Junior AI Designer

Shades of Web; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Shades of Web in Pune, India, is seeking a Junior AI Designer to create AI-powered experiences and digital products. You’ll learn by building, experimenting, and receiving feedback while growing ownership over time.

You’ll collaborate across UI/UX, visual design, motion, and AI-assisted workflows, turning ideas into working prototypes and reusable components, with mentorship from seasoned designers. We value curiosity, strong fundamentals, willingness to learn, and clear communication.

Qualifications

• Strong design fundamentals and knowledge of typography, layout, and visual hierarchy.
• Understanding of basic UX concepts, user flows, interaction design, and usability.
• Portfolio showing work and design process through projects, college work, internships, or freelance.
• Hands-on experience with visual design, motion design, and interactive prototyping.
• Experience using Claude Code and AI tools for design exploration, learning, or prototyping.
• Interest in frontend development and learning how interfaces are built.
• Ability to explain design decisions and evaluate AI-assisted work quality.
• Comfort learning from documentation, tutorials, and experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Design user flows, wireframes, and interfaces for web and mobile applications.
• Create visual assets and layouts with attention to typography, colour, hierarchy, and consistency.
• Design motion and micro-interactions that clarify experiences and engage users.
• Build interactive prototypes to test ideas, explain interactions, and explore AI-powered experiences.
• Use AI tools to support research, idea generation, visual exploration, and design iteration.
• Use Claude Code and other AI-assisted development tools to turn design ideas into working prototypes.
• Contribute to reusable components and design systems.
• Review work, identify usability and visual issues, and improve it based on feedback.
• Collaborate with designers, developers, and project stakeholders to understand requirements and build practical solutions.
• Take responsibility for assigned work and communicate progress, questions, and blockers clearly.

Skills

Design fundamentals

UX concepts

Portfolio development

Visual design

Motion design

Interactive prototyping

AI tools usage

Frontend development interest

Explain design decisions

Documentation learning

Communication skills

Attention to detail

End-user experience care

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

Figma

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

React

Job description

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a Junior AI Designer to help us design useful digital products and AI-powered experiences that solve practical problems for clients and users.

Strong design fundamentals, a good eye for visual quality, curiosity, and a willingness to learn quickly are essential for this role.

You will work closely with our design and engineering teams across UI/UX, visual design, motion, interactive prototypes, and AI-assisted workflows.

You will get hands-on experience taking ideas from early explorations to working experiences used by real people.

The role is designed for someone starting their design career who wants to learn by creating, experimenting, receiving feedback, and taking increasing ownership over time.

What You'll Do:

• Design user flows, wireframes, and interfaces for web and mobile applications.
• Create visual assets and layouts with attention to typography, colour, hierarchy, and consistency.
• Design motion and micro-interactions that make experiences clearer and more engaging.
• Build interactive prototypes to test ideas, explain interactions, and explore AI-powered experiences.
• Use AI tools to support research, idea generation, visual exploration, and design iteration.
• Use Claude Code and other AI-assisted development tools to turn design ideas into working prototypes.
• Contribute to reusable components and design systems.
• Review your work, identify usability and visual issues, and improve it based on feedback.
• Collaborate with designers, developers, and project stakeholders to understand requirements and build practical solutions.
• Take responsibility for assigned work and communicate progress, questions, and blockers clearly.

To Qualify for the Role, You Should Have:

• Good design fundamentals, including typography, layout, colour theory, visual hierarchy, and UI design principles.
• An understanding of basic UX concepts, user flows, interaction design, and usability.
• A portfolio showing your work and design process through personal projects, college assignments, internships, or freelance work.
• Some hands-on experience with visual design, motion design, and interactive prototyping.
• Some experience using Claude Code and AI tools for design exploration, learning, or building prototypes.
• An interest in frontend development and a willingness to learn how interfaces are built.
• The ability to explain your design decisions and evaluate the quality of work created with AI assistance.
• Comfort learning from documentation, tutorials, and experimentation when you do not immediately know the answer.
• Good communication skills, attention to detail, and care for the end-user experience.

What We Look For:

We look for people who demonstrate:

• Curiosity: You enjoy understanding how things work.
• Initiative: When you encounter something unfamiliar, you try to figure it out.
• Perseverance: You are willing to stay with difficult problems instead of giving up quickly.
• Sincerity: You are dependable, communicate openly, and care about doing good work.
• Learning ability: You are comfortable learning, unlearning, and relearning as technology changes.
• Ownership: You take responsibility for your work and want to see it actually used.
• Effort: You are willing to put in the work required to improve your craft.

Technologies and Tools:

The tools and technologies vary depending on the project. Examples of tools you may work with are listed below. You do not need to know all of them; you will have opportunities to learn on the job.

• UI/UX and Visual Design: Figma and visual design tools.
• Motion and Interaction: Animation and interactive prototyping tools.
• AI-Assisted Workflows: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and tools for visual generation and agentic workflows.
• Frontend Foundations: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React.

What We Offer:

• The opportunity to design products and experiences used by real clients and users.
• Hands-on experience across UI/UX, visual design, motion, AI-assisted workflows, and frontend prototyping.
• Close feedback and mentorship from experienced team members.
• Increasing ownership as your skills develop.
• A growth path into product design, interaction design, design engineering, and AI-powered experiences.
• Exposure to international product and technology projects.
• A team that uses AI tools every day while continuing to care deeply about design fundamentals and the quality of the user experience.

Who Will Thrive Here:

The tools we use today will not be the tools we use forever. AI and digital product design are evolving quickly, and we expect our designers to evolve with them.

We are therefore not looking for someone who already knows everything.

We are looking for someone who is curious, sincere, persistent, willing to work hard, and excited to keep learning.

Bring us strong fundamentals, the willingness to figure things out, and evidence that you enjoy designing and making things.

We'll help you with the rest.