Junior Graphic Designer

**Job Description:**

We are seeking a talented UI/UX Designer to join our team and help shape the user experience and interface of our digital products. As a UI/UX Designer, you will collaborate closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to create intuitive and visually appealing designs that enhance user engagement and satisfaction.

**Responsibilities:**

1. **User Research:** Conduct user research to understand user needs, preferences, and behaviors.

2. **Wireframing and Prototyping:** Create wireframes, user flows, and prototypes to visualize design concepts and interactions.

3. **UI Design:** Design visually stunning user interfaces that are both aesthetically pleasing and intuitive to use.

4. **UX Design:** Develop user journeys, information architecture, and interaction design to optimize the overall user experience.

5. **Collaboration:** Work closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, developers, and QA testers to ensure design requirements are met.

6. **Feedback Integration:** Gather feedback from users and stakeholders and iterate on designs based on feedback and usability testing results.

7. **Brand Consistency:** Ensure design consistency and adherence to brand guidelines across all digital products and platforms.

8. **Stay Updated:** Keep abreast of industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in UI/UX design.

**Requirements:**

1. Proven experience as a UI/UX Designer or similar role, with a strong portfolio showcasing your design work.

2. Proficiency in design tools such as Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma, or similar.

3. Solid understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices.

4. Experience with user research methodologies and usability testing.

5. Strong communication and collaboration skills.

6. Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

7. Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

**Preferred Qualifications:**

1. Experience working in an Agile development environment.

2. Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for design implementation purposes.

3. Familiarity with motion design and animation principles.

4. Experience designing for mobile platforms (iOS and Android) as well as web applications.

**Join our team and be part of creating exceptional user experiences for our products!**

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

Hiring Graphic Designer Interns

Responsibilities:

• Make different types of design layouts for social media using your skills.
• Web design layout & typography according to brand guidelines.
• Create designs for direct mailing, posters, logos, brochures, etc.
• Good communication skills with the ability to think creative concepts.
• Visualize and design the briefed upon requirements.
• Meeting timelines.

Skills: Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, In Design

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra ( Marol, Andheri)

• Designing graphic content, illustrations, and infographics.
• Managing graphic designs from conception to delivery.
• Reviewing junior designer drafts to ensure quality.
• Generating fresh concepts.
• Ensuring brand consistency throughout various marketing projects.
• Liaising between the marketing and design teams to ensure deadlines are met.
• Keeping up-to-date with industry developments.

• Bachelor’s degree. 
• A graphic design qualification or similar.
• 2-3 years of experience in Graphic Designing. 
• Portfolio with design projects.
• Proven work experience as a graphic designer.
• Working experience with image design tools (e.g. Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator).
• A keen eye for visual details.
• Aesthetic skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines and collaborate with team members.

Salary: 5-6 LPA

Core areas of work:

• Creating product inspiration pieces and demos for the ad products we develop
• Design, update and manage the website together with the design team
• Support Product Marketing with timely and effective marketing collaterals
• Drive the internal brand agenda for employees, brand and business
• Design for social media.
• Design presentation decks for Sales and Marketing

You are the one, if:

• You are attentive to details and an extra space ticks you off.
• You value time
• You are good at expressing your thoughts, be it in any form - written, verbal or visual.
• A good challenge exites and motivates you.
• You have some understanding of the digital advertising/marketing ecosystem. If not, you are someone who is keen to learn.
• You can independently handle projects and take them from concept to execution.
• You are passionate about something outside of work.
• You have realised that I misspelt 'excites' in point no. 4

1. Optimize the existing UI/UX experience for the web platform. -Develop and conceptualize a comprehensive UI/UX for the product and its modules.
2. Produce high quality UX design solutions through wireframes, visual and graphic designs, flow diagrams, storyboards, site maps, and prototypes.
3. Designing UI elements and tools such as navigation menus, search boxes, tabs, widgets for the end-product user.
4. Work closely with the engineers and the product managers to enhance site usability and create a beautiful and consistent design across modules
5. You will be highly focused on making great digital experiences.

Qualifications:

1. Any Bachelors or Masters preferably in Human Computers Interaction or relevant background (OR) 2+ years of practical knowledge in the field of User Experience and Interaction Design.
2. A design portfolio presenting the design of enterprise applications, intranets and websites for desktops is plus.

• Thorough knowledge of the following is mandatory for the person.
• Create original design ideas and layouts from creative briefings.
• Laying out artwork to plan how a finished page will appear (known as Page Planning/Designing).
• Develops, tracks and helps manage comprehensive-time schedules to insure design projects are delivered on-time and within budget.
• Understanding the client briefs/guidelines.
• Prepare illustrations or rough sketches of material, discussing them with Design Leads and making necessary changes.
• Using mock-ups to make a new ad.
• Drawing own ideas to make a new ad.
• Proofreading and checking the documents for accuracy and visual impact (self QA).
• Using the Spell and Grammar check option in the software.
• Use typography, proximity, and font styles in the best possible way to group the text in the right manner in an advert.
• Preparing the items for reproduction in a format specified by the client (pdf, eps, ps).
• Determines the high visual impact and arrangement of illustrative material, text copy, font style, and size
• Produce accurate high-quality artwork within corporate brand guidelines and standards.
• Good understanding of Prepress techniques

Role Requirements

• Good understanding of brands and how they communicate to their target audience in the form of print and digital communication. For example, you should be able to understand the difference between a printed leaflet and a digital emailer that intends to communicate the same message to the target audience.
• Exceptionally well in Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel Draw compositing technical knowledge.
• Sound English and comprehension and writing skills. Independently assess and research any job briefs to visualize a visual strategy and discuss it with the client's/internal team.
• Team working skills: We value and welcome critical feedback and opinions but we don’t accept arrogance and snobbish behavior. We expect you will make mistakes and you should be able to own up.
• Time Discipline: We understand that creative people sometimes get stuck and require more time. But request you speak up before it’s too late. We love working with colleagues who don’t switch off their mobiles when organizations need them. Honesty and Integrity are the core.

Minimum Qualification

• 2-8 years of working experience in Illustrator, CorelDraw & Photoshop.
• Diploma or Degree in Printing Technology, Graphic Design, or DTP along with 2 years of experience.
• Advertising Agency experience preferred.