Senior User Experience Designer - Chennai, India - Blackstraw

    Blackstraw
    Blackstraw Chennai, India

    1 week ago

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    Description

    Company name: ​

    Office location: Pallavaram, ​Chennai (Work from Office)

    Job Type:​ Full-time

    Experience:​ 8+ Years

    Job Summary

    Blackstraw is looking for an experienced and creative UX Designer to join our team As a UX designer, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of all the experiences a user has when interacting with digital tools, such as web applications, mobile applications and websites.

    You will work closely with our sales and various delivery teams to ensure seamless web/mobile design and the successful implementation of UX best practices and principles across all our digital platforms. A strong portfolio of successful UX and other technical projects is essential. You will be involved in ideation, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, information architecture, interaction design, usability testing, and mobile design. Additionally, you will use your business cum technical acumen to effectively communicate and articulate design strategies to clients.

    Requirements:

    • Should have between 8-12 years of experience in IT/design background along with the ability to interact with and guide the client on the best design solutions and practices.
    • Should have a minimum 6 years of experience in designing.
    • Should have basic knowledge of HTML, CSS
    • Ensure that established design standards are consistently and appropriately applied within design work
    • Engage with product management, engineering, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors to understand the project
    • Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs using industry-standard tools.
    • Experience with ideation, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, information architecture, and interaction design.
    • Develop and present documentation, user flows, annotated wireframes, and interactive prototypes
    • Leverage user testing to make product improvements
    • Help define user interaction models for new and existing products.
    • Sketch and present UI concepts, including visual design and behaviors with paper sketches, wireframes, task/workflows, simple working prototypes,
    • Participate in user-centered research with customers through focus groups, usage analysis, and rapid prototyping.
    • Communicate Ui/Ux design solutions to multiple development teams through detailed specifications.
    • Should be capable of gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with product managers and engineers
    • Should be capable of illustrating design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps Able to prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
    • Designing graphics user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets
    • Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
    • Coordinate with technology teams to understand the technology gap and plan the design accordingly
    • Should have proven client relationship skills and viewed as a trusted adviser
    • Candidates should have good communication skills.
    • Project related documentation of all designing decisions and maintain documentation of the design itself.
    • Strong communication and collaboration skills, proactive communicator .
    • Be willing to travel and should possess a valid passport along with a B1/B2 US visa.

    Required Skills:

    • Able to work in a highly collaborative team environment.
    • Ability to work effectively with onshore and offshore teams
    • Attention to detail, experience or exposure to Material design and design thinking.
    • Self-starter - Ability to work independently, setting goals and achieving milestones
    • Proficient in visual design and wireframing tools
    • Excellent oral, presentation, and written communication skills
    • Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Sketch, Figma, InVision, etc..
    • Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
    • Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images
    • Good time-management skills

    Company Profile:

    Conceptualized as far back as 2015, and commencing full-time operations in 2018, Blackstraw Technologies Pvt Ltd. is a software products and services company specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning solutions for various industries. We support businesses around the world, including North America, Europe and Asia, working to simplify AI implementation through our platform that expedites data labeling, AI model-training, and cloud or on-premise deployments.

    With more than 900 years of combined work-experience, the 250+ strong Blackstraw Team comprises various experts in the AI value chain. We are a fast-moving team that prides ourselves in rapidly identifying different use-cases and fine-tuning our products to suit specific business needs.

    We are focused on providing solutions related to computer vision, natural language processing, Data annotation tools for deep learning models, etc. To stay competitive in business, it is key for organizations to adopt and implement smart AI solutions and service offerings. However, most companies are unable to implement AI rapidly due to the complexity of existing solutions, inadequate data and cost implications.

    Our mission is to enable enterprises to adopt AI in an easier, cost-effective and time-efficient manner with a plug-and-play approach to their data.

    Blackstraw operations are based out of Canada, USA & India. Our head office is based in Florida, USA.