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Proximity is a fully distributed team of developers, designers, product nerds, and geeks building cutting-edge tech at the intersection of growth and speed.

We are looking for a Senior UI & UX Designer capable of handling product design projects at a high level. You will work closely with both client and in-house product/design/dev teams on mid-to-long term projects. The ideal candidate should be comfortable with all aspects of UI & UX design, have excellent product thinking and problem-solving abilities, good written and verbal communication skills, and a keen aesthetic sense.

• Developing and conceptualizing a comprehensive UI/UX design strategy for the projects you're assigned to.
• Producing high-quality design solutions through wireframes, visual and graphic designs, flow diagrams, storyboards, site maps, and prototypes.
• Creating a distinctive UI language based on visual identity guidelines of the brands you're working with.
• Creating design systems for mobile and web products, along with visual design systems in the form of illustrated/photography-based graphics.
• Testing and evaluating designs and flows using various testing tools.
• Looking at user data and identifying issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborating with the development team to ensure proper implementation of your designs.

• A portfolio of professional UI and UX design work for both web and mobile platforms.
• A thorough understanding of all stages of UI and UX design, with the ability to execute a project from start to finish.
• A basic understanding of various data and analytics tools like Google Analytics, MixPanel, Maze etc.
• Mastery over Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, and Illustrator, and some familiarity with basic motion graphics (After Effects).
• A good understanding of web and mobile technologies. You know how HTML, CSS, JS, iOS, and Android systems work, even if you can't code.
• The ability to be a team player, but you're comfortable working independently too.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks strategically.
• The ability to learn and pick up new software, plugins, or technologies easily and quickly.
• A keen eye for design standards and quality.
• A strong work ethic, high levels of self-motivation, and a willingness to over-communicate about work in order to make a remote environment more productive.
• The ability to work and collaborate remotely.

• Illustration/art skills
• 3D modeling skills
• Animation/advanced motion graphics skills
• UX Writing or general writing skills
• Brand design skills
• Experience using any other tools like Webflow, Airtable, Zapier, Mailchimp, etc.

• 100% Remote: Work from anywhere you please, as long as you have access to fast internet and a comfortable, distraction-free workspace.
• Flexible Timings: Set your own hours, and create a productive schedule that works for you.
• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

About this role

CareerNinja is a personalised learning platform, that leverages AI to create customised learning environments for a learner based on their goal and background.
It curates the right content & connects to the right industry mentors & job opportunities to enable youth to learn in an experiential manner & achieve their next career goal.
We are ultimately working to productise learning & career goal achievement so as to make the same accessible to anyone at mass-global scale.

Your role, very simply put, is to work with the Founder directly & make this happen. Along with the design & dev teams, you will drive product right from understanding the users, designing the right experience & interface to make it happen & ensuring it is shipped on time & of course continuously iterated. This is an opportunity to literally own and build a product from it's early days & see it to scale given the fast growth. Ultimately you will also drive product monetisation & growth.

If you grow well you will be the one leading all things product, thus this is an exciting leadership role.

Responsibilities

1. Understand markets, competition, and user requirements in depth.
2. Work collaboratively with the UX/UI and engineering team.
3. Define a roadmap for the development team.
4. Explore and integrate monetisation strategies and evolve business models
5. Execute on that roadmap to ensure resiliency and reliability of the product.
6. Work closely with engineering to solve problems and build elegant solutions.
7. Work closely with design and content team to ensure you’re enriching the end-customer experience.
8. Learn, understand and predict user interactions.

Experience

1. 1-4 years of product management experience.
2. Knowledge of multiple functional areas such as Product Management, Engineering, UX/UI, Growth and Business. Marketing understanding is a definite plus
3. Successful track record in planning, developing and executing a strategy for a product while collaborating cross-functionally.
4. Solid engineering fundamentals & strong expsoure to technology.
5. You’re entrepreneurial and are comfortable working in a complex and fast-paced environment.
6. Analytical and data-driven, you love digging into the data to understand what’s happening and define & measure success on every project.
7. You’re passionate about your customers and always bring questions back to what will serve them best.
8. You’re a confident communicator.
9. Experience driving the product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design discussions.
10. Experience as a software engineer/developer or a designer and working with distributed teams is highly desired.

Benefits

Working with us could be your best decision if you're looking for learning, growth and wide exposure. You will be given real responsibilities, freedom to make decisions and come up with ideas and work closely with the founder and the core team, all in a flexible, casual and young (everyone under 30) work environment.
Flexible work, free snacks, board game breaks, etc are just a regular part of our work life.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end to end quality and automation independently using agile methodologies
• Translate deep insight of architecture, product, specifications into a robust test plan covering all aspects of testing including functional, reliancy, performance, load, scalability and security. 
• Evaluate & apply the latest tools, techniques and research insights to drive improvements into a world-class data analytics engine
• Develop robust test automation that is reliable and maintainable and provides accurate assessment of product quality
• Integrate test automation scripts into build system for repeatable execution
• Collaborate with other engineering and customer success functions to simulate customer data and usage patterns  to execute test runs, identify and  fix customer issues and make sure that customers get highly reliable, reliant and optimized Dremio experience 
• Analyze and debug customer issues in customer environments.
• Actively participate in code and design reviews to maintain exceptional quality and deepen your understanding of the system architecture and implementation

Basic Requirements

• B.Tech/M.Tech/Equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field 
• 8+ years of QA/automation engineering experience on large scale distributed systems
• Deep understanding in Authentication, Single Sign-on and Identity Management systems like AWS IAM, Azure AD, Ping, Okta and Auth0
• Hands on experience in testing Role based Access Control Authorization Model in Cloud and Database Systems
• Proficiency in any of Java/C++/Python/Go and automation frameworks
• Hands on experience in integration of automation using CI/CD tools like Jenkins
• Experience in planning and executing QA/Automation tasks to completion and taking ownership of quality during a set of sprints.
• Experience in designing, implementing, executing and analyzing automated  tests for complex, production system software.
• Experience in analyzing deep product issues and following issue resolution 
• Hands on experience of working projects on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform 
• Understanding of distributed file systems like S3 or ADLS or HDFS and HIVE
• Hands on experience with various Backend/UI automation frameworks and tools

• Ability to create reusable components to automate repeatable, manual activities

• Ability to write technical reports and summary and present to leadership team
• Passion for learning and delivering using latest technologies
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork
• Passion and ability to work in a fast paced and agile development environment.

Preferred Qualification 

• Hands on experience of multi-threaded and asynchronous programming models
• Hands on experience in Data Lake and Catalog systems

• Defining, planning, communicating and owning the business and scaling it PAN India
• Owning multiple channels of sales and be responsible for holding the growth for channels independently
• Managing the Supply side eco-system and partners/vendors to drive efficiencies
• Managing teams across band, grades and geographies
• Understanding and measuring the success metrics directly inclined towards your vertical and aligning them as per the business needs
• Analyzing the key metrics being tracked in the business and creating a plan to iterate and optimize for the future
• Building Tech Stack from business perspective with the Marketing and Product Teams

Desired Candidate Profile

• Master's / Bachelor's degree, MBA will be bonus
• Tier 1 college graduates only
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in P&L Management and proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful business line throughout its lifecycle
• B2C and B2B2C experience specifically building Teams, scale and distribution is a bonus
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently within the Team and across teams and departments
• A first principle thinking approach in problem solving
• Ability to build from scratch and the vision to scale it
• Empathy towards the customer and the ability to understand their problems
• An Agile mindset
• Ability to understand and analyze industry/market/competition and internal business strategy
• Ability to use data to drive decision making
• Prior experience in building P&L for ancillary business is a plus

• The candidate should have more than 2+ years of experience in Manual testing, Developing, and executing test cases.
• Minimum 2 years of experience with selenium web driver is required also needs to have strong Java coding skills.
• Selenium with Java, Selenium Eclipse automation, API automation experience is good to have.
• Exposure to working in Agile/Scrum environment.
• Experience in Web Testing and Mobile Testing is a must.
• Understanding of QA metrics and reporting.
• Should have knowledge of Defect Management, Bug life cycle, Performance management.
• Proficient in different types of Testing like Integration, Regression, Sanity, User Acceptance testing, etc.

Company Introduction

Edfone is an educational technology company, which creates smart tools for students.

This position is for a global project where your work will create an impact on students across the globe. Being one of the early in-house team members you will get to enjoy interacting with founding team and working with early customers - students and teachers. And as always, you will be eligible for a fair share of startup benefits. If you are someone who loves to write mouth watering code and is game to for an exciting ride to help students across the world learn better, do see if you have the skills we need and apply.

Job Description

We are looking for a React Native developer interested in building performant mobile apps on both the iOS and Android platforms. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

Responsibilities

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
• Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Transition ownership of existing React Native apps from out sourced developers to in-house

Skills

• Firm grasp of the JavaScript and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
• Knowledge of functional or object-oriented programming
• Ability to write well-documented, clean Javascript code
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle, Android Studio
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage
• Experience with automated testing suites, like Jest or Mocha