Associate Director of Design

at Beem

Posted by Shruti Choudhary

7 - 14 yrs

₹25L - ₹38L / yr (ESOP available)

Remote only

Skills

User Experience (UX) Design

Figma

Adobe Creative Cloud

Prototyping

Visual Designing

Wireframing

Product design

Who we are: We are reimagining financial products as consumer products, like Spotify or Netflix or Dropbox, making money and tools/services to manage it, available for simple monthly subscription fee so you can stream, share, sync it across accounts, devices, funding instruments, friends or family . Our mission is to help our users demystify their finances, maximize their savings, participate in sustainable debt efforts and spend intelligently.

Who we’re looking for Exceptional, innovative people! Passionate about delightful user experiences, clear about doing the right thing and hungry to impact millions of lives.

Why you should work with us: We are about doing the right thing always, both for our team and users. We are a positive, transparent and inclusive community celebrating success together, encouraging bias for action and individual brilliance. We are ambitious and want everyone thinking ‘impact and growth’. We are remote-first company with focus on employee well-being and an engaging work culture With rich experience in the world’s leading tech companies and banks, we deeply and equally understand both the ‘fin’ and ‘tech’ in fintech. Funded by leading global VCs like Sequoia, Massive, Index Ventures, Techstars, TASC ventures, Avesta and others, we’re in pursuit of a fantastic experience for both our consumers and colleagues. Beem is an equal-opportunity employer and proud of it. We aspire to create an inclusive culture of diverse people not just because it's the right thing to do but because heterogeneity inspires us and is more fun! We employ people solely on merit and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.

What you'll do

● Lead and oversee experience design projects and programs that influence positive change/impact across one more adjacent product teams

● Build wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs using best-in-class UI frameworks, and design systems to tackle difficult UX problems

● Partner closely with cross-functional partners to build strategic and impactful experience roadmaps

● Facilitate design workshops, critiques, and co-creation sessions that focus stakeholders on solving the underlying root causes of user/customer pain points instead of jumping to end-solutions

● Be a key stakeholder in building the design team and be sought out by adjacent teams for your obsession with craft quality and domain expertise

● Own design problems end to end, from initial concept through shipping and beyond

● Build flows and prototypes to tackle difficult UX problems

● Obsess over the details of visual and motion design

● Work with product managers to define products (requirements, strategic functionality, bold bets), not just translate them into design execution.

● Identify future opportunities, working as a key thought partner to your counterparts in product, engineering, and operations

● Partner with engineers to ship pixel-perfect designs

● The ship, measure, and improve your designs based on quantitative and qualitative feedback

● Brainstorm and iterate with your colleagues to help raise the bar on the whole experience

Basic Qualifications

● 7+years of UI/UXdesign experience

● A portfolio showing your high-quality, thoughtful UI and UX work

● A degree in HCI, Graphic Design, or related fields (B.Des, M.Des etc) ● Strategic product thinker with the ability to understand product goals, identify opportunities and make decisions based on the impact on people and the company

● Interaction design experience with the ability to define how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs. Ability to use prototyping skills to demonstrate how a particular flow or interaction will work

● Experience with a breadth of design disciplines- design thinking, applied service design, user experience research, and beyond

● Must know-Figma,,Adobe Creative Cloud, Lottie files, Prototyping and deep understanding of components, design systems

● Must have experience with designing 0-1 products and scaling them

● Must have an understanding of visual and motion graphics to work with visual & motion designers to incorporate the requirements in the design process

● Must have worked with small to medium-sized teams in fast-paced environment

● Visual design skills with proficiency in typography, desktop/mobile UI, color, layout, iconography, and aesthetic sense

● Good to have-Worked directly with Startup founders or executives to bring ideas to real-life. Fintech experience is a plus.