Web Developer & Designer

Bigul is a dynamic and innovative company that strives to lead in the financial services sector in India. We are seeking a talented and experienced Corporate Design Lead to join our design team and help shape the visual identity of our brand.

Job Overview

As a Corporate Design Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing and executing the visual design aspects of our brand. You will lead a team of designers, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that our brand's design guidelines are consistently applied across all touchpoints. Your role is instrumental in maintaining and enhancing our brand's visual identity, ensuring a cohesive and engaging customer experience, improving UI and UX design, and creating digital videos for intros, outros, and presentations.

Key Responsibilities

1. Brand Design Strategy: Develop and execute the corporate design strategy, ensuring it aligns with our brand values and objectives.
2. Team Leadership: Manage and inspire a team of designers, providing guidance and fostering a creative and collaborative work environment.
3. Brand Consistency: Ensure that design elements, including logos, colour schemes, typography, and imagery, adhere to brand guidelines across all materials and platforms.
4. Collaboration: Work closely with marketing, product, and other departments to align design efforts with overall business goals and messaging.
5. Design Production: Create and oversee the production of visual materials such as marketing collateral, presentations, packaging, and digital content.
6. Quality Control: Implement quality control measures to maintain a high standard of design excellence and consistency.
7. Digital Video Production: Design and produce digital videos for video intros, outros, presentations and similar to enhance our brand's visual appeal.
8. Corporate Presentation Design: Develop compelling and visually engaging corporate presentations for internal and external audiences. Create templates that users across the organisation can use.
9. Proficiency in Design Software: Utilize design software such as Adobe Creative Suite, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, to create and edit design assets.
10. UI and UX Design: Enhance user interfaces and user experiences, ensuring a seamless and visually pleasing interaction with our products and services.
11. Research and Trends: Stay up-to-date with design trends and emerging technologies to keep our brand visually competitive.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in design, with a focus on corporate branding and UI UX design
• Proficiency in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• A portfolio demonstrating your design expertise and experience, including digital video projects, corporate presentations and UIUX work.

About GIGL

Graphic Designer - YouTube Thumbnail Wizard

Location: Remote

Are you a creative powerhouse with an eye for detail? Do you have mad skills when it comes to making YouTube thumbnails that are not only visually appealing, but also tell the story of the video in a single image? If so, we want you on our team!

We're seeking a talented graphic designer with 1-3 years of experience in thumbnail creation using tools like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Canva. You should also have a good understanding of design elements, color, composition, layouts, and upcoming design trends. Plus, you should be up-to-date on YouTube market trends and target demographics.

As a member of our team, you'll work closely with content writers to bring their vision to life through compelling, clickable thumbnails. You'll also analyze feedback from team leads and come up with strategies to improve your performance. And, of course, you'll stay up-to-date with the latest practices in thumbnail creation.

If you're ready to join a team of like-minded individuals and take your thumbnail-making skills to the next level, apply now!

Job type: Full-time, Regular/Permanent

Salary: INR 15,000-30,000 per month

Benefits:

• Leave encashment
• Paid sick time Schedule:

• Improve the look and feel of interactive components in the website, mobile applications, and other product software
• Facilitate the product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, wireframing, and prototyping user flows.
• Design the aesthetics/theme to be implemented within a website or product, from the layout menus and drop-down options to colors and fonts
• Be a great team player, experienced in working with agile teams. Ability to collaborate closely with product managers, developers, and UX designers.
• Present and defend your design decisions. All your design decisions should be based on the overall design roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles (i.e. color theory, visual weight, etc.)
• Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in your industry’s standards.
• Create surveys for research through various social media platforms to gather feedback on users ease of use
• Conduct testing of completed applications, websites, and software to assess user experience

• 1-5 years of demonstrated experience in creating and implementing UI design
• Extensive experience in using best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
• Proficient with visual design programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, InVision
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment to create top-performing interfaces
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to peers and teams.
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.
• Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design.
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, and comparable languages will be a plus

Skills & Qualifications:

1. At least 4+ years of user interface design experience, designing visual language systems  for digital products and services 
2. Exceptional graphic design skills 
3. Strong and flexible skills in Visual design and Interaction design 
4. A passion for creating products that resonate on an emotional level 
5. Knowledge of user interface design processes and methodology, particularly as applied  to web-based applications 
6. Exceptional design talents with a stylistic breadth that demonstrates sensitivity to the  diverse subject matter—from product interaction to software tools and applications to  the web 
7. Self-motivation, excellent communication, an open mind, the ability to thrive in  multidisciplinary teams, and the skills to balance great design with short deadlines 
8. A love of collaboration and learning 
9. A fearless and positive attitude 
10. Successfully communicate conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale, both  verbally and visually.  
11. Designing pixel-perfect interfaces with high attention to detail.   
12. Bachelor's degree in graphics design, interaction design, fine arts, communication  design or a related design discipline 
13. Can be a self-made designer with a proven track record 
14. Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, and InVision 
15. Experience in designing motion graphics will be helpful  
16. A good understanding of information architecture, interaction design, usability analysis,  and user-centered design. 

Perks:

1. Learning: As a fast paced startup, you get to learn fast. 
2. Team: Get to work with an awesome team of Engineers, Data Scientists and Product Managers. 
3. Mission: Get to see the impact of your work in helping millions of users get access to healthcare 
4. Workplace - easy access & comfortable office, near heart of Bangalore @Diamond District, Indira Nagar [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5stK6y6atY" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5stK6y6atY ] 
5. Ownership - Individually responsible for the complete work.