Product Designer

Summary of role
As a Product Designer at Accenture South Africa, you will lead multidisciplinary initiatives that align user needs, business goals, and technological possibilities. Your role goes beyond UX and UI execution, encompassing product strategy, scalable design practices, and AI-driven innovation. You will play a pivotal part in guiding design teams, shaping strong client relationships, and positioning design as a catalyst for measurable business outcomes. The role demands foresight to create sustainable, tangible solutions that can be tested, validated, and seamlessly embedded into people’s daily lives, ensuring both immediate impact and long-term value.

Responsibilities

Design Leadership & Delivery
Oversee multidisciplinary design teams and manage delivery across multiple projects or platforms

Strategy & Vision
Influence product roadmaps, define scalable design practices, and embed human-centered design

Stakeholder & Client Engagement
Shape client relationships, ensuring design aligns with business goals and measurable value

Systems & Innovation
Implement governance models, design operations, and AI-enabled workflows

Team Development & Culture
Coach and develop teams to balance strategic thinking with executional excellence
 

Job Requirements
6+ years in UX, UI, and product design, ideally in consultancy or digital product environments.
Tertiary qualification in Design, HCI, or a related field.
Proven ability to lead teams, scale systematic design practices, and embed efficient workflows.
Strong expertise in Figma, prototyping software, and the MS Office suite, with knowledge of AI-assisted design technologies.
Comprehensive understanding of branding, marketing, data, social media, business analysis, and development.
Strong portfolio demonstrating both craft-level design and systems-level thinking.
Excellent facilitation, storytelling, and influencing skills for senior stakeholders.
Ability to perform under pressure, meet deadlines, and maintain organisational efficiency.
Empathetic, collaborative, proactive, and positive mindset, with a willingness to be challenged and continuously grow.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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