UI/ UX 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.

Overview:

As a UX Designer, you will develop and communicate a vision, bring concepts to life, then iterate and refine them as you gather and factor in customer and business requirements. You think first from the customer’s perspective and set high standards for yourself and your team in developing amazing experiences. You have comprehensive understanding of the current design best practices, with a critical awareness of implications on user-centered design and functionality. You are detail-oriented, comfortable working on highly technical team, skilled in using data to make decisions. You have an inventor’s spirit, highly refined aesthetic sensibilities, solid hard skills and a killer eye for detail.

Responsibilities:

1. Relentlessly simplify and distill complex business processes into intuitive and elegant product experiences.
2. Work closely with cross-functional teams to help define best-in-class user experiences.
3. Create process flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mocks to effectively communicate design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors.
4. Drive the development and communication of design guidelines and patterns, with focus on providing a consistent and intuitive experience across the product ecosystem.
5. Participate in the planning process for new products and features helping drive the vision across the products.
6. Own the production of world-class designs and documents for presentation to engineers, product managers, peer design teams, and senior executives.
7. Assist in the development and evaluation of personas, user stories, and usability studies.

Roles and Responsibility

Create exciting information visualizations enabling the user to instantly understand the data in the right context, spot patterns, trends and relations in a self-service manner. · Collaborate with designers, developers, and external project partners to ensure designs are implemented as effective user experiences. · Participate in, and integrate feedback from user research. · Define and design use cases, workflows and storyboards describing how the user would interact with easy-to-use, data visualization apps. · Identify all elements of interaction and navigation, and lay them out within a screen so they direct the user without confusion or error. · Create consumer grade usable designs using wireframes and prototypes. · Present your designs in team design reviews as well as to the extended group of internal stakeholders. · Participate in iterative design, testing and development sprint cycles to refine the overall product. · Support marketing activities (e.g. collateral development) around the successful launch of emerging solutions on multiple platforms

Years of Experience Required: 5+ Years

What You’ll Do:
Intake requirements and collaborate with other designers, product managers and engineers to design, prototype, and deliver new interaction models and experiences to our customers
Develop expert-level knowledge of the industry and bring new ideas to the team
Support in user testing and research activities to uncover further customer and business needs
Ideally, candidates will have:

• Deep knowledge of design and the process, including fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud and Sketch
• Strong problem solving skills
• An understanding and ability to create 3D content and apply it to mixed realities
• A trailblazer in visual and interaction design creation
• Brilliant design portfolio to exhibit your work and design process 
• A high level of comfort building wireframes and prototypes based on functional requirements
• Ability to work with constantly changing priorities and tasks 
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Empathy—and not just for users
• Abilities to gracefully give and receive critical design feedback

Bonus Points for: 

• Fluency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Accessibility (WCAG2.0/Section 508) Guidelines
• Fluency in 3D programs such as Blender or Cinema4D
• Community involvement: workshops, articles, or similar to a Dribble account 
• Familiarization with conducting usability testing and research

Responsibilities::

• Based on the wireframes and project concept, create UI of screens to be used in mobile and web.

• Understand the UX and implement or enhance the screens accordingly.

• Work closely with the team in an agile mode to properly draft the requirements in the screen or mock-ups generated.

• Create newsletters, templates and graphics as and when required.

Skills::

• Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and other graphics tools

• Relevant experience in terms of designing screens for mobile and web apps

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Designation: Jr. UI/UX Designer

Experience: 6 months to 2 years

Location: Malad (West)

• 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.