UX Designer

JOB TITLE: Senior UX/UI Designer

LOCATION: Hyderabad - Hybrid (2 days a week)

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE:

As our Senior UX Designer, you will be filling the role of a behavioural scientist in a design environment. Your primary mission will be to understand our user and business needs, product requirements and transform that understanding into user-focused and intuitive products, interfaces, and platforms for mobile and web.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Following the full design process, from conducting user and market research to conceptualizing and designing a product for the company.
• Highly analytical, creative, and consistently demonstrates high-quality design, writing, and presentation skills.
• Mentor junior designers to achieve optimal design outcomes in alignment with project goals.
• Confident to justify design decisions based on a thorough understanding of user-centred design methodologies.
• Understanding & implementing research methodologies
• Able to take user interviews and deduct insights that help the product & business
• An amazing portfolio that demonstrates the use of creative and novel solutions to solve complex problems.
• Assisting with the development of product design strategy.
• Determining customer goals and defining the product interactions necessary to achieve them.
• Compiling user, business, and technical requirements to create product information architecture.
• Creating wireframes and prototypes that illustrate key product interactions.
• Working with the core design team to develop layout and visuals.
• Collaborating with the product development team to ensure an efficient customer journey.
• Conducting product testing to identify problems and areas for improvement within the customer experience.
• Presenting concepts to clients, leadership, and design peers.
• Staying up to date with industry trends and best practices.
• Adjusting design concepts as consumer and market need change.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE:

• 4-5 years of work experience in UX or interaction design
• Strong work portfolio that demonstrates systematic and creative design thinking as well as a deep understanding of UI/UX best practices.
• Proven well-designed examples of responsive grid-based layouts
• Good communication skills and a team player.
• Ability to manage time wisely across projects and competing priorities, meet agreed-upon deadlines, and be accountable for work.
• Proficiency in Information architecture, wireframing, and design thinking, applied knowledge of visual design, typography, color, layout, and information hierarchy.
• Experience in working with a cross-functional team or large-scale software development lifecycle, including waterfall and agile methodologies.

LIFE AT FOUNTANE:

• Fountane offers an environment where all members are supported, challenged, recognized & given opportunities to grow to their fullest potential.
• Competitive pay
• Health insurance for spouses, kids, and parents.
• PF/ESI or equivalent
• Individual/team bonuses
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Fun/challenging variety of projects/industries
• Flexible workplace policy - remote/physical
• Flat organization - no micromanagement
• Individual contribution - set your deadlines
• Above all - culture that helps you grow exponentially!
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Qualifications - No bachelor's degree is required. Good communication skills are a must!

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Established in 2017, Fountane Inc is a Ventures Lab incubating and investing in new competitive technology businesses from scratch. Thus far, we’ve created half a dozen multi-million valuation companies in the US and a handful of sister ventures for large corporations, including Target, US Ventures, and Imprint Engine.

We’re a team of 50 strong from around the world that are radically open-minded and believes in excellence, respecting one another, and pushing our boundaries to the furthest it's ever been.

We are looking for a UI UX Designer  to join our team.

In this role, you will be entrusted with the art of design 

Technical Competency :

• Translating wireframes and experiences into highly-polished visual composites with a user-centered design methodology,
• Building beautiful and engaging user interfaces according to user needs, business requirements and technical constraints,
• Mentoring less experienced designers and improving internal processes.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment.

Interpersonal skills :

• Must be comfortable working in a team and independently when required.
• Must be disciplined, proactive, and self-motivated
• Needs to have problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good to have previous experience of direct client interaction for project brief and updates

What You Need To Apply:

• Have 1+  years of experience as a UI Designer
• Have outstanding UI portfolio with commercial web or mobile projects,
• Can lead and drive younger UI designers
• Are able to create interactive design and high fidelity prototypes,

• Can share your knowledge and improve internal processes,
• Have a high command of written and spoken English 
• Have exceptional communication skills and team-working skills,
• Have a strong social portfolio.
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently or jointly in a self-directed way.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Keen attention to detail
• Strong work ethic and desire to build industry-leading products
• Proactive instead of reactive
• Looking for ways to improve self and projects

We have some great Perks & Benefits for you!

 We at Codebuddy believe our team is our biggest strength and we believe in paying our team members fair remuneration because we respect everyone’s effort.

• Review in every 9-12 months
• Opportunity to learn new technologies at the company's expense
• On-time salary (7th of every month)
• Fair pay policy
• Easy leave structure
• Performance awards
• Festival gifts
• Annual picnic
• Monthly dinner parties

We will be even happier if you:

• Know UX principles well,
• Have experience using Webflow or Wix 
• Have experience with brand design,
• Are familiar with Animation principles.

Joining our Design team means:

• Working in a comfortable and stimulating environment that boosts creativity,
• Using the best equipment and top-notch tools,
• Being a part of a design-focused environment,
• Being involved in challenging projects,
• Taking part and initiating knowledge-sharing initiatives,
• Working with clients from around the world, 
• Working on internal R&D and Tech for Good projects,
• Having the opportunity to bounce your ideas off our experienced team,
• Getting support from a leader, mentor, and the team

What will happen next?

• Fill out the form
• Give us some time to review your application
• Meet us for an interview
• Complete a recruitment task to see how we work
• Join our team!

About myHQ by ANAROCK

myHQ by ANAROCK is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can make magic with their work. It’s an audacious, incredibly rewarding mission that our increasingly diverse team is dedicated to achieving.

Founded in 2016 by IIT Delhi graduates Utkarsh Kawatra & Vinayak Agarawal, myHQ is India’s largest flexible workspace solutions platform. Present across 10 cities, enabling tens of thousands of people to make magic everyday. We are changing the way commercial real-estate works by providing everyone with the freedom and flexibility to work any-where and any-way they like.

As a Senior UI/UX Designer, you will be responsible for envisioning, defining, and owning our Product design strategy. You’ll work with product, operations, business, and content teams to understand customer pain points, unrealized wants to drive better user experience and customer satisfaction. You’ll own design standards, and execution while leading a team of passionate product designers, conducting and facilitating research.

Responsibilities

• Plot user journeys, research plans, mocks, prototypes, documentation, and quality checks
• Work closely with product designers, and product managers in designing, and iterating on product features across web and mobile platforms.
• Conduct research, and experiments in partnership with internal and external research teams
• Drive design leadership, and design thinking within the organization
• Lead and manage a team of product designers
• Skills: Design thinking, Wireframing, Figma, Adobe Creative suite, User research

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in UI/UX design
• Strong Analytical and Problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and Interpersonal Skills
• Proactive, self-motivated, team player
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup

Job description:

Designation:  UI/UX Designer

Location :  Bangalore

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing applications, user interfaces (UI), websites, mobile app & Dashboard design using Adobe Designing Tools
• Provide user interface design for Web-based projects, including dashboards, widgets, and products.
• Update UI per changing needs and requirements.
• Designing user interface for desktop and Web-based products.
• Create interactive prototypes and UI specifications, including screen layouts, color palettes, typography, and user-interface elements.
• Identify user needs and business requirements such as specifications, templates, storyboards, wireframes, and mock-ups.

Skills and Qualification:

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline from Tier-1 Institutes

• 4+ years of proven experience in designing UI/UX for mobile/web applications.
• Working on applications that are transactional and not informational
• Working with tools such as Figma
• Should have experience of working in start-up environment
• Experience of B2C product design in the financial services domain.
• Good expertise in UX design tools.
• Experience in UI/UX testing.

Personality:

The ideal person for this role would be someone who loves the challenge of an entrepreneurial environment, who has high ownership to be available 24x7 for our customers, who is able to deal with complexity and rapid change and who has large dreams to be part of interesting journey.

The person would be self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook and impeccable integrity. He/she would have a track record of delivering results consistently in uncertain environments. Excellent communication skills with an ability to manage crucial conversations with senior stakeholders.

Retail industry demands “I’ll do it now instead of tomorrow” attitude. Please be prepared for interesting journey if you want to grow fast with no age barriers.

• 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. 

• Design collaterals for our performance marketing team across multiple display networks, social media, and native platforms.
• Execute our visual strategy and calendar to be deployed across all digital channels.
• Work with our copywriter to conceptualize compelling designs that increase the brand's overall reach, engagement, and conversions to sales.
• Work on design collaterals like social media creatives, videos, infographics, blog & amp; web banners, emails, landing pages, etc.
• Optimize designs and visual language to match the relevant channel requirements but also maintain our overall brand tone.
• Monitor and implement relevant digital design trends to keep our brand communication engaging and up-to-date with industry standards.

• 3 - 5 years of experience designing digital content and marketing collaterals, with a good portfolio of work.
• Has a clean visual design sense with good conceptual, typography, grid, and illustration skills.
• Animation and video editing skills will be an added advantage, but not mandatory.
• Can work independently and in a team to manage multiple projects and aggressive deadlines.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with high volumes.
• Exceptional attention-to-detail.
• Must be proficient in Adobe Creative Suite.
• Understand competitive and best-in-class design practices for digital content.
• Ability to uncover digital design trends and implement them wherever required.

• Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and
  prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Facilitate the client's product vision by researching, conceiving,
  sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products.
• 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.
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate
  your designs

• Bachelor of design / Master of design

• UX design experience.
• Expertise in standard UX software such as
  Sketch, Axure, InVision, UXPin and Zeplin.
• Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a
  plus.
• Ability to work with clients to understand
  detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client
  needs and vision.
• Extensive experience in using UX design standard
  methodologies to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and
  responsive design.
• A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD),
  planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid
  prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
• Ability to iterate designs and solutions
  efficiently and intelligently.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate
  design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting
  including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.
• Experience in UX/Product Design
• Teammate with great communication skills.
• You should be able to clearly articulate your
  design decisions and what problems they’re solving
• Strong understanding of UX fundamentals
• Exceptional design skills, production value and
  attention to detail
• Ability to create wireframes as well as visual
  design comps
• Understanding of common software development
  practices
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
  in English
• Skill in Adobe products (Photoshop and
  illustrator), and PowerPoint. Experience in Prototype applications is a plus.