Senior Product Designer at Meltwater

Company:

Meltwater

Meltwater

Industry: ICT / Telecommunication

Deadline: Not specified

Job Type: Full Time

Experience: 6 years

Location: Western Cape

Province: Cape Town

Field: ICT / Computer

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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Associate Product Designer at Meltwater