Senior User Experience Designer

Established in 2001, Sarmady dominates the Egyptian fixed and mobile internet with a wide range of locally relevant content and services spanning sports, film, music, city-guides, directories, classifieds, social networks and automotive.

Built on the belief that high quality locally-relevant and trusted content would be the key to the long-term success of Sarmady and the internet in Egypt, Sarmady invested heavily in building some of the very best destination websites and mobile internet portals in the region.

Acquired by Vodafone Egypt in 2008, Sarmady became Vodafone's digital arm and is able to utilize Vodafone's depth of customer insight, and reach, and combine it with Sarmady's behavioral and demographic matrices to offer a truly unique digital advertising and marketing experience.

Our Vision

To lead a digital revolution in Egypt to enhance the lives and possibilities of Egypt's citizens by opening the digital world of content and services to them.

Our Mission

To remain at the forefront of mobile and fixed internet services and content and to extend our reach to all Egyptians and drive the mobile internet via an impressive array of services and content.

Our Values

- Ethical Content, Services, and Business Practices
- Creativity and Innovation
- Constant Improvement
- Engagement and Reward of our customers, partners and staff

Main Purpose:

Responsible for the design and implementation of creative and usable interfaces for different media, according to pre set requirements in coordination with project managers and the development team for internal and external clients and ensure meeting deadlines.

Responsibilities:

• Receive project requirements as delegated and create medium and high fidelity wireframes based on preset requirements and objectives
• Coordinate with project managers to set the project plan and time estimates for each task to ensure the compliance with the preset deadlines.
• Designing and implementing high standard Websites, Web applications and Mobile sites according to the preset requirements.
• Design and implement mobile applications interfaces for different mobile operating system.
• Receive feedback for different deliverables and update them with the necessary changes and amendments.
• Update and enhance existing websites with new features to meet the requirement and to enhance the user experience.
• Handle design issues and daily tasks issued on the ticketing system by different users.
• Create and optimize creative flash banners and promotional material such as mail shots, newsletters, featured banners and sponsorship and takeovers.
• Prepare presentations, standard documents, business cards, external communication templates and printing materials when required.
• Coordinate with the development team to finalize the projects within the set time frame.
• Handle all technical responsibilities related to: performance optimization, search engine optimization

• Expertise in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash
• Expertise in HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3 and JavaScript
• Knowledge and demonstrated experience with cross-browser and cross-platform issues (IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc.)
• Familiar with Microsoft Visual Studio
• Familiar with various design programs, web tools and technologies
• Familiar with User-Centred Design process and paper prototyping technique
• Knowledge in Usability testing is a plus
• Knowledge in SEO is a plus

Knowledge in WPO is a plus

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