Software Production Designer Job in Nairobi Kenya - Bridge International Academies

Position Title: Software Production Designer

Location: Nairobi

Number of Positions: 1

About Bridge International Academies

Bridge International Academies is a for-profit startup company revolutionizing education across Africa with a unique business model.

The company runs a large-scale network of low-cost primary schools in Kenya that significantly outperforms other primary schools in the same areas because of our “school in a box” systems.

Our schools profitably deliver this high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, which enable the schools to cover all their costs and create a profitable central organization at scale.

We have launched 37 schools in Kenya, we will double in size in the next 6 months, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students across the continent.

About this position

We have and are continuing to develop one of the most sophisticated approaches to providing affordable education to MILLIONS of children in one of the most challenging environments in the world.

We have a need to recruit for the position of Software Production Designer whose duties will be to design and document business processes, workflows and user interfaces for software products.

Key Responsibilites:

Being the subject matter expert in one functional area of the business and owning all software and other tools developed for that areaWorking with users and stakeholders in departments throughout the company to understand and document functional requirements for software systemsWriting software functional specificationsDesigning user interfaces for software productsCreating wireframes and paper prototypes for user interfaces and testing them with usersProducing user interface design documentsWorking with software engineers and quality assurance engineers to ensure to ensure that software is implemented following functional specifications and to troubleshoot design issues during developmentPost-deployment follow up and evaluations of software with end usersEnd user training and support for software systemsSpecialist knowledge required:
Knowledge and experience in the design and rollout of multiple enterprise software systems (ERP, CRM…) in a commercial environment, with particular emphasis on the workflow and interaction designAbility to analyze business processes and translate them into software including requirements gathering, workflow design, and UI designAbility to quickly understand and analyze business requirementsSolid understanding of user interface design principals and human factors and an innate sense of how people perceive and interact with softwareThey should have good writing skillsPossess good problem solving skillsAbility to work with a teamAbility to be adaptable and flexibleGood communication skillsThe individual should be detail orientedThey should have good planning, organizing as well as analytical skillsAbility to take initiative and to coordinate projectsGood writing, oral communication and presentation skills