in your roles.

Design Systems Thinking:

You can balance long-term scalability with short-term delivery, ensuring that design systems and processes scale as the business grows. For example: you have a fundamental understanding of design systems and how to use them in order to scale the product development process.

Purpose driven:

You are not too precious about any particular design and understand that design is iterative and bound to change based on the needs of the platform and user feedback.

User-Centered Design Thinking

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You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and turning complex requirements into intuitive experiences that meet user and business needs.

Effective Communication:

You can empathise with the listener and communicate complex ideas to at an appropriate level to other. You can make people feel comfortable during customer interview sessions.

Iterative Mindset:

You embrace iteration and feedback: You're not precious about your work and welcome feedback as an opportunity to improve. You iterate quickly and effectively.

Initiative & Problem Solving:

You proactively identify gaps, propose solutions, and take initiative to drive meaningful change without waiting for permission.

Technical Fluency:

Even though you might not be an expert, you have at least a basic grasp of the core concepts in software development and understand how technical capabilities can impact design solutions.

Asynchronous Collaboration:

You proactively own your goals, manage your time independently, and communicate clear thinking effectively, particularly in written form.

Bonus points if you have:

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Previous experience developing and scaling UI libraries and design systems, and working with developers to optimise the translation of high fidelity designs into a code that delivers on the intended user experience.

How You'll Work at Wealthbit

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We deeply believe our values shape how we achieve our mission:

We focus on what truly matters:

We act with purpose, ensuring our time and energy drive meaningful, lasting impact. By prioritising high-value work, maintaining integrity in our decisions, and taking pride in craftsmanship, we create solutions that truly make a difference.

We create safe spaces for authenticity and connection:

Genuine impact starts with valuing people. We foster an environment of trust, and openness, where diverse perspectives are welcomed, support is freely given, and everyone feels safe to contribute their best ideas.

Client success is our compass:

Our clients' goals define our direction. We put their needs at the heart of every decision, continuously deepening our understanding, proactively delivering value, and ensuring our work makes a real difference in their lives.

We constantly strive to improve and innovate:

The world evolves, and so do we. We embrace curiosity, challenge the status quo, and see setbacks as opportunities to learn and grow--always seeking better ways to serve our clients and push boundaries.

We collaborate to enable each other:

Great outcomes are never achieved alone. We listen actively, contribute constructively, and celebrate each other's strengths--building on shared goals to create impact far greater than the sum of our individual efforts.

We unlock clarity and confidence through simplicity:

Simplicity empowers action. By cutting through complexity, communicating clearly, and streamlining processes, we help people make informed decisions with confidence and ease.

We lead by taking proactive ownership:

We don't wait for change--we drive it. Taking ownership means being accountable, thinking ahead, and making deliberate choices that move us forward, ensuring our collective success.

Other Important Things

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Fully Remote:

Work flexibly from home. If you're in Johannesburg or Cape Town, the team occasionally meets up for important things.

Growth mindset:

We know imposter syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome) can discourage fantastic people from reaching their full potential, some of us have it too, so don't let that deter you from applying.

Retirement Benefits:

Access to a group provident fund, including risk benefits (death, income replacement, funeral cover), helping secure your financial future.

Healthy Work-Life Balance:

High standards paired with the recognition that rest fuels peak performance and well-being.

If you're excited about building something impactful that genuinely changes lives, we'd love to meet you!