Job Description
Job Responsibilities:
- Own the Product design philosophy and UX strategy
- Stakeholder management
- Team management and mentoring
- Initiate/ participate in user research initiatives and insights to drive design decisions
- Translate user needs and business goals into innovative products that provide an engaging user experience.
- Collaborate effectively with cross functional teams right from Design, Product Management, Engineering, Operations to Marketing
- Practice design thinking, understand ‘jobs to be done’ framework, agile and lean UX methodologies
- Knowledge of wireframing, visual design and rapid prototyping tools
- Manage shifting priorities, deliver pixel perfect products, and consistently meet project deadlines.
- Should partner with content writers to help articulate User Guide documentation, demo video scripts etc.
- Ensure the quality of the design throughout the development cycle.
Job Requirements:
Ideally a person should have had the below experiences / possess the below abilities to succeed in this role:
- Previous experience of having managed a team
- Proven problem solving skills with the ability to understand complex ideas
- A portfolio that demonstrates a user centred design process, interaction and visual design skills with experience designing web apps/ cross platform products in the consumer as well as enterprise space.
- Should be self-driven and proactively look at improving user workflows of existing products
- Should have the ability to thrive in ambiguity
- Have demonstrated ability to conduct user research, usability testing to uncover unarticulated user needs, usability issues etc
- Good learning ability to grasp new domains and comfort to understand both depth and breadth across the technology platform(s)
- Should be a team player and be comfortable collaborating across teams.
- Should possess good communication skills to articulate the design process and design decisions to stakeholders
- Should be proficient in developing and documenting detailed user experience specifications
Preferred Work Experience:
- 12+ years , preferably with a combination of work experience in start-up environments as well as large corporates
Education/Qualifications:
- B-Des /M-Des from institutes like NID, Srishti or IDC (IIT).
- Nevertheless, your portfolio and thought process will play a more important role than formal design education.