User Experience​/UX Designer; Southern | Remote | English

User Experience / UX Designer (Southern Africa | Remote | English)

Southern Africa

Location
:
Fully Remote;
Southern Africa
Employment Type
:
Full-Time;
Independent Contractor
Languages Required
:
English (proficient), other languages an advantage
Experience Required
: 3+ years
Salary Range
: EUR 15,000 – 20,000 gross per annum (depending on experience)
Reports to
:
Quintin Coetzee, Head of People
Works Closely With
:
Head of Engineering, Developers, Marketing Lead, Head of People
Start Date Goal
: 1 October 2025 or sooner (please let us know if you have a notice period)

We’re a remote-first, mission-driven, registered non-profit, comprising around 50 highly-skilled and motivated professionals from all around the world! Our culture is built on trust, autonomy, and collaborative professionalism.

Open Energy Transition (OET) is a German non-profit organization, advancing the global energy transition by developing innovative open-source tools and data solutions for energy and grid planning. Our vision is to make open approaches the global standard by 2030, enabling energy planning that is more accessible, transparent, and effective.

We’re now looking for a talented User Experience (UX) Designer to join our growing team. This is an opportunity to contribute to high-impact design work across web, branding, and publications in a mission-driven, autonomous, trusting, dynamic, fully-remote company.

To learn more about OET and our team, you can visit our website, and browse around our Handbook.

As our UX Designer, you’ll handle a wide range of design responsibilities — from web design and graphics to presentations, social media visuals, reports, and more. Your work will help ensure that everything we publish is visually compelling, clear, and on brand.

We’re all about transparency, and want to give you the best possible opportunity to prepare for any potential interviews. To learn a bit more about the people you’ll be working most closely with, :

Please note that this is a permanent, work-from-home position as an Independent Contractor. No work travel is required. As such, candidates must have their own computer and internet connection. They individual hired for this role will handle their benefits and relevant (provisional) taxes, as no source deductions by OET will apply. Please ensure you are comfortable with this arrangement before applying.

• Web & UI Design: Create and iterate on web page layouts, style guides, and graphics for our digital platforms. Design new websites for future projects. Work closely with our Software Engineers.
• Graphic Design: Produce compelling visuals for reports, marketing campaigns, social media, planning docs, and more.
• Branding: Uphold and evolve our visual identity across platforms and outputs, both internal and external.
• Presentation Design: Support slide design for key presentations (to external stakeholders) and internal communications. These may include proposals to take on new projects, funding (grant) applications, etc.
• Creative Asset Development: Build and improve templates and branded assets for internal and external use.
• Copy Review: Collaborate with marketing and editorial teams to ensure designs align with written content and key messages, which may be campaign- or client-specific.

For examples of existing design work completed by and for OET, please refer to the below links. Your work would extend, and improve upon, our existing documents, website, graphics, and so on. Please only apply for this role if you believe your work experience and skills would complement our existing publications, website, design language, etc.

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in a UX, UI, or similar Design role
• Proven experience with, among other things:
• Web design and responsive layouts
• Corporate branding and identity
• Graphic design for print and digital
• Presentation and publication design
• Experience working with Figma, and the Adobe Creative Cloud (we will consider equivalent design software, so long as it meets the role’s output requirements)
• Fluency in English (written and verbal). Other languages are a bonus
• A portfolio (
  PDF/link,…