Visual Designer/Senior Visual Designer - Mobile & Web Design

JOB TITLE: Associate Visual Designer

LOCATION: Remote/Hybrid.

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE:

We’re looking for a mid-level visual designer with expertise in Figma. You will help us in our internal and client projects. We highly value craft expertise, and we love to see strong product thinking as well.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Establish the look and feel for various interfaces, including websites, mobile devices, apps and any other devices
• Work within brand guidelines to create layouts that reinforce a brand’s style or voice through its visual touch points
• Design user-centered interaction models, wireframes or screen mockups
• Design logos, icons and infographics
• Create and organize design assets
• Juggle multiple projects while effectively managing timelines and expectations
• Deep understand of usability, accessibility and web standards
• Create and managing design systems
• Designing components, and tokens on Figma
• A keen eye for aesthetics & attention to detail
• Ability to work methodically and meet deadlines
• Take in constructive feedback and produce quality work
• Work cross-functionally with engineering & design teams
• UX Experience is also a plus

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE:

• A solid foundation in typography, layout and design
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience with transitions, motion design and dynamic interaction
• Excellent visual, written and verbal communication skills, along with presentation and negotiation skills

SOFT SKILLS:

• Collaboration - Ability to work in teams across the world
• Adaptability - situations are unexpected and need to be quick to adapt
• Open-mindedness - Expect to see things outside the ordinary

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
• 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!

Qualifications - No bachelor's degree 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 80 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. 

About Our Client- 

Our client is a modern Indian lifestyle brand. All their products are 100% PeTA approved Vegan and Proudly Indian. They currently operate in bags, wallets and footwear and are building an iconic global consumer brand from India. 

Role & Responsibilities:

The Creative Lead is responsible for overseeing the creation and execution of all creative

concepts and guidelines, ensuring they meet the brand's objectives, and elevating the brand's

visual identity. The Creative Lead manages a team of creative, develops creative strategies, and

collaborates with other teams to ensure consistent and compelling brand messaging.

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Qualifications will include:

 Creativity skills, including graphic design, art direction, and visual storytelling

 Excellent communication skills, including the ability to collaborate with cross-functional

teams and communicate ideas clearly and persuasively

 Experience in developing and implementing creative strategies

 Strong branding and brand management skills

 Proficiency in writing and copy writing skills

 Experience managing a team of creatives

 Bachelor's or Master's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication Design,

Advertising, Marketing or a related field

 Portfolio of work that showcases creative and strategic thinking

 Experience in the lifestyle or fashion industry is a plus

Role Description

Need a graphic designer who should be able to conceptualise campaigns and execute eye-catching and professional email designs. With the desire to learn organisational and business values, they should be able to determine the requirements and produce exceptional work.

Responsibilities

1. Understand the brief, participate in brainstorming and produce creative designs that result in an engaging consumer journey.
2. Collaborate with the marketing team and copywriters to understand the exact requirements and expectations.
3. Be a great team player and coordinate with other design teams to seek and provide design assistance.
4. Use proficient creative software skills to create variety of static and motion graphics for communication design.
5. Learn business requirements and organisational values to adapt the same in designs.
6. Understand how creatives are performing via analysing performance data, and incorporate the same understanding into subsequest creatives.

Requirements

Strong Knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator.

• Excellent visual design skills in both static and basic motion graphics.

• Basic knowledge of HTML and Adobe XD will be advantageous.

• Ability to present your designs and defend your solutions to various stakeholders.

• 2-4 years of experience as a graphic designer in a relevant field. Good layout designing skills and sense of colour usage.

• E-commerce background is a plus point.

Professional written and interpersonal skills.

• Understanding the Beauty Space is a plus.

• Experienced in determining requirements and meeting deadlines.

Are you good at visualizing things? Do you like telling stories via visuals? We are building out our product marketing team, and you are the kind of help we need. No matter how engaging and strong our content is, it won’t work with just a giant block of text. We need help to tell these stories in a visually engaging way with a relevant tone. We are looking for a strong individual contributor who is excited about making sense of complex concepts, thrives on ambiguity, and loves coming up with ideas and bringing them alive through design.

• You’ll be expected to understand our brand identity and create a visual identity guideline for different touchpoints.
• You’ll be involved throughout the design process from the concept stage to delivery.
• You’ll develop visual assets for various campaigns across channels to increase the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
• You’ll design digital content assets that are pivotal to communicate with our prospects and customers in the international markets.
• You'll be responsible to create and own imagery style on customer-facing assets such as Website, emails & collaterals, etc.

• You understand the global technology consumer and the relevant design sensibilities.
• You start all design work with a problem statement, goal, and context.
• Your work is conceptually clear and visually stunning.
• You are well versed with contemporary imagery style and have the skill set to create them.
• You have a high level of competency in most of the applications of Adobe CC.
• You have worked on contemporary design tools like Figma that enable team collaboration.
• Have spent the last 3-6 years of your career on digital design projects at agencies, design focused startups with exposure to international markets.
• You have a portfolio to showcase.

You will be working closely with the product marketing team and report to the marketing head. You will be interacting with all the customer-facing teams such as the marketing, sales & customer success teams. Your initiatives will help them improve their success metrics as well.

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners or consumers for better business results.

• Translate ideas into concepts, user flows, wireframes, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Work with a cross-functional team of engineers, content writers, and product managers to anticipate and identify user needs and align product goals with the user's goals.
• Come up with features and improvements that you can ship quickly and measure for effectiveness.
• Design and discover workflows that allow you to test designs early and often, and then iterate upon feedback.
• Identify new product opportunities, inform launch decisions, and product improvements.
• Use and evolve our internal design libraries and design system.
• Work closely with engineers and other partners to ensure what is shipped is true to your design work.
• Help with hiring and establishing a design culture within the company by evangelizing thoughtful design and its impact on the bottom-line.
• Directly contribute to the overall product and design direction of the whole company.

• You have an online portfolio that documents your work and thinking process - or a PDF would do too. (If not, you might be asked to take a design assignment)
• You have a high bar for your work and the team.
• Strong empathy for users
• You have solid Visual Design, UI, and Interaction Design chops.
• You are someone who cares deeply about getting to the root of the problem you're solving and take time to understand all the facts before making informed design decisions.
• You engage complexity head-on before simplifying.
• You have a strong bias for action when it comes to prototyping to help facilitate better product discussions.
• You understand the balance between craft, speed, and impact on the bottom line.

What you’ll be doing:

• You’ll collaborate in perfect synergy with other designers and product managers on India’s top community safety app, and design in a fast-paced environment.
• You’ll understand the user experience strategy for a productand drive the overall design solutions based on usability, consistency, business goals, time to market and customer experience.
• You’ll create wireframes, storyboards, user flows and process flows to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
• You’ll apply user-focused design processes to create high quality user experiences on our app.

What you’ll bring to the team:

• You’ll bring an in-depth understanding of design patterns across web and mobile platforms.
• You’ll bring critical experience and skills in visual design, UX design, research, micro-interactions
• You’ll bring a demonstrated ability to be a self-starter who will drive progress.
• An expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Invision, Pixate, Framer or other visual design and wire-framing tools.

Interview Process & Prep Notes:

Portfolio Review
Design Approach, Experience, Project overview. Be ready to deep dive and effectively articulate your experience in the UX Field by showing us your portfolio, showcasing past experience, sharing your understanding of design approach, design thinking and your wizardry with tools, processes or unique skill-sets.

Design Assignment
Solution Approach, Task Flows, Mind Maps, Prototyping, Visual skills. The moment is finally here where you walk the talk and demonstrate your ability in UX Designing by acing a short challenging assignment shared by our designers.

Team Fitment
Behavioural Assessment, Culture Fit, Project Knowledge, Role OperationBe yourself. It works out better for everyone if we are genuine and can see if we are a cultural fit for each other.
Everyone here is focused on our mission and hope we can align.