Job Description

Product Vision: Shape and drive the overall product design vision for your product category, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs. Design Leadership: Provide design leadership and mentorship to the product design team, fostering a collaborative and innovative design culture. End-to-End Design: Lead end-to-end design processes, from ideation and concept development to detailed interaction and visual design, ensuring a seamless and delightful user experience. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and stakeholders, to bring design concepts to life and ensure successful product launches. User Research and Testing: Conduct user research, usability testing, and gather feedback to iterate and refine designs, ensuring a user-centric approach throughout the product development lifecycle. Design Systems: Contribute to the development and maintenance of design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across products and features. Stay Current: Keep abreast of industry trends, design best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously improve and innovate our product design processes.

Skills

• Design Expertise: Proficiency in product metrics, user-centered design principles (especially for native and web apps), information architecture, interaction design, and pixel-perfect UI design.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire a design team, fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment. Have the EQ to handle conflicts.
• Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate complex ideas into intuitive and effective design solutions. Ability to hustle and get fast outcomes while navigating ambiguity.
• Technical Proficiency: Advanced proficiency in Figma and a fair understanding of frontend development technologies.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate design decisions and rationale to cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• User Advocacy: A passion for user advocacy and a deep understanding of user research methodologies.
• Portfolio: An online portfolio that documents your best work and thinking process (a PDF would do too). If not, you might be asked to take a design assignment.

About the Company:

IDFC FIRST Bank is a leading private sector universal Bank in India. Our
Bank’s vision is to build a world class bank in India, guided by ethics, powered by
technology, and to be a force for social good.