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Senior Product Designer
Salary / Daily rate
Johannesburg, South Africa
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Product Designer with 10+ years crafting fintech and mobility solutions for 2,700+ global institutions including TD Bank and Barclays. Expert in AI-driven UX design, commercial banking platforms, and complex financial workflows. Specialized in transforming legacy systems into intuitive digital experiences that drive user adoption and business growth.
Work experience
Senior Product Designer
nCino, Inc.
Mar 2024 - Present
2 years 8 months
Johannesburg, South Africa
nCino is a cloud-based financial technology company that offers a comprehensive digital banking platform built on Salesforce. Our solutions streamline various banking operations, including loan origination, account opening, customer relationship management, and compliance tracking. Trusted by over 2,700 financial institutions worldwide, nCino's clientele ranges from large global banks to regional and community banks. Some of their notable clients include: TD Bank, Truist Financial, Santander Bank, Barclays, CIBC, Vancity, Tradition Capital Bank & Desjardins Group.
Senior Product Designer
DocFox
Oct 2022 - Mar 2024
1 year 6 months
Johannesburg, South Africa
Improving and accelerating commercial account opening experience for US commercial Banks regardless of complexity. Trusted by over 300 financial institutions like Fresno First Bank, Commerce West, Carver Bank, Partners Bank of California, Traditional Capital Bank and many others.
Senior Product Designer (Retrenched)
WhereIsMyTransport
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
1 year 1 month
Johannesburg, South Africa
WhereIsMyTransport was a leading mobility technology company and central source of complete public transport data for emerging-market megacities. Their suite of tools was custom-built for digitalising information from the dynamic public transport networks of emerging-market megacities. I was responsible for Phoneix, the Data tool Whereismytransport uses for mapping their GTFS data. However, Whereismytransport failed to raise their bridge finance which meant they had to reduce their staff and more than half of the design team found themselves without a job. They later shut down operations in 2023.
Product Hacker (UX/UI Designer)
Basalt
Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
1 year 8 months
Johannesburg, South Africa
Basalt Foundry - Co-creates and invests in great start-up ideas. Basalt Platform Solution - Solutions that deliver digital propositions at scale and work with legacy infrastructure. From concept development and ideation right through to development, testing and product release, we develop disruptive solutions that help businesses become better at what they do. Using our years of knowledge and expertise in building financial service products and innovating in and out of the large banks.
Remote UX/UI Designer
Sand Dollar Design
Aug 2018 - May 2019
10 months
Johannesburg, South Africa
Sand Dollar Design offers a wide range of User Experience and Digital Strategy services across Healthcare, Financial Services and Telecommunications industries. The Financial Services and Telecommunications team comprised of experienced managers from the industry, coupled with exceptional Product Designers to deliver a differentiated digital experience, across a range of platforms.
UX/UI Designer
22seven: Online Money Manager
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
8 months
Product Designer at 22seven. 22seven is a free budgeting and investing app from Old Mutual. 22seven helps you budget, track your spending on all your accounts and invest for your life goals. Trusted by over 300,000 South Africans with their money stuff.
User Experience Designer (Went Bankrupt)
Manalto Inc
Sep 2016 - Dec 2017
1 year 4 months
Cape Town, South Africa
Manalto was a cloud-based social media management tool. It allowed businesses to instantly publish content and manage their brands across hundreds of social media pages in just one click.
Digital Designer
OLE!CONNECT
May 2015 - Aug 2016
1 year 4 months
Cape Town, South Africa
Ole Connect is an integrated, data and insight-driven business that helps brands offer unique consumer experiences.
Industrial/UI Designer
Manmade
Jan 2014 - May 2015
1 year 5 months
Florida, Johannesburg
Education
University of Johannesburg
3Dimensional Design(Product Design)
2011 - 2013
3 years