Lead UX Designer

JOB TITLE: Associate Visual Designer

LOCATION: Remote/Hybrid.

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE:

We’re looking for a mid-level visual designer with expertise in Figma. You will help us in our internal and client projects. We highly value craft expertise, and we love to see strong product thinking as well.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Establish the look and feel for various interfaces, including websites, mobile devices, apps and any other devices
• Work within brand guidelines to create layouts that reinforce a brand’s style or voice through its visual touch points
• Design user-centered interaction models, wireframes or screen mockups
• Design logos, icons and infographics
• Create and organize design assets
• Juggle multiple projects while effectively managing timelines and expectations
• Deep understand of usability, accessibility and web standards
• Create and managing design systems
• Designing components, and tokens on Figma
• A keen eye for aesthetics & attention to detail
• Ability to work methodically and meet deadlines
• Take in constructive feedback and produce quality work
• Work cross-functionally with engineering & design teams
• UX Experience is also a plus

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE:

• A solid foundation in typography, layout and design
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience with transitions, motion design and dynamic interaction
• Excellent visual, written and verbal communication skills, along with presentation and negotiation skills

SOFT SKILLS:

• Collaboration - Ability to work in teams across the world
• Adaptability - situations are unexpected and need to be quick to adapt
• Open-mindedness - Expect to see things outside the ordinary

LIFE AT FOUNTANE:

• Fountane offers an environment where all members are supported, challenged, recognized & given opportunities to grow to their fullest potential.
• Competitive pay
• Health insurance for spouses, kids, and parents.
• PF/ESI or equivalent
• Individual/team bonuses
• Fun/challenging variety of projects/industries
• Flexible workplace policy - remote/physical
• Flat organization - no micromanagement
• Individual contribution - set your deadlines
• Above all - culture that helps you grow exponentially!

Qualifications - No bachelor's degree required. Good communication skills are a must!

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Established in 2017, Fountane Inc is a Ventures Lab incubating and investing in new competitive technology businesses from scratch. Thus far, we’ve created half a dozen multi-million valuation companies in the US and a handful of sister ventures for large corporations, including Target, US Ventures, and Imprint Engine.

We’re a team of 80 strong from around the world that are radically open-minded and believes in excellence, respecting one another, and pushing our boundaries to the furthest it's ever been. 

About Triveous

Triveous is a fully remote startup that is passionate about building impactful mobile-first products for India and the world. Over the past few years, we’ve had the opportunity of working on some truly inspirational projects for some of the best companies in the world, it should give you an idea of the kind of things you’ll be spending time on if you decide to work with us:

• For IDEO and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Worked on a framework to increase digital confidence for the next billion internet users, available at https://digitalconfidence.design/
• For Google: Advised Google’s partners on UX best practices for mobile apps and strategies to improve key metrics like engagement and retention
• For Novopay and Khoslalabs: Created multiple fintech apps for millions of underbanked users across India
• For Triveous (That’s us): Created Skyro a “google docs for audio” with over a million downloads and was featured internationally on the play store
• For FREND: Worked with FREND (a nonprofit) on a unique offline-first mobile platform that gives livelihood to women in over 3,00,000 villages across India.

Job Description

We are looking for a Product designer to join Triveous and help us in our journey to create beautiful, usable, and inclusive mobile products. She/He will be responsible for understanding and executing the entire design lifecycle of various projects. That includes creating user personas, mapping user journeys, creating prototypes, and testing them out with actual users. 

The role also involves talking to client stakeholders to execute the design process independently. Experience in communicating design inputs, decisions, and outputs with key stakeholders is a definite plus.

Since this is a remote role, you would need to be self-motivated and proactive in all the work that you do.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Understand business requirements and user needs
• Create user personas, journey maps, and various other design artifacts
• Create prototypes of varying fidelity
• Communicate design solutions to key stakeholders
• Define and track key metrics related to user experience
• Utilize quantitative and qualitative research to generate meaningful insights that will drive creative concepts

Skills and Requirements

• Experienced with 1+ years in Product Design/UX roles.
• Good experience in user experience and interface design, with a supporting portfolio
• Experience in designing mobile applications
• Experience in understanding and mapping complex user journeys
• Ability to form, prototype, and clearly communicate ideas and decisions.
• Business know-how: Understanding of business metrics and the ability to translate company goals and objectives into digital experiences
• Familiarity with prototyping tools like Figma/Sketch
• Good problem-solving and analytical skills
• Able to work well with remote, cross-functional teams
• Responsible, self-motivated, and comfortable taking the initiative.
• Attentive to the finer details and love what you do

Bonus

• Experience with various user research methodologies
• Experience in building offline-first application

Roles and Responsibility

Create exciting information visualizations enabling the user to instantly understand the data in the right context, spot patterns, trends and relations in a self-service manner. · Collaborate with designers, developers, and external project partners to ensure designs are implemented as effective user experiences. · Participate in, and integrate feedback from user research. · Define and design use cases, workflows and storyboards describing how the user would interact with easy-to-use, data visualization apps. · Identify all elements of interaction and navigation, and lay them out within a screen so they direct the user without confusion or error. · Create consumer grade usable designs using wireframes and prototypes. · Present your designs in team design reviews as well as to the extended group of internal stakeholders. · Participate in iterative design, testing and development sprint cycles to refine the overall product. · Support marketing activities (e.g. collateral development) around the successful launch of emerging solutions on multiple platforms

• Should have experience researching problem statements and designing solutions that meet the desired UX goals and stakeholder requirements

• Should be able to rapidly prototype ideas; pen and paper will do for mockups. Should be familiar with prototyping tools or front end code for higher fidelity prototyping

• Good communication skills. Must be able to communicate idea to all stakeholders product, engineering and design

• Must have average above average knowledge of the Adobe Suite

• Must be able to look at the product as a whole to design workflows that scale

• Must be able to measure UX changes and suggest further improvements

• Should be able to build UI components that meet the desired UX. Should be able to understand and respect the UX

• Should follow the style guide and design according to the guidelines

• Understanding of typography, typographic grid, grid based systems, design frameworks and responsive design principles is required. Should be able to adapt and extend the style guide as required and define new UI components when needed

• Should be able to build reusable UI components

• Good communication with the product and engineering teams to assess feasibility of UI components

• Experience with motion/interaction design a plus

• Must know the Adobe Creative Suite well. Must also be familiar with prototyping tools

Experience as a UI/UX Designer as well as a strong portfolio of related projects

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop)
• Proficient in prototyping tools such as Sketch, InVision, etc.
• Basic HTML5, skills are a plus   Should have experience in Figma and photoshop      

Skills:

• Ability to understand complex business goals, product & technical content, and Interaction Design in order to create engaging & effective experiences for our customers
• Thorough understanding of User Experience Design
• Collaboratively evolve the functionality of digital products along with Business & Technology teams
• Develop and manage user mapping as well as, User experience guidelines and acceptance criteria
• Ability to research, create and present product user journey maps, user task flows, interaction models, storyboards
• Can develop new approaches to complex design problems and convey these designs in the form of presentations, prototypes, and design specifications
• Excellent time-management, multi-tasking, and communication skills; and the ability to quickly prioritize tasks
• Must communicate clearly and effectively; strong analytical and oral communication skills; excellent interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the project to on-time and quality delivery as agreed by the client
• Be the part-time project manager
• Raise and negotiate issues and risks with senior management of the client
• Manage profitability of the project
• As the lead designer, he/she needs to guide team members well and facilitate their learning in the organization
• Stay up-to-date with latest achievements, best practices and trends in design
• Candidate should be willing to travel for on-site project executions for short/long durations in India and abroad
• Candidate should be open to temporary/permanent relocation within Think Designs studios in India

Deliverables:

• Due to his/her role as a Project Manager, a Lead UX Designer will be responsible for ensuring on-time and quality delivery of all deliverables for the project even though he/she may not actually work on all of them. Depending on client requirements, as a Lead designer, he/she will be responsible for delivering all or some of the following:
• Design Strategy based on User Mapping, User Stories, Business Needs, Technology inputs
• Wireframes
• Navigation Structures
• Story Boards
• Interactive Guidelines
• Visual Designs
• Prototypes
• PSD Files
• Specification Documentation

What Think Design is offering:

• The diversity & impact of our services and client engagements; and the unique way we’re structured as an organization along with a highly innovative work environment—will add immense value to your experience.
• Be part of an organization that is a unique blend of a highly collaborative teams working closely in studio environment, who’re are part of a Global Group (Havas Global).
• Opportunity to help make & gain experience on meaningful & measurable impact on a fast growing organization.