Principal UX/UI Designer

**Principal UX/UI Designer**:
**[Pune or Bangalore] (Hybrid)****:
We are looking for an exceptional **Principal UX/UI Designer **who can confidently lead both the user experience and visual design in delivering world-class digital products for our globally recognised clients.

As the Principal Designer, you will be an instrumental part of conceptualising and delivering iterative customer-centred design projects to clients. You are a compelling storyteller and can guide the critique of user experience and visual design. You are comfortable leading, collaborating and playing a hands-on role.

**Key skills**:

- Extensive experience creating design solutions for high profile digital products or services, preferably agency, but client side will be considered.
- Experience turning a brief into action, providing design direction for and collaborating with multi-disciplinary project teams.
- Expert in industry-standard design visualisation and prototyping software (for example Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, InVision and so on).
- Highly conceptual thinking in both visual and interactive design.
- Understanding of front-end development principles and execution.
- Previous experience of managing and coaching designers is desirable.

**The role**:
In this role, you will be accountable for delivering and presenting design concepts and solutions that meet the needs of the business and its clients, guiding them through an iterative customer-centred design process.

You will be working closely with multi-disciplinary project teams and all stakeholders - both internally and externally, espousing Foolproof’s values, design philosophy and practice.

You will play a part in the scoping and planning activity of design deliverables, report on the status of such deliverables to the programme management team and notify them of any risks.

Where possible, to support the wider sales team by identifying business opportunities, support pitches, and generating ideas and suggestions for prospective work.

With this in mind, you need to be self-organised and proactive.

**Our methodology**:

- Plan, design and deliver beautiful customer-centred digital products and services as part of a cross-disciplinary team.
- Champion experimentation, conceptual thinking and creative expression in the design process.
- Deepen and evolve expertise in creating design systems for our clients.
- Thought leadership in branding, visual design and design systems, such as contributing to conferences and industry panels.
- Define the best approach to client briefs, assist in scoping work and participate in pitch teams.

**Who we are**:
We design, engineer and optimise products and services that improve the lives of millions of people all over the world. With studios in the UK, India and South Africa, we operate globally.

We imagine, create and deliver products and services rooted in genuine user needs. We also partner with our parent company Zensar, a leading digital and technology solutions provider. Together, we execute digital transformation programmes for major brands.

We're welcoming new talent into the Foolproof fold and want to ensure it’s just as diverse as the world around us. That's why we want to hear from everyone regardless of background, identity or ability. Different perspectives make us who we are and our work a success.

**Our values**:
**Foolproof benefit**:
Foolproof is full of people who genuinely care about each other. It’s a place where you are free to express yourself in an environment that values individuality, nurtures development and is mindful of wellbeing.

**When you join us, you’ll gain access to a number of unique benefits including**:

- A fair market-related salary
- Medical insurance: additional cover is also available for your parents and parents-in-law
- Master health-check program; for those 40 years and over there is a special facility of a check-up under the Executive Health Plan
- 31 days of leave per year. This will include 18 days of privilege leave and 12 days flexi leave, plus 1 day of optional leave for a birthday or anniversary. Flexi leave can be availed as casual leave and sick leave. Paternity Leave is over and above these 31 days for 5 days.
- Access to a day care center in Pune if you have children between 7 months and 8 years.
- Relevant client, project, work examples, in the form of a portfolio, that demonstrate design thinking and doing.
- Links to other creative assets website or other channels where you have shared design