User Experience Designer

Introduction to the Role

Canvs is looking for a user experience designer to help deliver interface design solutions for our clients externally and our products internally. You can read about the kind of clients we work with here.

As a Designer, you will be responsible for delivering modern, high-impact and delightful user experiences along with delivering gold-standard visual design (user interface) and motion design when applicable, to complement product strategy and communication.

What the Role Involves

Researching: Product and Business

All problem statements in design require reading up on the business context and product know how to varying depths. The more a design team learns with each project the less foreign every new business problem looks to its members. Not to mention, in the long term having knowledge of diversely different fields helps create lateral connections between them which bear unexpected non linear results while designing products.

Conceptualising ideas

As the first job of a designer you will be required to conceptualize solutions to design problems given to you. You’ll be expected to deeply understand multiple aspects of such design problems like business and regulatory implications, product GTM, customer friendliness, brand expectations, among others. You shall present your potential solutions with approach notes, IA’s, wireframes, high fidelity UIs as the problem demands.

Work on Design Deliverables

You’ll work on high-quality deliverables basis the requirements of both external (client) and internal (product) projects. Deliverables are centred around user research, product flows, product structuring, wireframing and high-quality user interface design. We work primarily using Figma for interface design. As a practice we do not differentiate between the traditional notions of separating solutions from visuals. Visuals are a part of the solution and being good at visual design is fundamental to being a good designer. Hence being a good designer at Canvs means having a very strong sense of craftsmanship. While you are expected to be good at thinking through complex problems you shall also be equally expected to be able to deliver high fidelity interface designs that solve the problem. In fact, that job extends to interaction design and hence motion design and prototyping. Being able to conceptually solve a problem is only half the solution. Being able to design modern, crisp and sharp interfaces that deliver on that solution is yes another thing, often the primary differentiator among designers.

Prototyping

Delivering on design involves a lot of prototyping. Prototypes are critical to explain user flows, microinteractions, transitions etc and are critical to translate your vision into actual developed interfaces. Protos are useful both to business and engineering. You will be expected to have a strong hold on Figma prototyping and a basic hold of After effects for slightly trickier problems in interaction design. Knowledge of after effects isn’t compulsory but can be learnt while you work with us.

Presenting/Defending Ideas and Concepts

Being able to present your design is a critical part of design. You’ll be expected to present and explain the interfaces you design in front of stakeholders, internal and possibly external. Presentation skills include visual chops applicable to actual presentation design and communication chops in being able to make your point. We are fully remote setup so communication is a highly critical part of our daily work.

What We're Looking For

Designers at Canvs are creative & innovative, familiar with design standards and the strategies involved in creating good design. Canvs is looking for candidates to join the Design team who identify with the following values:

• Articulate and Resourceful – Our designers are good leaders that are able to deliver clear feedback to their team members. Design managers are also crucial in synthesizing product requirement documents to deliver their full value in the design process.
• Keen Sense of Craftsmanship - Designers in the team not only manage design teams in delivering solutions but are also comfortable with working hands-on with the team to produce solutions for the client and internal project work.
• Innovative – Our designers introduce innovation into every project they manage, thinking of new ways to create unique strategies that have a meaningful impact on customers. It is also crucial that the design managers have a firm understanding of the design tools implemented by the design teams in order to stay completely connected with the solutions sets being provided.
• Adaptable - The scope of work at Canvs is ever-evolving, with each new product requirements comes the need to be adaptable and curious to understand and execute on new kinds of deliverables.
• Tech Aware - Teams are required to understand the logic behind how systems function and create design solutions with technical ramifications in mind.
• Respect for timelines – ensure strict team and project deadlines are met along with maintaining multiple separate timelines across different design teams.
• Persistence - most importantly, a good team member needs to be persistent. When things don't go their way, they find a way around it. The first solution is rarely ever the right solution, requirements change and are sometimes totally unknown (it happens). At times like these, being able to persist counts.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation

We are offering an annual salary of INR 12-14 LPA (CTC) for this role.

Further, depending on how the firm does in a year and how you perform you receive a compensation bonus at the end of the year.

Benefits

1. Remote work: We are situated out of Powai, Mumbai but work remotely. You can work from anywhere in India as long as you are able to work without disruptions and are available all times during work hours. You are free to work from anywhere. However, we hold in-person meetings frequently for which your presence shall be required.
2. Leaves: We take flexibility seriously. While we do not penalize leaves as a principle and have a well documented leave policy that states how this works. This liberty of course comes with the responsibility of being judicious about your leaves lest it affects your work and the work of others in your team.
3. Health Insurance - Canvs provides medical insurance cover for you and your family (spouse and children). It comes with additional benefits like dental, appointments, mental health consultations etc.
4. Learning budget - Given the line of work we are in, learning is super important to us. So you can pick up courses and upskill yourself we provide a learning budget of INR 10k per year per person.
5. Tools for the trade - Remote work comes with different setup requirements. Anything you need to be able to do your best work, you’ll have it.

About Canvs & Our Culture

For more than 7 years, we've been proving that you don't need to be a big company to have a big impact. From running an entirely distributed, remote-first company years before it became the norm, to our unique blend of designers and design managers working together as an extension of our client's teams - we've always strived and mostly succeeded at punching above our weight.

Our culture, ever-evolving as it is, bases itself on a few simple principles. We get the job done but we don't play it safe. We've been working in a distributed fashion from Day 1 - so trust and transparency are crucial. Both within the team, and with our clients and partners. We celebrate our successes and own up to our mistakes - learning from them while fixing them - and potentially never repeating them. We believe in partnerships over one-nighters. We like our teammates and our clients to stick around, and we do what it takes to make that happen.

We believe in processes and are sticklers for them sometimes, but we also believe ultimately those processes are built around 'people'. Can't make it to a meeting? We've been Zooming into meetings before that became a verb. Something came up and you need to be away for a while - that's ok - we trust you enough to know you made sure someone else can hold the fort in the meantime, and we trust each other to know we'll do our best to hold the fort while you're gone. You go deal with what you need, keep us posted, and let us know how we can help.

We prioritize milestones over deadlines. Deadlines can be arbitrary. Milestones – when planned well – are a far better indicator of a project's overall health. We ensure quality by planning ahead and planning well.

Last but most importantly - we are an infinitely curious team - always learning, always exploring. We're rarely happy going as far as needed, only to stop there. We learn and we share constantly. As we get better at it internally, we're starting to share what we read and learn with the world. Go check out our newsletter and our editorial.

If you're good at what you do, are easy-going, and looking to learn and share knowledge with a curious team - we're pretty sure we'll get along well. Things you might need to know, we'll teach you if you promise to teach us the things you're really good at.

Come join us - we're just getting started.