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**About the company**:
Upstox is one of India's leading Fin-Tech companies with a mission to simplify trading & investing to make it easily accessible to the masses. We aim to enable everyone, from new investors to seasoned traders, to invest across multiple categories with our **state-of-the-art trade & investment platform** and **commission-free pricing**. We offer numerous asset categories to invest in, like Stocks, Digital Gold, IPOs, Mutual Funds, and more.

By focusing on our customers’ needs and equipping them with personalized yet powerful tools, we witnessed a steep growth of 800% in our customer base from **25 Thousand** in 2017 to **2 Lakh** in 2019. With 1500% growth in 2020, currently, over **3 million** customers trust us with their investment decisions, thus setting us on the course to become an industry-leader in the country.

Our mission is simple - to break down the complexities of investing and make it more effortless, accessible, affordable, and easy for the masses to adopt. This key principle when infused with intuitive design and leading-edge technology will help us empower every Indian to take control of their investments.

RKSV Securities was founded by Ravi Kumar and Shrinivas Viswanath in **2009 **and was soon graced by Kavitha Subramanian as the third co-founder in **2016**. Backed by Ratan Tata, Upstox had raised **$4 million **in Series A funding in early **2016** that was led by Kalaari Capital. The **Series B** funding round scaled multifold and witnessed an investment of **$25 million** by US-based investment firm - Tiger Global Management in **September 2019.**

We are scaling our design teams across all verticals (UX, UI, Research) to deliver products aligned with our customer's needs and innovate on their behalf. If you get excited about transforming complex technical & financial problems into simple customer-friendly solutions, then you will love being part of the Upstox family. Our design team is headed by Divye Bokdia.

**Role: Lead UX Designer**

As a senior design team member, you will be leading the design process, establish a strong working backward process from the customer, raise the bar for design deliverables, collaborate with all the involved teams including product, engineering, marketing, customer growth, etc. collect and utilize customer insights to make product decisions, help define the long term vision and strategy from the product and design perspective.

**Responsibilities**:
Planning and delivering UX designs while working closely with cross-functional teams

Own end-to-end UX process based on existing product vision and business requirements

Creating information architectures, task flows, user interaction models, wireframe, screen flows, prototypes, detailed designs, design briefs, design specifications, and guidelines with little direction

Create and communicate end-to-end scenarios, interaction models, wireframes, prototypes, and specs to stakeholders

Help lead improvements to process and relationships beyond scope of individual work with a track record of influencing the product direction

Lead data-driven design methodologies to champion refinements of the product until the usability and experience reach a delightful experience and success criteria

Be highly adaptable in an ever-changing startup environment

**Required Skills and Experience**:
7-9 years of work experience as a UX designer in the tech domain

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in design, human factors, HCI, or a related discipline

An online portfolio that demonstrates your design thinking, approach to the problem, and design deliverables like conceptual models, navigation and user flows, information design, and mock-ups

Effectively collaborating with a cross-functional team to ensure stakeholder alignment

Ability to filter the noise and identify the root cause of the customer problem using data from various sources

Excellent written and verbal skills to communicate with stakeholders and senior leadership

Self-motivated to think outside the box and can navigate through ambiguous situations

Experience leading and mentoring a small team of product designers