Manager Product Design

Role Description:

Do you like to get people’s attention with visuals? 

At Astra, we're looking for a graphic designer who likes to show off their creative flair and communicate to the world with their designs. This role will be dynamic, including understanding the design needs, developing visual concepts, and revising feedback-based designs.

About us:

Astra Security is a privately held U.S. & India-based company. Backed by Techstars, Astra offers a Pentest Platform, which emulates hacker behavior & helps organizations become proactively secure.

Astra's Pentest Platform helps organizations proactively uncover vulnerabilities in their applications and comply with various security standards. The Pentest Platform has uncovered 100,000+ vulnerabilities in customer applications. Astra's Website Protection suite stops one million+ threats on its customers' web applications daily. To offer a homogenous experience to its customers, Astra Security incorporates cutting-edge solutions that are easy to comprehend and tailor-made to suit any business requirement.

The company has earned several accolades, including ‘The Most Innovative Security Company’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security, one of the top 50 emerging cybersecurity companies at ‘Emerge 50’ by NASSCOM, the French Tech Ticket under which Astra Security got rewarded by the President of France under the La French Tech program. In 2021, Astra Security was also named as a CyberTech100 company. Astra is a trusted security partner to well-known brands like Vodafone, Lynas, Kotak Securities, Unilever, NIIT, TEDx, Muthoot, Ford, etc.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• ​Work with the marketing team to understand the requirements & conceptualize them into designs.
• Designing landing page wireframes & elements 
• Creating feature banner images & infographics for the blog
• Designing e-books & brochures
• Designing Social Media creatives (Images, GIFs, and carousels) 
• Designing email newsletters & header images
• Designing product mockups & social creatives for product features
• Editing live-action videos (Adding intro, outro, title cards, sections, & animations)
• Creating short, engaging animated videos for social media/YouTube
• Creating mobile responsive designs for landing pages
• Design branded presentation themes for the sales/marketing teams to use
• Work with the marketing and frontend developer on the feedback shared and amend design changes.
• Work & come up with design guidelines for the brand

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Requirements for the role:

• 1-4 years of graphic design experience in B2B SaaS marketing
• Effective communication skills and attention to detail
• Strong understanding of design principles, processes, aesthetics, typography, imagery, and color theory.
• Someone who's friendly, collaborative, comfortable with receiving direction, working autonomously, and eager to learn.
• Willingness to work in a remote setup
• Proficient in design tools such as Figma, Adobe (Photoshop/Illustrator, After Effects, & Premier Pro), Canva, and Spline/Sketch. 
• Project management skills and ability to meet deadlines
• A degree in Design, Fine Arts, or a related field is a plus.

Benefits of joining the Astra squad:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a growing company
• Fully remote & agile working environment
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, and influence product design decisions
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise cloud security business
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains
• Open and supportive culture

Role and Responsibilities:

·        Lead the vision of our product and consumer experiences

·        Own the end-to-end design/ UX of YouShd’s applications, design simple and clean visual UI, and create wireframes, prototypes, and pixel-perfect mocks

·        Work with the tech team to get your ideas built

·        Conduct user research, come up with user personas, both informally and in structured studies, and analyze and present findings so we all can understand our users better

·        Set the standard for what great design entails and help your team achieve that standard

·        Build and maintain a design system to achieve consistency across our applications

Skills and Experience:

·        2+ years of experience in product design

·        Work with wireframing tool of choice (Balsamiq, Pencil, Axure, Whimsical, Mockflow, etc.) to create low fidelity and high fidelity wireframes

·        Convert any wireframes into mockups using Figma, Sketch, etc.

·        Find design inspirations related to the idea proposed and do independent research

·        Demonstrated experience of leading complex projects independently under tight timelines

·        Detail orientation, execution excellence and entrepreneurial spirit

·        First-principles led problem-solving attitude

Nice to Haves:

·        Experience with frontend web or mobile development

·        Previous experience working in an Agile environment with scrums and sprints

• Come up with UI and UX strategies based on our target goals.
• Create and maintain digital assets, such as interface design files, wireframes, and interactive mockups using ( design and prototyping tools: e.g., Sketch and InVision).
• Design, build and maintain highly reusable JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code.

What You’ll Do & Achieve (Role & Responsibilities)

• Generate ideas and concepts to create emotionally engaging user flows, storyboards, wireframes, interactions, prototypes, design specifications, and presentations focusing on information architecture and interaction to articulate a user’s journey
• Design solutions that meet measurable business goals and requirements
• Self-motivated to work in a fast-paced, iterative environment by managing multiple projects and expectations effectively
• Evolving and evangelizing our Design System
• Developing and conceptualizing a comprehensive UI/UX design strategy for the brand.

What you’ll Need (Requirements)

• Organized, self-directed, efficient and able to manage multiple complex projects in a timely manner
• Actively seeks out learning opportunities and sharing new discoveries
• Capable of creating lo and hi fidelity prototypes to quickly storytell a variety of concepts, get customer feedback, and iterate on designs
• Solid knowledge of design principles and methods as well as interaction patterns and behaviors
• Solid UX Skills in designing wire-frames, process flows, sketches, scenarios and navigation models all incorporating interaction guidelines for Mobile to produce effective design solutions.
• Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite etc.,
• Strong Portfolio to demonstrate your works.
• The position needs verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a project team
• 6+ years of experience in UI/UX design strategy for the brand.

About BRIDGEi2i

BRIDGEi2i is a trusted partner to enterprises globally for driving actions for digital transformation outcomes. Our clients choose us for our ability to provide contextual AI-powered analytics solutions to solve complex business problems and deliver digital transformation outcomes.

We specialize in asset-based consulting, a structured approach to solving complex business problems that deploy contextual solutions powered by our proprietary AI accelerators (Watchtower, Recommender, Optimizer and Converser). This helps enterprises drive wider consumption of insights and faster and more accurate decisions across

the board, thereby enabling faster time to value.

We are headquartered in Bangalore, India and also have offices in Fremont, Dallas, Chicago, Seattle and Boston.

About the team

BRIDGEi2i centralized design team is responsible for enabling design thinking across the organization and setting the standards for designing our products, solutions and projects. Speed, excellence, and collaboration are our core values.

 Your Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business units, PMs, software engineers and leaders to help prioritize and guide design decisions.
• Facilitate design thinking workshops to navigate ambiguity.
• Deliver world-class designs to internal and external stakeholders.
• Iterate designs and documentation based on continued user testing and feedback.
• Work in a fast-paced environment.
• Contribute to our design system.

The Ideal Candidate

• 4-6 years of experience in UX/UI
• B2B product design experience
• Shipped products
• Data-driven
• Open to receiving feedback from unexpected sources
• Passionate about all things design
• Exceptional interpersonal, collaborative, and creative problem-solving skills
• Strong understanding of design processes

We are looking for a talented Web Designer to create exceptional user experiences. The ideal candidate should have an eye for a clean and artful web design. They should also have superior user interface design skills.

The successful candidate will be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artifacts. They will be able to transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional designs.

Responsibilities

• Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off.
• Conceptualize original website design ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex roadblocks.
• Drawing up detailed website specifications.
• Designing sample page layouts including text size and colors.
• Designing graphics, animations and manipulating digital photographs.
• Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Present and defend designs and key deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders.
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards.
• Collaborating with graphic artists, programmers, and writers.

Requirements

• Proven work experience as a web designer
• Demonstrable graphic design skills with a strong portfolio.
• Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps.
• Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator or other visual design and wire-framing tools.
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Up-to-date with the latest Web trends, techniques and technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Illustrator, Photoshop
• Knowledge of InDesign, Adobe XD, Sketch (will be advantage)