Jr. Graphic Designer

The Lead UI/UX Designer must be a great leader with the ability to maximize the talents of the teams. Doing so means being a coach, an instructor, a team leader and a critic all at once. The Lead UI/UX Designer work with User Experience Designers, Visual Designers, User Researchers, Front End Engineers, Business Analysts, Copywriters, and other Marketers on a regular basis to ensure the full experience of the UI/UX of the website, web application or mobile application is being taken care of.

Lead UIUX Design Job Description

• Maintain ownership of the product vision and roadmap and improving the product development process. Lead the team in expanding mastery of the business goals of each design request and pushing back on stakeholders with innovative UX/UI proposals.
• Demonstrate high quality design practices. This includes participation in all aspects of UX: research, ideation, strategy, interaction design, and visual design.
• Conceptualise original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks, working on a framework for judging the success or failure of the product, prioritising feature development and structuring product failures.
• Empower and mentor designers in the team, fostering a collaborative, productive, and positive environment within a growing team.
• Lead design strategy activities to understand user needs & business opportunities, uncover business/user needs, generate potential solutions, craft a holistic vision for the end-to-end product and develop roadmaps for achieving that future.
• Maintain and further build design team workflows that ensure that all designs delivered are in line with style guides and are of high quality standards.
• Ensure that the projects are delivered on a timely manner.
• Highly communicative and responsive both within the team and to stakeholders across the company while managing a large volume of ongoing projects.

 Requirements:

• 6+ years of industry experience as a UI/UX designer and/or manager in a cross-functional UI/UX team, dedicated to the complete UI/UX design and development lifecycle of several successfully launched desktop and mobile applications.
• Deep understanding of the iOS and Android platforms and experience designing and launching products for both.
• Proven success designing and optimizing high-quality product experiences for a variety of platforms including desktop, web and mobile. Experience in B2B platforms is an advantage.
• Mastery of UX interaction and design principles and deliverables including rapid prototyping, concept diagrams, user scenarios, wireframes, flows, experience maps, design patterns and annotated comps.
• Architect system wide design solutions that satisfy both product and engineering requirements.
• Experience managing a team of around 6-8 UI/UX designers. Ability to communicate with different departments of a multi-national and dynamic company
• Working knowledge of the capabilities and constraints of web front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap as well as iOS components and Material Design.
• Drive and willingness to go the extra mile with a strong work ethic.
• Experience in other type of designs (online ads, print, etc.) will be an advantage.

Role

The role of the Ui/Ux Designer is to envision how people experience our products and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical. You’ll take on complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible, and easy-to-use designs for the first-time user to the sophisticated expert. Achieving this goal requires collaboration with teams of Designers, Researchers, Engineers and Product Managers throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes. At each stage, you will anticipate what our users need, advocate for them and ensure that the final product surprises and delights them.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into engaging interactive experiences that create a meaningful product design.
• You will partner with the product in the creation of personas, user journey maps, information architecture models, wireframes, prototypes, visual design, and conducting user research.
• Bring UX/UI experience to raise the bar and elevate the product design. • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Marketing, and Design teams. • Design new patterns and standards.
• Leverage customer empathy, research, and design principles to support design decisions.
• Establish a strong design culture by championing user-centric design and design thinking.

What We're Looking For

• Proven track record of creating exceptional experiences and designs that raise the bar.
• Experience designing and thinking in design systems translating complexity to simplicity.
• Deep understanding of responsive and adaptive design.
• Ability to successfully manage all aspects of a project from start to finish, as well as multitask and prioritize projects, communicate progress, and deliver on time.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to excellence.
• Your up-to-date portfolio speaks for itself. Must have a portfolio featuring examples of work, your design process, and outcomes/results.
• Degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or related field of study.
• 3+ years of relevant work experience in UX/UI, mobile design, interaction design, and visual design.
• Demonstrated experience with end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design.
• Strong knowledge & relevant experience of design tools like Figma, Principle, Framer, • Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, HTML, CSS.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent self-management skills.
• Previous experience at a startup or in-house creative team, a plus

Data Sutram is a Alternate Data Intelligence Enterprise that uses the power of external data sources to create key insights that generate value for businesses. It is one of the fastest growing companies in the space of Artificial Intelligence & Location Analytics in India and is funded by Indian Angel Network (IAN), 100x.VC (led by Sanjay Mehta) and the IIFL Fintech Fund (2021). It has been recognized as one of the ten startups in NetApp Global Accelerator Programme.

About the Role:
As Product (UX/UI) Designer at Data Sutram, you will be responsible for collecting and translating user insights into delightful experiences. Ultimately, you shall create both functional and appealing beautiful features that address our customer's needs and help us grow our customer base. You will use your creativity and eye for design – along with your technical knowledge – to develop great experiences. You'll work with a product manager, communications strategist and our development team. Together you shall deliver UI mockups, prototypes, MVPs and final products.

In this role, you'll have the privilege of being the voice of our customers and translate their needs into user-friendly designs. You will have a direct impact on the customer's user-experience of our product.

Responsibilities:

• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
• Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets
• Build page navigation buttons and search fields
• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
• Create original graphic designs & videos for marketing Data Sutram products.
• Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Interact with customers to identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Create Style Systems for DS Products of the future.

Skill Requirements:

• You know how to distill simplicity from complex user requirements.
• You know how to use the tools of the trade like, Figma, Sketch, Invision, Photoshop, Marvel, Overflow.
• You have experience in Product Marketing.
• You have experience with user research and translating insights from research to your designs.
• You have great communication skills both when interfacing with customers as well as when working with your team.
• Video Editing experience. (appreciated)
• You are able to lead complex projects from scratch.

Experience:

2-3 years of experience in UI/UX design

OneCode is an agent led distribution platform for businesses predominantly in BFSI verticals. The platform enables businesses to outsource their need for sales agents through the OneCode Platform. OneCode is a Super App for the sales agents and the businesses who employ Sales Agents. For the business/brand it's a plug'n'play solution. The Sales agents who are on-boarded have to go through the content (training videos) + KYC. There are 1mn+ agents on the platform and 50+ clients (ICICI, Axis, Equitas, Upstox, Insurance Co's). India's 2nd largest Agent network.

One Code is well funded by tier 1 VC’s(Sequoia, Nexus, Waterbridge) and angels in India. Recently we have raised $5M dollars from India's top VC's.

We are looking for an experienced B2C UI/UX designer (Consumer front - large scale experienced)

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Working in good coordination with production managers and engineers
• Working closely with Product Head & CEO
• Generating new ideas
• Identifying and troubleshooting UX problems
• Discussing the idea with the internal team
• Designing Wireframes, UI mockups and prototypes
• Designing High fidelity designs
• Familiarity with agile methodologies.

Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years experienced
• Understand UX methodologies
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies.
• Experience in B2C products on big scale
• High ownership, independent environments and feedback oriented cultures

Required Skills for this Role:

Prototyping, Persona Definition, Wireframing ,Sketching, Figma, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Story boarding.

If this is interesting for you then please share your resume while applying. Also, please feel free to reach out in case of any queries.

Our client is more than 2 decades old NBFC registered with the RBI. The company was set up with an aim to empower rural entrepreneurs, SMEs, and small institutions by micro-financing. The company has come a long way since its inception in 1992 and has evolved with time with the introduction of its App in the small loans sector. At present, the company has more than 5000 employees and has serviced millions of borrowers to accomplish their dreams.

The group has diversified into the education segment and is running two schools. The schools are part of one of the largest private school chains in India. The schools have a flourishing family of 350 teachers and 6500 students. The leadership team at the helm of the company has demonstrable experience in financial services and has built the company by upholding the trust of its customers.

• Developing UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites and apps function and look like
• Creating original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches, tables, etc)
• Identifying and troubleshooting UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Adhering to style standards on fonts, colors, and images
• Creating attention-grabbing designs aimed at multiple target audiences B2C

Desired Candidate Profile

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a UI/UX designer
• Character making and image solving capabilities
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop)
• Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus
• Knowledge of UI/UX of responsive websites
• Portfolio of design projects