UX Designer

The Opportunity

Illumine Labs, Mumbai, is building a series of innovative digital knowledge products. These products are used for learning, education, counselling, behavioural change, etc. Some examples include e-books, counselling tools, habit-creating app, etc.

We are inviting UI-UX Designers who enjoy working with knowledge, can work with a vision, and can appreciate the technology aspects of the product - to be a part of the design & build team for assembling such digital knowledge products.

Your Role

1. Rigorous thinking-through of product goals, product concept, architecture, flows, use cases, usage conditions/ constraints, etc. (in collaboration with the project team)
2. Translating into interface designs and specifications for technology, and walkthroughs, communications, if any.
3. Early testing with the project team & users and evolving it to a working solution.
4. Collaborating with the technology team to develop a working product/ application.
5. User testing with pilot groups and documentation of usage, and response to the product. Evolving the product and supporting adoption.

What will ensure that you enjoy working in Illumine & that you succeed in the role?

• You are driven by values and a love for excellence.
• You flourish in a commitment-based environment & have a habit of keeping your word (to clients and colleagues).
• You believe that client outcomes are more important than creative flourishes.
• You can work in an environment that has hard deadlines and that will challenge & push you to go beyond what you know or are comfortable with.

Who can apply

Engineers/ Architects/ Designers (or having any other background) with at least 3-4 years of experience in designing digital products.

Work at Illumine is breakthrough, innovative & challenging. Apply only if you seek challenge (not comfort & convenience) and are committed to making a real difference through your work.

About Us

Illumine is a purpose-based organization committed to nation-building. Our multidisciplinary team collaborates closely with government/ corporate/ educational institutions to unleash their people's potential and enable the collectives to find their own solutions. Our Large-Scale Interventions lead to positive and sustainable impacts on the ground.

Over the last 20 years, Illumine has designed, developed & deployed such interventions across some of the leading businesses (SBI, Tata Steel, Asian Paints, BPCL, Aditya Birla Capital, etc.), Educational institutions (Gujarat Technological University, Biju Patnaik University, IIT Delhi, 5000 CBSE schools, etc.) impacting ~42 lakh people across India.

Recent collaborations with the Capacity Building Commission, Govt. of India have led to cognitive transformation projects with the Indian Railways (for 1 lakh citizen-facing employees), Ministry of Home Affairs, and National Police Academy (for police persons in Union Territories & Delhi). There are more such prestigious projects in the pipeline that you can be a part of.

To learn more about Illumine

1. Visit our websites: www.illumine.in | https://illuminefoundation.org/
2. Explore our ideas: https://youtube.com/illuminelabs
3. The philosophy that drives our work: https://srinivasv.com/

Summary of Role

Innovate to solve the world's most important challenges. We are looking for Advanced User Exp Designer with strong capabilities to design and own the product experience. The designer would be responsible for end to end interaction and visual design.

Responsibilities

• Own the design execution while working closely with key stakeholders in design, engineering and business stakeholders to solve user needs and business goals
• Demonstrate mastery of the end-end UX process, including user research for discovery and product definition, and multiple methods of formal and informal user evaluations
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Agile / Lean UX methodologies
• Prioritize backlog effectively; communicate clear timelines and status updates at all levels
• Guide effective documentation and communication of design - via wireframes, mockups, prototypes and user stories
• Conduct research and evaluation of designs, as well as emerging technology, industry, and market trends

Must Have Background for this Role:

• Bachelor's degree preferably from tier 1/ tier 2 design school.
• Outstanding user experience design portfolio
• Bachelors degree in human factors, psychology, user experience design or related degree
• Some experience in user experience design, interaction design or human factors
• Proficient user experience design skills, e.g., customer journey map, experience diagramming, task analysis, workflow design, etc.
• Experience with observational research and usability testing
• Graduate degree in user experience design, human factors, interaction design or related discipline.
• Fluent with design sketching and prototyping tools, e.g., Axure, Balsamiq, Visio, etc.
• Experience with design trends, benchmarking, forecasting and concept creation
• Experience with project planning, scoping and execution in a phase-gate and/or agile environment

Required Skills for this Role:

• Has 5+ years of experience (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual, product, industrial), User Experience, HCI, or a related field
• Must have strong background in interaction/UX design and continue to be hands-on as an interaction designer
• Conducts user research to understand user needs, mental models and working contexts
• Synthesizes output of stakeholder research & creates visualizations that effectively summarize key insights related to user and customer needs and behaviors, product definition.
• Has real-world experience in managing projects & stakeholders
• Skilled in standard design & wireframing tools (Adobe CC, Sketch) and visual communication

• Providing creative direction for visual design 
• Creating processes to improve quality & streamline work for the UI design team in collaboration with UX designers, PMs, technology and QA.
• Growing, managing & mentoring a diverse team of UI designers, graphic designers & illustrators
• Conceiving a robust creative vision and executable strategy for the UI design function in close collaboration with the product, UX & Agile engineering teams
• Being an integral part of the creation, implementation, and company-wide application of a design system
• Coaching & inspiring the visual design team to understand, define & measure the impact of their creative vision
• Having a user-centric approach to your work and assist in the inculcation of a design thinking culture within the organization