Graphic Designer

Role - UI Designer

Experience - Min 2 years

Location - Mumbai & Bangalore

About our client :-

Our Client is a brand co-creation platform that transforms powerful ideas into authentic, profitable, and experience-led brands that can define the future of brands in key consumption categories like fashion and lifestyle; food and FMCG, home and decor and beauty and wellness. We are a team of experienced entrepreneurs, marquee investors, and industry professionals who have expertise and experience in building some of the most popular brands in the country. We partner with passionate entrepreneurs to combine our collective learning and experience with data science, digital ethnography, and technology platforms to build brands that connect to the new generation of Indian consumers.

What you’ll be doing :-

• Own the solution design and user experience aspects of any project/product. This includes conducting user research through interviews, observations and other research methods & translating it into insights that are simple, intuitive and result in delightful user experiences.

• Understands product specifications and identifies user touchpoints/ interactions through the various journeys

• Work closely with the product team to translate business requirements into user personas, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, prototypes (paper sketches to high- fidelity), flow diagrams and finally production quality mocks for web, mobile web and apps.

• Create images and videos for our various products selling on multiple e-commerce websites.

• Producing graphic content for landing pages, page layouts, site graphics & static & banners

• Defining standards and guidelines for UI and Usability.

• Will work across different brands from food/fashion/BPC categories.

• Suggest design solutions in the form of sketches, storyboards, wireframes, and paper/interactive prototypes.

What will you bring :-

• You are comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced start-up environment.

• Must have the ability to work with a sense of urgency and be able to successfully navigate changing priorities

• 2-3 years of experience as a visual designer

• Advanced proficiency in visual design software, such as Adobe Creative Suite's InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator or any other relevant tools

• Knowledge of 3D design and animation tools such as 3DS Max, Maya.

Why work with us :-

• You will be part of our founding team and get your hands dirty in the 0-1 stage of building a D2C brand.

• You will work with a solid set of people from diverse backgrounds.

• You will independently lead projects and have ownership of your deliverables.

• You will be pushed out of your comfort zone and watch your learning curve spike

·      Capable of independently creating 2D/UI graphics and animations and integrating them in Unity

·      Participating in art reviews and being receptive to feedback and art direction

·      Troubleshooting any art issues from a creative & technical standpoint

·      Creating Mood boards, Style guides, Art guidelines & other necessary documentation

Strong 2D skills, but a mastery of showing ideas, and sketching out and clearly communicating a wide range of possibilities.

• Study design briefs and determine requirements
• Conceptualize visuals based on requirements
• Prepare rough drafts and present ideas
• Develop illustrations, logos and other designs using software or by hand Work with copywriters and brand leads to produce final design
• Test graphics across various media
• Amend designs after feedback
• Ensure final graphics and layouts are visually appealing and on-brand

• Proven graphic designing experience of 5 – 7 years
• A strong portfolio of illustrations or other graphics
• Familiarity with design software and technologies (such as InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Photoshop)
• A keen eye for aesthetics and details
• Ability to work methodically and meet deadlines

Responsibilities: -

• Designing of look-books and visually stunning collateral
• Understanding client’s needs
• Create engaging and on-brand graphics for various social media platforms

Requirements

• 1+ year of work experience
• Hands-on experience with layout design
• Degree in Design, Fine arts or Related field
• Work from office in Mumbai

We are looking for a UI/UX Designer to turn our software into easy-to-use products for our clients.

In this role, you would be defining and implementing a great user experience for software, web applications, and platforms to meet customer needs and business objectives. The expectation would be to enhance the user experience by combining workflows and interfaces for our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Strong analytical and design principles needed for intuitive solutions 
• Ability to communicate with the team and document the requirements and solutions elegantly.
• Gain a deep understanding of user needs, user psychology, and goals and communicate them to cross-functional product teams.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously across diverse product teams.
• Design web app interfaces and product experiences for a wide range of e-commerce products.
• Conduct concept and usability testing and develop test suites
• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
• Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images.
•  Create personas through user research and data
•  Develop wireframes and prototypes 
• Create original graphic designs (icons, logo, product images other graphics required for softwares etc)
•  Keep abreast of competitor products and industry trends
•  Excellent communication skills
•  Test ideas and rapidly incorporate user and team feedback.
•  Help establish new and/or improve existing workflows as necessary including the full customer journey spanning discovery, purchase, and on-going product services.

 Requirements:

• 0.6 -2 years of proven experience as a UX Designer or similar role for the website, tablet, and mobile view.
• Strong portfolio of design projects with links to the projects. (Dribbble, Behance or any other platform)
• Experience in HTML/CSS,LESS,SasS, Javascript, Bootstrap, jQuery will be a plus.
• Experience with Design Software tools like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch/Figma/Adobe XD, Invision, Interaction Design, User Experience (UX) Design, and Wireframing tools.
• Familiar with Material Design, Design Thinking, UI Design Patterns, User Research Methods.
• Working experience with agile sprints, participating in design reviews and retrospectives and managing task/ticket life cycle on project management software.
• Knowledge of Usability Factors in Human Computer Interaction.
• Problem-solving aptitude.

Education:

Bachelors or higher degree in a User Experience related field such as (UI & UX design, HCI, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, B.E or BCA) [Or equivalent professional experience].