Business Analyst

SOFTWAY

Title: UX Engineer II | Department: Product Development

Vision for Product Development

The Product Development Team is dedicated to shaping the future by turning ideas into products that will significantly impact customer lives and propel the organization forward. With a vision to launch a variety of products poised to become major revenue drivers, we are committed to crafting solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. Every product we undertake is a step towards redefining what's possible, ensuring our journey is one of progress, impact, and success.

Overall Purpose of the Position:

As a UX Engineer II, your primary objective is to lead the design and implementation of user-centric interfaces and experiences for our products. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will drive the UX/UI design process from concept to delivery, ensuring that our products are visually appealing, intuitive to use, and aligned with user needs and business goals.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

User Research and Analysis: Conduct user research to understand user behaviors, needs, and pain points. Analyze research findings to inform UX/UI design decisions and identify opportunities for improvement.

UX/UI Design: Lead the design of intuitive, visually appealing user interfaces and experiences for web and mobile applications. Create wireframes, prototypes, and design mockups to communicate design concepts and solutions.

Interaction Design: Define user interactions, flows, and navigation patterns to optimize user engagement and task completion. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate design concepts into functional, interactive experiences.

Usability Testing: Plan and conduct usability testing sessions to gather feedback on design prototypes and iterate on design solutions based on user feedback. Advocate for user-centered design principles and best practices within the team.

Design Systems and Guidelines: Establish and maintain design systems, patterns, and guidelines to ensure consistency and coherence across products and platforms. Evangelize design standards and best practices to ensure a unified user experience.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product managers, software engineers, and other stakeholders to align UX/UI design initiatives with product goals and technical requirements. Foster a collaborative, cross-functional team environment focused on delivering exceptional user experiences.

Mentorship and Leadership: Mentor junior UX/UI designers and contribute to their professional growth and development. Provide leadership and guidance on UX/UI design projects, setting high standards for quality and innovation.

Continuous Improvement: Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in UX/UI design. Identify opportunities for process improvement and innovation to enhance the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the UX/UI design process.

Skills and Qualifications:

Proficiency in UX/UI design tools such as Sketch, Adobe XD, or Figma.

Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies.

Experience conducting user research, usability testing, and data analysis.

Excellent visual design skills with a keen eye for typography, layout, and color.

Solid understanding of interaction design principles and best practices.

Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to present and justify design decisions to stakeholders.

Experience working in an agile development environment and collaborating closely with product managers and software engineers.

Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or related field. Master's degree preferred.

Certifications:

UX/UI Design Certifications: Certifications from reputable organizations that validate proficiency in UX/UI design principles, methodologies, and tools. Examples include: Nielsen Norman Group UX Certification

Interaction Design Foundation (IDF) UX Design Certification

Certified User Experience Professional (CUXP) by the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA)

User Research Certification: Certifications focused on user research techniques, methodologies, and best practices. Examples include:

User Research Academy Certification

Certified Usability Analyst (CUA) by Human Factors International

Accessibility Certification: Certifications demonstrating expertise in designing accessible user interfaces and experiences. Examples include:

International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) Certification

Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) Certification by the International Association of Accessibility Professionals

Agile or Scrum Certification: While not specific to UX/UI design, certifications in Agile or Scrum methodologies can be beneficial for working effectively in agile development environments. Examples include:

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) by Scrum Alliance

Professional Scrum Master (PSM) by Scrum.org

Technology Stacks:

Front-end Technologies:

Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for building user interfaces.

Knowledge of front-end frameworks such as React.js, Angular, or Vue.js for developing interactive and responsive web applications.

Understanding of design systems and component libraries to maintain consistency across user interfaces.

Prototyping Tools:

Experience with prototyping tools like Figma to create interactive prototypes and mockups for user testing and stakeholder feedback.

Collaboration Platforms:

Familiarity with collaboration platforms such as Figma, Miro, or Axure RP for facilitating remote collaboration, design reviews, and brainstorming sessions with cross-functional teams.

Version Control Systems:

Knowledge of version control systems like Git for managing design files, tracking changes, and collaborating with developers on design implementations.

User Research and Testing Tools:

Experience with user research and testing tools such as UsabilityHub, UserTesting, or Optimal Workshop for conducting usability studies, surveys, and gathering user feedback.

Accessibility Tools:

Understanding of accessibility evaluation tools like Axe, Lighthouse, or WAVE to ensure designs comply with accessibility standards and guidelines (e.g., WCAG).

Responsive Design Principles:

Knowledge of responsive design principles and techniques to create user interfaces that adapt seamlessly across different devices and screen sizes.

Cross-functional Collaboration Tools:

Proficiency in communication and collaboration tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom for facilitating communication and coordination with cross-functional teams.

Behavioral Expectations: Growth Mindset & the Six Pillars of Love:

Growth Mindset: Embrace and foster growth mindsets within the team. Encourage unlearning old ways and re-learning new approaches to creative work. Challenge and dismantle any belief systems that impede embracing new ways of working or delivering work.

Inclusion: Cultivate an inclusive environment across all geographic locations, valuing and integrating diverse ideas and perspectives.

Empathy: Show understanding and consideration for the unique challenges and perspectives of the India team and consulting clients. Build empathetic relationships to support their needs.

Forgiveness: Promote a culture of learning from mistakes and understanding in cross-cultural contexts. Encourage open discussions about failures and lessons learned.

Trust: Build trust through consistent, honest interactions, and reliable leadership, especially when managing remote and international teams.

Empowerment: Empower team members in all locations by providing autonomy, resources, and support for innovative and context-specific solutions.

Vulnerability: Demonstrate vulnerability in leadership, especially in international contexts. Be open about challenges and encourage the team to share their experiences and ideas.

Operating Principles: Embrace and live out Softway’s current operating principles

Prioritize relationships: We forge unbroken trust, achieve customer intimacy and practice

forgiveness

Embrace discomfort: We value feedback as a gift, embrace. Vulnerability and transparency

Wield your influence: We lead with our influence, embody reliable leadership and extend our influence beyond titles

Practice empathic curiosity: We challenge our believed and assumptions

Focus on outcomes: We deliver with purpose, value impact over effort and engage in strategic problem-solving

Take ownership: We embrace mutual accountability, empower and unblock and learn from our mistakes openly.

Experiment: We champion curiosity and courage, advocate for incremental progress and redefine perfection through iteration.

Be Effective: We align for impact, are interwoven in collaboration and strategize for success.

In Person Meetings & Travel Expectations:

In-Person Team Meetings: Regular attendance for in-person team meetings is required. Company Meetings / Retreats: Attendance for all Company-wide Meetings and/or Retreats is mandatory.

Client Visits: Occasional travel for client visits may be necessary. Travel frequency will depend on client requirements and or international travel laws/restrictions.

International Collaboration (India & US): Willingness to travel to India and/or US as requested to collaborate with cross-functional teams is required.

Reporting Structure: Reports directly to the Product Development Manager

Collaboration and Interaction:

Engage with cross-functional teams, clients, and stakeholders, participating in collaborative discussions to contribute ideas to enhance project outcomes and grow the function. Foster a teamwork-oriented mindset, attend regular team meetings, share regular feedback as a mentor, and seek opportunities for knowledge-sharing of insights and best practices. It includes providing regular updates on the function’s performance and strategic initiatives to leadership, and fostering transparency and collaboration.

Adherence to Standards: Consistency in applying coding standards and adherence to Softway's policies.

Professional Development Opportunities:

Advanced UX/UI Design Training: Participate in advanced training programs, workshops, and courses on UX/UI design principles, methodologies, and tools.

Certification Programs: Pursue certifications in UX/UI design, user research, and accessibility to validate expertise and commitment to the profession.

Cross-Functional Skills Development: Gain exposure to other areas of product development, such as product management, software engineering, and data analytics, to broaden your skill set and perspective.

Networking and Community Engagement: Join UX/UI design communities, attend conferences, and participate in industry events to network with peers and stay updated on industry trends and best practices.

Research and Innovation Projects: Get involved in research and innovation projects within the organization to explore new design concepts, technologies, and methodologies.

Evaluation Metrics:

Design Quality and Innovation: Assess the quality and creativity of UX/UI design solutions, considering factors such as usability, visual appeal, and innovation.

User Satisfaction and Engagement: Measure user satisfaction and engagement metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of UX/UI design in driving user adoption and retention.

Collaboration and Leadership: Evaluate collaboration skills and leadership abilities based on contributions to cross-functional team projects and mentorship of junior designers.

Continuous Improvement: Track participation in professional development activities and initiatives to assess commitment to continuous learning and improvement in UX/UI design skills.

Overall Impact: Evaluate the overall impact of UX/UI design efforts on product success and business goals, considering factors such as user feedback, market performance, and stakeholder satisfaction. 

Impact Guru Foundation was founded in 2014, to provide affordable and accessible healthcare to all. Through our interventions, we have defined our vision, mission and values to help inform our programs going forward. Deriving on the principles of healing, health, harmony and happiness, we have pivoted our approach to reflect high standards of delivery of healthcare services to all to realize our dream of a #HealthyBharatHappyBharat

Inception: 2014

Website: https://www.impactgurufoundation.org

Location: Delhi & Bangalore

The Manager / Senior Manager, Corporate Fundraising will support Impact Guru Foundation (IGF) to mobilize financial and nonmonetary resources. He or she will lead IGF’s associations with multiple existing and new stakeholders among corporates. He / She will constantly focus on strengthening existing relationships within these partners as well as cultivating new champions among these stakeholders. This role works closely with the internal functions of IGF such as Program team, Finance team and Impact team to develop win-win opportunities to maximize our impact within and beyond.

1. Build financial sustainability  

1. Building and sourcing work-streams such as corporate, foundation, multi-laterals, Alumni, government etc. Good to be Subject matter Expert in work-streams such as multi-laterals / foundations.  
2. Design and execute deep engagement strategy with key relationships to ensure renewals, upgrades and meaningful partnerships  
3. Partner with the Director in leveraging the rich ecosystem towards building a pipeline of funders.  
4. Manage systems and processes that support development objectives and comply with regulatory laws and MoU commitments  
5. Lead and manage strategic partnerships with various organizations to organize fundraising campaigns and events.  
6. Handle external and internal communications and facilitate legal agreements with partners as needed  
7. Events: Organize events/conferences/seminars/concerts/charity fundraising events etc. to promote fundraising for partners  

2. Due Diligence:  

1. Conduct thorough due diligence on partners to make sure they are compliant with existing laws and have strong track record.  
2. Conduct thorough due diligence on individuals creating personal cause campaigns to verify need and use of funds  

3. Fundraising:  

1. Help partners identify influential campaign creators or to create campaigns themselves  
2. Work closely with the digital marketing and content team to make sure each fundraising campaign is a big success!  
3. Feedback Reports: Ensuring that all donors are sent feedback reports on timely basis and that partners provide high quality feedback reports Campaigns: Develop pipeline of campaigns that have large scale impact and work with partners to execute those

Qualifications / Requirements

• Graduate/Post graduate in any field with 4+ years of work experience preferably in a healthcare NGO.  
• Ability to evaluate partnerships and collaboration opportunities in the city / region from a development and a larger organizational lens.  
• Basic understanding of the IGF’s model with potential for systemic impact  
• Proficient user of the MS Office toolkit such as Excel, PowerPoint and Word  
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills  
• Strong project management skills including assessing progress to goals and making the necessary course corrections or reinforcements  
• Ability to use data to drive decisions  
• An inclination or the ability to see connections between seemingly disparate opportunities (internal or external to the team or the organization) and leverage the same to achieve shared goals  
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment and develop strategy independently – with the newer work-streams, the Senior Manager will operate in a relatively unstructured environment where they will have to collect, process and synthesize information. They should also have the ability to critically review this to enable strategic decision making.  
• Knowledge / Awareness of managerial techniques to build a strong culture of collaboration and collective problem solving among the city and national team members  
• Should have a proven track record of CSR Partnership, HNI Contacts, fundraising to promote charitable causes.  
• Strong network of existing relationships with hospitals, universities, marathon

What do we offer?

● Attractive salary & performance-linked bonuses

● An opportunity to be in a leadership position of a high-growth organization

● Fun, casual & flexible work environment

● Entrepreneurial, forward-looking, growth-driven & open work culture

We’re really excited to bring on a full-time designer to own our entire product and entire brand — including what you see here. This role will be responsible for driving the entire Orbital experience.

Qualities

• 0 to 3 years of experience (or equivalent understanding of product design)
• Strong in UI, UX design principles and Figma/Adobe XD
• Familiar with building web applications, SaaS experience preferred
• Willingness and interest in learning new tech/processes (Framer, Webflow, etc.)
• Willingness to travel to offices in Hyderabad, New York City, or San Francisco

·        Maximum 5 years of Information Technology/Technology Operations/Information Security experience required.

·        Minimum 3 years of experience in Cybersecurity, Identity & Access Management, Role Based Access Control, and Identity Governance is mandatory.

·        Knowledge on User Life Cycle Management, Access provisioning, Access administration is must.

·        Experience with technologies such as Role-Based Active Control (RBAC) and Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) is required.

·        Experience in User Access Re-certification activities is mandatory.

·        Working knowledge on Active Directory is must.

·        Working experience on any IAM tool (SailPoint/Okta/OneIdentity/Varonis/MIM) would be added advantage.

·        Knowledge on Identity and Access Management role/processes/tools is must.

·        Prior experience in processing IAM requests (Add/Modify/Delete) is must.

·        Experienced in Incident management & Change Management processes.

·        Knowledge of and the ability to adhere to SAS and SOX audit requirements pertaining to Identity & Access Management job requirements.

·        Experience with work-flow management tools such as ServiceNow.

·        Leveraging creative thinking and problem solving skills, individual initiative, and utilizing MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint).

·        Understanding personal and team roles; contributing to a positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members; proactively seeking guidance, clarification and feedback.

·        Identifying and addressing business needs: building relationships with Stake Holders; developing an awareness of Firm services; communicating with the business/stake holders in an organized and knowledgeable manner; delivering clear requests for information; demonstrating flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks; and communicating potential conflicts to a supervisor

·        Experience performing user administration tasks for various in-house and third-party applications.

·        Analyzing, prioritizing, and resolving faults to resolution. Resolve tickets according to SLAs and escalation procedures.

·        Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills. Be proactive, dynamic, and flexible.

·        Good Communication skills, able to articulate well with business and stakeholders.

·        Education Qualification : Any graduate/post graduate with Computer Science background.

Responsibilities

• Take product ideas from ideation to implementation.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to create robust and usable features.
• Take ownership of the architecture for best performance and usability.
• Lead engineering discussions to ensure the best practices, maintainability and security of the application.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Lead and mentor the team of developers, to drive business objectives.

We are looking for

• 4+ years of experience building quality applications.
• Proficient in client-side JS frameworks such as React.js
• Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas.
• Strong customer focus, ownership, and self-drive.
• Experience in planning, designing architecture and leading teams.
• Experience with SaaS products or an early stage startup is a plus.

Should be SAP certified

At least 2 End-to-end implementation experience in S4HANA.Involved in workshops for requirement gathering of the client business processes.

Coordinate with the stakeholders during requirement gathering and execution phases.

Hands-on capabilities in Blueprinting, Configuration and Testing  the complete process cycles.

Possess strong knowledge on PSU relevant processes in PS, Budgeting and integration with other modules.

• Plan and execute all digital marketing efforts, including SEO/SEM, marketing databases, email, social media, and display ads.
• Create, manage, and improve our social media presence.
• All digital marketing efforts should be measured and reported on, and goals should be evaluated (ROI and KPIs)
• Identify patterns and insights, and then improve your spending and performance based on them.
• Consider fresh and innovative growing techniques.
• Experiments and conversion tests should be planned, executed, and measured.
• Work with internal teams to develop landing pages and improve the user experience.
• Use your analytical skills to assess the entire consumer experience across numerous channels and contact points.
• Conversion points are measured and user funnels are optimized.
• Collaborate with other vendors and agencies.

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