Product Designer Ii

About us
We are building this and this and this
In short, we are building the platform to drive global careers for millennials from emerging economies We work at the exciting intersection of the 2 hottest trends around - edtech & fintech And we love that we succeed as a business while powering the dreams of talented students
Founder Profile
Arnav Kumar is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. Leap is his second company and he has raised more than $30M in capital for his startups. In his last role, he was a VC investor with SAIF Partners (Now Elevation Capital), which is an early investor in paytm, meesho, urban company, unacademy and many other unicorns. He thinks and tweets about Product, Business Models and Company Building
Vaibhav Singh is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. He spent his first 6 years at DeutscheBank, across Singapore & Sydney to manage a $3Bn flow book. He has built 2 fintech startups before, as a founding member of CapitalFloat and Incred, both pioneering businesses valued >$500Mn The Leap team has a fine balance of industry experience (edtech, fintech, study abroad) and technical skills (engineering, product, design)
About the Role
We are looking for a Product Designer II at Leap.
Join us in revolutionising user experiences through collaboration and cutting-edge design. Drive engagement with intuitive interfaces, fueled by B2C expertise and customer insights. Stay ahead of trends, driving continuous innovation. Ready to make an impact?
**The charter for this role will include**:
Collaborate effectively with product, engineering, and business teams to deeply understand the problems you're solving for our customers, and explore multiple high-level approaches to solving them
Design our experience and visual elements and evolve them further as our products mature and scale.
Design prototypes and perform usability testing/guerilla testing of your design work
Ensure the voice of the customer is present by incorporating customer feedback, usage metrics, and usability findings into design
Contribute towards shaping our design standards and patterns.
**Ideal Persona would**:
Have 2 - 4 years of experience as a product designer in a B2C setup
Contribute in building design culture, in addition to individual contribution.
Have working knowledge of the Figma and how component libraries/design systems are set up there.
Have knowledge of technical constraints and best practices in designing of digital platforms and responsive web design principles.
Have a true focus on the customer—you make your design decisions based on research, including interviews, usability testing and quantitative data
Be passionate to learn and grow every day and curious about the “why” of design, as well as the “what”
Have an interest in designing for customer growth and engagement.
Have experience working on consumer facing products where you have been through the life-cycle of design and release iterations (Optional).
Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies.
Mutual Respect
We love people who are ‘relentlessly resourceful’. Find your way out. Focus on the possibilities instead of the problems.
Bias for action
We take calculated risks backed by data and information available and encourage fail fast to find the best solutions as soon as possible
Learn & get better
Continuous learning and improvement is the key. We don’t stop learning. We treat feedback as a gift and as an opportunity to get better.
Growth mindset
We operate with a growth mindset and not a mindset of fear or judgement. You are in control of your own ability to learn and improve. We love Resilience.