Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented User Experience (UX) Designer with strong interests and capabilities in the research, design, and data analysis of engaging user experiences for Takealot sellers to join our Merchant team. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! 

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: Over 4.5 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best. 
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, TFS, and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. 

The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. This individual excels at providing both highly analytical and highly creative ideas for a design project.  The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment. A thorough understanding of user-centered design methodologies is a must.

This position is part of the Takealot UX Team but is dedicated to Merchant design work. The successful candidate will report to the Head of Experience Design and the Head of Merchant.

Your responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Head of Merchant, product managers & business stakeholders to confirm business objectives and define user objectives & flows.
• Measure the effectiveness of each initiative & refine it.
• Research interaction design trends.
• Conduct research independently.
• Run surveys in a timely and accurate manner.
• Collect survey data, analyze data, and capture and collate data results.
• Interpret the analyzed data.
• Build high-fidelity wireframes and working prototypes.
• Collaborate with technical leads in order to design innovative & engaging user experiences within platform constraints and technical limitations.
• Facilitate user testing and evaluate user feedback to further improve the concept or existing products.
• Work closely with the development & QA teams to ensure successful implementation of the specified designs.
• Propose further research, testing, and designs based on user needs.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications required or equivalent experience 
• You should have a minimum of 5 years of experience in design research, conducting surveys and interviews, and performing data analysis.
• You have at least 5 years of experience working with data sets, and you are comfortable doing data analysis and reporting based on data.
• Experience designing interfaces in a customer and user-centric manner.
• Experience with standard UCD methodologies. 
• Experience with marketplace design & UI design would be beneficial.

The skills we need:

Design skills:

• Information architecture & information design
• Tables and portal design 
• Interaction design
• Persona creation
• User-centered design
• UI design (low fidelity)
• Wireframing & prototyping
• Copywriting

Research skills:

• Data analysis
• Surveying
• Interviewing
• Task analysis
• Market research
• Usability testing
• A/B testing
• Web analytics
• User research
• Meticulous attention to data analysis (qualitatively and quantitatively), a high level of proven accuracy

 Business Skills:

• Business analysis
• Communication skills (written, verbal & visual)
• Chairing workshops & meetings
• Project & people management
• Collaboration

Tools:

Strong working knowledge of the following web design tools

• Wireframing tools (e.g., Axure, Sketch, Figma, etc.)
• Process flow tools
• Survey tools 

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
• No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab, and make something great.
• Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• Mentorship programme: We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best by learning from the best.
• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Upskill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera, and more.
• Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
• Staff discount. Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for?
• Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. 
• Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counseling, legal support, and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. 
• Tech stack (for days): ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.
• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). 

Like what you see? 

If you meet the above, you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference

Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented User Experience (UX) Designer with strong interests and capabilities in the research, design, and data analysis of engaging user experiences for Takealot sellers to join our Merchant team. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! 

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: Over 4.5 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best. 
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, TFS, and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. 

The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. This individual excels at providing both highly analytical and highly creative ideas for a design project.  The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment. A thorough understanding of user-centered design methodologies is a must.

This position is part of the Takealot UX Team but is dedicated to Merchant design work. The successful candidate will report to the Head of Experience Design and the Head of Merchant.

Your responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Head of Merchant, product managers & business stakeholders to confirm business objectives and define user objectives & flows.
• Measure the effectiveness of each initiative & refine it.
• Research interaction design trends.
• Conduct research independently.
• Run surveys in a timely and accurate manner.
• Collect survey data, analyze data, and capture and collate data results.
• Interpret the analyzed data.
• Build high-fidelity wireframes and working prototypes.
• Collaborate with technical leads in order to design innovative & engaging user experiences within platform constraints and technical limitations.
• Facilitate user testing and evaluate user feedback to further improve the concept or existing products.
• Work closely with the development & QA teams to ensure successful implementation of the specified designs.
• Propose further research, testing, and designs based on user needs.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications required or equivalent experience 
• You should have a minimum of 5 years of experience in design research, conducting surveys and interviews, and performing data analysis.
• You have at least 5 years of experience working with data sets, and you are comfortable doing data analysis and reporting based on data.
• Experience designing interfaces in a customer and user-centric manner.
• Experience with standard UCD methodologies. 
• Experience with marketplace design & UI design would be beneficial.

The skills we need:

Design skills:

• Information architecture & information design
• Tables and portal design 
• Interaction design
• Persona creation
• User-centered design
• UI design (low fidelity)
• Wireframing & prototyping
• Copywriting

Research skills:

• Data analysis
• Surveying
• Interviewing
• Task analysis
• Market research
• Usability testing
• A/B testing
• Web analytics
• User research
• Meticulous attention to data analysis (qualitatively and quantitatively), a high level of proven accuracy

 Business Skills:

• Business analysis
• Communication skills (written, verbal & visual)
• Chairing workshops & meetings
• Project & people management
• Collaboration

Tools:

Strong working knowledge of the following web design tools

• Wireframing tools (e.g., Axure, Sketch, Figma, etc.)
• Process flow tools
• Survey tools 

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
• No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab, and make something great.
• Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• Mentorship programme: We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best by learning from the best.
• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Upskill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera, and more.
• Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
• Staff discount. Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for?
• Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. 
• Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counseling, legal support, and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. 
• Tech stack (for days): ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.
• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). 

Like what you see? 

If you meet the above, you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference

The Ideal Candidate

You have three or more years of experience in producing product-related content, preferably within SaaS technology, digital auth or payments sectors. You excel at translating complex technical information into clear, accessible content for diverse audiences, from customer service representatives through technical administrators. Proactive and inquisitive, you are comfortable engaging with engineers and technical staff to distill key insights. You are adept at both structuring and creating content across various media, including training materials, specifications, guides, video transcripts, and schematics. Collaborative by nature, you thrive in a team environment and effectively coordinate with teams to deliver cohesive and impactful product communications.

The Role

As a Product Content Specialist, you will:

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of our card payment authentication products (incl. 3DS ACS, 3DS Server MPI, 3DS Directory Server), fraud risk intelligence products (signal and rules processing) and customer authentication products (biometrics, device signals, customer identity, OTPs, etc.)
• Create and structure high-quality, engaging content that effectively communicates product features, benefits, and usage to a variety of audiences.
• Think like a business analyst to proactively gather the right information through interacting with developers, technical documents, and other resources, to achieve outcomes.
• Balance tasks such as coordinating inputs from others, developing drafts, synthesizing complex concepts into understandable forms, and presenting ideas for deliberation before formalizing content.
• Tailor content to meet the needs of different audiences (personas) and stakeholders, ensuring clarity and relevance.
• Collaborate closely with your manager, a technical writer and a graphic designer to produce cohesive and visually appealing content.
• Contribute to the development of training materials, product guides, product specifications, customer communications, video scripts, schematics, and more.
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve content quality and effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Content Creation: Produce clear, concise, and engaging product content for various audiences and platforms, including but not limited to product guides, training courses, reference portals, animation transcripts and customer communications.
• Content Governance: structure, organize and maintain all published product materials on the Entersekt Knowledge Centre (online reference portal).
• Information Gathering: Actively seek out information from internal wiki resources, engineers and technical personnel to inform content development.
• Concept Synthesis & Structuring: Distill complex technical concepts into an understandable structure and product messaging. This may include supporting diagrams, visuals, or customer communications.
• Management & Coordination: Manage collaboration with team members and stakeholders to ensure content accuracy and consistency. Balance multiple tasks including drafting, reviewing, and finalizing content, while meeting deadlines.
• Stakeholder Communication: Present concepts to management for deliberation and incorporate feedback effectively.
• Quality Assurance: Edit and proofread content to maintain high standards of quality and professionalism.

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• Experience: 3+ years in product content creation, preferably in SaaS technology or payments industries.
• Technical Acumen: Ability to understand, structure and communicate complex digital products and authentication methods. 
• Proactive Inquiry: Skilled at asking pertinent questions to extract necessary information from technical teams.
• Writing Skills: Exceptional writing and editing abilities, with a focus on clarity and audience engagement.
• Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with, or ability to learn quickly about, digital 3DS products, fraud risk products and customer authentication products.
• Audience Adaptability: Proven ability to tailor content for various audiences and comprehend their unique needs.
• Collaboration: Strong track record of working effectively within cross-functional teams.
• Tools & Software: Highly proficient in Office 365 across Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneDrive. Proficiency with technical content writing like Markdown and PlantUML preferred. Understanding of Gitlab and VuePress hosting is a plus.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree. 

Personality Attributes

• Communicative: Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to articulate ideas clearly and effectively.
• Inquisitive: Naturally curious and unafraid to seek clarification to fully understand complex topics.
• Self-Reliant: Able to independently gather and synthesize information without over-reliance on others.
• Detail-Oriented: Meticulous attention to detail in all aspects of work.
• Organized: Strong organizational skills, capable of managing multiple priorities and projects.
• Proactive: A strong sense of initiative and the ability to work independently.
• Creative: Innovative thinker who can bring fresh ideas to content development.
• Adaptable: Flexible and able to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

About impact.com: 

impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal, Fanatics and Levi’s, visit www.impact.com.

At impact.com we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you!

Your Role at impact.com:

As a Mid-Level Android Developer at Impact.com, you will play a crucial role in the design, development, and maintenance of our Android application. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, our product manager, designer, and fellow developers, to create a high-quality, user-friendly apps that meet the needs of our customers. 

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with our tech lead, product manager and designer to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain our Android application so that it adheres to best practices and deliver an exceptional user experience.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, following coding standards and guidelines.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share knowledge with the development team.
• Debug and resolve issues and bugs identified by QA and end-users, providing timely solutions.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest Android development trends, tools, and technologies, and actively incorporate them into projects.
• Optimize application performance and ensure responsiveness across various devices and Android versions.
• Collaborate with backend developers to integrate APIs and ensure seamless data flow

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent
  work experience).
• 3+ years of professional experience in Android app development.
• Proficiency in Kotlin programming.
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, Android Studio, and related development tools.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, third-party libraries, and web services integration.
• Familiarity with responsive UI/UX principles.
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment

Benefits and Perks: 

At impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

• Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We're committed to a positive work-life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.
• Health and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
• A Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of our total compensation, giving you a stake in the company's growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.
• Parental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.
• Technology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your internet expenses

impact.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.