Lead Product Designer at Vahan

At Vahan, our vision is to enable jobs for the next billion internet users via messaging apps such as WhatsApp. We’re backed by marquee investors such as Gokul Rajaram, who built AdSense at Google, Mekin Maheshwari, former Head of Engineering and Chief People Officer at Flipkart and Vir Kashyap, Co-Founder at Babajob.

We’re seeking a Lead Product Designer in Bangalore, India, to drive design initiatives from inception through execution. We are changing the way low-skilled workers discover and apply for jobs and you will help us to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible. You’ll help lead and define the product experience across all touch points, partnering with product management, operations, research, and engineering to make sure that we continue to lead and innovate in this space.

This is a role for a creative individual with a high degree of user empathy, excellent aesthetic judgment and willingness to collaborate within a team environment. This is also a highly entrepreneurial position reporting directly to the Head of Product and will require you to wear different hats if and when required.

Please note that your final level/title will be determined throughout the interview process.

Requirements

• You are an overall product design expert with deep expertise spanning web and and mobile. You are obsessed with getting under the user’s skin and solving their problems through innovations in product and design.

• 5-8 years of experience in fast-paced environments

• Experience leading a team of gifted designers

• Skilled storyteller with experience working in a multidisciplinary environment to develop concepts that delight users and deliver business results

• Possess the ability to implement strategic and conceptual thinking as well

• A compelling portfolio of work that demonstrates high-quality design work that also tells a story that you are a deep design thinker

• Strong information presentation (visual and written) skills

• Experience with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Sketch Responsibilities

• Design simple, elegant, data-driven, user-centric experiences that delight users

• Define the user experience, interactions, and user interface through user flows, information architecture, sketches and wireframes, and visual design

• Build functional prototypes to validate and test your designs

• Participate in user research and testing

• Help shape the product strategy and vision

• Look for opportunities to solve problems in unique and innovative ways

• Help maintain visual and brand consistency between all products and outlets

• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business goals into unique product experiences

• Manage and grow the design team Why you’ll LOVE this job

We’re a small team that enjoys working hard, getting a lot done and having fun. Not to mention that you’ll get to work on a product that is making a profoundly positive impact on people’s lives. We also provide an outstanding training ground for aspiring entrepreneurs.

We can promise:

• Our co-workers are a close-knit, intelligent, and motivated team.
• We care about you. We offer competitive health insurance for employees and their dependents.
• Unlimited PTO so you can take the time you need to rejuvenate.
• You’ll love where you work. We have a bright and modern collaborative office space located in the heart of HSR Layout, Bangalore’s most happening neighborhood! We're building technology to enable a fully-automated conversational experience in informal Indian languages such as "Hinglish". We are also using machine learning to build a reputation model for our users based on the data we collect from and from our employer partners. Our stack includes NodeJS, Python, RabbitMQ and Postgres.