Senior Product DesIgner ( iOS)

Our client is more than 2 decades old NBFC registered with the RBI. The company was set up with an aim to empower rural entrepreneurs, SMEs, and small institutions by micro-financing. The company has come a long way since its inception in 1992 and has evolved with time with the introduction of its App in the small loans sector. At present, the company has more than 5000 employees and has serviced millions of borrowers to accomplish their dreams.

The group has diversified into the education segment and is running two schools. The schools are part of one of the largest private school chains in India. The schools have a flourishing family of 350 teachers and 6500 students. The leadership team at the helm of the company has demonstrable experience in financial services and has built the company by upholding the trust of its customers.

What you will do:

• Developing UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites and apps function and look like
• Creating original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches, tables, etc)
• Identifying and troubleshooting UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Adhering to style standards on fonts, colors, and images
• Creating attention-grabbing designs aimed at multiple target audiences B2C

 

Desired Candidate Profile

What you need to have:

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a UI/UX designer
• Character making and image solving capabilities
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop)
• Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus
• Knowledge of UI/UX of responsive websites
• Portfolio of design projects    

 

 

Desired Candidate Profile

What you need to have:

• MBA/ engineering from premier Institutions
• 4-7 years experience with at least 3 years in areas relevant to operations or operations design (for Pre MBA profiles)
• 2-4 years experience with at least 1 year in areas relevant to operations or operations design (for MBA profiles)
• Experience in working on marketplace/ blue-collared mobile products
• Deep analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Strong data and analytics capabilities
• Product mindset and problem-solving ability
• Ability to look at the big picture while solutioning    

 

• Finding creative solutions to product, technical, organisational and resource challenges. 
• Partnering with fellow leaders to build a collaborative design, engineering and product culture. 
• Help lead multiple projects on the International Experience team, defining scope, identifying resourcing needs, and handling stakeholder management. 
• Work cross-functionally to identify workflow issues and integrate procedural improvements. 
• Track and communicate progress across your projects, ensuring the teams are on track - facilitating decision-making, resolving blockers, and surfacing challenges. 
• Enable continuous improvement during projects, ensuring insights are captured, shared, and integrated. 
• Become an evangelist, advocate, and educator on behalf of Design, elevating the team's presence within the organization. 
• Always be acutely aware of the team's needs and provide feedback to our design leads in order to ensure all designers experience an enjoyable and balanced work environment. 
• Help develop process improvements for Design Operations as a whole. 
• Think conceptually – applying a user-centered approach to requirements and interdependencies – to develop engaging interfaces. 
• Think visually – using techniques like storyboards and sketching – to communicate interaction design concepts. 
• Make design decisions based on good judgement, experience, research, and data. 
• Make a real impact at scale through new product launches and interface improvements that effect billions of our customers everyday 
• Be part of a fun, humble team, always learning, collaborating with other designers to deliver a cohesive customer centered experience. 

What You'll Need 

A strong product design portfolio that demonstrates how you design to solve customer needs. 

• Excellent people management Skills 
• Leadership Skills 
• Excellent grasp of the design thinking and prototyping process, including product/interaction/visual, with the know-how to move from pencil on paper to layout to pixel-perfect handoff using tools such as Sketch, Invision, and Zeplin. 
• Stellar interaction & visual skills (track record of deploying user interface standards and conventions, functional communication flows, dynamic engaging interfaces, attention to detail, stay on brand, build new patterns). 
• Deep understanding of design principals and industry trends. 
• Expert communication and presentation skills with ability to clearly present your work; you are articulate and can advocate design rationale. 
• Readily give and receive constructive feedback. 
• Expert partnering with cross functional teams in launching new products and improvements to existing features. 

Added Points 

• Experience working in and navigating a corporate environment independently. 
• Delivered successful design for responsive web, iOS and Android. 
• Experience building efficient scalable systems or in eCommerce. 
• Bachelor’s in Design, User Experience (UX), Human Computer Interaction, Mass Communications or related field. 

Skillset  

• Mock ups : Sketch, Axure, Figma 
• Usability test : Morae, WebEx Remote UTs 
• Image editing & illustration : Photoshop, Expression Design, CorelDraw, Adobe illustrator. 

 

Are you passionate about creating innovative and beautifully intuitive designs?

 

Walrus is a Y-Combinator backed fintech company with a mission to create a new-age banking experience for young India and students. With Walrus, you can save, earn and pay using UPI, P2P, and card payments without the need to set up a bank account. You get a personalized UPI ID and India’s first neon signature prepaid card. Walrus aims at creating a new-age and fun banking experience for students and teenagers. 

 

Founded in 2019 by ex-entrepreneurs & consultants, Walrus is backed by some of the most respected investors around the world - Y-Combinator, Better capital, GMO Ventures, and the likes of Raghunandan G(Co-founder of Taxi4Sure) as angels. We are on a mission to change your relationship with the bank. Currently, this B-word induces boredom, anxiety and stress. We want to change this feeling to fun, excitement and rewards and make banking fun for 250 Million+ Indian students and teenagers and help them in a smooth transition from cash to digital.

 

We believe there are few levers as powerful as design by which we can impact a product, a company or the world. We are looking for a Magician UI/UX designer who can wave their Elder wand and clean up the inconsistencies in the app, weave their magic and take Walrus to the next level.

 

What you’ll do:

 

• You will lead the UI/UX design and play a major part in strengthening the design centered culture in the company.
• Develop and conceptualize a comprehensive UI/UX design strategy in collaboration with product managers and designers for the app.
• Produce high-quality UX design solutions through wireframes, visual and graphic designs, flow diagrams, storyboards, site maps, and prototypes.
• Test UI elements such as CTAs, banners, page layouts, page designs, page flows, and target links for landing pages.
• Collaborate with the product team to ensure the creation and delivery of tailored experiences for the user.
• Adhere to style standards on typography and graphic design.
• You depend on user-centric critical analysis and problem-solving
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
• Create original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches and tables)
• Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Identify and troubleshoot UI/UX problems across the app and come up with solutions (e.g. responsiveness)

 

Ideal candidate:

• 3+ years of experience in designing products in product-first companies and have a strong portfolio
• Have expertise with design tools (e.g. Sketch, Figma, Illustrator, After Effects) to produce wireframes, high fidelity mockups and illustrations with attention to detail.
• You believe in craftsmanship and create elegant and compelling designs, over and over.
• You have a strong passion for designing innovative designs and setting the new bar for the design ecosystem
• You've weathered release cycles and know what details matter at each stage, how to motivate engineers to get the fit and finish right, how to translate insights from user studies into meaningful action, and what's most likely to go afoul at each stage. You can share several shining examples of real work you've shipped, and what you learned along the way.
• You're a product manager's secret weapon. You thrive best when helping to define the requirements, not just translating them into designs. You facilitate and draw the best design ideas from teammates.
• You substantially contribute to defining the 'what' as well as the 'how'.

 

Not required but what helps:

• Good sense of humour. We work hard but it shouldn't feel that way
• Enjoys beer/wine/etc… nothing like a cold beer down the pub after work on a Friday.

 

Perks:

• Complete independence to design and execute stupid ideas brilliantly
• Opportunity to build your own team and make an impact for the next billion in fintech 
• An open and collaborative work culture with a flat structure
• Competitive salary and equity
• A pet-friendly workspace and tonnes of fun with our office cat, Shera!

We are looking for a UI/UX designer with minimum 4 years of hands-on experience in UI/UX designing.

Experience: 4+ years

Education: Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree/diploma preferably in graphics design or animation

Location: Delhi

Desired Candidate Profile:

• Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop/ Adobe Illustrator/ Sketch/ Adobe XD

• Hands on experience with prototyping tools like Invision, Justinmind or another

• Should be able to conceptualize and design creatives based on the requirements

• Knowledge of UX Design and Interaction Design

• Design clear, attractive and engaging websites & mobile apps

• Must be detail-oriented and have the ability to deliver on time and work under needs

• Must possess good sense of composition, typography, colour

• Keen eye for good design based on current trends and best practices

• Good understanding of Responsive Design development

• Good communication skills to be able to handle Indian & international clients

• Working knowledge of HTML5, CSS, Wordpress will be a plus

UI/UX Developer
JD:
• Demonstrable graphic design skills with a strong portfolio
• Proficiency in Photoshop, XD, Illustrator or other visual design and wire-framing tools
• Strong Knowledge on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe XD.
• Strong knowledge on HTML, CSS, Jquery, Javascript.
• Design the UI architecture, wireframes and interaction flows
• Experience in CSS Preprocessors like SASS, LESS
• Experience in create logos, brochures, Flyers
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for rapid prototyping.
• Up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
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Company Description Impact Guru is a Harvard incubated fintech company - an online fundraising or crowdfunding platform that enables individuals and corporates to give to social causes in India. Impact Guru is India’s largest crowdfunding platform having raised Rs 329 crores for various causes since inception. We were incubated at Harvard Innovation Lab Venture Initiation Program, USA and PACT Social Enterprise Incubator at Impact Hub (Singapore). Impact Guru has offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Singapore, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, and San Francisco. Our platform was inaugurated by Mrs. Maneka Gandhi, Minister of Women and Child Development, Govt. of India in 2015. Impact Guru has already partnered with nonprofits such as World Vision India, Oxfam, SOS Children's Village, Habitat for Humanity; CSR departments of Tata, Godrej, and Wockhardt; impact focused organizations such as Dalberg and Asha Impact; international Indian community organizations such as TiE in a relatively short span of time. You can see how we helps the social sector through crowdfunding via a 2 minute video that can be seen here: We were recently featured on CNBC Young Turks, which can be seen here Our Advisory Board includes: • Harvard Business School Prof. Ramana Nanda, expert in finance • Gaurav Gupta, Regional Director for Asia, Dalberg, social sector expert • Sam Raymond, lead crowdfunding strategist at World Bank • Calvin Zhang, Managing Director, JPMorgan Asia Pacific • Anthony Oundjian, Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group • David Back, co-founder of Zoomcar, a Sequoia portfolio company • Dr. Huzaifa Khorakiwala, CEO of Wockhardt Foundation Media Mentions: CNBC TV18 Young Turks, Times of India, Economic Times, YourStory, SocialStory,HuffingtonPost,ScoopWhoop, Harvard Business Review. The Team: Impact Guru is led by an experienced management team with strong private, public, and social sector experience led by Wharton and Harvard alumni. The Impact Guru is also mentored on various topics by global experts, including VC funded entrepreneurs, Managing Directors at J.P.Morgan and BCG, and experts in crowdfunding from the World Bank. Team page – https://www.impactguru.com/team Advisory Board – https://www.impactguru.com/board-of-advisors Linked In profile for our Co-Founders: Piyush Jain - CEO Khushboo Jain - COO The Culture: We are a vibrant young team located in the heart of Mumbai. Everyday work is fun, casual, and relaxed. Above all, we are passionate about creating a habit of giving back among Indians at the same time help social organisations scale their initiatives and corporates meet their CSR goals. We celebrate and seek out diversity of opinion in our team, we’re open to bold and disruptive ideas, and acknowledge and appreciate each other. We always strive for excellence and for the best solution, which is ultimately determined by the customers’ needs. We believe in our product and we use it our selves. Watch our interns talk about our culture and expériences: www.impactguru.com/intern2016

The selected intern(s) will work on following during the internship: 1. Brainstorm and Ideate on the new features and work closely with the Product team. 2. Work on the wireframes and design the visuals that sync with the product design language. 3. Collate and implement the feedbacks from the clients and conduct user research.