UX/ UI designer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Wizikey is a subscription-based Communication SaaS that helps businesses identify and connect with relevant media influencers and subject matter experts. With Wizikey's data intelligence, companies can create campaigns, target and engage influencers and journalists, measure and optimize to scale their brand-building efforts. 

Launched in 2019, it has garnered 1000+ users over 250+ businesses who have created more than 2500 stories in over 9 languages. With investors like Ajai Chowdhry (Co-founder, HCL), Alok Mittal (Co-founder and CEO, Indifi), Ambarish Raghuvanshi (ex-CFO, Info Edge), Keshav R Murugesh (CEO, WNS), Raman Roy (Chairman, NASSCOM and Chairman, Quattro), Sanjiv Bajaj (CEO, Bajaj Finserv) and the Indian Angel Fund among others, it is striving every day to ensure businesses can get the credibility and trust which they deserve. 

Job Description

The UX/UI team collaborates with the Product, Engineering, and Communications teams to imagine and build user-centric learning experiences delivered via our online software. The current role will have a strong impact on how hundreds of businesses interact thousands of Media professionals with on our SaaS platform. The individual in this role will work as a team member in an agile squad supporting strategic projects. Candidates will apply design principles to assist various teams in producing clear and compelling visual communications. The right candidate for this role will have a portfolio (either online or PDF) which demonstrates strong capabilities in both UX process knowledge and application as well as visual/UI design. 

Responsibilities 

  • Leverage core experience design to weave iconography, typography, colour, space, and texture together online to create an unparalleled customer experience 
     
  • Participate in user research and discovery on complex problems; speak with customers, get to know the problem space through research and iteration. 
     
  • Apply graphic and user-centred design principles to produce high-quality visuals—from concept to component-driven comps. 
     
  • Ability and willingness to communicate clearly with various stakeholders 
     
  • Contribute to the evolution of the company's Design System —including recommending data-inspired improvements and codifying usage rules on an ongoing basis. 
     
  • Help build an exceptional product team by providing design support across product squads. 
     
  • Be a great team player, experienced in working with agile teams. Ability to collaborate closely with developers, copywriters and product managers. This becomes more important as we are a remote company.
     
  • Create, improve and use wireframes, prototypes, style guides, user flows, and effectively communicate your interaction ideas using any of these methods. 
     
  • Present and defend your design decisions. All your design decisions should be based on the overall design roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles (i.e. color theory, visual weight, etc.
     
  • Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in your industry’s standards

Qualifications

  • At least 1 years of professional UX design experience designing large-scale (SaaS and/or e-commerce preferred) responsive products, high-content properties, and mobile applications for brands and/or media. 
     
  • Should be creative with a problem-solving mindset with a hunger for learning and a desire to solve complex human problems with technology. 
     
  • A desire to challenge yourself both personally and professionally; as well as staying current with technology and interaction design trends. 
     
  • Strong portfolio to be presented and defended during the interview 
     
  • Hands-on experience creating wireframes, prototypes, storyboards, user flows, etc 
     
  • Experience using tools such as Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, InVision, UXPin or Adobe XD, etc. 
     
  • Be open to receiving objective criticism and improving upon it 
     
  • Experience working in an agile/scrum development process will be a plus 
     
  • Understanding of basic front-end languages: HTML5, CSS3 Javascript will be a plus 

Additional Information

"Wizikey encourages and celebrates entrepreneurial culture. When you set out to create a new industry, you need to build a team of immensely talented folks from Technology and Communications and give them the freedom to experiment, learn and keep building. And with every addition of talent, this gets new fuel and the magic happens. And that is why we call ourselves Wizards" - Anshul Sushil (Co-founder & CEO)