Product Designer - Hyderabad, India - Yardstick Educatonal Initiatives

Description

Are you a creative person with a natural flair for design? Would you like to design hands-on science and math activities to make learning fun for children? Are you proficient at any of the following tools: Solid Works, Solid Edge, CATIA V5 & Autodesk Fusion 360, Adobe Illustrator or Coreldraw and Sketch up

If the answer to these questions is 'YES', then this job is for you.

We are an educational company driven by the vision to make science and mathematics learning enriching and fun.

We are looking for fresh graduates or postgraduates who not just love design and want to contribute to make science and mathematics learning fun in school.

As a 'Product designer' your job would be to create, iterate, and improve designs leading to science activities or mathematics manipulatives or toys which would be used by children in the classroom.

Roles and Responsibilities
As a product designer your responsibilities will be:

• Design Work: Should design, test and finalize hands-on activities in science and math.
• Should design 3D images of the modules.
• Support to the content team: Should help the content team in designing the images, and shooting and editing the videos.
• Product Coordination: Coordinate with the production team in scaling up the modules.

About us

Required Qualifications, Skills and Abilities

• Fluent with Solid Works, Solid Edge, CATIA V5 & Autodesk Fusion 360, Adobe Illustrator or Coreldraw and Sketch up
• Minimum qualification required is Bachelors in any field
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Organizational skills and an ability to be able to set priorities, plan timelines and meet deadlines
• Ability to work independently and proactively, without support staff and with no supervision
• Attention to detail and problemsolving attitude

Personal Characteristics and Desired Qualities

• Ability to empathize with others and habit of working towards a solution
• Open mindedness to the ideas, curiosity to pursue alternative perspectives and willingness to challenge one's own belief in the light of evidence
• Ability to rightly balance process and result orientation
• Ability to be mindful about one's actions and their multidimensional implications
• The operating style suited to working in a startup environment, where flexibility in taking up extra responsibilities is valued
• Ability to manage complex situations with calm and measured actions

Work location
Hyderabad