Product Designer
Product Designer
Do you love tackling new projects? Taking ownership of and pride in the work you do in a team of like-minded, passionate individuals? Looking for a challenging and stimulating role that also happens to offer job security AND the guarantee of a personal life? If you answered yes to these questions, keep reading…
SimplePay is a fast-growing B2B SaaS company offering an online payroll system to over 52,000 customers in South Africa, Ireland, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Our purpose is to pick a fight against mediocrity. We need to do our part to make people feel that we care - because we do. A lot. We’ve made it our mission to make this world more human, and we’re looking for an enthusiastic, talented individual with a passion for problem-solving and user experience to help us continue the trend.
Help Shape the Future of Payroll
SimplePay is growing—and with new products on the horizon and big design challenges ahead, we’re looking for a Product Designer (mid-senior level) who’s ready to make a lasting impact.
This is a unique opportunity to influence how our products look, feel, and function as we expand into new domains and raise the bar on design at SimplePay. You’ll collaborate closely with our product team (business analysts and engineers) and a seasoned designer who’s already laid the groundwork for thoughtful, user-centered design practices across the company.
What You'll Work On
Please note, this is not an exhaustive list, and you may be required to work on other items not listed below, as required by the team and business:
- Core Payroll Experience: Our flagship product, serving thousands of businesses, with workflows that need to be efficient, clear, and trustworthy. Improve our existing UX creatively whilst navigating any legacy limitations.
- Clocking Product Stream: A new venture in its BETA phase—where you’ll shape user experience from early foundations through launch and iteration.
- Design System Integration: Help align our legacy design patterns with a brand new design system developed for new products, balancing consistency and practicality.
- UX Research & Standardisation: Drive user research efforts and support the ongoing standardisation of design processes across teams.
We’re after someone who is curious, self-motivated, and collaborative—excited to raise the design bar while working with a close-knit, cross-functional team.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Experience in UX research, interaction design, and visual design
- Mastery of Figma and standard design tools
- Strong end-to-end design process: Ability to carry a project through user research, wireframes, prototyping, hi-fi UI, and handover to devs
- Comfort with working in remote environments with remote team members in different time zones
- Ability to work directly with business stakeholders to elicit requirements
- Attention to detail, and ownership of your craft
- A collaborative spirit - you enjoy working with others and bringing people along in the design journey
- Experience designing for B2B SaaS or compliance-heavy products
- Familiarity with evolving or creating design systems
- Background in products with complex workflows or multiple user personas
- Familiarity with HTML & CSS
Design at SimplePay has come a long way in just two years. What started as a developer and business analyst–led initiative is now a growing discipline with dedicated designers, Figma workflows, and formalised processes. We’re still maturing—but we’re doing it with intention.
Our BETA clocking product marks a turning point. It introduced a brand-new design system, built from the ground up to be scalable, consistent, and beautiful. That new system now sets the tone for future products—and we’re working hard to bring our core platform in line with it, bit by bit.
Joining now means shaping not just what we build, but how we build it.
What’s in it for you?
- 💰 Competitive salary
- 🌐 Fully remote
- ⏰ Working Hours: Full time, Monday – Friday, 8 am - 5 pm or 9 am - 6 pm
- 🌴 20 working days of paid Annual Leave
- 🏨 A medical aid benefit through our Discovery group scheme*
- 🏨 Access to free unlimited counselling, financial, life and career coaching*
- 👫 Supportive & interactive team
- 🚀 Chance to grow as SimplePay grows
We’re looking for someone amazing and long-term. We’re going to invest a lot of time in this process, and we expect you to want to do the same. A successful candidate can expect to go through the following hiring process:
- Application
- Task and One-way Video
- Interview 1 (meet-and-greet)
- Interview 2 (practical/technical testing)
- Interview 3 (general questions)
- Background Checks (criminal and reference)
* Available after the successful completion of your 3-month probationary period.
* Available to all employees based in South Africa.
SimplePay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to transformation and embracing diversity. Our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. People from designated groups are encouraged to apply.
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