Job Description

Create customer-centric experiences and user-friendly designs, working with other Product Designers, product and development teams to create and ship on a regular basis. Deliver best in class product design: native mobile app for end consumers and web tools for internal users. Advocate for best practices for usability, interaction and accessibility. Produce design assets that include user flows, wireframes, low/high-fidelity comps, design prototypes, and design specifications. Understand qualitative and quantitative research data, business goals and requirements, and translate them into functional designs. Rapidly prototype using Figma, Protopie, Framer or other tools. Create and support the development of our design system. Ensure that the India app remains compliant with the Tala Design System and Brand Guidelines. Participate in and facilitate usability testing through prototyping and research efforts to ensure that all projects are driven by user needs and business outcomes. Collaborate with Engineering teams to understand the feasibility of design concepts & make tweaks wherever necessary. Collaborate with Marketing & Legal teams to ensure we stay on par with Tala Brand Tone and compliance.

Skills

• A well-rounded portfolio that shows your work, aesthetics, design thinking processes and deliverables.
• Ability to think high level about product strategy and vision and create solutions designed to scale and grow over time, as product functionality and content matures and as user requirements evolve.
• Experience with usability research, gathering requirements and rapidly translating information and insights into design experiments, solutions and artifacts (diagrams, flows, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, usability tests, visual design, etc.)
• Fluency in Figma or Adobe XD (bonus: other UX/UI tools).
• Experience collaborating with designers, product owners/managers and developers.
• An inclination to adapt, listen, dialog, learn and improve with an open mind (e.g., receiving/sharing feedback, communicating design decisions, etc.)
• Ability to design within constraints (e.g., design systems, legacy tech, UI frameworks)
• Well-informed about best design practices, both native mobile app and responsive web Strong communication skills.

About the Company:

Tala is a financial technology company on a mission to build a financial system that works for everyone. Our first product is a lending app that instantly underwrites and delivers credit to customers who have little or no formal borrowing history. Tala has disbursed over $1B to more than 4 million customers across East Africa, the Philippines, Mexico, and India who use Tala loans to start and expand small businesses, pay school fees and bills, and build more stable financial lives.