Graphic Designer

Job Description:

As a Visual Design Intern, you will work alongside our design team to create visually stunning designs for our website and application. You will be responsible for creating banners, illustrations, iconography, and other visual assets that align with our brand guidelines and enhance the user experience. Your responsibilities will include, but not limited to:

• Collaborating in the design team to create and execute visual designs for the website and application.
• Creating banners, illustrations, iconography, and other visual assets that align with our brand guidelines and enhance the user experience.
• Assisting with the production of design deliverables and ensuring the quality of the final product.
• Contributing to the development of new design concepts and ideas.
• Staying up-to-date with design trends and best practices.

Requirements:

• Must be currently pursuing or have recently completed a degree or diploma in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign) & Figma
• Knowledge of design principles and best practices.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Bonus Points:

• Experience creating designs for websites and applications.
• Know how on use of AI in text-to-image generation to speed up the design process
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience with video editing and motion graphics

Roles & Responsibilities

• The role will involve creating and iterating digital products along with the various product teams. No mundane DTP work. The design team is clearly positioned as the voice of the customers.
• Platforms: Mobile and Web

You need to be comfortable in:

• Interacting with real users on a regular basis
• Creatively presenting your case to stakeholders
• Making functional and aesthetic design experiences
• Seeing through the pixel-perfect development of your vision

Ideal Candidate

Along with Design (UX/UI), you need to possess at least 2 of the following skills:

• UX research
• Art and illustration
• Design strategy / Business analysis
• Motion/interaction design
• UX writing
• Front-end development

• A self-starter with prior experience leading UI design on a product team and great attention to detail.
• Gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with CTO and product team.
• Illustrating design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps.
• Designing graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets.
• Identify and trouble shoot UX problems.
• You'll create functional and appealing features that will address our users needs and help us grow our customer base.
• 5+ years of proven experience as UX/UI designer with sound knowledge of wireframe tools

Position : All India Head - Design 

Reporting to : Joint President

Location : Mumbai (BKC)

Job Purpose

• Creating functional and appealing features on Mobile and Web applications that enhance customer experience and user-friendliness and thereby result in growing the customer base and business revenues.

Key Deliverables

• Gathering and evaluating user requirements, designing elements and building navigation components in collaboration with the Product Team
• Illustrating design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
• Designing graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets
• Conceptualising and building the page navigation buttons and search fields
• Developing UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how the application will function and look like
• Preparing and presenting innovative ideas to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Identifying and troubleshooting UX problems 
• Conducting layout adjustments based on user feedback
• Conceptualising, developing and implementing style standards on fonts, colours and images

Qualifications & Experience

• Graduation in Design with a specialisation in Application Design or Strategic Design or Interaction Design or Product Design or Information Design or Customer experience (not Fashion Design and Graphic Design)
• 10+ years of relevant work experience 
• Proven track record in conceptualising and developing successful, high-quality Mobile and Web applications

Required Skills and Competencies

• Proven work experience as a UI/UX Designer 
• Portfolio of design projects
• Knowledge of wireframe tools like Wireframe and InVision
• Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
• Good time-management skills