UI Designer

What makes Bakerstreet Digital Special? 

• We are not just an ambitious niche Digital Products company. We are an ambitious Digital Products Company with a soul.
• Fundamental to our mission of building world-class (we have won a webby award) global (26 global products live 0-1) digital products is an integrated, mission-driven team of consultants who are passionate about their competency.  

Who are you? A Digital Designer that can skillfully orchestrate end to end Product Design. You:

• Have experience building Products at the Business, User, UX and Architecture levels with multi-disciplinary teams
• Have worked with global clients in a consulting or product team and understand communication and management protocols of large Banks
• Have a fine understanding of the fintech domain
• Understand the difference between UI and a UI Design system that can flex and scale
• Can imagine, articulate well, and create buy-in for your ideas
• Are hands-on and able to rapidly visualise ideas
• Are able to work collaboratively to deliver the UI in sprints across products
• Have a deep understanding of CX, Design beyond screens and colours 
• Can translate business requirements and customer experience into features and functions that drive the platform/product roadmap. 

What you will do:

• Client Engagement: Act as a primary point of contact for clients, understanding their design requirements, and translating them into actionable design solutions. Conduct client meetings, gather feedback, and ensure client satisfaction throughout the project lifecycle.
• User Experience (UX) Design: Conduct user research, usability testing, and competitor analysis to identify opportunities for enhancing the user experience. Create wireframes, prototypes, and user flows to effectively communicate design ideas and user interactions.
• User Interface (UI) Design: Develop visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces that align with the project's branding and business goals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate UI components seamlessly into the final product.
• Mentoring Trainees: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior designers and trainees, fostering their growth and development. Conduct design workshops and share best practices to improve team skills.
• Leading Design Pods: Lead a small team of designers by providing direction, feedback, and support. Organize design sprints and coordinate efforts to ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope.
• Design Strategy: Contribute to the development of design strategies and play an active role in proposing new ideas and approaches to continuously elevate the quality of design work.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure a cohesive and seamless design-to-development process. Advocate for design thinking and user-centric approaches within the organization.
• Industry Trends: Stay up-to-date with the latest UI/UX design trends, tools, and technologies, and incorporate relevant innovations into design processes

Who you are NOT. This role is not for you if: 

• You can only follow the given process
• Not think out of the box, innovative solutions to startup problems
• Have time-zone constraints (this is a global time-zone role)
• Work only in a slow, structured environment where you are given detailed instructions
• Want to take it easy and prefer a passive role 

What you will get: 

• An opportunity to be a core team member with a growth path
• A fast-growth environment with a world-class visual design quality 
• A place where you matter, and are not just a cog in the wheel
• An encouraging, informal and comfortable working environment
• A place where flexibility can be earned and work-life balance ensured
• Competitive Compensation

You will learn: 

• How to build a design and build a global quality next generation product ground-up
• How to build a Design-led organization ground-up
• How to build a Zero to one product, not just enhance or add features

What are the Qualifications you need? 

• Proven experience (2-7 years) as a UI/UX Designer, with a strong portfolio showcasing successful projects and a user-centered design approach.
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch and prototyping tools.
• Solid understanding of user experience principles, information architecture, and interaction design.
• Excellent visual design skills with a keen eye for aesthetics, typography, and color theory.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, capable of explaining design decisions and receiving constructive feedback.
• Leadership abilities, with the capacity to motivate and guide team members effectively.
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple milestones and projects efficiently
• Ability to think through product propositions ground-up considering the entire product eco-system
• Must have Customer-oriented data-led problem-solving skills 
• Ability to work with and influence senior stakeholders

Our Hiring Process:

1. You Apply and answer a couple of quick questions [5 min]
2. Recruiter screening phone interview [20 min] 
3. Skills assessment take-home challenge
4. Technical interview: [30 min - includes a discussion around the submitted assignment]
5. Founder's interview: [30 min]
6. We make you an offer and proceed for reference and BGV check.

Role and Responsibilities:

·        Lead the vision of our product and consumer experiences

·        Own the end-to-end design/ UX of YouShd’s applications, design simple and clean visual UI, and create wireframes, prototypes, and pixel-perfect mocks

·        Work with the tech team to get your ideas built

·        Conduct user research, come up with user personas, both informally and in structured studies, and analyze and present findings so we all can understand our users better

·        Set the standard for what great design entails and help your team achieve that standard

·        Build and maintain a design system to achieve consistency across our applications

Skills and Experience:

·        2+ years of experience in product design

·        Work with wireframing tool of choice (Balsamiq, Pencil, Axure, Whimsical, Mockflow, etc.) to create low fidelity and high fidelity wireframes

·        Convert any wireframes into mockups using Figma, Sketch, etc.

·        Find design inspirations related to the idea proposed and do independent research

·        Demonstrated experience of leading complex projects independently under tight timelines

·        Detail orientation, execution excellence and entrepreneurial spirit

·        First-principles led problem-solving attitude

Nice to Haves:

·        Experience with frontend web or mobile development

·        Previous experience working in an Agile environment with scrums and sprints

1. Only NIFT, NID, or pearl graduate
2. Develop standard UI components and style guides
3. Build wireframes and storyboards to conceptualize design
4. Define visual elements, product elements, and overall design
5. Taking design briefs to understand requirements
6. Effectively communicate your designs to developers and other key stakeholders
7. Create and implement interaction models and user interface specifications
8. Conduct industry research and stay up-to-date on best practices, competitor UI designs, and emerging technologies
9. Conduct, observe and analyze usability testing sessions
10. Conduct user testing of applications, software, and websites
11. Develop consistent, intuitive architectures
12. Support the QA team to make sure features are implemented in the coded version as intended
13. Determine timeline and deliverables
14. Evaluate and set best practices and standards
15. Work with UI managers and team to define user flows and sitemaps
16. Measure the human-computer interaction (HCI) element of a design
17. Collaborate on scenarios, end-to-end experiences, and screen designs
18. Work with frontend and backend developers as needed

Ø Responsibilities

·                 Investigating user experience design requirements for our suite of digital assets.

·                 Developing and conceptualizing a comprehensive UI/UX design strategy for the brand.

·                 Producing high-quality UX design solutions through wireframes, visual and graphic designs, flow diagrams, storyboards, site maps, and prototypes.

·                 Designing UI elements and tools such as navigation menus, search boxes, tabs, and widgets for our digital assets.

·                 Testing UI elements such as CTAs, banners, page layouts, page designs, page flows, and target links for landing pages.

·                 Providing advice and guidance on the implementation of UX research methodologies and testing activities in order to analyze and predict user behavior.

·                 Adhering to style standards on typography and graphic design.

Ø Requirements

·        Degree in UI/UX design experience for digital products or services.

·        A portfolio of professional UI/UX design work for both web and mobile platforms.

·        Working knowledge of the following technologies and software: Sketch, InVision, Visio, HTML, CSS (SCSS), iOS, Android, Design Systems, and Adobe Creative Suite.

·        A team player but can work independently too.

·        Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• With the support of product managers and engineers, collect and analyze user demands. 

• To show design concepts, use storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps. 

• Menus, tabs, and widgets are examples of visual user interface components.

• Make page navigation buttons and search fields. 

• Make UI mockups and prototypes that demonstrate how websites function and look. 

• Create original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches, and tables) 

• Internal teams and significant stakeholders should be given rough draughts to review. 

• Identify and fix user experience issues (e.g. responsiveness) 

• Make layout adjustments based on user input. Follow the requirements for typeface, color, and image style.

• High-performance reusable components and future-proof front-end frameworks.

• Create new user-facing features as well as reusable code. 

• Write efficient, performant code to achieve optimal web application performance and scalability. 

• Identify design flaws and provide attractive remedies.

• Assuring software compatibility and responsiveness across a range of screen resolutions. 

• To reach your objectives, collaborate with product managers and designers. 

Designation:  Junior UI/UX Designer

Experience: 6 months to 2 years

Location: Malad (West)

Job description:

• Able to create required UI/UX through innovative conceptualization skills, able to create independently.
• Should know current trends in design, colours, web design, designing icons and for mobile.
• Proven UI/UX experience.
• Up-to-date with the latest UI/UX trends, techniques, and technologies.
• Should be efficient in web designing.
• Passion and enthusiasm for design, with a creative flair. Also strong knowledge on pre-production knowledge of print communication and post production on photographic imagery. (desirable)
• Highly proficient with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Coreldraw InDesign and similar design tools.
• Attention to detail and a demonstrated mastery of typography, color combinations, composition rules and page layout.
• Understanding of technical implementation and limitations of user interfaces in Web and Mobile.
• Should understand intermediate English to add correct message (spellings) in required designs. 
• Should have knowledge of Print as well as social media.
• Should have ability to review final layouts and suggest improvements as needed.