Graphic Designer

We are looking for Lead Graphic Designer who will be responsible for creating graphics.

Designing logos, managing brand activities and working on typography. The Lead Graphics

Designer will work on a range of projects from editorial to eCommerce and provide creative

direction to junior designers.

Qualifications will include:

● Expertise in Graphic Design & Logo Design

● Solid understanding of brand positioning and creating brand guidelines

● Excellent typography skills

● Experience in developing creative assets for a range of media, including print and digital

● Experience in leading and mentoring a team of designers

● Bachelor’s /Master’s Degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or related field

● Experience in the lifestyle, fashion or consumer goods industries is a plus

Experience: 3-5 Years Experience

Skills:

HTML, CSS, Javascript, UI Prototyping, Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, Adobe

Must have Knowledge of Adobe XD

 Location : Ahmedabad 

• Design intuitive, human-centric flows, and experiences on the web, iOS, and Android
• Own a wide variety of projects that vary from big picture concepts to granular feature details
• Identify and produce design artifacts that make the team more effective (journey map, user flow, wireframes, etc.)
• Analyze the success of your solutions and iterate
• Create our design system from scratch yourself and help onboard future designers as we scale
• Present work and use design to build alignment and influence product direction
• Research and understand users, plan and conduct usability tests, and leverage data to make confident design decisions
• Influence our product roadmap by advocating for the user and educating the team on key design concerns
• Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the engineering team and leadership

Skills & Requirements

• If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.
• 1-8 years of experience delivering extraordinary design as a UX designer, information architect, interaction designer, or similar. Experience designing in the fintech industry is a big bonus.
• Portfolio with a history of impactful projects that showcase your design process
• Strong UX, interaction, and visual design skills
• A human-centric approach to designing products
• A bias for action and a tenacious focus on how your work impacts users and the business
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills
• Fluency in commonly used design software (FIGMA!) and related tools

Good to have

• Experience leading / mentoring other designers
• Experience with helping set product strategy through methods like design sprints, quarterly or yearly planning, and team brainstorms
• Experience setting a vision for a product experience.
• Prototyping skills (using Invision, HTML, CSS, Framer, Principle, etc.)
• Ability to write and edit HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Conceptual understanding of popular front-end frameworks like Angular and React

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 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 

This role will primarily be responsible for envisioning, defining, and owning the execution of upGrad's product design strategy. As the strategic design leader, team coach, and customer champion you'll galvanize people to solve complex problems, developing strategies, and ensuring product designers have the space to create products that deliver enduring value.  You will also lead change cross-functionally to drive better experiences and influence our company's product, operations, content, and data to unlock the unrealized wants of learners and coaches across new subjects and fields.

You’ll lead your team through the design process, help build a vision, and navigate ambiguity through partnering with research and enabling experimentation, all while mentoring, and growing a hardworking and capable design team.  

You’ll run design critiques, host collaboration & brainstorming sessions, drive design execution excellence, identify areas of process efficiency, and promote a high-output and fast-paced design practice.

Roles & Responsibilities

•  Work closely with your team and other designers in defining, designing, and iterating  on product features across web and mobile platforms 
• Get out of the Office and work with research to observe the impact of your work in the real world, and take that input back to your work as a designer to be constantly improving our products.
• Invest in design standards, documentation, and processes alongside your team members to further our design practice 
•  Shape product strategy and vision together with product managers and have a significant impact across all the product teams
• Bring consistency to all the platforms and products
• Drive and support cross-team initiatives that make the Design practice better at upGrad such as improving our hiring processes, expanding our community presence,  interviewing potential new team members
• Work in the way that works for you and what you're designing, whether that's spending time sketching or jumping straight into pixels and code.
•  Work with other members of the Design team to help them deliver great work and develop their own skills. This could be as a mentor, a coach, or a collaborator. 

Skills Required::

•  7 years of Product Design experience with at least 2 years of experience leading  product design teams
• Consistent track record of leading highly collaborative cross-functional teams thought ambiguity and deliver the best products possible to our customers are an experienced mentor and coachable to give and receive honest, thoughtful,  and direct feedback that removes roadblocks encourages growth, and accelerates delivery
• Are intent on crafting psychologically optimistic spaces where your direct reports and your collaborators are confident in sharing their ideas, opinions, and reservations in order to get to the best customer-focused solution
• Experienced recruiting, hiring, and retaining multi-disciplinary design teams
• Ability to understand complex feature sets and their dependencies while being able  to deliver a design strategy that accounts for capabilities and limitations of the product 
•  Methodology rich, including standard approaches for design deliverables including  user journeys, research plans, mocks, prototypes, documentation, and quality checks 
•  Have the ability to communicate research findings and design decisions openly and  confidently, regardless of the audience  
• Have partnered with research teams or led research experiments to validate and  inform product thinking 
• Have a proven history of partnering with engineering in a continuous delivery environment