Sabenza IT

Senior Specialist CX & UX Designer

Sabenza IT  •  Pretoria, ZA (Onsite)  •  7 days ago
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Job Description


Are you a visionary

CX/UX leader

who thrives on
solving complex problems and shaping meaningful user experiences at scale?


An exciting opportunity awaits for a

Senior Specialist CX
& UX Designer

to play a pivotal role in transforming how services are
designed and delivered within a highly impactful, large-scale environment. This
role is ideal for someone who can think strategically, lead confidently, and
deliver user-centered solutions that truly make a difference.


You’ll be at the forefront of

digital transformation

,
driving innovation, influencing strategy, and leading multidisciplinary teams
to create seamless, intuitive, and impactful experiences for both customers and
employees.


Key Responsibilities:


• Shape, design, and guide customer and user experience
strategies to solve complex problems.

• Lead the development of complex, multifaceted business process solutions.

• Ensure that SARS’ services are structured according to the needs,
expectations, and behaviors of both customers and employees.

• Provide thought leadership in embedding user- and human-centered design
principles throughout the organization.

• Drive user research and innovation initiatives to create impactful,
user-focused experiences that contribute to business growth.

• Translate consolidated feedback and insights into strategic design solutions
that enhance service delivery, improve accessibility, and encourage voluntary
compliance.

• Operate at a strategic level, influencing cross-functional and cross-product
policies, service design efforts, and digital transformation projects to
deliver consistent, intuitive, and seamless experiences across all customer and
employee interactions.

• Lead multidisciplinary design and engineering teams.


Process:


• Ensure customer and user input is integrated
across all business design domains.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive UX and UI design systems, as well as
service design standards and principles.

• Establish effective connections between customer experience research and
functional design implementation.

• Provide strategic design leadership for digital and process-driven service
initiatives with a focus on the customer perspective.

• Facilitate service design sprints and co-design workshops in collaboration
with internal and external stakeholders.

• Support the end-to-end management of the service lifecycle, from discovery
through delivery and ongoing improvement.

Governance:


• Develop and /or align governance and compliance policies
for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.


People:


• Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained
through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your
job.

• Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership
in area of expertise.


Finance:


• Implement and monitor financial control, management of
costs and corporate governance in area of specialization.


Requirements


• Honors or Master’s degree in UX Design, HCI, Computer
Science, Public Administration, or a related field.

• 8+ years of experience in UX/UI or CX designs, with at least 3–4 years
ideally at operational specialist level working in the financial services,
public sector, digital government, or service design for regulated industries.

• At least 3-4 years’ experience in designing end-to-end business process
solutions, integrating CX and UX design principles to ensure solutions are
intuitive, user-friendly, and aligned with customer needs,

• Between 3-4 years’ experience in leading large complex and multi-facet design
projects.

• Between 3-4 years’ experience overseeing and mentoring cross-functional teams
of technical specialists, ensuring alignment between business objectives,
technical feasibility, and user experience.

• Solid experience in establishing process governance framework

• Solid experience in dealing with and interacting with executive leadership
within an organization

• Proven extensive business process management experience.
Sabenza IT

About Sabenza IT

Sabenza iT Recruitment is a Level 2 BBBEE company with more than 23 years of expertise in Information Technology recruitment. Our team comprises 20 recruiters dedicated to providing top-notch services in recruiting for sectors such as SAP, IT Developers, and IT Security, among others. Sabenza iT is proud to be a wholly South African-owned company.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Natal, Cape Town, Gauteng, ZA
Year Founded
2013
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