Contractor – Visual Designer (Design and User Experience)

D. E. Shaw India Private Limited; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 800,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

D. E. Shaw India Private Limited seeks an exceptionally capable visual designer to join the Design and User Experience team in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, or Gurugram.

You will contribute to the design system, create visual assets, and deliver cohesive experiences across platforms. You will design interactive states, micro-interactions, and motion to enhance usability, while translating research into design decisions and stakeholder-ready deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts/ Visual Design/ Visual Communication/ Graphic Design or related creative studies.
• Advanced knowledge of typography, composition, scale, and color theory.
• Experience contributing to, defining, or maintaining a design system.
• Experience collaborating with engineering and UX teams to improve component quality and adoption of design system.
• Strong color theming, design tokens, and accessibility across products.

Responsibilities

• Develop and design visual assets including storyboards, icons, product labels, and data visualization infographics.
• Build and evolve the design system with reusable components, tokens, interaction patterns, and usage guidelines.
• Create promotional emails/newsletters, advertisements, banners, and social content.
• Present design solutions to teams and stakeholders and collaborate with external agencies.
• Produce walkthroughs and splash screens for onboarding; ensure cohesive color theme and language across products.

Skills

Typography

Color theory

Design systems

Micro-interactions

Motion design

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe After Effects

UI prototyping tools

Figma

Axure

Adobe XD

HTML/CSS basics

Sketching/drawing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts/ Visual Design/ Visual Communication/ Graphic Design

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe After Effects

Axure

Adobe XD

Figma

Job description

We are seeking an exceptionally capable visual designer to work with the Design and User Experience team in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, or Gurugram. The Design and User Experience (DX) team is an integral part of the infrastructure group within DESIS at the D.E.Shaw group. Our team focuses on designing intuitive interfaces and products that provide meaningful and relevant experiences for our users.

What you’ll do day-to-day

As a member of the team, you will be responsible for developing and designing visual assets including storyboards, icons, product labels, and data visualization infographics. You will play a key role in building and evolving the firm's design system by creating, documenting, and maintaining reusable components, design tokens, interaction patterns, accessibility standards, and usage guidelines that enable consistent product experiences across teams. You will maintain and systematically evolve the design language to align with industry best practices and market standards. You will establish and steward a cohesive color theme and design tokens (including semantic color roles, typography scales, spacing, and light/dark treatments) that ensure consistency and accessibility across products and platforms. You will design thoughtful micro-interactions and interactive states — hover, focus, loading, transitions, and feedback — that make our interfaces feel responsive, intuitive, and polished. You must possess a thorough understanding of design languages and UI frameworks and be able to translate research into design decisions grounded in colors, styles, current trends, iconography, and brand creation guidelines. You must be able to create promotional emails/newsletters, advertisements, web banners, and social content. You will develop presentations and communicate design solutions to the team and clients, be involved in various event marketing–related activities within the firm, collaborate with external design agencies for firm-wide marketing-related artefacts, and work with the documentation team to develop easy-to-understand walkthrough and splash screens for user onboarding. The role involves creating and maintaining high standards of creative designs. You will independently perform medium- to high-complexity creative tasks that are cohesive, simple, intuitive, and customer-centric while following (and helping shape) the style guides. You will work on multiple creative projects and independently manage time to meet deadlines, incorporating creative execution best practices to ensure high-volume designs are delivered in a timely manner. You will become a Subject Matter Expert on visual design artefacts within the firm — including our design system and its components — and present work to design teams, user experience teams, and key stakeholders for review and feedback while staying customer focused. You will collaborate with peers and stakeholders to ensure high-quality, cohesive, and well-documented deliverables that are ready for execution, and effectively communicate and present your ideas. Additionally, you will contribute to creating and supporting a diverse and inclusive culture where all voices are heard and where we are enabled to do our best work.

Who we’re looking for

The ideal candidate should hold-

Basic Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts/ Visual Design/ Visual Communication/ Graphic Design or related creative studies, with 0–5 years of equivalent and proven work experience
• Intermediate/high proficiency in design principles like typography, composition, scale, and color theory, with an advanced knowledge of how those principles work together
• Experience contributing to, defining, or maintaining a design system, including designing and documenting reusable components, patterns, and usage guidelines
• Experience collaborating closely with engineering and UX teams to improve component quality, establish implementation standards, document best practices, and drive adoption of the design system across products is highly desirable
• Demonstrated understanding of color theming and design tokens, including building and applying consistent, accessible color palettes and semantic color roles across products
• The ability to design micro-interactions, interactive states, and motion that enhance usability and communicate feedback clearly
• A robust understanding of market standards, current industry trends, and cross-platform design conventions, with the ability to benchmark and apply them to our products
• Outstanding verbal, written, and graphical communication abilities
• Outstanding organization, time management, and interpersonal skills
• The desire and ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively, in a dynamic work environment
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects at one time to meet tight deadlines
• Exposure to digital platform (web, tablet, and mobile) design experience and an understanding of cross-platform design guidelines
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe After Effects, and proficiency in UI prototyping tools such as Axure, Adobe XD, and Figma (including component libraries, variants, and prototyping for interactions)
• Familiarity with modern AI-assisted design workflows, Figma MCP, design automation, and design-to-code workflows to maintain scalable design systems and improve collaboration with engineering
• Good drawing and sketching ability, both traditional and digital (vector-based illustration skills)
• Experience and comfort negotiating with and presenting to engineering and marketing teams
• Knowledge and understanding of HTML/CSS for front-end design styling
• An open and receptive attitude to design critique, while also being able to represent your own work
• Exposure to motion graphics and video editing skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior experience in the financial domain of working with investment banks, HFTs, fintech-based startups, or tech startups

Candidates with relevant experience looking to restart their careers after a break are encouraged to apply for this position.

The members of the D.E.Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, caregiver status, or any other category protected by law. We are eager to hear from individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.

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