UI/UX Lead

Company Overview:

Someshwara Software Pvt Ltd is a cutting-edge software development company based in Bangalore, focused on creating innovative and impactful digital solutions. Our mission is to transform complex

challenges into user-friendly experiences. We are on the lookout for a Creative UI/UX Designer who thrives on bringing ideas to life through powerful and compelling designs. This role demands a blend of

creativity, proficiency in design tools like Figma, and the ability to produce visually appealing designs that resonate with our target audience.

Location: Bangalore, India (Work from Office)

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate closely with the product management and marketing teams to conceptualize and execute creative design solutions that align with our company's vision and goals.

- Create a wide range of designs, including user interfaces, digital marketing materials, branding assets,

and corporate collateral.

- Utilize Figma to develop high-fidelity prototypes and mockups that effectively communicate design

ideas.

- Stay abreast of advancements in design software and technologies, incorporating new techniques and tools into your design workflow to enhance project outcomes.

- Ensure consistency in the visual language across all digital and print platforms by adhering to brand guidelines.

- Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute innovative design perspectives and solutions.

- Manage multiple design projects from concept through completion under tight deadlines.

- Gather and incorporate feedback from stakeholders to refine and polish designs.

Qualifications:

- A bachelor's degree in graphic design, Visual Arts, or a related field.

- Proficiency in design software and technologies, including Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), and Sketch.

- A strong portfolio showcasing creative design work across various mediums and formats.

- Excellent visual design skills with a keen eye for aesthetics, typography, and color theory.

- Ability to conceptualize and create original designs based on specific briefs or spontaneous ideas.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts clearly and persuasively.

- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

- A passion for staying up to date with the latest design trends, techniques, and technologies.

Additional Information:

- We value creativity, innovation, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

- We offer a collaborative and supportive work environment where your ideas and contributions are

valued.

- Opportunities for professional growth and development.

Someshwara Software Pvt Ltd is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We are looking for a user-experience and user interface designer responsible for conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, wireframes and prototypes.

They will also design the overall functionality of the product and iterate upon it to create compelling experiences for spanning Responsive Web, Mobile, and Tablet. You will be engaged throughout the product life cycle.

We are the largest online legal / tax / compliance service providers in India. Our business is technology driven and our app is already servicing customers across India and abroad.

Our dev team comprises seasoned and experienced developers along with Senior Resources for mentoring. We are looking forward to expanding our team.

At Vakilsearch, our customers come first. We're a small, close-knit team. We work purposefully and think big when it comes to our growth as a team and individuals.

We encourage you to spend time with our users, and our empathy for our customers sets the bar really high for the products and experiences we ship. We welcome people who are passionate about building a digital legal / tax / compliance future without reliance on humans and subject matter experts. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together

UX Engineer will be responsible for on-time and quality delivery of all deliverables for the product. Depending on requirements, as a product engineer, she/he will be responsible for delivering all or some of the following.

• Conducting and executing research processes, Usability Audits under the guidance of Lead UX Engineer
• Creating personas and establishing the critical information flow that allows the personas to establish specific goals
• Wireframes
• Navigation Structures
• Storyboards
• Interactive Guidelines
• Click through Prototypes
• Low fidelity grid based HTML outputs
• Information Architecture presented in flow diagrams. Currently we are using Miro for this - We consider this very important as it clearly establishes your line of thought against the given problem

• Ideate and design of innovative solutions using the latest UX design guidelines
• Must have the ability to work within a design team and be open to critique
• Sketch ideas and assist with storyboard creation, creative collaborative personality
• Work with project team and be actively involved in all aspects of the work
• Proactively identify opportunities and deliver improvements; follow agile methodology
• Facilitate product visions by researching, conceiving, wireframing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences
• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
• Translate concepts into wireframes and mockups that lead to intuitive user experiences
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs

• Deep understanding of current UI/UX trends and product design guidelines
• Proficiency in using multiple tools and techniques in order to arrive at the right solutionNow we need to conduct test remotely for
• Ready to experiment with different thought paradigms and build it out as clickable prototypes
• Minimum 3 years of experience in UX/UI Design
• Experience of working in Agile SW development teams
• Product development knowledge and Product Lifecycle Management knowledge
• Empathetic to business and end consumer needs

  Expectations:

  • Hands-on experience with User Research, Usability Testing (Guerrilla,A/B), Information Architecture, UCD (User Centered Design) and Prototyping.
  • Expert knowledge on Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Illustrator and any wireframing tools.
  • Working knowledge of Mobile UI/UX best practices and keeps up to date with modern schematics
  • Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design
  • Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams
  • Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism
  • Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation
  • Working knowledge of Mobile UI/UX best practices and keeps up to date with modern schematics
  • Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation
  • HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus. We are asking this to build POCs of your low fidelity grids and bring them to life on different resolutions

Purpose of the role

The UX Architect will be directly involved in designing a user and will be responsible for a meaningful presentation of information and organizational structure on the website from the user’s perspective. The candidate will conceptualise the layout and functionality contained within interactive interfaces of websites and will be responsible for optimizing the usability of the website applications to allow various user roles to accomplish their objectives in a manner that results in the best possible user experience.

Profile – Roles and Responsibilities

 Areas of Responsibility & brief description

Responsibility Level

1. Demonstrate effective management of shifting priorities, delivering thorough work products and meeting project deadlines.
2. Working on information visualization, including information architecture, user flow/interaction modelling, node-based and tagged taxonomy development and other information-related frameworks and methodologies.
3. Developing low to medium-fidelity wireframes and interactive prototypes, augmented as necessary with clear annotations of UI control behaviour, to hand off to front and back-end development and quality assurance teams.
4. Develop, extend and apply detailed user interface specifications, UI pattern libraries, reusable GUI components, content inventories, and design guidelines for ecommerce websites, delivered in Agile software development cycles.
5. Employ a variety of user-centered iterative design methodologies and objective evaluation techniques. 
6. Work with a variety of rapid prototyping and visualization tools including HTML, CSS and JavaScript. 
7. As needed, lead the translation of business requirements into simple, highly usable, and compelling interface layouts; defining how the user interacts with site functionality
8. Articulate the research findings and UX strategy in clear and actionable design artifacts, including personas, user journeys, screen flows, wireframes and prototypes. 
9. Judicious use of natural resources
10. Shall adhere to the environment health and safety policy/objectives and guidelines of the organization.

Full

Indicative KRA’s/Budgetary and Revenue Responsibilities

1. Common KRAs – Finance goal, Employee and Customer satisfaction
2. Assisting with research and introduction of value-added services
3. Ensure successful implementation of projects
4. Ensure compliance with Bourntec

Key Interactions within and outside of Bourntec

External

Internal

1. Customers
2. Senior stakeholders and managers
3. Product team  
4. Operations

Qualification & Experience (Education, Experience, specific knowledge, skills, understanding, attitude)

     Bourntec operations

Education: As per comp requirements

Experience:   

• 8+ years related work experience. UX research experience must include an established, heavily trafficked, consumer facing website or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Possesses broad expertise in end-user data collection involving complex web and mobile software applications.
• Strong user experience research foundation and flexible approach
• Proven ability to be a contributing member of a cross-functional team and inspire team confidence in and respect for the contributions of research and focused design to enhance user experience.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively partner with and communicate to stakeholders, designers, product managers and engineering development team members.

Knowledge & Key Skills:

• Extensive portfolio that includes examples of leading strategic research and design with significant business outcomes, creation of long-term research plans, and a demonstrated proficiency with interaction design.

Competencies/Personal Attributes

Behavioural Competencies

Entrepreneurship

Functional Competencies

1. Quality & Service Orientation
2. Enterprise Architecture
3. Teamwork & Collaboration
4. Service Management
5. Diversity Sensitivity
6. System Integration
7. Personal & Professional Development
8. Solutioning
9. Delivering Results
10. Communication
11. Networking
12. Leadership

 Additional Requirements 

• Ability to travel 20-30% of the time.
• Ability to communicate with team members, partners, stakeholders, and the internal and external technical community.

Ability to create output artifacts in the form of documentation, slide decks, and programming code.  

Our Company:

Bourntec Solutions, Inc. is a trusted company across four continents as a Global IT Consulting and Technology partner for its clients. Bourntec offers exceptional customer outcomes and collaborative knowledge and experience of over 400 employees worldwide. Bourntec helps its clients to solve toughest challenges in their markets by harnessing the power of emerging technologies; or deliver outstanding business value through cloud adoptions, digital transformations, or technology innovations.

Bourntec prepares its talent for the next wave of technologies, providing access to industry expertise across the full suite of applications. Our technology towers portfolio includes Digital Practice viz. standard opensource technologies, MS dotnet, blockchain, Devops etc., Enterprise Applications viz. Oracle, MS Dynamics, Salesforce and Cloud Migration and modernisation solutions in AWS, Azure etc., Data, Analytics & Applied AI, solution expertise. 

Headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, we operate in North America, Middle East, Europe and Indian subcontinent. India operations are headquartered in Hyderabad, and we have two offshore delivery centres in Kochi & Bhubaneswar. Diversity & Inclusivity is imbibed in Bourntec’s value system of “Respecting each other” and we practise Equal Opportunity Employment.

Share your view on the below questions, It will be easy for us to understand their thinking process

1. Which UX Framework you use in your design process?
2. How you design the Information Architecture for project ?
3. Describe your design process?
4. Do you think UX architect should know basics of coding? why?25

• You will be partnering with the Product Owners, Engineers, Data Scientists, and other colleagues, working in a cross-functional and distributed team. Together, you will be actively involved in defining the customers’ and the business’ problems.

• You’ll identify the key metrics for the projects you are involved in and take ownership for achieving their success.

• You will research and bring forward new findings and learnings for reaching complex company goals - such as launching in new territories and offering new products.

• From wire-framing to designing end-to-end flows and prototypes, you will be in charge of designing products that solve problems in a simple and elegant way while taking care of every small detail.

• We love turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution that truly solves customer needs, thus you will be running user testing workshops and guerrilla testing

• Once that’s done, iterate, implement with the technical team, and present the final solution during the design reviews;

• We are not stopping here, we believe in continuous improvement, so you’ll review the performance of the release, identify learnings and find ways to enhance it.

• To ensure we are speaking the same language as a team, we have the support of a design system - so you’ll kick in!

• As a Lead Designer, you will have more responsibility around hiring, people management, and ownership of the product (or family of products) that you work on. You will also interact with our most senior stakeholders, and you will closely mentor a small team of Designers.