User Experience Designer

Ad Astra Consultants; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ad Astra Consultants seeks a User Experience (UX) Designer to own outcomes for mature projects or emerging areas, guiding scalable design strategies and advocating user-centered product development across teams.

You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and researchers to develop design systems, validate ideas with UX testing, and translate insights into actionable design specifications that drive KPIs and product success.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers to communicate, negotiate, and influence design intention.
• Guide design specifications (e.g., designs, mock-ups, product models) for implementation.
• Use and propose data and metrics to evaluate product impact across teams.
• Drive improvements in design based on UX testing and stakeholder input to achieve product goals.
• Build consensus across teams and communicate design approach to stakeholders.
• Contribute to developing project priorities and coordinate allocation of resources within the project.
• Create design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that support KPIs.
• Develop innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems and justify design choices.
• Lead holistic design processes, design systems, or design language across teams or products.
• Guide UX designers in creating design concepts for ideation and user research/testing.
• Apply UX design frameworks and templates, and ensure accessibility guidelines are followed.
• Propose ideas to improve UX by analyzing user needs and collaborating with others.

Job description

As a User Experience (UX) Designer, you own outcomes for one mature project, complex program, or emerging area. You accomplish this by navigating and defining a scalable and sustainable approach to solve difficult problems with limited precedent and/or by developing and evangelizing long-term user experience & product strategy for your team. You influence by guiding the momentum of multiple adjacent design efforts and/or by providing alternative perspectives for your team that challenge prevailing thinking against common objectives and/or by provoking greater divergence of thinking. You apply your expertise by serving as a subject-matter expert in UX design principles, user-centered product development methodologies, design systems, and research tools. You collaborate with others to deliver work such as: analyzing or anticipating user needs, resolving constraints, and mitigating potential risks, leading the implementation of a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products, defining user experience / product strategy for your team, and exploring innovative solutions to new or existing problems that explicitly consider and mitigate unintentional harm. You have a proven ability to design products and deliver outputs including the product or platform, and possess the depth of knowledge, experience, and business acumen required to assess and communicate how well-considered the design work is for appropriateness, longevity, collaboration, scaling.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with engineers to communicate, negotiate, and/or influence design intention. Guide design specifications (e.g., design spec s, mock-ups, or product models) for implementation.
• Use and propose new, key data and metrics to evaluate product impact, understand the product ecosystem, user trends, and industry (e.g., competitors) by collaborating across teams when developing design solutions.
• Drive improvements in design based on UX testing and stakeholder input and provide input and feedback to engage stakeholders on product design and achieve product goals.
• Build consensus across teams and gain support for design strategy across stakeholders. Communicate design approach to other designers or stakeholders (e.g., product manager), addressing and anticipating challenges and questions.
• Contribute to developing project priorities in alignment with larger project goals, and coordinate allocation of resources within the project. Act on opportunities to expand responsibilities within the immediate product team.
• Create design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business objectives. Support stakeholders in achieving key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Create innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems. Anticipate evolving design constraints and communicate rationale of choices related to design solutions.
• Drive a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products. Perform design and testing processes and help develop and generate support for a design vision with partners.
• Guide UX designers in creating design concepts for product ideation and/or user research/testing or conduct research independently to inform design. Seek research insights to develop the appropriate design direction.
• Apply, adapt, and/or define UX design frameworks for user experiences, including principles, patterns, and systems. Leverage writing and design tools to visualize ideas or develop mock-ups or prototypes to drive the product vision forward. Tailor deliverables based on product or platform requirements independently. Identify and follow writing and design templates, style guides, and accessibility guidelines.
• Propose ideas to improve UX by analyzing or anticipating user needs through collaboration with others, and solve constraints in strategy, product, or technology.