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Intermediate Product Designer
Platform45 · Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2196, South Africa · Hybrid · Active · BambooHR
Job facts
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Company | Platform45 |
| Title | Intermediate Product Designer |
| Normalized title | - |
| Department / team | Delivery |
| Location | Johannesburg, Gauteng |
| Work model | Hybrid / Hybrid |
| Employment type | Full Time |
| Salary | - |
| Status | active |
| ATS provider | BambooHR |
| Posted / first seen | 2026-03-10 / 2026-05-30 |
| Changed / last seen | 2026-05-30 / 2026-06-06 |
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| Department jobs | Active postings in Delivery. | Open |
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| Company | Platform45 |
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| ATS provider | BambooHR |
Description
INTERMEDIATE PRODUCT DESIGNER
REPORTS TO: DESIGN LEAD
**Must be based in Johannesburg (On-site or Hybrid)
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Consult with clients independently - ask the right questions for unclear briefs, surface assumptions, and align with stakeholders without needing direction
- Lead design end-to-end across discovery, definition, ideation, prototyping, testing, and delivery within agile sprint cycles
- Facilitate working sessions, design reviews, and client presentations with professionalism and confidence
- Translate complex regulatory, compliance, and domain constraints into clear, usable product experiences
- Collaborate daily with product managers, engineers, QA, etc. - contributing meaningfully to backlog refinement and sprint planning
- Champion the user: Conduct and synthesise research, usability tests, and analytics to ground design decisions in evidence
- Produce high-fidelity prototypes, interaction specs, and developer-ready deliverables that reduce engineering ambiguity
- Maintain and contribute to design systems, pattern libraries, and documentation
- Manage your own time and deliverables across concurrent work streams without supervision
- Informally mentor junior designers and model strong design craft and process standards
SKILLS & COMPETENCIES
Design Craft:
- Mastery of Figma (Components, variables, auto-layout, prototyping, Figma Makes)
- Strong visual design sensibility: Typography, colour, spacing, hierarchy, accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA compliance embedded in workflow, not bolted on)
Product Thinking:
- User-centred mindset with comfort across qualitative and quantitative research methods
- Ability to clearly define and articulate problems before jumping to solutions
- Experience mapping user flows, etc.
- Data-literate: Can interpret analytics, define success metrics, and use data to prioritise decisions
- Understanding of how design decisions affect business and technical constraints
Communication & Client Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication - adapts tone for technical teams, executives, and end-users
- Confident facilitator across workshops, sprint ceremonies, client showcases, and design crits
- Active listener who asks precise, well-timed questions to clarify intent
- Comfortable challenging assumptions and pushing back constructively on bad briefs or scope creep
- Diplomatic but direct - can navigate differing opinions and land on decisions that move work forward
Agile & Delivery:
- Experienced working embedded in cross-functional agile squads
- Understands the sprint lifecycle and how to deliver design at the right fidelity for each stage
- Comfortable with ambiguity - can progress work with incomplete information and course-correct efficiently
- Proactively flags risks, dependencies, and blockers rather than waiting for them to escalate
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- 4–7 years of professional product design experience (agency or in-house)
- Demonstrable experience in at least one of: Fintech, banking, insurance, payments - and/or medtech, health-tech, clinical platforms
- Portfolio showing end-to-end case studies with clear problem framing, process, and measurable outcomes
- Track record of working directly with clients or senior business stakeholders
- Experience designing for mobile (iOS/Android) and web; responsive design principles second nature
- Exposure to design system creation, governance, or significant contribution
- Familiarity with research tooling: Maze, Lyssna, Google Analytics, etc
Full job record
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| Provider | bamboohr |
| Provider Job Key | 118 |
| Title | Intermediate Product Designer |
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| Status | active |
| Active | yes |
| Location Text | Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2196, South Africa |
| Department | Delivery |
| Team | — |
| Employment Type | full_time |
| Workplace Type | hybrid |
| Remote Policy | hybrid |
| Country | — |
| Region | Gauteng |
| City | Johannesburg |
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| Source URL | https://platform45.bamboohr.com/careers/118 |
| Apply URL | https://platform45.bamboohr.com/careers/118 |
| First Seen At | 2026-05-30 05:49:45Z |
| Last Seen At | 2026-06-06 10:05:15Z |
| Last Checked At | 2026-06-06 10:05:15Z |
| Last Changed At | 2026-05-30 05:49:45Z |
| Inactive At | — |
| Source Posted At | 2026-03-10 00:00:00Z |
| Source Updated At | — |
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