Senior Lead - UX Researcher

Job Description:

We are seeking a talented UI/UX Designer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and delivering outstanding user experiences, and ensuring that our digital products are user-friendly, intuitive, and visually appealing. This position requires a high level of creativity, attention to detail, and a deep understanding of the latest design trends and best practices. The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of experience in a similar role, and a strong portfolio demonstrating their design skills and experience.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements, user needs, and design goals.

• Conduct user research, create user personas, and develop user journeys to inform the design process.

• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that effectively communicate design concepts and solutions.

• Design user interfaces that are intuitive, visually appealing, and meet accessibility standards.

• Create design guidelines and standards that can be applied consistently across multiple products.

• Work closely with development teams to ensure that designs are implemented accurately and to a high standard.

• Continuously iterate on designs based on user feedback, data analysis, and industry trends.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest design trends and technologies.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, User Experience, or a related field.

• At least 3 years of experience in a similar role, designing for web and mobile applications.

• Good portfolio demonstrating your design skills, process, and experience.

• Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Axure, Balasmiq, or similar.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

• Strong problem-solving skills, and ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Understanding of design principles and best practices, including responsive design and accessibility standards.

• Familiarity with front-end development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a plus.

We offer competitive salaries, a collaborative work environment, and opportunities for growth and development. If you are passionate about creating exceptional user experiences and meet the requirements above, we encourage you to apply!

Senior UI/UX Designer

Job Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled Senior UI/UX Designer to lead the design of our company's digital products and services. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in UI/UX design and a proven track record of creating elegant and effective user-centered designs. You will work closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, developers, and other designers to create innovative solutions that meet user needs and business goals.

Responsibilities:

·        Lead the design of our company's digital products and services, ensuring that they meet user needs and business goals.

·        Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, define user personas, and create user flows and wireframes.

·        Create high-fidelity mockups and prototypes to demonstrate design concepts and interactions.

·        Conduct user research and usability testing to validate design decisions and identify areas for improvement.

·        Work with developers to ensure that designs are implemented to spec and delivered on time.

·        Stay up-to-date with the latest design trends and technologies, and share your knowledge with the team.

·        Mentor and train junior designers.

Requirements:

·        At least 5 years of experience in UI/UX design, with a strong portfolio of work that demonstrates your skills.

·        Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

·        Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to think creatively and come up with innovative solutions.

·        Proficiency with design tools such as Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, or similar.

·        Knowledge of HTML/CSS and front-end development is a plus.

·        Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, or related field is preferred.

If you are a self-motivated, detail-oriented, and experienced UI/UX designer who is passionate about creating innovative digital products and services, we encourage you to apply for this position.

We are looking for a creative and experienced Game Designer to join our team. You will be responsible for developing game concepts, designing gameplay mechanics and level design, and ensuring an engaging player experience. If you love creating innovative and entertaining games and have a track record of successful projects, we want you!

Responsibilities:

• Develop and refine game concepts, storylines, and characters.
• Design game mechanics, rules, and systems that make games fun and engaging.
• Collaborate with artists, programmers, and other team members to bring game ideas to life.
• Test and tweak gameplay to ensure a great player experience.
• Stay updated with gaming trends and technologies to bring fresh ideas to our projects.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Game Designer with successful game titles.
• Strong understanding of game design theory and principles.
• Excellent creativity and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to craft engaging game stories and characters.
• Proficient in game design tools and software.
• Good communication and teamwork abilities.

Experience:

• Significant experience in game design, with a portfolio of completed projects.
• Experience in a lead designer role is a plus.
• Familiarity with various game genres and platforms.
• Experience in user testing and feedback analysis.

You are a great fit, if you ...

What are we looking for ?

• ... have the working knowledge of different qualitative user research methods and the understanding of quantitative research methods and a comprehensive understanding of all the stages of the user research process.
• ... are well versed in scoping user research in ambiguous problem spaces.
• ... have 2-4 years of industry experience in UX research and/or design-led research practices.
• ... have recent experience in a research role and can hit the ground running.
• ... are possessing strong communication skills with the ability to articulate and document the research data for use by the company’s various functions.

Here is how you can help us

Role & Responsibilities

• Obsess over getting immersed in the user's environment, understanding their psyche, motivations, behaviours to understand the real problems and needs.
• Own end-to-end experience with all aspects of research (study design, recruiting, moderation, analysis, reporting)
• Identify and apply relevant research methods to generate effective responses to the research questions.
• Independently conceptualise, plan and execute foundational, generative and evaluative studies while operating in complex organisational demands, with minimum guidance.
• Apply your expertise and knowledge of research methodologies, human factors, the user-centred design process, and statistics to product and service design in an iterative development environment.
• Help us set up the best practices to support the research team.

1. Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
2. Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
3. Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets
4. Build page navigation buttons and search fields
5. Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
6. Create original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches and tables)
7. Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
8. Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
9. Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
10. Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images.

1. UI/UX Designer, Portfolio of design projects,HTML,CSS
2. Knowledge of wireframe tools (e.g. Wireframe.cc and InVision)
3. Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
4. Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
5. Good time-management skills

Catalyst IQ is hiring for one of the leading Fintech companies in India.

About company: We are India's leading financial services company that offers full-stack payments & financial solutions to consumers, offline merchants and online platforms. The company is on a mission to bring half a billion Indians into the mainstream economy through payments,commerce, banking, investments, and financial services. Its investors include Softbank, AntFinancial, AGH Holdings, Elevation Capital, Berkshire Hathaway, T Rowe Price, and Discovery Capital.

About the team: Central Design Team

Our Central Design team is responsible for all the Product Design and Research work related to various products. The team mainly looks at the design of the our consumer app and the products in the Merchant Ecosystem comprising of the EDC and POS Devices, the Golden Gate app (the FSE ecosystem), the Unified Merchants Portal (UMP), Net Banking Panel, different deltas and various products are aligned with each of the Deltas.

About the role:

As a product designer, you will be in a fast paced environment, and your day-to-day tasks will consist of engaging with product managers and other stakeholders, to understand the requirements and creating well designed flows, high and low fidelity prototypes,and visual interfaces for a good user experience. You will use your knowledge of design, expertise and skills to design products for these specific responsibilities assigned to you.

Expectations/Requirements:

· Work closely with cross-functional teams to gather and understand business and feature requirements.

· Translate requirements from the PRDs into concepts into wireframes and mock-ups that lead to intuitive user experiences.

· Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mock-ups optimised for a wide range of devices and interfaces.

· Request and drive user research/usability tests as needed. Collaborate with all stakeholders on high fidelity interactive prototypes, design validation and improvement.

· Work with development team to ensure high quality designs are fully actualised.

· Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes other designers, project management, business and software developers.

· Staying up to date with the latest trends in product design.

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

Superpowers/ Skills that will help you succeed in this role

· A degree in design, or equivalent experience in Design. Minimum 8+Yrs of Industry experince.

· Professional experience in User Experiences on web and mobile applications.

· Have worked in a product company ecosystem.

· Deep understanding of design processes and research methodologies.

· Well organized, responsible and dedicated, with the ability to work on multiple projects and deliver refined design in a short time.

· Proficient with the tools in Design and Prototyping (Figma / Sketch).

· Fast learner and extremely self-motivated to lead. Ability to handle multiple projects in an agile, fast and dynamic environment.

Why join us?

· A collaborative output driven program that brings cohesiveness across businesses through technology

· Improve the average revenue per use by increasing the cross-sell opportunities

· A solid 360 feedback from your peer teams on your support of their goals

· Respect, that is earned, not demanded from your peers and manager.

Compensation:

If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you. With enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants – and we are committed to it. India’s largest digital lending story is brewing here. It’s your opportunity to be a part of the story!

• Experience on using Mendix Developer Studio for designing and developing Web-based
  applications
  Knowledge of web services
  Knowledge of export & importing data
  Knowledge of debugging the web services & microflows
  Understanding Data models and SQL Query Building
  Build applications using Schema Domain Entity Design, User Interface Development for
  Desktop, Tablet and Mobile devices
  Knowledge of building Microflows and Nanoflows and using Containers
  Understanding Data models and SQL Query Building
  Strong customer intrfacing and conflict resolution skills

The Project Manager role we're looking for will manage key client projects. The responsibilities include the coordination and completion of projects on time within budget and within scope.
Oversee all aspects of projects.
Set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarize progress of project.
Prepare reports for upper management regarding status of project.

Lead and direct the work of others.
Enhance department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.