About the role
As a UX designer, you will work with folks in the product team to envisage the end-user experience for various financial services products in a competitive space to bring an engaging and delightful customer experience. You will use market analysis, customer feedback, and insights from data to iteratively refine the design and achieve excellence. As an early member of this team, you’ll also have the opportunity to define the UX guidelines, design language, and information architecture for various products across the organization.
What will you do if you join us?
- Develop mockups for our development and design team
- Coordinate with the UI design team on issues like navigation, page routing, product page design, and more
- Conduct competitive analyses of other websites & apps that operate in the same space
- Conduct usability tests on each independent type of page on the website and create a report showcasing your findings
- Prepare customer analyses based on our target demographic and initial transactions
- Participate in creating a content development strategy
You should have
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Design, Development, or Engineering required
- Proficiency in design tools such as InDesign, Illustrator, or Figma
- Understanding of the B2B2C marketplace and the functions of the Fintech market
- Experience preparing detailed competitive and consumer analyses
About Upswing Financial Technologies Private Limited
Here’s a quick read to know more about Upswing (upswing.one)
Company page on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/upswing-financial-technologies
We are a seed funded company, have recently raised USD 4Mn
• In the news: inc42.com/buzz/open-finance-startup-upswing-raises-4-mn-from-qed-investors
• Lead investor: http://qedinvestors.com/companies/upswing
• Angel investors: Founders and Senior executives of Jupiter, Cred, Slice, Epifi, Snapdeal, One Assist and many more.
Company vision:
At Upswing, our mission is to enable consumer companies to offer differentiated financial products and empower the financial institutions with greater reach through our Secure, Scalable and easy to integrate API platform.
We are enabling Consumer Tech/Non-Tech companies to become full stack banking players. The transformation will reduce the cost and complexity for any company to become a financial services company and re-define the future of banking
Our simple and powerful banking-as-a-service stack will help companies launch new banking products in weeks, not years.
Founding team has more than 40 years of experience in Building Banking, Lending, Payments and Disruptive Technology Stack.
Anupam Bagchi: Built Jupiter, India’s First Transit and multi bank EMI, Foundation to RuPay, Lending, Payments, Digital Banking. (linkedin.com/in/anupam-bagchi-b770572)
Nihar Gupta: Built Jupiter, Strategy and Execution of 811, Issuing, Acquiring, Toll Payments, Forex and Digital Banking (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nihargupta/)
Gazal Garg: Built disruptive tech at Zilingo from an idea to a unicorn, IIT Kharagpur alumnus - (linkedin.com/in/gazalgarg)
We are enabling Consumer Tech/Non-Tech companies to become full stack banking players. The transformation will reduce the cost and complexity for any company to become a financial services company and re-define the future of banking
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should be able to do mock-up designing, prototyping and wireframing
Should be able to create mobile and application designs
Prepare and design concept note by use of Sketches, drawings and illustrations
Oversee design changes and improvements throughout the development process
Integrate technical and visual solutions into a design concept
Understand trends within the scope of the industry they are working in Expected Skill Sets
Portfolio with design projects that showcase a stunning aesthetic sense
Responding to the client in a professional manner
Building a strong relationship with the clients as well as the existing ones
Reviewing clients' feedback and implementing necessary changes
SKILLS REQUIRED
Hands on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Aftereffects, premiere pro
Proficient communication skills, verbal and written
Ability to handle client relations
Highly creative mindset with an urge to experiment
Ensure efficient team working
Good time management
This is an incredible opportunity to build an enterprise level SaaS product. You will develop applications in a very passionate environment being responsible for product development using agile methodologies.
Responsibilities :
- Create, maintain, and manage the visual systems, brand identity, production quality, and style guide.
- Execute the design projects across the entire product life cycle. You set the design tone for the entire product by working in close collaboration with product, engineering, and business teams.
- Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
- Create wireframes specifications with interaction flows for website and mobile site.
- Create sketches, graphics, templates, layouts, themes, typography, and visual standards for the app/website.
- Test the design flows, screen mockups with the QA team to ensure all minute details are covered. Partner with front-end engineers on UI implementation.
- Meet multiple deadlines, prioritize work, and keep projects moving forward.
Candidate Requirements :
- 2+ years of relevant experience as a UI/UX/Graphic designer.
- Minimum 1 years of experience in designing core experiences for b2b products.
- Portfolio or work samples showcasing design aptitude, creativity, depth of thought and the ability to solve complex design problems.
- Proficient in working with Figma, Photoshop or other design tools.
- Strong understanding of common UX patterns and UI patterns, Information Architecture, Prototyping.
What you will do:
- Understanding the ecosystem of an idea and taking a domain-oriented approach to conceptualize the product and deriving innovative directions, yisuals and experiences
- Effectively communicating the idea behind the design and product concepts to a diverse audience through wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and product maps
- Designing project and concept-specific graphics
- Compiling designs into thoughtful interactive prototypes
- Conducting on ongoing user research
- Collaborating with teams to ensure smooth adoption of designs and delivery of products
What you need to have:
- Proficiency with vector graphics tools such as Figma/Sketch/AI (Preferably Figma)
- Ability to visualize the big picture of a project into product concepts and design directions
- Good understanding of the web and mobile app design ecosystem
- Ability to use prototyping tools
- A knack to stay updated about the latest design trends, techniques and technologies
- Improve the look and feel of interactive components in the website, mobile applications, and other product software
- Facilitate the product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, wireframing, and prototyping user flows.
- Design the aesthetics/theme to be implemented within a website or product, from the layout menus and drop-down options to colors and fonts
- Be a great team player, experienced in working with agile teams. Ability to collaborate closely with product managers, developers, and UX designers.
- Present and defend your design decisions. All your design decisions should be based on the overall design roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles (i.e. color theory, visual weight, etc.)
- Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in your industry’s standards.
- Create surveys for research through various social media platforms to gather feedback on users ease of use
- Conduct testing of completed applications, websites, and software to assess user experience
Qualifications:
- 1-5 years of demonstrated experience in creating and implementing UI design
- Extensive experience in using best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
- Proficient with visual design programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, InVision
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment to create top-performing interfaces
- Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to peers and teams.
- A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.
- Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design.
- Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
- Experience with HTML, CSS, and comparable languages will be a plus
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity, effectiveness and user friendliness to complex design problem statements.
• Create UI mock-ups, wireframes, storyboards, style guides, prototypes, user flows and site maps that effectively communicate unified brand language.
• Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, and widgets.
• Build page navigation buttons and search fields.
• Create original graphics & designs (e.g. images, sketches, and tables)
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Have an artistic eye for design and the ability to think creatively while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail
• Conduct user research & evaluate user feedback with the projects leads
• Present and rationalize your design decisions, based on the overall design road map and your own design thinking and fundamental principles
• Being up to date with the latest trends and sharing insights with the internal team
• Participating in brainstorming sessions and influence the design process more creatively
• Open to learn new tools & open to feedback
Required Skills:
Strong Designing experience in the following tools are required:
• Hands on expereince in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator or XD is required.
• Experience in Sketch, HTML5, CSS3 & Bootstrap will be an added advantage
• Knowledge in Adobe After Effects, Premier Pro will be a plus
• Video Editing tools knowledge
• Wordpress/CMS knowledge
You should apply only if
- You depend on user-centric critical analysis and problem-solving. Experience with User Research methods - user personas, journey mapping, and competitor analysis.
- Strictly between 3-8 years of ownership experience in designing User Experiences, Interfaces, Apps and Websites for consumer facing internet product.
- You have advance knowledge of Sketch, Illustrator, Invision, Protopie, After Effects or other prototyping tools. Knowledge about web and app development as well as experience in doing development handovers.
- Digital usability best practices knowledge on a global level.
Good to have
- Experience in Front End Development.
- Knowledge of Conversion Optimisation best practices.
- Knowledge of designing for good SEO.
- Ability to interact with clients.
- Game of Thrones fan. Or The Office. Or Brooklyn 99. Or Suits. No?
Key Responsibilities
- Take lead on projects; all the way from leading kickoff sessions, research exercises, and presenting work to stakeholders throughout the process.
- Help the design team with user interfaces for all things at FamPay, including, but not limited to website, web app, mobile apps and physical products..
- Map user personas and desired actions. Be the Usability Champion.
- Work closely with Engineers. Document features for seamless handoff to design and development teams.
We are looking for
- Excited about working in a fast-paced environment with less direction, in an early-stage setup.
- Intelligent and Articulate. Independent Thinker. Brings fresh perspectives
- Skilled Craftsmen. Love their craft and getting their hands dirty. No armchair experts.
PS: Please apply only if you can work from our office in Hanumanthanagar, Bengaluru for 2 weeks. Location is around 3.5 kms from Lalbagh