Web Developer & Designer

1. Get your creative juices flowing by collaborating with the marketing team to develop concepts and visual assets for digital campaigns, social media, and other marketing initiatives

2. Dive into the world of motion graphics and video editing to craft content that's not just cool but Instagram Reels cool ensuring brand consistency and alignment with campaign objectives

3. Stay ahead of the curve by keeping tabs on the latest trends in design, animation, and social media

4. Take ownership of projects from concept to execution, managing multiple assignments simultaneously and meeting deadlines.

Summary about us & the role:
Thrive is a restaurant-first direct ordering platform. Our product touches the lives of restaurant owners, management, kitchen + operations staff and also end consumers.

This role offers an exciting chance for you to build a consumer + merchant experience. And there's a lot of scope to grow and learn at the same time.

Direct ordering is a blue-ocean and we're looking out for innovative designers looking to create brand new experiences contrary to what you see already with food delivery apps.

Role:

• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience
• Should possess strong knowledge of visual design principals along with proficiency with illustrations and icon design
• Proficiency with design tools such as Adobe creative suite, Sketch, Figma and prototyping tools
• Shape the user experience of wireframes by adding or enhancing visual elements considering the principals of aesthetic design.
• Focus on the aesthetics of a product and its related materials by strategically implementing iconography, typography, space, layouts, colour, Illustrations, and in dashboard training gifs/ videos.
• Maintain a design style guide and ensure every feature shipping out into production is compliant with it.
• Work closely with frontend engineers to provide design deliverables such as icons, fonts or any other styling element.
• Work closely with product marketing team on the feature announcement plans, come up with the creative and get them implemented.

Good to have

• Ability to multitask and coordinate between teams.
• Strong attention to detail and strong time management.

• Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.

***Brownie points

• Prior experience with SaaS tools & dashboards
• Prior startup experience

Core areas of work:

• Creating product inspiration pieces and demos for the ad products we develop
• Design, update and manage the website together with the design team
• Support Product Marketing with timely and effective marketing collaterals
• Drive the internal brand agenda for employees, brand and business
• Design for social media.
• Design presentation decks for Sales and Marketing

You are the one, if:

• You are attentive to details and an extra space ticks you off.
• You value time
• You are good at expressing your thoughts, be it in any form - written, verbal or visual.
• A good challenge exites and motivates you.
• You have some understanding of the digital advertising/marketing ecosystem. If not, you are someone who is keen to learn.
• You can independently handle projects and take them from concept to execution.
• You are passionate about something outside of work.
• You have realised that I misspelt 'excites' in point no. 4

Founded by an IIT alum and Investment Banker, Pepkidz Learning is an Ed-Tech platform for imparting essential skills like E.Q. (emotional quotient) and Personality development to enable students to fuel their success and make them realize their full potential. We are a team of 30 and rapidly expanding with multiple roles open for hire. 

We’re looking for a creative, multi-disciplinary, and high-producing Graphic Designer to join PepKidz’s growing Team. This role will start out as work-from-home and then be based out of our office in Bangalore, India (post-restrictions). You’ll use your experience to create visually appealing designs that span multiple mediums. Primarily focused on creating the brand guidelines, establishing the brand aesthetic, building and managing a team, this role requires a self-starter who understands the scope of working in an early-stage startup and will also ensure a unified output from the whole team. This role spans marketing and curriculum.  

As someone who is joining to lead the design team of an early-stage startup, you will have the reign and freedom to scale and build your team as you see fit. With a rapidly growing company and team, you will evolve as a leader and will get an opportunity to work with people at the top of their fields.

• Create compelling graphics that follow PepKidz’s brand guidelines for traditional and digital mediums, including but not limited to, PepKidz’s curriculum, websites, social media channels, email campaigns, marketing programs, knowledgebase, training platform, presentations, videos, print material, and events

• Hire, Manage and scale the design team under your guidance and ensure the brand’s aesthetic is followed and maintained throughout different channels

• Respond quickly and work efficiently to manage incoming day-to-day graphic requests to support marketing programs including small illustrations, email headers, email body graphics, social media posts, WhatsApp posts, blog headers, handouts/flyers, print work, etc.

• Work with other Designers to ensure the PepKidz’s brand is consistently represented across all designs

• Utilize strong communication skills to engage with cross-functional team members to effectively collaborate and solicit feedback

• Incorporate constructive feedback from stakeholders into designs

• Apply industry best practices and stay on-top-of trends to keep the brand fresh and forward-facing

• 6+ years of design experience in a fast-paced environment of a startup, specifically Ed-Tech will be preferred

• A college degree or  diploma in graphic design, integrated marketing communications, or a related field

• Strong understanding of design principles and marketing design fundamentals

• Proficient in a Mac/Windows environment with advanced experience using the Adobe Creative Suite/Cloud including Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop

• 2-D Animation experience

• Extensive experience creating graphics for social media

• Strong illustration background with demonstrated examples. 2D Animation.

• Experience in EdTech/Consumer-facing startups

• Candidates must provide a portfolio that showcases their best work

• Show us how you can adapt your illustration style by creating an Instagram post if you qualify for the first round

We are looking for a Motion Graphic Designer, with up-to-date tool subject knowledge and trends, to design solutions with high visual impact.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Ability to understand complex products and convert to graphical representations within timelines while maintaining quality
• Create videos from concept to production. Should be able to ideate, storyboard, script, and illustrate animate the video
• Create gif banners, motion graphics, social media short videos, product explainer videos, presentations, etc.
• Understand the product(s) to capture the essence as well as understand the target audience to capture their interest.

What We Are Looking For

• Freshers or 1 year Experienced Candidate
• Proficient with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro
• Strong digital design background
• Strong portfolio to showcase creativity and ability to tell stories through illustrations, videos, motion graphics, and - - editing skills
• Creative, ownership driven and has communication presentation skills.

• Creating user-centric designs by understanding business requirements and user feedback 
• Creating user flows, wireframes and prototypes with tools such as Figma to showcase features 
• Collaborating with developers in seeing designs through to implementation 
• Incorporating customer feedback into design in order to enhance user experience 
• And lastly, showcasing UX and visual design work with strong design sense and articulated story telling 

Key Requirements: 

• 2+ years of experience as a UI/UX Designer  
• Portfolio of design projects 
• Understanding of design software like Figma, Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop 
• UX research skills - interviewing, observing, benchmarking, conducting surveys and understanding how to synthesize data to define actionable insights 
• Strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders