Product Designer

• Planning concepts by studying relevant information and materials.
• Illustrating concepts by designing examples of art arrangement, size, type size, and style and submitting them for approval.
• Preparing finished art by operating necessary equipment and software.
• Contributing to team efforts by accomplishing tasks as needed.
• Creating a wide range of graphics and layouts for product illustrations, company logos, and websites with software such as Photoshop.

Reviewing final layouts and suggesting improvements when necessary

We are looking for a Senior Graphic Designer to manage our client portfolios. If you think you are creative enough to tell the brand stories using innovative graphic solutions, we are looking for you.

Job Responsibilities

• Study design briefs and determine requirements
• Schedule projects and define budget constraints
• Conceptualize visuals based on requirements
• Prepare rough drafts and present ideas
• Develop illustrations, logos and other designs using software or by hand
• Use the appropriate colors and layouts for each graphic
• Work with copywriters and creative director to produce final design
• Test graphics across various media
• Amend designs after feedback
• Ensure final graphics and layouts are visually appealing and on-brand

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience
• Proven graphic designing experience
• A strong portfolio of illustrations or other graphics
• Familiarity with design software like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop is a must
• A keen eye for aesthetics and details
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work methodically and meet deadlines

About the Company:

Vista Rooms is your quintessential “Home Away From Home” experience. As guests, you can choose from a collection of over 500 luxury villas and private holiday homes, from all across India. Ideal for individual and group getaways, we help you create memorable experiences whilst you reconnect with nature, yourself or your loved ones.

Only 1 in 10 villas that we scout are carefully selected and added to our portfolio, to ensure that they meet our reliable quality standards. Additionally, as managers of cherished holiday homes, we also look after our homeowners’ interests and needs with trust and transparency.

Our dedicated 24x7 guest services team, includes our founders, and is available to all of Vista Rooms stakeholders. Having served 300,000 happy travellers at over 500 holiday homes, we are South Asia’s largest chain of luxury private villas. Why work with us: We're a non-hierarchical, rapidly growing organization with a young team of realists. We adapt, iterate, and improve. If your work ethic is in line with us, you’ll be a great fit. Additional Perks: Employee discounts on villa stays, reward and recognition. Work and play go hand in hand here.

About the Role:

Determine design requirements and develop design prototypes to present our brand Location: Andheri, Mumbai

Job Responsibilities:

● Collaborate with internal teams to define user interface requirements.

● Staying in the loop and on top of the latest standards, changes and trends in the visual design field.

● Use visual design software to refine illustrations.

● Ensuring brand guidelines appear while creation of brand collateral (E-mailer, social media posts, etc.)

● Present rough drafts to product managers and/or key stakeholders to gain approval.

● Brainstorm new ideas, layouts and graphics.

● Work collaboratively with other designers to ensure a consistent, integrated brand perception and user-experience.

● Stay up-to-date with design application changes and industry developments.

● Execute graphic and creative designs.

● Manage multiple deliverables to project deadlines.

Required Skills:

● Proven ability delivering high quality designs to customers.

● Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design and Sketch.

● Expert level skills in Photoshop, Invisionapp, UXPin and other relevant design tools.

● Strong interpersonal skills, also build and manage relationships with internal teams.

● Ability to deliver results under pressure and within the deadline.

● Strongly inclined to do high-quality and impactful work in a dynamic environment.

Qualification and Experience:

● Bachelor degree in Design, Visual Arts or other relevant certification with a minimum of 2 years of work experience.

● Experience as a Visual Designer, UI Designer or similar role will be preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that established design standards are consistently and appropriately applied within design work
• Engage with product management, engineering, business stakeholders
• Develop and present documentation, user flows, annotated wireframes, and interactive prototypes
• Leverage user testing to make product improvements
• Hands-on designing and creative skills
• Willingness to learn and grow with the organisation
• Understand the brief from the team and come out with out-of-the-box ideas
• Plan and illustrate concepts by designing rough layouts of art and copy regarding arrangement, size, type, style, and related aesthetics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in 
• Proficient in visual design and wireframing tools like Figma
• Well-versed with computer skills in Photoshop or Illustrator and/or Dreamweaver

Searce is a modern tech consulting firm that empowers clients to futurify their businesses, leveraging Cloud, AI & Analytics.

• Natural creativity:

The best designers are creative visionaries, people who are capable of stepping back, seeing the big picture, and coming up with new ways of approaching challenges and making positive changes to how the company is managed and marketed.

• Not a CAVEr: 

You are a person that people like to be around. You are not a CAVE (Constantly Against Virtually Everything) personality.

• Say no to HiPPO: 

At Searce, we want people who value everyone’s opinions & perspectives. We don’t want them to get overpowered by HiPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion)

1. Have a point of view and can distinguish between "good" and "great" work.
2. Strong hands-on skills which should range from designing using Photoshop to coding UI mockups. 
3. Hands-on knowledge of front-end technologies: Html 5, CSS, JavaScript.
4. Hands-on knowledge on Photoshop / Illustrator / Dreamweaver / Fireworks / Flash. 
5. A design portfolio demonstrating the breadth and proven experience in product and services marketing communication, workflow and interaction design, visual design work, and a thorough understanding of a good design process is required.
6. Have the ability to work on digital marketing strategies, define workflows, write concepts and content to generate interest in Searce’s products, brands, and services.
7. Have the ability to think strategically, act tactically, and solve problems quickly.
8. Successfully overcome engineering challenges and understand the need for testing and iteration of new user experiences.
9. Have a track record in creating highly functional, user-focused, complete, and desirable experiences and designs.
10. Be able to lead teams through the design process and partner effectively within cross-functional teams.
11. Be innovative, enthusiastic, flexible, and creative.
12. Demonstrate excellent project management and scheduling skills.

Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. But there is no way to locate you otherwise. So we might look for at least a Bachelor’s degree in Design (B.Des.).

1. A lead of visual design who envisions and creates the next generation of user interfaces for customer service.
2. A design pioneer, who will invent user interfaces that combine speech, touch, and other modalities to drive intuitive interactions on smartphones, tablets, and other connected consumer devices.
3. The ability to combine strategy with design thinking to deliver an experience like our audience never had before.
4. Bring passion and dedication to his/her job and become a storyteller through exceptional and engaging designs.