UX/UI Designer

UX/UI Designer

Location: Pune, India
Department: R&D Product Management
Employment Type: Full-time
Work Type: Hybrid

Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company. We deliver innovation and services that enable enterprises to operate sustainably, intelligently, and efficiently. Our platform, Aera Decision Cloud, integrates with your existing systems to digitize, augment, and automate decisions in real time. Aera helps enterprises around the world transform decision making delivering millions of recommendations that have resulted in significant revenue gains and cost savings for some of the worlds best-known brands.

As a UX Designer, you will be contributing to redesigning our existing product with a modern customer-centric user interface and defining the end-to-end experience for new products/initiatives, working collaboratively with other designers, product management, and the engineering team.

• User research & discovery: Plan and run interviews, task analysis, surveys; synthesize insights into personas and opportunity maps.
• Information architecture: Define navigation, taxonomy, and content hierarchy; design flows for key journeys and edge cases.
• Interaction design: Create wireframes, user flows, and prototypes (lowhigh fidelity); specify component behaviors and micro-interactions.
• Visual & motion design: Establish visual hierarchy, layout, typography, iconography, motion principles; ensure consistency and craft.
• Design systems: Build and maintain reusable components, tokens, and patterns; partner with engineering for implementation parity.
• Accessibility: Design and review for WCAG compliance (contrast, focus, semantics, ARIA), keyboard/voice support, captions/alt text.
• Usability testing: Plan and run tests, A/Bs, heuristic reviews; translate findings into iterations.
• Content design: Write and structure UI copy, error messages, empty states, and onboarding.
• Dev collaboration: Provide specs, states, and assets; participate in sprint ceremonies, QA design.
• AI experience strategy: Identify where AI adds value (assist, automate, augment); prioritize use cases and define the role of the AI.

• Task success rate: PERCENT of attempts that meet acceptance criteria (if no change requests come from PM team)
• State coverage: PERCENT of shipped flows with full specs.
• Error & recovery: rate of UX-preventable errors;
• Accessibility compliance: WCAG issues per release;
• Designdev parity: PERCENT components/states implemented to spec; escaped UX bugs post-release.
• State coverage: PERCENT of key flows documented across ideal/empty/loading/error/permission states.
• Experiment velocity: A/Bs or usability studies run per quarter.

• 36 years designing end-to-end web product experiences with shipped work.
• Strong interaction visual craft: flows, wireframes, prototypes, component specs, accessibility (WCAG 2.2).
• User research hands-on: plan/run interviews and usability tests; turn findings into decisions.
• Design systems: contribute components/tokens, work with engineers to achieve parity in code.
• Content design basics: clear microcopy, states, error messages, and empty/loading patterns.
• Collaboration: agile rituals, developer handoff, QA of UX details; excellent written/spoken communication.
• Tools: Figma (auto-layout, variants), FigJam/Miro, prototyping (Figma prototypes), Jira.
• AI UX literacy: knows when to assist/automate/augment; can design for ambiguity, partial confidence, and recovery.
• Great presentation skills and comfortable justification for the design decisions you made.
• Leading simultaneous projects with fast turnarounds.
• Familiarity and comfort in working with engineers - willingness to learn the technical constraints of implementing certain design principles.
• Last but not least, take pride in the work and have a positive attitude.

If you share our passion for building a sustainable, intelligent, and efficient world, youre in the right place. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, we're a series D start-up, with teams in Mountain View, San Francisco (California), Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Paris (France), Munich (Germany), London (UK), Pune (India), and Sydney (Australia). So join us, and lets build this

Aera Technology is an equal-opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Aera Technology, we strive to support our Aeranauts and their loved ones through different stages of life with a variety of attractive benefits and great perks. In addition to offering a competitive salary and company stock options, we have other great benefits available. Youll find comprehensive medical, Group Medical Insurance, Term Insurance, Accidental Insurance, paid time off, Maternity leave, and much more. We offer unlimited access to online professional courses for both professional and personal development, coupled with people manager development programs. We believe in a flexible working environment, to allow our Aeranauts to perform at their best, ensuring a healthy work-life balance. When youre working from the office, youll also have access to a fully-stocked kitchen with a selection of snacks and beverages.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.