What you’ll be required to do:

Strategy

• Synthesise and develop a design solution based on the research findings, the user needs, the business requirements, the technical limitations and the project scope.
• Understand research insights and apply this to your design solutions, to participate in some research activities and partner with researchers to ask the correct questions and explore the correct answers.

Craft

• Organise, structure, and label content in a way that makes it easy to find and understand from a systems level to a page level.
• Design aesthetically pleasing and on brand user interfaces and interactions that are intuitive, efficient, and effective.
• Create Mid to High Fidelity interactive prototypes to test and refine designs before they are implemented.
• Streamline and optimise the design process to increase efficiency and productivity. 
• Drive digital projects to completion including platforms, mobile applications, and more.
• Conceptualise original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks.
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards.
• Solving problems through proactive problem solving.
• The ability to bring your design to life through refined interaction. 

Collaboration

• Effectively present, communicate, persuade and foster interpersonal relationships with stakeholders and team members via verbal and written means.
• Develop, implement, and optimise processes that improve efficiency, quality, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Adapt, learn, stay motivated, positive and resilient in a fast paced and ever changing environment.
• Collaborate with the team to define and implement innovative solutions for product direction, visuals and experience. 

Culture

• Inspire, motivate, and guide others towards a common goal. This involves setting direction, making decisions, delegating tasks, and leading by example.
• Representing our values by participating and contributing to the MakeReign culture and initiatives, making this the best community within our industry to work with.
• Ensuring consistency regardless of project size.
• Stay up to date on current themes, trends, and technologies in digital product design.
• Ensure work is completed timeously and to the benchmark standard set by MakeReign. 

What you’ll bring?

• A design related degree and 3+ years experience of working in  visual, interface and interaction design in a digital design or fast-paced environment. 
• Previous experience in Ecommerce is a plus.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles.
• Strong ability to conceptualise designs and use systems thinking.
• Strong listening, interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present research findings clearly to different audiences.
• The ability to solve challenges and provide strong solutions to clients challenges / needs / opportunities. 
• You take ownership of your milestones and deliverables. 
• You sweat the details, ensuring all your designs are of the highest design standards. 
• Knowledge of and experience using Figma and mobile applications/ Ecommerce platforms.
• A solid point-of-view and a collaborative nature.
• A diverse sense of taste with the knowledge necessary to apply to various challenges.
• Real passion for our craft: design, creativity, technology.
• Ability to communicate design decisions in a way which are easy for others to follow, and able to respond or give actionable feedback.
• Ability to understand what developers need to deliver against your designs, and you collaborate closely with colleagues/stakeholders and developers  in different digital disciplines.
• Strong attention to detail. 
• The ability to work well and collaborate well with others in cross-functional remote teams.
• The ability to solve complex problems and create creative solutions to issues that arise inspired by customer’s needs and behaviours.
• Ability to organise time and deliver expected results in a timely manner. 
• Ability to mentor and support the growth of more junior team members.
• Ability to demonstrate the MakeReign values. 

Offered with the position:

• An Apple Macbook pro and necessary gear (whilst in the employ of MakeReign).
• 15 leave days per leave cycle. With additional days offered the longer you stay with us. 
• Annual profit share bonus. At the company’s discretion. Based on company and individual performance.
• Long term incentive scheme, unlocking additional bonuses.
• Flexible and remote working.
• Health and wellness benefits. 
• Access to courses & knowledge share.
• Work in a collaborative environment, with one of the most promising up and coming UX design studios in Africa, where growth, constant learning and improvement is key.

Beyond that, what we offer when working with us:

Strong Internal Design Culture

We’re known for our design work. Our environment is rooted in design thinking principles with a high priority placed on the user experience – we focus on creating experiences that add value to users’ lives. And bring the highest level of craft to all our design work.

Work on Meaningful Work

Working with a wide range of amazing clients, from newly founded startups to industry leading businesses, that are all providing value and benefit to the people using the products we create.

Education & Learning

We love learning. We invest a lot of time into internal and external education sessions and other learning initiatives as we believe this is the best way for all of us to advance and continually push ourselves to improve.

Fast Tracked Growth

Working at MakeReign, you’ll grow your career quickly. Working with the guidance of those around you, continually applying yourself on interesting challenges and striving for the highest standards on everything we do will help you progress and grow your career faster than most other companies.

New Ideas & Innovation

Always trying and learning new things, staying up to date on current themes, trends, and technologies in digital product design means we’re always able to bring new ideas, solutions and innovations to the work that we do. This offers opportunities to experiment, make an impact, and shape team direction.

Freedom & Flexibility

Our tight, loose, tight approach to work gives you the freedom and empowers you to work in the way you see fit to find the best solutions to the work we do. We trust our teams to deliver.

Solve Challenging Problems

You’ll continually be stimulated by challenging problems that need solving. No day is dull. We’re motivated by the challenges we face, which allows for a lot of exploration and experimentation as we find as many solutions as possible to these challenges. Solutions we validate with customers.

What you’ll be required to do:

Strategy

• Synthesise and develop a design solution based on the research findings, the user needs, the business requirements, the technical limitations and the project scope.
• Understand research insights and apply this to your design solutions, to participate in some research activities and partner with researchers to ask the correct questions and explore the correct answers.

Craft

• Organise, structure, and label content in a way that makes it easy to find and understand from a systems level to a page level.
• Design aesthetically pleasing and on brand user interfaces and interactions that are intuitive, efficient, and effective.
• Create Mid to High Fidelity interactive prototypes to test and refine designs before they are implemented.
• Streamline and optimise the design process to increase efficiency and productivity. 
• Drive digital projects to completion including platforms, mobile applications, and more.
• Conceptualise original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks.
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards.
• Solving problems through proactive problem solving.
• The ability to bring your design to life through refined interaction. 

Collaboration

• Effectively present, communicate, persuade and foster interpersonal relationships with stakeholders and team members via verbal and written means.
• Develop, implement, and optimise processes that improve efficiency, quality, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Adapt, learn, stay motivated, positive and resilient in a fast paced and ever changing environment.
• Collaborate with the team to define and implement innovative solutions for product direction, visuals and experience. 

Culture

• Coach, guide, and develop others in their careers. This involves listening, providing feedback, setting goals, and providing support and encouragement to help others achieve success.
• Inspire, motivate, and guide others towards a common goal. This involves setting direction, making decisions, delegating tasks, and leading by example.
• Representing our values by participating and contributing to the MakeReign culture and initiatives, making this the best community within our industry to work with.
• Ensuring consistency regardless of project size.
• Stay up to date on current themes, trends, and technologies in digital product design.
• Ensure work is completed timeously and to the benchmark standard set by MakeReign. 

What you’ll bring?

• A design related degree and 5+ years experience of working in  visual, interface and interaction design in a digital design or fast-paced environment. 
• Previous experience in Ecommerce is a plus.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles.
• Strong ability to conceptualise designs and use systems thinking.
• Strong listening, interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present research findings clearly to different audiences.
• The ability to solve challenges and provide strong solutions to clients challenges / needs / opportunities. 
• You take ownership of your milestones and deliverables. 
• You sweat the details, ensuring all your designs are of the highest design standards. 
• Knowledge of and experience using Figma and mobile applications/ Ecommerce platforms.
• A solid point-of-view and a collaborative nature.
• A diverse sense of taste with the knowledge necessary to apply to various challenges.
• Real passion for our craft: design, creativity, technology.
• Ability to communicate design decisions in a way which are easy for others to follow, and able to respond or give actionable feedback.
• Ability to understand what developers need to deliver against your designs, and you collaborate closely with colleagues/stakeholders and developers  in different digital disciplines.
• Strong attention to detail. 
• The ability to work well and collaborate well with others in cross-functional remote teams.
• The ability to solve complex problems and create creative solutions to issues that arise inspired by customer’s needs and behaviours.
• Ability to organise time and deliver expected results in a timely manner. 
• Ability to mentor and support the growth of more junior team members.
• Ability to demonstrate the MakeReign values. 

Offered with the position:

• An Apple Macbook pro and necessary gear (whilst in the employ of MakeReign).
• 18 leave days per leave cycle. With additional days offered the longer you stay with us. 
• Annual profit share bonus. At the company’s discretion. Based on company and individual performance.
• Long term incentive scheme, unlocking additional bonuses.
• Flexible and remote working.
• Health and wellness benefits. 
• Access to courses & knowledge share.
• Work in a collaborative environment, with one of the most promising up and coming UX design studios in Africa, where growth, constant learning and improvement is key.

Beyond that, what we offer when working with us:

Strong Internal Design Culture

We’re known for our design work. Our environment is rooted in design thinking principles with a high priority placed on the user experience – we focus on creating experiences that add value to users’ lives. And bring the highest level of craft to all our design work.

Work on Meaningful Work

Working with a wide range of amazing clients, from newly founded startups to industry leading businesses, that are all providing value and benefit to the people using the products we create.

Education & Learning

We love learning. We invest a lot of time into internal and external education sessions and other learning initiatives as we believe this is the best way for all of us to advance and continually push ourselves to improve.

Fast Tracked Growth

Working at MakeReign, you’ll grow your career quickly. Working with the guidance of those around you, continually applying yourself on interesting challenges and striving for the highest standards on everything we do will help you progress and grow your career faster than most other companies.

New Ideas & Innovation

Always trying and learning new things, staying up to date on current themes, trends, and technologies in digital product design means we’re always able to bring new ideas, solutions and innovations to the work that we do. This offers opportunities to experiment, make an impact, and shape team direction.

Freedom & Flexibility

Our tight, loose, tight approach to work gives you the freedom and empowers you to work in the way you see fit to find the best solutions to the work we do. We trust our teams to deliver.

Solve Challenging Problems

You’ll continually be stimulated by challenging problems that need solving. No day is dull. We’re motivated by the challenges we face, which allows for a lot of exploration and experimentation as we find as many solutions as possible to these challenges. Solutions we validate with customers.

The requirements of this role include:

• Bring business strategy to creative execution to drive results.

• Contribute to various large-scale projects and builds, driving them to completion. 

• Design solutions that incorporate modern usability and interaction design practices, including both responsive and device-native strategies.

• Design clear, simple and elegant interfaces.

• Create visually appealing video assets and content.
• Conceptualise, design, develop and execute 2D motion graphics and animations for web, mobile, and other digital platforms.

• Explore ideas for how to solve UI and motion design challenges and then refine it into a coherent solution.

• Presenting ideas, concepts and design solutions across a number of projects to key stakeholders / clients. 

• Use good judgment in fundamental principles of UI and motion design.

• Choose appropriate typography, image treatments, iconography and colour palettes to effectively communicate brand tone, voice and style.

• Understand, use and evolve the common brand and design language (look and feel, moodboards, design guidelines). 

• Actively seeks out examples of great work, keeping up to date with trends and landscape.

• Is able to identify appropriate solutions while conducting research and reference gathering (actionable, relevant, progressive)

• Own design reviews of your work with the design team and key stakeholders.

• Assisting senior design team with producing design work. 

• Communicating and collaborating effectively with senior team members to receive feedback in order to hone and improve skills.

• The willingness to listen to feedback and use it to continually improve your skill set.

• Offering input to creative meetings and sharing ideas.

• Work actively to improve design skills through design projects (both client and other). 

• Ensure work is completed timeously and to the benchmark standard set by MakeReign. 

• Always ensure consistency regardless of project size. 

• The motivation to constantly improve design standards.

• Stay up to date on current themes, trends, and technologies in user experience and user interaction design.

Other perks include:

• 7,5  leave days per 6-month internship period.
• Flexible and remote working, with opportunity to work from our offices.
• Monthly mindfulness and fitness benefits.
• Access to courses & knowledge share - as a key part of the program. 
• Be part of team events and celebrations.
• Work in a super close collaborative space, with one of the most promising up and coming design studios in Africa, where growth, constant learning and improvement is key.

Beyond that, what we offer when working with us:

Strong Internal Design Culture

We’re known for our design work. Our environment is rooted in design thinking principles with a high priority placed on the user experience – we focus on creating experiences that add value to users’ lives. And bring the highest level of craft to all our design work.

Work on Meaningful Work

Working with a wide range of amazing clients, from newly founded startups to industry leading businesses, that are all providing value and benefit to the people using the products we create.

Education & Learning

We love learning. We invest a lot of time into internal and external education sessions and other learning initiatives as we believe this is the best way for all of us to advance and continually push ourselves to improve.

Fast Tracked Growth

Working at MakeReign, you’ll grow your career quickly. Working with the guidance of those around you, continually applying yourself on interesting challenges and striving for the highest standards on everything we do will help you progress and grow your career faster than most other companies.

New Ideas & Innovation

Always trying and learning new things, staying up to date on current themes, trends, and technologies in digital product design means we’re always able to bring new ideas, solutions and innovations to the work that we do. This offers opportunities to experiment, make an impact, and shape team direction.

Freedom & Flexibility

Our tight, loose, tight approach to work gives you the freedom and empowers you to work in the way you see fit to find the best solutions to the work we do. We trust our teams to deliver.

Solve Challenging Problems

You’ll continually be stimulated by challenging problems that need solving. No day is dull. We’re motivated by the challenges we face, which allows for a lot of exploration and experimentation as we find as many solutions as possible to these challenges. Solutions we validate with customers.

You’ll be required to:

Strategy

• Synthesise and develop a motion design solution based on business requirements, the technical limitations and the project scope.

Craft

• Create visually appealing  video assets and content.
• Conceptualise, design, develop and execute 2D motion graphics and animations for web, mobile, and other digital platforms. (3D motion design is a plus)
• Utilise sketches, storyboards and animatics to develop concepts. 
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards.
• Develop solutions  through proactive problem solving.

Collaboration

• Effectively present, communicate, persuade and foster interpersonal relationships with stakeholders and team members via verbal and written means.
• Develop, implement, and optimise processes that improve efficiency, quality, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Adapt, learn, stay motivated, positive and resilient in a fast paced and ever changing environment.
• Collaborate with the team to define and implement innovative solutions for motion direction, visuals and experience. 

Culture

• Coach, guide, and develop others in their careers. This involves listening, providing feedback, setting goals, and providing support and encouragement to help others achieve success.
• Inspire, motivate, and guide others towards a common goal. This involves setting direction, making decisions, delegating tasks, and leading by example.
• Representing our values by participating in and contributing to the MakeReign culture and initiatives, making this the best community within our industry to work with.
• Ensuring consistency regardless of project size.
• Stay up to date on current themes, trends, and technologies in visual and motion design.
• Ensure work is completed timeously and to the benchmark standard set by MakeReign. 

What you’ll bring:

• A design related degree and 5+ years experience of working in motion, interface and interaction design in a digital design or fast-paced environment. Online portfolio and/or work samples are required for consideration.
• A good understanding of UI motion and UI prototypes, from a UI/UX or background, with experience in one or several of Principle, Figma, Lottie integration.
• Deep understanding of motion design principles, animation techniques, and visual storytelling.
• A desire to make visual and compelling motion content that is both engaging and informative.
• Ability to think through design / motion problems and arrive at thoughtful and surprising solutions.
• Strong technical expertise in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and various motion design tools, especially After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere Pro. Should also have at least a fundamental understanding of Cinema4D.
• In the realm of animation, you possess a solid understanding of the fundamental principles and techniques and when to break them to produce the best work.
• Strong listening, interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present your work clearly to different audiences.
• Ability to think conceptually, translate ideas into visually compelling designs, and effectively communicate creative concepts to clients and team members.
• You sweat the details, ensuring all your designs are of the highest design standards.
• The ability to deliver exceptional work under tight deadlines.
• Ability to communicate design decisions in a way which are easy for others to follow, and able to respond or give actionable feedback.
• The ability to work well and collaborate well with others in cross-functional remote teams,  including visual designers, animators, 3D artists and video editors, to deliver integrated design solutions.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring deadlines are met without compromising on quality.
• Ability to demonstrate the MakeReign values. 

Offered with the position:

• An Apple Macbook pro and necessary gear (whilst in the employ of MakeReign).
• 18 leave days per leave cycle. With additional days offered the longer you stay with us. 2-4 days subsidized over the December holiday period. 
• Annual profit share bonus. At the company’s discretion. Based on company and individual performance.
• Long term incentive scheme, unlocking additional bonuses.
• Flexible and remote working, with opportunity to work from our offices.
• Health and wellness benefits. 
• Access to Courses & Knowledge Share.
• Work in a super close collaborative space, with one of the most promising up and coming design studios in Africa, where growth, constant learning and improvement is key.

Beyond that, what we offer when working with us:

Strong Internal Design Culture

We’re known for our design work. Our environment is rooted in design thinking principles with a high priority placed on the user experience – we focus on creating experiences that add value to users’ lives. And bring the highest level of craft to all our design work.

Work on Meaningful Work

Working with a wide range of amazing clients, from newly founded startups to industry leading businesses, that are all providing value and benefit to the people using the products we create.

Education & Learning

We love learning. We invest a lot of time into internal and external education sessions and other learning initiatives as we believe this is the best way for all of us to advance and continually push ourselves to improve.

Fast Tracked Growth

Working at MakeReign, you’ll grow your career quickly. Working with the guidance of those around you, continually applying yourself on interesting challenges and striving for the highest standards on everything we do will help you progress and grow your career faster than most other companies.

New Ideas & Innovation

Always trying and learning new things, staying up to date on current themes, trends, and technologies in digital product design means we’re always able to bring new ideas, solutions and innovations to the work that we do. This offers opportunities to experiment, make an impact, and shape team direction.

Freedom & Flexibility

Our tight, loose, tight approach to work gives you the freedom and empowers you to work in the way you see fit to find the best solutions to the work we do. We trust our teams to deliver.

Solve Challenging Problems

You’ll continually be stimulated by challenging problems that need solving. No day is dull. We’re motivated by the challenges we face, which allows for a lot of exploration and experimentation as we find as many solutions as possible to these challenges. Solutions we validate with customers.