Job Summary

Job Objectives

• Visual Design and User Interface Creation: Create visually appealing and engaging user interfaces that align with the brand identity, and target user preferences, and enhance the overall user experience.
• Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including UX designers, developers, and stakeholders, to ensure shared understanding and successful implementation of the design vision.
• Consistency and Branding: Maintain consistency in design elements, typography, and color schemes throughout the product to establish a cohesive brand presence.

Job Responsibilities

Design & Development

• Visual Design:
  • Create visually appealing and cohesive user interfaces that align with the brand identity and target user preferences.
  • Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to define and implement innovative UI solutions.
  • Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering teams.
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks.
• Layout and Typography: Create low fidelity wireframes, along with relevant typography, and color schemes of the UI to ensure a visually pleasing and functional design.
• Iconography and Graphics: Design icons and other visual elements to enhance the UI and improve the user interactions.
• Responsive Design: Ensure the user interface is responsive and optimized for different devices and screen sizes to provide a seamless user experience across all the platforms.
• UI Consistency: Ensure consistency in design elements, patterns, and interactions throughout the product to create a coherent and intuitive UI from mobile application to responsive web.
• Prototyping: Create interactive prototypes to demonstrate the visual design, transitions, and interactions within the user interface.
• Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders

Documentation, Communication & Collaboration

• UI Components: Develop and maintain UI component libraries and style guides to ensure consistency in design elements and facilitate efficient design implementation.
• Provide design documentation with design specifications, to assist development teams in implementing the user interface design accurately
• Collaborative Approach:
  • Work closely with UX designers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure the visual design aligns with the user experience and project goals.
  • Collaborate with project teams to create artwork for the platform that satisfies requirements and strategic messaging, and continues to raise the visual integrity of the user-experience, to drive user adoption and engagement

• Support the Quality Control team to make sure features are implemented as intended

Job Requirements

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Licenses & Certifications

• Any of the following certifications, a plus:
• Scrum Master
• Google UX Design Professional
• UI/UX Design Certification.
• Adobe Certified Expert (ACE).
• Interaction Design Foundation (IDF)
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Certifications

Previous Work Experience

• Experienced UI Designer with 5+ years of expertise in developing visually appealing user interfaces for web and mobile applications.
• Proven track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive and engaging interface designs, with 3+ years of experience.
• Skilled in creating wireframes, prototypes, and interactive mock-ups, gathering user feedback, and refining designs over 4+ years of experience.
• Proficient in implementing design principles and maintaining consistency in visual elements, typography, and color schemes, with 3+ years of experience.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills, having worked closely with developers to ensure seamless implementation of UI designs, backed by 4+ years of experience.
• Expertise in standard UX software such as Sketch, OmniGraffle, Axure, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer, and the like is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.

Skills and Abilities

• Proficient in visual design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator) and prototyping tools like Sketch or Figma.
• Demonstrable UI design skills with a strong portfolio
• Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
• Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, or other visual design and wire-framing tools
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and ability to translate user requirements into intuitive and engaging interface designs.
• Experience in creating wireframes, prototypes, and interactive mock-ups to validate design concepts and gather user feedback.
• Experience in designing PowerPoint presentations and using slide master
• Knowledge of front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to collaborate effectively with developers.