Product Designer (UI/UX)

Job description.

Role : UI/UX designer

EXP : 3 - 5 yrs

Mode : WFO

Location : Coimbatore

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site UI/UX Designer role located in Coimbatore. The successful candidate for this position will be responsible for designing and implementing user interfaces and experiences that will allow users to interact effectively with our products and digital solutions. The UI/UX Designer will be required to work closely with cross-disciplinary teams to understand and translate requirements into intuitive and effective user interfaces and experiences.

Desired Candidate Profile :

• Candidate should have creative & analytic mindset.
• Should expert in Graphic, Web & Mobile App Designs.
• Expert knowledge in Adobe XD, Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, and other design tools.
• Should have knowledge of HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript.
• Must have knowledge in wireframing tools.
• Knowledge Material-UI.
• Must have knowledge SEO friendly websites.
• Experience with Responsive Website Design.
• Understanding of user experience, usability and responsive web design will be preferred.
• Good knowledge of the latest web technologies, cross browser and platform issues.
• Good Communication skills.
• Strong sense of aesthetics and familiarity with latest design trends is needed.
• Keeping up to date with recent technological and software developments.
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team. 

Summary of Role

Innovate to solve the world's most important challenges. We are looking for Advanced User Exp Designer with strong capabilities to design and own the product experience. The designer would be responsible for end to end interaction and visual design.

Responsibilities

• Own the design execution while working closely with key stakeholders in design, engineering and business stakeholders to solve user needs and business goals
• Demonstrate mastery of the end-end UX process, including user research for discovery and product definition, and multiple methods of formal and informal user evaluations
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Agile / Lean UX methodologies
• Prioritize backlog effectively; communicate clear timelines and status updates at all levels
• Guide effective documentation and communication of design - via wireframes, mockups, prototypes and user stories
• Conduct research and evaluation of designs, as well as emerging technology, industry, and market trends

Must Have Background for this Role:

• Bachelor's degree preferably from tier 1/ tier 2 design school.
• Outstanding user experience design portfolio
• Bachelors degree in human factors, psychology, user experience design or related degree
• Some experience in user experience design, interaction design or human factors
• Proficient user experience design skills, e.g., customer journey map, experience diagramming, task analysis, workflow design, etc.
• Experience with observational research and usability testing
• Graduate degree in user experience design, human factors, interaction design or related discipline.
• Fluent with design sketching and prototyping tools, e.g., Axure, Balsamiq, Visio, etc.
• Experience with design trends, benchmarking, forecasting and concept creation

• Experience with project planning, scoping and execution in a phase-gate and/or agile environment

Required Skills for this Role: 

• Has 5+ years of experience (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual, product, industrial), User Experience, HCI, or a related field
• Must have strong background in interaction/UX design and continue to be hands-on as an interaction designer
• Conducts user research to understand user needs, mental models and working contexts
• Synthesizes output of stakeholder research & creates visualizations that effectively summarize key insights related to user and customer needs and behaviors, product definition.
• Has real-world experience in managing projects & stakeholders

• Skilled in standard design & wireframing tools (Adobe CC, Sketch) and visual communication

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, mock-ups, and prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
• Create a wide range of graphics and layouts, and design solutions for product illustrations, company logos, and websites
• Work within brand guidelines to reinforce the brand’s style and voice
• Work on building design processes, tools, and culture
• Identify and troubleshoot UX and UI design problems.
• Understand the target audience and objective of the brand and reference impactful design ideas that can be adapted
• Have a keen eye for visual designs, styles, iconography, typography, and illustrations and define a compelling visual language in the Product, website, and Marketing Materials.
• Setup best practices to help the team achieve the above and constantly think about improving the UX process to aim for better organizational UX Maturity
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
• Take a user-centric design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with at least 2+ years of visual design experience in a B2B product and marketing setting
• Communicative, organized, and achieve consistent results
• Proficiency in the following design tools: Figma and Adobe Suite, familiarity with prototyping tools (Principle, Invision, Framer, After Effects)
• Solid understanding of using HTML and CSS for website design. Hands-on experience with different JavaScript frameworks (JQuery etc.), Bootstrap, Material UI, Tailwind CSS, NextJS, etc.
• Experience creating and maintaining design systems for product, website, brand, and marketing assets
• Should possess the ability to convey messages and information through illustrations, graphics, and patterns
• Added benefit: Having B2B product dashboards related experience

• 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

• Has a thorough understanding of UX methodology and lifecycle across key channels and platforms. 
• Customer-focused, with experience using design research methods to uncover customer insights  
• Effectively operates within an iterative design team, managing UX  responsibilities against defined milestones and plan with little day-to-day oversight.
• Knowledge of key channels and platforms, with experience in areas of mobile, portable, dedicated, web, or native mobile design.
• Curiosity and commitment to testing new ideas and innovating to drive business results.
• Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator.
• Mastery of design tools such as Sketch, Invision, and Framer.
• Experience with resources such as; pattern library, repositories, and internal communication tools.  
• General awareness of technology mediums (Javascript, HTML/CSS, Obj-C, platform UIs, etc.) including differences between them.
• A dazzling online portfolio demonstrating your strong craft and collaborative process.