Lead Product Designer
Bengaluru
Creadiwidy...Design /
Full time /
On-site
What is Jar?
The Jar app is a habit-building micro-savings platform that helps users save fixed amounts from as little as ₹10, and our revolutionary round-off method effortlessly accumulates spare change from digital transactions and invests it in digital gold.
Founded by Nishchay AG, former director and founding member at mobility start-up Bounce, and Misbah Ashraf, founder of community-focused e-commerce platform Marsplay, Jar's unwavering mission is to shatter psychological barriers to saving and investing, thus spearheading the Financial Fitness revolution for Bharat.
What does Jar do?
With seamless ease of use, we provide users the ability to withdraw their savings directly to their bank accounts as cash or receive physical gold, which is delivered right to their doorstep.
Furthermore, Jar empowers individuals with a flexible line of credit, starting at ₹1000, offering instant access to funds when needed. Amidst this transformative journey, Jar also offers contextual health insurance options, helping users safeguard their' savings from crippling financial emergencies.
Responsibilities
- As a Lead Product Designer, you are a proficient individual contributor who is also able to provide design guidance to the design team members. You are responsible for ensuring you work well cross-functionally with PM and Engineering to deliver high-quality work and meet deadlines.
- As an individual contributor, this means: Setting up research plans assessing trade-offs between research methods and employing suitable methods based on research plan objectives
- Conducting discovery work and communicating research findings in a clear and informative way
- Breaking down problems and giving clarity to undefined problem spaces
- Developing ideas into elegant designs and interactive prototypes based on a defined set of design principles
- Pay a high level of attention to details in the design
- Building mockups and prototypes to illustrate different design approaches
- Testing early designs with users and iterating on their feedback
- Defining and determining the overall aesthetics and visual styles of the product
- Creating detailed user interface specifications
- Guiding engineers in their implementation of your designs
Requirements
- 6+ years of visual and product design experience
- A portfolio featuring digital design work enclosing in-depth case studies and a clean/modern design thought process
- Experience shipping mobile digital products and D2C portals/ modules preferably in gaming, fintech domain
- Demonstrated expertise with modern design, prototyping and collaboration tools (such as Figma and Miro)
- Awareness of data and research methodologies and ability to conduct or partner with research experts
- Proficiency in building metric-based-apps through data visualization Excellent collaboration and influential skills
- Able to work well in a large organization with many partners
- Able to articulate and defend design decisions with grace, logic and data
- Able to translate technical requirements into simple, engaging designs
- Track record of leading design on significant projects involving
Why join Jar, you ask?
Jar is a diverse and inclusive workplace which embraces ideas and perspectives of all employees, and recognizes their efforts and contributions regardless of gender or ethnicity. Our workspace also boasts a great blend of youth and experience, which helps us maintain a transparent culture with no micromanagement. We also have flexible working hours, and provide medical insurance to all employees.
