UI Designer- Apprenticeship

Are you a UI/Visual designer awaiting the opportunity to experience what it feels when your work lands up in the hands of millions of users worldwide? Do you have the visual finesse to craft digital UI’s with a knack to rationalize your design decisions? This would be a full-time apprenticeship, you would absorb the functional domain skills, business and market domain knowledge and above all Nbyula’s core organizational values, through an immersive, learn-via-building apprenticeship. We would be ecstatic to make you a full-time terraformer if you continue leveling-up throughout your apprenticeship **Who is an ideal match for being a terraformer at Nbyula?** All the attributes that we are looking for in an ideal teammate. - **Openness - **We welcome people from different backgrounds and schools of thought, Terraformers are open to different perspectives in approaching a solution and not just limit their thoughts or ideas to only a specific domain - **Conscientiousness-** We believe in working together for the larger goal and with complete dedication and not just for personal benefits, however we do not expect terraformers to work to the point of burnout - **Humility-** Being humble, grateful and respectful are the core traits of terraformers, we do not expect people to agree with every view of the management, feel free to have a different perspective but we always expect it to be put forward with respect - **Risk Takers - **Terraformers are not afraid of the unknown and are open to new things, not that we encourage extreme risks without weighing the consequences but we are ones who take calculated risks - **Autodidacts - **Terraformers teach themselves to learn, we do our own research to get solutions, we do not expect you to have a blank slate and figure everything out yourself, we are here to guide you but not handhold and micromanage you - **Self-Actualization - **Terraformers are on the path of self-actualization, we are not bothered by the noise and distractions around us, we only work towards achieving our full potential. We do not expect you to over-burden yourself and not have fun but we expect you to work to the best of your capabilities **Roles, Responsibilities & Expectations**: - Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers, interaction designers and user researchers - Research, synthesize and conceptualize ideas and requirements into pixel perfect UI mockups backed by reasoning - Closely work with the engineering team for implementing and reviewing final deliverables according to the design specs - Maintain and evolve the Nbyula design system **Qualifications & Skills**: - We’re open to consider if you are pursuing or have completed your B.Des (Bachelor of Design), M.Des (Master of Design), B.Arch, M.Arch, BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts), B.Sc., BE, or a B.Tech degree. If your academics are from a design background then you may specialize in Product Design, Industrial Design, Transportation Design, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Multimedia Interaction Design, Retail Design, Animation, Film and Video, User Experience, Fashion Design, Visual Communication Design, Design Management, Game Design, or Architecture - A portfolio of your work is a must - Experience in designing pixel-perfect mockups for digital products for both web and native platforms - Strong typography, layout, visual, and user-system interaction design skills - Good knowledge of working with grid systems and responsive web layouts - Good knowledge of UI components that are consistent with the brand identity - Good knowledge of mobile design patterns and guidelines for Android and iOS platforms - Demonstrated proficiency at using Figma/Photoshop/Illustrator/Zeplin - Experience in motion design is a plus - Years of experience is not a bar but it’s an (optional) plus if you have any experience from a design-led organization in the past **About Us**: Nbyula is a German technology brand headquartered in Berlin with a Research & Development Center in Bengaluru, Karnataka, operational since 2014. Nbyula believes in creating an open world, where opportunities and talent are not hindered by borders or bureaucracies. Nbyula is materializing this by leveraging the bleeding edge of technologies like cloud, distributed computing, crowdsourcing, automation, gamification, and many more. The north star is to create a horizontal marketplace encompassing people, content, products & services for international work and studies, to enable, train and empower "Skillizens without Borders''. **Job Perks**: - Opportunity to help build the next-big-what in the ed-tech space like it’s never been attempted before. Your work will be on the live wire in front of millions of users. - Gaming chairs to keep you comfortably on a high - Live music on the floor while you work - Access to thousands of books - Snacks on the house. Fill up on your favorite munchies, select your poison of choice from sencha green to doubl