Product Designer

About epiFi :

Who we are: Simply put, a Fintech startup for digital natives. Our mission is to help our users demystify their finances, maximize their savings and spend intelligently. We are building a highly secure ‘hub’ - a savings account that offers debit cards and allows you to consolidate your finances in a single intuitive view.

Who we’re looking for: Exceptional, innovative people! Passionate about delightful user experiences, clear about doing the right thing and hungry to impact millions of lives.

Why you should work with us: We are about doing the right thing always, both for our team and users. We are a positive, transparent and inclusive community celebrating success together, encouraging bias for action and individual brilliance. We are ambitious and want everyone thinking ‘impact and growth’. Our office is not just fun, it is human, nimble and business-like.With rich experience in the world’s leading tech companies and banks, we deeply and equally understand both the ‘fin’ and ‘tech’ in fintech. Funded by leading global VCs, we’re in pursuit of a fantastic experience for both our consumers and colleagues.

What this role is about :

We are looking for product designers who thrive in thinking through complex systems and delivering solutions that seamlessly nudge users to doing things differently. Research is at the core of our solutions with a key emphasis on how data is synthesised into an actionable feature.

The product designer will work closely with other designers, user researchers, engineers and product managers throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes.

What we look for

• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and work cross-functionally in a highly collaborative but fast, changing and ambiguous environment.
• Understands the consumer through past experiences, research, and market data and ensures laser focus on the consumer during product development.
• Spark that separates you from the rest.
• Ability to think out of the box and on your feet.
• Passion for shipping consumer-facing high-quality products. Launched features/products to external customers (either B2C or B2B).
• Ability to understand and evaluate complex engineering systems and suggest creative solutions by collaborating closely with engineering.
• Excellent product design skills with solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows and process flows
• Strong business acumen
• Intuitive but data-driven combining power of analytics and heuristics with innovative customer validation techniques
• Ability to marshall consensus and sell product vision both internally and externally.

You should apply if :

• You have 2-6 years of design experience with at least 2+ years in B2C mobile apps
• Proficiency with UX and design tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, InVision, Adobe suite)
• You have experience with, or knowledge of, Interactive cross-platform prototyping (e.g., Framer, ProtoPie.io, Flinto) and 3D design and animation (e.g., cinema4D, after effects)
• You have proven product design skills with solid experience about shipping consumer-facing high-quality products and have launched features/products to external customers (preferably B2C)
• Not only can you think about the UI and UX, but also about the motion and flows between interactions
• You have a deep understanding of design systems and tightly incorporate research in your everyday process
• You envision how people experience products and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined and even magical
• You will take on complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use designs for billions of people around the world—from the first-time user to the sophisticated expert
• You will anticipate what our users need, advocate for them and ensure that the final product surprises and delights them
• You can communicate complex interaction concepts clearly and persuasively, across different audiences and varying levels of the organisation
• You have the spark that separates you from the crowd and an ability to think out of the box and on your feet
• You're passionate about sharing your knowledge and have mentored other product managers
• You are comfortable with ambiguity, believe in first principles and have the skill to transform broad ideas into action plans
• You have empathy towards users and colleagues, are creative and excited by ideating/ building
• You have business acumen to appreciate and understand levers for business growth and profitability
• You seek high ownership, independent environments and feedback oriented cultures

Working at Fi:

• At Fi, you learn on the job. You’ll be surrounded by some very smart people from different backgrounds, who are happy to work with you to help you do your job better.
• We don’t have a classic hierarchical structure full of red tapes and bureaucratic titles. You’re on a first-name basis with everyone from Day One. We’re all good at what we do, and we respect that.
• Boundaries are respected. We don’t do WhatsApp or phone calls. Everything runs on Slack and GMeet, so you have your personal time and space away from your work laptop when you need it.
• Fi is not a remote-work company. We believe in collaborating together in a physical office space. We are a young company with an evolving culture, and working in person with each other is key at this point. We are located in Bangalore.
• We love to disagree respectfully. We work across functional boundaries, and nobody is too wise. This industry evolves every single day, and healthy debate is the only way to keep pace with change.