UI/UX Designer

🎨 Design user-friendly, thoughtful experiences across mobile + web apps
🖌️ Build and evolve our design system to support a growing product + team
🤝 Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and marketing
📐 Champion a consistent, scalable visual language across platforms
🛠️ Master Figma and help establish best practices within the team
📍 Hybrid in V&A Waterfront, Cape Town (2 days in-office)

Who we are at Tripco:

LekkeSlaap is South Africa’s leading accommodation booking app known for its user-friendliness, exceptional customer experience, and extensive local accommodation options. Owned by Tripco, a travel technology company based in Cape Town, LekkeSlaap is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions and maintaining high standards in travel technology.

As a UI/UX Designer at Tripco, you’ll be part of a close-knit Product & Engineering team, designing user-friendly experiences across our web and mobile platforms. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex problems, bring new features to life, and help evolve our design system to ensure consistency and scalability as we grow.

Responsibilities:

• Design with purpose: Craft thoughtful, user-friendly experiences across our web and mobile apps, ensuring both form and function are considered.
• Build and evolve our design system: You’ll play a key role in creating a scalable design foundation that supports our growing product and team.
• Collaborate across disciplines: Work closely with engineering, marketing, product, and leadership to solve complex problems and bring features to life.
• Champion consistency: Help bring a cohesive visual language to our platforms and documentation, aligning design decisions with brand and usability goals.
• Master your tools: Use Figma to its full potential and help establish best practices for the team. You don’t have to be an expert yet – but you should be eager to become one.

Requirements:
• At least 3 years of experience in product, UI, or UX design.
• Well-versed in Figma, with a strong understanding of best practices and efficient workflows.
• A strong portfolio showcasing your design thinking, systems thinking, and craft across multiple digital products.
• Experience or a strong interest in building and maintaining design systems.
• Curiosity and empathy for users, with a desire to validate your work through user research and testing.
• A passion for creating scalable and reusable design solutions that benefit both users and teams.
• Comfortable communicating and collaborating with a wide range of people – from developers to directors.
• Comfortable working in a hybrid setup with at least two in-office days per week.

Nice to Haves:

• Past experience in the e-commerce and/or the online travel industry
• Exposure to branding and visual identity
• Basic experience with web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Benefits:
• Hybrid work setup (2 days in our office based in the beautiful Cape Town V&A Waterfront) – parking included
• Flexible start times
• Free lunch on in-office days
• Discovery Medical Aid contributions & Vitality Health subscription.
• Retirement Annuity fund contribution
• Flexible leave policy with 20 days of annual leave
• Get a half-day off every month (which adds up to 6 extra days!)
• Digital nomad month (work from anywhere)
• Showers on site
• Travel vouchers and discounts
• High-end laptops and workstation setup for both in-office and home
• Team budget for learning, online courses, and conferences
• Regular team events and more!