Lead Visual Experience Designer
As a VX Designer, you’ll work in a high-collaboration, fast-paced, and result-driven environment. You’ll excel in comprehending intricate business landscapes, identifying challenges, and swiftly proposing design solutions. We need your substantial experience informing designs through critical design thinking, and proven mastery over visual design principles and their application on enterprise-level web apps and mobile apps.
Reporting to: Principal VX
Experience: 5+ years
Remote or PuneCritical selection criteria:
- Minimum 5 to 8 years of practical experience in all user-centred design processes, mockups, adhering to design principles, and human behaviour.
- Able to join within 10-15 days on a contract, or full-time
- Demonstrate expertise in all UCD activities: user profiling, task analysis, journey mapping, information architecture, navigation models, concept modelling, VX strategy, high-fidelity interaction design
- Rock-solid portfolio with UCD artefacts
- Apply design thinking to complex systems, including B2B, B2C, websites, web applications, and mobile devices.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills.
- Bonus for proficiency in user research.
You will work on:
- Lead other designers and guide them to deliver the best visual experience and guide them, review frequently, and set the bar.
- Execute and drive visual experiences for multiple projects working closely with the client, UX, and UR expert.
- Innovate and deliver the visual experience by driving discussions and gaining strong insights into business goals, brand perception, product goals, and user expectations.
- Maintain yuj values as a visual experience advocate.
- Present design decisions to the stakeholders that are backed up by strong experience design principles and rationale.
- Establish and handle design language systems of key projects, and create standards, style guides, and specification documents. Coordinate with technology teams to bring designs to reality.
- Manage communication at all levels and be responsible for quality and timely project deliverables.
You will love the role if you have
- 5+ years of experience in working successfully within interdisciplinary project teams and collaborating with business units, product managers, interaction designers, user researchers, content managers, and prototype engineers.
- Prefer candidates who hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree (BDes / MDes/ BE/ BTech) in a visual design field, including graphic design, interaction design, illustration, Human Computer Interaction or comparable design discipline.
- Have exceptional attention to detail, design a robust visual system that represents the highest levels of quality (wow factor), efficiency, consistency, scalability (a design that works across platforms), and innovation.
- Working knowledge of UCD methodology, information architecture, navigation models, and interaction design principles and how they impact visual experience design.
- Think high-level business as well as dive deep into a specific design challenge and come up with alternative solutions that are not only usable but also ‘wow’.
- A clear and effective presentation style to inform and influence important design decisions and maintain credibility.
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal communication, management, negotiation, presentation, and client relations skills.
- Ability to trigger business discussions with program managers and CXOs.
- Be organized to showcase excellent time management skills and be highly detail-oriented.
- Ability to manage own timelines efficiently while receiving strategic and tactical direction from project stakeholders.
