LeadershipAbout Us
upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale. upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build careers of tomorrow.
• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19 • upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech • upGrad is the official education partner for the Government of India - Startup India program
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning \
Role Summary
This role will primarily be responsible for envisioning, defining, and owning the execution of upGrad's product design strategy. As the strategic design leader, team coach, and customer champion you'll galvanize people to solve complex problems, developing strategies, and ensuring product designers have the space to create products that deliver enduring value. You will also lead change cross-functionally to drive better experiences and influence our company's product, operations, content, and data to unlock the unrealized wants of learners and coaches across new subjects and fields.
You’ll lead your team through the design process, help build a vision, and navigate ambiguity through partnering with research and enabling experimentation, all while mentoring, and growing a hardworking and capable design team.
You’ll run design critiques, host collaboration & brainstorming sessions, drive design execution excellence, identify areas of process efficiency, and promote a high-output and fast-paced design practice.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Work closely with your team and other designers in defining, designing, and iterating on product features across web and mobile platforms
- Get out of the Office and work with research to observe the impact of your work in the real world, and take that input back to your work as a designer to be constantly improving our products.
- Invest in design standards, documentation, and processes alongside your team members to further our design practice
- Shape product strategy and vision together with product managers and have a significant impact across all the product teams
- Bring consistency to all the platforms and products
- Drive and support cross-team initiatives that make the Design practice better at upGrad such as improving our hiring processes, expanding our community presence, interviewing potential new team members
- Work in the way that works for you and what you're designing, whether that's spending time sketching or jumping straight into pixels and code.
- Work with other members of the Design team to help them deliver great work and develop their own skills. This could be as a mentor, a coach, or a collaborator.
Skills Required::
- 7 years of Product Design experience with at least 2 years of experience leading product design teams
- Consistent track record of leading highly collaborative cross-functional teams thought ambiguity and deliver the best products possible to our customers are an experienced mentor and coachable to give and receive honest, thoughtful, and direct feedback that removes roadblocks encourages growth, and accelerates delivery
- Are intent on crafting psychologically optimistic spaces where your direct reports and your collaborators are confident in sharing their ideas, opinions, and reservations in order to get to the best customer-focused solution
- Experienced recruiting, hiring, and retaining multi-disciplinary design teams
- Ability to understand complex feature sets and their dependencies while being able to deliver a design strategy that accounts for capabilities and limitations of the product
- Methodology rich, including standard approaches for design deliverables including user journeys, research plans, mocks, prototypes, documentation, and quality checks
- Have the ability to communicate research findings and design decisions openly and confidently, regardless of the audience
- Have partnered with research teams or led research experiments to validate and inform product thinking
- Have a proven history of partnering with engineering in a continuous delivery environment
Subodh Popalwar
Software Engineer, Memorres
About upGrad
upGrad is an online higher education platform. Founded by Ronnie Screwvala, Mayank Kumar, Ravijot Chugh and Phalgun Kompalli in March’ 2015, upGrad provides rigorous industry-relevant programs designed and delivered in collaboration with world-class faculty and industry. Merging the latest technology, pedagogy, and services, upGrad is creating an immersive learning experience – anytime and anywhere.
Through exclusive partnerships with some of the most prominent universities like IIIT-Bangalore, MICA, BITS Pilani, ISB, Cambridge Judge Business School- our aim to impart university education, online.
Learning online can be tough, especially when you have to do it all by yourself. Reasons why you should upskill with UpGrad:
- We provide an engaging experience via our suite of learning applications right from the university applications till you get a job and transition
- We provide structured online courses in collaboration with some of the prominent universities and industry experts
- We co-create a rigorous curriculum in collaboration with these universities to provide the learners with a holistic learning experience
- All our courses are comprehensive, structured and rigorous - delivered online, providing you the flexibility and opportunity of continuous learning
- We conduct regular live lectures with the industry experts and the professors
- Each of our learners is allocated with a dedicated student mentor who helps them chart a career path and motivates them to push themselves
- We provide in-depth feedback on all the assignments, case studies, and projects
- We have delivered 400+ successful career transitions and we’re committed to building careers of tomorrow
- You get access to an alumni network of 3,000+ students across the globe
- We also conduct periodic offline events like Hackathons, Bootcamps, Alumni Nights and connect you not only to the professors and industry experts but the peers in your batch too
- Last but not the last, we provide career assistance and help all the learners with interview preparations, mentorship calls, and job placements even after the completion of the program
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- Competitive salary as per the market standard.
- Directly work with the Executive Leadership.
- Join a great workplace & culture.
- Company-paid medical insurance for you and your family.
- A hybrid working mode with a flexible vacation policy.
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We are looking for an experienced and creative Freelance Product Designer to join our team! As the Freelance designer, you will be responsible for delivering the optimal user experience across our product portfolio spanning web and mobile apps. This is a high visibility role and has a large contribution to the overall success of the product and customer satisfaction. The
role requires deep collaboration with the product, technology, marketing and sales teams. This role might include some people management responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Craft every detail of new and existing product features, from understanding the customer pain point to defining wireframes, high definition prototypes and finally working with the technology team to taking it live.
- Partner closely with our Product, Marketing and Technology teams to understand what users need, want, and love about the product. Use the data to plan and define the optimal user experience.
- Create design systems that help with a common design language across the entire product portfolio in a distributed team.
- Aid product marketing in telling the product stories in the best way possible to help users in product adoption and onboarding.
- Build and implement processes for user testing. Take a data driven approach to decision making.
What are we looking for?
An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.
- 4+ years of experience as a UI/UX Designer, preferably for a B2B or consumer SaaS product.
- Track record of building products from scratch and taking complete ownership of design output.
- Take pride in whatever work you do. Feel a sense of pride in building things that are clearly valued by the customer. Aim for pixel perfection.
- Believes deeply in data driven decision making and experimentation. Understand that what is right is way more important than who is right.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to thrive in a multidisciplinary team.
- Passionate about building great products that the person can be proud of.
- Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor in Design / Master in Design from Tier 1 colleges
Whom will you work with?
You will closely work with technology, design, sales and customer care teams. You'll report to head of product development.
What can you look for?
A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact, and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.
We are
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Way forward
We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.
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- You will conceptualize and design original ideas that bring simplicity and ease of use to complex design issues.
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- Outstanding UI abilities, a keen eye for good design shown, and an extensive portfolio of live projects.
- Good Knowledge Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Adobe XD, Figma, HTML5,
- Deep knowledge of Modern UI patterns
- A deep understanding of the end-to-end iterative UX process (personas, scenarios, wireframing, and high-fidelity visuals).
- Understanding of principles of visual design and composition, gestalt’s laws, colour theory, laws of UX, etc.
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Adobe Illustrator
What you'll be doing
1. You will be working with product owners ( Client Stakeholders ), product managers directly to deliver the user experience. A product design from scratch or revamp assignment, on average, includes 2-3 product designers. You will be either leading/collaborating based on the project.
2. You will be part of all four steps we follow in our design process, Analyse, Strategize, Visualise & Evolve. These steps include various activities from wireframes -> dev hand-off.
3. Most of our assignments go through user research, including stakeholder interviews ( Who runs the product ) and actual product end-user interviews. On average, we do 10 interviews per product. You will be conducting them along with your peer.
4. We encourage the team to share and learn from each other, and you will also be part of internal/external workshops & knowledge sessions.
What you'll need
1. 3 to 4 years of experience in designing digital interfaces ( Web/Mobile )
2. You love to solve problems, have a hustling DNA, and are constantly ready for challenges
3. An ability to think high-level product strategy and distill into design deliverables
4. Take ownership of the design process and work as a self-directed member of a design team
5. Able to earn trust and handle your counterparts to deliver a great product experience
6. Should be able to demo your designs and defend design decisions backed with research or competitive benchmarking
7. Solid aesthetic sense with a keen eye for detail
8. Excellent understanding of clean UI, typography, alignment, and colors
9. We encourage T-Shaped Designer, specializes in one kind of UX design and has a breadth of capabilities in other areas.
Adobe IllustratorPRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES :-
- Designing Websites with responsive layouts.
- Designing Mobile Apps.
- UX Flow Designing for App & Web Apps.
- Co-ordination with client and get the best creative outcome in terms of design.
- Able to design digital media artworks for social media, websites, print media.
- Responsible for creative development across our app, website, social media, user communications, digital ads and offline marketing channels.
- Ideation and execution, understanding client requirement / brief, designing, and delivering creative projects from conceptualization to final execution. ·
- Think creatively and out of the box and develop new design concepts, graphics and layouts independently.
- Take a lead role in managing the design and creative elements of products for website and app.
- Managing graphic designs from conception to deliver
REQUIREMENTS :-
- 4+ years design experience, preferably in an interactive agency.
- Advanced command of standard design and layout applications (Adobe XD, Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator.).
- Strong time-management skills and ability to prioritize.
- Experience working to meet team-based project outcome.
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- Proven experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer or similar role
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- Passion for learning and always improving yourself and the team around you
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience is a plus
- Knowledge of web based UI development technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS etc. is a plus
Additional Information
PERKS
- Free breakfast, dinner and snacks at the office
- Monthly team outings, e.g., laser tag, paintball, football, trampoline etc.
- Quarterly team parties and annual offsite
- Company sponsored enrolment worth 40K annually to online learning resources like Coursera, edX etc.
- International trip vouchers for top performers
- Company sponsored asset purchase worth 50K
- Games in office - Mini golf, pool, foosball
- Regular tech seminars
Our hiring principles
- We don't care about the stack you've worked upon, we look good understanding of fundamentals.
- We look for depth in the work experience. Our tech stack consists of almost all the latest technologies and we expect people to learn fast and acquire sufficient depth.
- We look for people passionate about technology and are good team players.
He/She will lead efforts in building excellent and intuitive application design. Being one of the early team members will allow him/her to work with the founding team to shape and build the product from scratch.
Responsibility
Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with the product team and front-end engineer
Design graphical user interface, elements and illustrations for young Indian users
Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how the app looks like
Lead user research on the design front and thrive for more intuitive user flow and elements. Incorporate changes in the design based on user feedback
Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images
Requirements
Proven work experience as a UI/UX Designer of mobile applications or similar role
Portfolio of design projects
Mastery of design tools (e.g. Sketch and InVision)
Team spirit; good communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
About us
Cold Brew Tech is a Bangalore based seed-stage startup focussed on creating impact in the internet consumer space with an added focus on youth and people coming online for the first time in India - NHB users (Next Half Billion). It is founded by IITK alumni - Bhanu Pratap Singh Tanwar (ex-Deutsche Bank), Hardik Bansal (ex-WorldQuant, University of Maryland), Harshvardhan Chhangani (ex-Paytm).
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