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At PivotRoots we follow a user centred and value driven design thinking process. As a UX designer, 

1. You should be able to understand product specifications and know how to convert business requirements into user journeys and wireframes. 
2. Able to create personas through user research and data. 
3. Adept in developing wireframes and prototypes around customer needs.
4. Use various UX processes to fefine the right interaction model and evaluate its success
5. Work with UI designers to implement attractive designs
6. Communicate design ideas and prototypes to developers
7. Keep abreast of competitor products and industry trends

 

This is a pure UX role and does not require any prior experience in visuals and graphics. 

You must have empathy for the user, a deep understanding of user-centered design (UCD) and strong analytical abilities. You must have an understanding of technical limitations as well as business strategies and goals, backed by a knowledge of different technologies. You would have to conduct user research, interviews, and surveys, and use the information to create sitemaps, customer journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes.
As a user experience designer (UXD), you would have to create and enhances digital interfaces like websites, apps, and software programs to make the experience more effortless and enjoyable for consumers. Your work helps boost customer satisfaction, build brand loyalty, and ensure that there aren’t any design elements present that might deter potential customers. This includes everything from smooth navigation to enhanced visual appeal and a simplified sign-up or checkout process.
A background in or familiarity with cognitive psychology is a huge plus
Job Description
We are looking for well-qualified candidates with the unique ability to perform well as a UXD and also at a high level as a technology and business manager and leader. You will be directly involved in executing the Company's overall technology & business strategy and implementation.
Our user experience (UX) design expert needs to be a multi-talented jack-of-all-trades who possesses knowledge in the areas of psychology, design and technology. We are looking for a user-experience (UX) designer able to understand our business requirements and any technical limitations, as well as be responsible for conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes. The UX designer will also be expected to design the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing.
Responsibilities
• Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Facilitate the product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products.
• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mock-ups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Ask smart questions, take risks and champion new ideas.
• Evaluating our current website and recommending possible improvements
• Designing user flows to show how customers interact with our site
• Performing split-testing on some of our underperforming pages
• Performing user testing with the product in question
• Creating and implementing surveys for direct customer feedback
• Creating storyboards to reflect a typical customer
• Analyzing usage data and traffic patterns
• Conducting A/B tests to measure customer response
• Reviewing competitors’ products for additional insights
• Making style guides to define UI elements
• Communicating with clients and other stakeholders
Requirements
• Three or more years of UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments.
• Expertise in standard UX software such as Sketch, OmniGraffle, Axure, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer, and the like is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.
• Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
• A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
• Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model, to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
• Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design.
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
• Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies.

1. Conceptualizing and defining learning product features
2. Architecting information, wireframing, and prototyping with interaction flows
3. Asking smart questions and championing new ideas
4. Developing delightful experiences with creative flair 
5. Diagnosing design problems and devising elegant solutions
6. Translating high-level explicit and latent requirements into functional user interfaces
7. Presenting designs and articulating design decisions
8. Communicating design rationale and maintaining consistency throughout the project
9. Executing designs as a part of software development teams

Requirements:
Good working knowledge of Adobe XD
Pay attention to details
Distill simplicity from complex user requirements
Excellent verbal, written, and communication skills

Experience in the E-Learning domain is preferable but not essential

We are hiring UI/UX lead for luxury-commerce platform that is well-funded and is now ready for its next level of growth. It is backed by reputed investors and is already a leader in its space. The focus for the coming years will be heavily on scaling the platform through technology. 

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Create wireframes, storyboards and sketches to deliver beautiful and intuitive products.
• Define product workflows, interactions and UI specifications in close collaboration with product managers and the engineering team
• Perform user studies to understand the impact of design and constantly innovate to improve user experience.
• Leadership of UI/UX team, including hiring and mentoring.
• Develop personas and usage scenarios and conduct usability testing.

 

Requirements:

 

• Enthusiasm for working in a demanding, startup environment.
• Superb communication and collaboration skills.
• Passion for extraordinary design.
• 3+ years of user design or equivalent practical experience at a consumer-focused product company.
• Dedication to exceptional user experiences with obsessive attention to detail.
• Experience with prototyping with UX design tools required.
• Ability to apply design principles across web, mobile and native platforms.
• Experience with building a team of UI/UX designers and leading them through complex projects a plus.
• CSS, HTML, and Java Script not required, but would be a plus.
• 5-7+ years of proven UI/UX design and interactive work experience.
• High proficiency in popular design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, InVision Studio, Figma, Photoshop and After Effects
• Excellent project management and communication skills to ensure deadlines are a must.
• Must be an analytical and creative designer who is able to grasp user needs and solve problems
• Strong desire to solve challenging problems, learn new things and wear many hats as part of an early-stage company
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

UX/UX Designer responsibilities include gathering user requirements, designing graphic elements, and building navigation components. To be successful in this role, you should have experience with design software and wireframe tools like Figma, Adobe XD, or others.

Ultimately, you’ll create both functional and appealing features that address our clients’ needs and help us grow our customer base. You will be handling the complete responsibility for the UI/UX design of the software application.

Responsibilities:
• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps
• Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, and widgets
• Build page navigation buttons and search fields
• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
• Create original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches, and tables)
• Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
• Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors, and images

Requirements:
• Proven work experience as a UI/UX Designer or similar role
• Portfolio of design projects
• Knowledge of wireframe tools (e.g. Wireframe.cc, InVision, Figma or any other relevant application)
• Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Adobe Illustrator and/or Photoshop
• Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
• Good time-management skills
• Relevant experience as a UI/UX designer (commercial, freelance, or project basis)

Role & Responsibilities:

• Improve the look and feel of interactive components in the website, mobile applications, and other product software
• Facilitate the product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, wireframing, and prototyping user flows.
• Design the aesthetics/theme to be implemented within a website or product, from the layout menus and drop-down options to colors and fonts
• Be a great team player, experienced in working with agile teams. Ability to collaborate closely with product managers, developers, and UX designers.
• Present and defend your design decisions. All your design decisions should be based on the overall design roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles (i.e. color theory, visual weight, etc.)
• Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in your industry’s standards.
• Create surveys for research through various social media platforms to gather feedback on users ease of use
• Conduct testing of completed applications, websites, and software to assess user experience

Qualifications:

• 1-5 years of demonstrated experience in creating and implementing UI design
• Extensive experience in using best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
• Proficient with visual design programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, InVision
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment to create top-performing interfaces
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to peers and teams.
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.
• Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design.
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, and comparable languages will be a plus

Senior Manager - Research

 

About Us

upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale.

upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow.

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech
• upGrad is the official education partner for the Government of India - Startup India program
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

 

Role Summary

As a User Research Professional you will establish UX Research practice for your pods and collaborate closely with the product and tech leadership to shape our products. You will work with your peer(s) to set clear methods, standards and metrics for gathering qualitative and quantitative insights to continuously deepen the actionable knowledge of our product teams.

You will work with teams to develop research awareness, skills for engaging learners, community and experts, also knowledge for discerning what is important to take into product or innovation practices. You will maintain the highest level of research rigour across all types of studies and constraints. In addition to laying the foundation for user research for your pods, you will conduct and lead key research activities, applying quantitative or qualitative research methodologies to generate actionable insights for our products, brand and strategic direction. Your success will be the team’s commitment to research practices and knowledge of deep learning practices which are hidden in plain sight from across India's hinterland to metros.

 

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead and coach team of UX researchers across any one of the Discovery and Growth, Learning experience, Careers, and Breakout pods
• Partner with User Researchers, Design Leads, Product Managers, and Engineering managers to drive all stages of research from early product direction through summative validation in an Agile work environment
• Lead prioritization about what we research, when to research it, and how that research is conducted; This might mean working with cross-functional teams, multiple devices, brands, and platforms, in order to find opportunities to further improve the user experience
• Influence a diverse set of stakeholders through excellent relationship building, and crisply providing insight and deep domain expertise in research practices and product development
• Put the needs of our varied set of users front and center and driving, through influence and well-constructed presentations of insights, the user experience strategy of our many products
• As a voice of the user, effectively challenge and elevate the customer experience in a data-driven environment
• Design, recruit and moderate research studies regularly (both in-person and remote)
• Use a variety of research methods and tools to best reach the goals of each project in order to provide rich, actionable insights
• Communicate research findings and prioritized recommendations to internal stakeholders in a clear and compelling way

 

Skills Required

• You have 6+ years of experience as a User Research Leader with experience building successful practices inside of companies
• You have to lead a team of at least 4 people
• You have deep knowledge of qualitative research methods and tools across the Indian diaspora, as well as knowledge of quantitative methods
• You know how to analyze and work with design, business, and product data tracking
• You have an excellent knowledge of UX standards, and bring a deep background in psychology, social sciences, or anthropology to the practice
• You have strong oral and written communication skills in both Hind, English, and ideally one other language relevant to our deep reach in India. Any other language is a bonus.
• Your excellent presentation skills will help you collaborate with team members from a wide range of teams and geographies across India.
• You have experience in working in an agile environment and the ability to adapt quickly to changing product priorities
• BA or MS in Psychology, Anthropology or Design with a strong focus on User Research is an added bonus

Who Are We?

Founded in 2019, Rajasthan Studio is India’s leading Art Experiences’ hub for travellers & explorers, art lovers, artists, students, working professionals, retired people; in short for everyone. With a dedicated aspiration to make art available in the millennial and fast-paced world of today, Rajasthan Studio is scaling up and entering a whole new world that is driven by technology.  

 

For this purpose, Rajasthan Studio is looking for a highly experienced and passionate UI/UX designer for its upcoming innovative, never-experienced-before app platform for virtual art experiences, who has a soft spot for art & culture to work on an app that is one of its kind. This app will open a whole new dimension and possibilities for art lovers and enthusiasts to showcase their talent alongside generating revenue. If you are as passionate as us about art, culture, heritage, and preserving the same, this role may just be the right fit for you.

 

We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone who lives UI/UX, someone who is passionate about design, art and the power of the same. We are a group of young and talented people looking for someone who knows how to work together and grow together as well. Unlike any other company out there, we want you to genuinely enjoy and love what you do. Love what you design and come up with a design, never seen before for an app never made before, the world’s first live experience application here at Rajasthan Studio.

 

Job Description:

As a UI/UX Designer, you will be responsible for autonomous conceptualizing, designing, prototyping and delivering compelling and intuitive experiences through the application. A good mix of interaction, visual, and problem-solving abilities with a passion for crafting useful and delightful features end-to-end.

 

Eligibility Criteria:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, User Experience Design, or equivalent design-related field.
2. Minimum Three (3) years’ professional expertise as a UI/UX Designer - Mobile & Web
3. Or equivalent combination of education and experience to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.

Preferred:

1. Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Sketch
2. Exposure to Agile/Scrum Methodology
3. Understanding of the Art and Entertainment Industry
4. Exceptional Attention To Detail

Responsibilities:

1. Passionate about designing mind-blowing & problem-solving user experiences (interfaces & interactions)
2. Rapidly develop user flows, wireframes, and full-fidelity mockups, for a range of assets such as small interactive elements
3. Gather & evaluate user/design requirements.
4. Conceptualize, create illustrations, icons, and animations from scratch
5. Ideate and create delightful micro-interactions
6. Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (like responsiveness)
7. Ability to do rapid prototyping and user testing

UI Designer for Landing Page Creator.

 

In this role, you will be responsible for creating design solutions that have a high visual impact.

Moreover, this an Independent contributor role, wherein we expect the candidate to:

• Conceptualize the design
• Create Wireframe for approval
• Deliver the final HTML Asset
• Own the marketing impact of these creatives and basis the learning create further variations to positively impact the business

Besides static creatives, we also expect the candidate to deliver video assets created on Invideo's video editor

 

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 to 4 years of experience in an advertising field
• Degree in Graphic Design, Marketing, Art, or a related field, or equivalent field experience would be an added advantage.
• Able to work on Mac osx, Windows and different software: adobe photoshop, adobe illustrator, after effects.
• Ability to think creatively and evidence of success in developing brands and delivering them to market.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast paced and deadline-driven environment.
• Passionate about the quickly-evolving digital and social media environment.
• Sincere curiosity about how people interact and are influenced online.

Unifynd Technologies is looking for driven and self-motivated individuals who are eager to pursue a career in UIUX. As a User Experience Designer in the Unifynd team, you will be part of the leading team that engineers and designs apps on iOS, Android and the Web. You will be working closely with product and engineering teams, turning ideas and wireframes into awesome user interface ranging from landing pages, applications and mobile sites. You will communicate with front-end and app developers and will be responsible for proper visual execution of ideas, improving your designs based on data and user feedback.Education & Experiences: • Bachelors Degree in from recognized University• 3+ years of experience in UIUX or related fields• Designing user interfaces for mobile (iOS, Android) and web platforms, as well as prototyping experience. • Translate a given user-experience journey into a smooth and intuitive interaction. • Hands-on experience creating mockups and prototypes. • Experience using Sketch and any of InVision, UXPin, Quartz, Flinto, Principle, Framer or Origami for Prototyping.Duties & Responsibilities: • Create wireframes, mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate your interaction ideas. • Present and defend your design decisions and stick to well known design guidelines while designing interfaces. • Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in your industry’s standards.Technical Skills:Languages: English (Written & Verbal) Computer Programs/Skills/Languages: MS Office, Sketch, InVision/UXPin/Flinto/Other Prototyping tools, HTM5 & CSS3The ideal candidate should be willing to commit himself fully to the company and drive the company forward.

Location : Pune: Senior UX Designer/UX Designer (3+ years) and Bangalore and Mumbai : Senior UX Designer- (3+ years of relevant experience in mobile application, web design, tablet design with clear leadership skills - excellent communication, able to drive meetings, stakeholder discussions and deliver designs.) Job Profile: - Work independently with the client (multiple stakeholders) to diagnose business needs - Partner with user researchers to drive research to find user needs - Create interaction design wireframes: Provide insightful UI solutions to business challenges and design robust UI structures based on business and user insights. - Work as a project lead and manage all design activities including co-ordination of visual design and UI front end. - Team with the back-end development team to ensure your design gets translated well - as a final product - Manage communication at all levels and project deliverable Must have: - Hands-on experience of all usability processes - Proven ability to plan and conduct all UX Design activities independently - Eye for details with strong knowledge of visual design principles - Experience designing types of UI (Website, GUI, Web, Mobile applications) using wire-framing tools. Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent in design or related degree. - 3 or more years of experience in interaction design of products and software applications. - Design portfolio of product concepts and commercialized products. - Must possess excellent interpersonal communication, management, negotiation and client relations skills - 3 years to 10 years of solid industry experience About YUJ Designs : www.yujdesigns.com YUJ Designs- consulting services has enabled organizations to gain competitive advantage by implementing thought-through user experience (UX) strategies that had direct impact on their product and business success. Our staff trained in various disciplines- human factors engineering, product design and visual communication - provide end-to-end user experience design consulting services. With an average 10+ years of global consulting experience, our consultants provide value worldwide. Be it conducting quantitative or qualitative user research, informing design strategy or executing effective detailed design we make sure to drive the design thinking for our customers. Ideal candidate gets to work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment. Applicants must have substantial experience creating or redesigning scalable visual systems for websites, mobile, and handheld systems like iPad and tab.