Product Designer

Location

Cape Town or Johannesburg (Hybrid) — Remote considered for exceptional candidates

About Kenai

Kenai is building the future of secure, intelligent workplaces. Our AI-native platform helps enterprises manage visitor access, safety inductions, evacuations, and compliance. Trusted by leading banks, estates, and data centres, our products are used at scale in mission-critical environments. We’re growing fast and need a Product Designer who can turn complex requirements into simple, elegant user experiences.

The Role

As a Product Designer at Kenai, you will own the design of user-facing flows across our platform — from visitor onboarding journeys to enterprise dashboards used by security and operations teams. You’ll work closely with product managers, engineers, and customer stakeholders to deliver designs that are both beautiful and enterprise-ready.

What You’ll Do

• Design seamless user flows for onboarding, access control, booking, and dashboards.
• Translate requirements into wireframes and high-fidelity UI in Figma.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure design quality through implementation.
• Maintain and evolve our design system, ensuring consistency across web and mobile (React + React Native).
• Run user feedback sessions with customers to validate and improve designs.
• Balance usability and compliance in enterprise-grade workflows (security, data privacy, auditability).

Tools & Stack

• Figma (components, design systems, prototyping)
• React & React Native awareness (to design with implementation in mind)
• Jira / Notion / or similar for documentation & specs

Requirements

• 3+ years of product/UX/UI design experience, preferably in SaaS or enterprise software.
• Strong portfolio showcasing user flows, dashboards, and high-fidelity designs.
• Hands-on experience with design systems and component-driven design.
• Ability to communicate with engineers and adapt designs for real-world implementation.
• Comfort designing for complex use cases with multiple personas (admins, security teams, visitors, etc.).

Nice to Have

• Experience with workflow builders, form builders, or enterprise platforms.
• Familiarity with access control, compliance, or physical security systems.
• Motion design or micro-interactions skills (Framer, After Effects, etc.).

Why Join Kenai?

• Shape the UX of a platform used by leading enterprises.
• Design for real-world impact in access, safety, and compliance.
• Join a small but ambitious team where your design decisions matter.
• Competitive salary + benefits + stock option pathway.
• Hybrid flexibility in Cape Town or Johannesburg.