15h Left Product Designer

Job Description

Transform Education Through Design

We&aposre on a mission to democratize quality education by helping schools increase their fundraising efficiency. As one of India&aposs few profitable, bootstrapped SaaS companies, we&aposre building lasting valuenot just for investors, but for our team, customers, and the educational institutions we serve.

Our Impact:

- 6 million alumni connected
- 500,000 students impacted
- $10M+ in donations raised
- 54 million engagement opportunities created
- Profitable and bootstrapped since day one

The Role

Join our 15-person PDEQ team (Product, Design, Engineering, Quality) as we research markets, hypothesis creative solutions, and ship best-in-class products that transform how educational institutions connect with their communities.

You&aposll design for multiple audiences with distinct needs: advancement professionals managing campaigns, alumni discovering ways to give back, students accessing scholarships, and administrators analyzing engagement data. Each brings different technical comfort levels and emotional relationships with their institution.

The Design Challenges You&aposll Solve

Complex Problems, Elegant Solutions:

- How do you design a donation flow that feels personal at scale
- What does an alumni directory look like when it serves both networking and fundraising
- How do you present complex campaign analytics that drive action, not analysis paralysis

Shape Our Design Culture: As one of our early design hires, you&aposll establish design practices, build our component library, and mentor future team members. Your decisions today influence how we approach design for years to come.

What You&aposll Own

End-to-End Product Design

- Own complete design process from concept to execution for key product areas
- Define new interaction patterns for core workflows
- Create clear, intuitive interfaces for professional users across complex B2B scenarios

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Partner closely with engineers and PMs to define problems and deliver high-quality solutions
- Balance craft, speed, and business results in every design decision
- Contribute to product strategy through design thinking and user advocacy

Design Excellence & Culture

- Maintain high standards of craft while moving quickly
- Build and evolve our design system using atomic design principles
- Share knowledge and refine processes as we scale

We&aposre Looking For Someone Who

Understands Design Beyond Pixels Every interface decision either helps or hinders someone accomplishing their goals. You approach design as a conversation between user and product, ensuring clarity at every step.

Thrives in Complexity Without Creating It B2B products involve intricate workflows, but that doesn&apost mean they need to feel complicated. You excel at finding elegant solutions hidden within seemingly chaotic requirements.

Balances Speed with Craft You know when to ship the 80% solution to learn faster and when to perfect details that matter. You&aposre comfortable iterating in public while maintaining quality standards.

Thinks Beyond the Screen Great product design considers the entire user journeyfrom discovery to successful task completion months later. You design for adoption, not just usability.

You&aposll Be a Great Fit If You

Believe less is more when it comes to design

Think in solutions - can quickly generate multiple approaches to any product problem

Ask fearless questions - courageous enough to learn and suggest improvements

Obsess over details - lose sleep over colors, typography, and pixel-perfect execution

Love the full lifecycle - want involvement from discovery through shipping quality products

This Role Is NOT For You If

You need lots of direction or structured processes (you should thrive in ambiguity)

You don&apost obsess over details (we need someone who sweats the pixels)

You prefer strategy over execution (this is a craft-heavy role)

Required Experience & Skills

Experience: 1-3 years designing digital products, preferably B2B

Technical Skills:

- Figma mastery: Components, variants, layouts, libraries using atomic design principles
- Design systems thinking: Building scalable, maintainable design systems
- B2B product experience: Understanding professional user needs and complex workflows
- Frontend knowledge: HTML/CSS experience is a strong plus

Core Capabilities:

- Visual craft: Create intuitive, appealing interfaces for professional users
- Business acumen: Balance user needs with business practicality and technical constraints
- Communication: Tell compelling stories and articulate design decisions with clarity
- Autonomy: See what needs doing and take ownership to make it happen

Success Metrics

You&aposll know you&aposre successful when:

You&aposve raised the design bar - Your work becomes the standard others reference

You&aposve shipped measurable impact - Areas you own are visibly and statistically better

You operate autonomously - You identify opportunities and execute without waiting for direction

Why Almabase

Mission-Driven Impact: Your design work directly enables educational institutions to better serve students and create opportunities

Design Leadership: Shape design culture at a profitable, growing SaaS company from the ground up

Collaborative Environment: Work with a tight-knit team that values both speed and quality

Professional Growth: Learn from experienced team members while taking ownership of significant product areas

Sustainable Business: Join a profitable, bootstrapped company focused on long-term value creation

What to expect in the first year

Within the first month

- Get to know the various problems we are solving for different people in the advancement office.
- Get to know how we are solving those problems. Learn about the products we offer and how they solve pain points for our customers.
- Get to know the team you are working with. Schedule 1-1 chats with members of the Almabase team across all functions to learn about how we work.
- You will take on interface design work right from your first week - helping you understand current design processes within the product team.
- You have your first monthly 1:1 with your manager to identify priorities for your ramp-up.

Within 3 months

- Several features you&aposve designed have been released to production. You have your first quarterly review with your manager.
- You&aposve observed customer calls and user feedback sessions to understand how users interact with your designs.
- You&aposre comfortable using our design system (ARC) and contributing components and patterns.
- You&aposre collaborating effectively with engineers and PMs on design implementation and iteration.

Within 6 months

- You&aposre designing complete user flows and features from wireframes to high-fidelity mockups.
- You understand our key user personas and can design with their needs and contexts in mind.
- You&aposre contributing ideas for improving user experience based on data insights and user feedback.
- You&aposre participating in design critiques and providing thoughtful feedback on team projects.
- You can articulate your design decisions clearly to stakeholders across the organization.

Within 12 months

- You&aposre independently owning design for specific product areas or user journeys.
- You&aposre using user research, analytics, and feedback to inform and iterate on your design decisions.
- You&aposre mentoring newer team members and helping maintain design quality standards.
- You&aposre contributing to design process improvements and helping scale our design practices.
- You work with your manager to identify areas for continued growth and expanded responsibilities.

Work timings

- Our customers are primarily in the US. So any research and feedback calls that you need to conduct will happen between 4PM and 2AM IST. But apart from scheduled calls, most of the collaboration with the product and engineering team happen during the day.
- The PDEQ team works out of our office in Bangalore. Our work processes allow anybody to work remotely for extended periods of time when they need to, but in general, everybody is in the office while they are in Bangalore.
- If you are love working with people around, you will enjoy the work we do at Almabase.

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