Product Designer

At Nextiva, we’re building a world class design team, dedicated to envisioning, creating, and building the next generation of business communication experiences.

Nextiva is seeking an experienced Product Designer to join our growing team. As a Product Designer, you will be focused on providing value to our customers, ensuring the usability of our products and maintaining our design system. You will report to the Director of Product Design and work alongside other designers, product management, engineering, internal users and external customers to design user experiences that build great products.

The ideal candidate is self-directed, humble, not afraid to ask questions, a team player, and is motivated to continually work towards the best possible design solutions. S/he is an expert in visual communication, modern design trends (namely in the tech industry), and can translate feedback from stakeholders into actionable objectives for design efforts. Our ideal Product Designer lives and breathes functional design perfectly blended with curiosity and artistry to bring to life truly innovative designs.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Rapidly create deliverables (journey map, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, etc.) and execute high fidelity design.
• Collaborate with a multi disciplinary team of designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers to design the end-to-end user experience of our products. This includes, but isn’t limited to information architecture, interaction flows, accessibility best practices, lo-fi wireframes, hifi visual mockups, prototypes, user research, and documentation.
• Understand and respond to data (metric tests, usability studies) to inform design decisions and recommendations
• Work with product managers and developers to iterate on and refine the current user experience
• Design for multiple variations of an asset when necessary for delivery. Be able to fully explain creative choices made to arrive at submitted work, both verbally and in written form
• Stay informed on the latest UI/UX techniques, tools, and patterns and integrate best practices into design projects
• Define and maintain detailed design patterns that scale
• Participate and drive usability studies, utilizing tools such as UserTesting.Com and Pendo.
• Proficiency in Figma and experience managing and working with a Design System
• Share findings with our team and explain how that will affect your design decisions
• Create sketches/mockups of graphics/elements to gather feedback from stakeholders in early phases of projects
• Deliver projects on time, and are able to prioritize high impact design input.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in product design or related field
• 3+ years of experience in product design, ideally across multiple product platforms
• Current design portfolio, illustrating UX/UI experience
• Demonstrable experience analyzing user feedback in both qualitative quantitative formats: user research, a/b tests and other data driven methodologies
• Believes in simplicity as a key product design principle. If you can show how you simplified a complex feature or product – even better.
• Ability to deliver designs quickly, reacting to tactical high impacting changes and switch quickly to being more strategic, project design planning.
• A portfolio demonstrating compelling examples of smart digital experiences you’ve created.
• Meticulous attention to detail in the design and execution of consistent, compelling work
• Demonstrated fluency in a common stack of design and software tools, including XD, Adobe Creative Cloud, Jira, and InVision.
• Working with and maintaining design systems
• Strong organizational skills
• Previous experience designing for a technology company

Bonus Points For:

• Mobile design experience
• UX experience, certifications, or advanced degree
• Experience in agile methodologies
• Understanding of an A/B testing process and adjusting design based on results
• Interest in emerging technologies in web, mobile, and other digital delivery platforms

Software Proficiency:

• Figma and/or Adobe XD (required)
• Adobe creative suite (not required)
• UserTesting.Com (not required)
• Pendo (not Required)
• Microsoft/Google products (required)

Nextiva DNA (Core Competencies)

Nextiva’s most successful team members share common traits and behaviors:

• Drives Results: Action-oriented with a passion for solving problems. They bring clarity and simplicity to ambiguous situations, challenge the status quo, and ask what can be done differently. They lead and drive change, celebrating success to build more success.
• Critical Thinker: Understands the "why" and identifies key drivers, learning from the past. They are fact-based and data-driven, forward-thinking, and see problems a few steps ahead. They provide options, recommendations, and actions, understanding risks and dependencies.
• Right Attitude: They are team-oriented, collaborative, competitive, and hate losing. They are resilient, able to bounce back from setbacks, zoom in and out, and get in the trenches to help solve important problems. They cultivate a culture of service, learning, support, and respect, caring for customers and teams.

Total Rewards

Our Total Rewards offerings are designed to allow our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can be their best, in and out of the office.

Our compensation packages are tailored to each role and candidate's qualifications. We consider a wide range of factors, including skills, experience, training, and certifications, when determining compensation. We aim to offer competitive salaries or wages that reflect the value you bring to our team. Depending on the position, compensation may include base salary and/or hourly wages, incentives, or bonuses.

• Medical 🩺 - Medical insurance coverage is available for employees, their spouse, and up to two dependent children with a limit of 500,000 INR, as well as their parents or in-laws for up to 300,000 INR. This comprehensive coverage ensures that essential healthcare needs are met for the entire family unit, providing peace of mind and security in times of medical necessity.
• Group Term & Group Personal Accident Insurance 💼 - Provides insurance coverage against the risk of death / injury during the policy period sustained due to an accident caused by violent, visible & external means.
  • Coverage Type - Employee Only
  • Sum Insured - 3 times of annual CTC with minimum cap of INR 10,00,000
  • Free Cover Limit - 1.5 Crore
• Work-Life Balance ⚖️ - 15 days of Privilege leaves per calendar year, 6 days of Paid Sick leave per calendar year, 6 days of Casual leave per calendar year. Paid 26 weeks of Maternity leaves, 1 week of Paternity leave, a day off on your Birthday, and paid holidays
• Financial Security💰 - Provident Fund & Gratuity
• Wellness 🤸‍ - Employee Assistance Program and comprehensive wellness initiatives
• Growth 🌱 - Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities and career advancement

At Nextiva, we're committed to supporting our employees' health, well-being, and professional growth. Join us and build a rewarding career! 

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