Product Designer II

Bangalore, Karnataka
Permanent
Full-time

27 days ago
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About CareemCareem is THE internet platform for the greater Middle East region. A pioneer of the region's ride-hailing economy, Careem is expanding services across its platform to include mass transportation, delivery and payments to become the region's everyday SuperApp. Careem's mission is to simplify and improve the lives of people and build a lasting organisation that inspires. Careem was established in July 2012, and was acquired by Uber in 2020. Careem operates in over 100 cities across 14 countries and has created more than one million employment opportunities in the region.Job DescriptionAbout the team:Careem Grocery is on a mission to reinvent the way people shop for grocery, pharmacy and retail products. As an exciting new vertical within Careem (a startup within a startup), were in the early stages of building our product and have plenty of interesting and fundamental challenges to solve in order to achieve our ambitious growth goals in this burgeoning space.As a Product Designer and part of the design team at Careem, you will be at the forefront of innovation, working witha team of talented productdesigners to deliver world-class experiences.You'll embark on a thrilling journey, delving into rich data insights, and crafting ingenious hypotheses. With your experiments and innovations, you'll create meaningful connections between our users and the value they seek. Your passion for uncovering untapped opportunities to meet customer needs will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our organization, guiding work for a significant product area, and handling complex projects with overlapping organizational lines, driving the user experience strategy and championing design excellence.You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business goals into intuitive, engaging, and visually stunning experiences. Your work will have a direct impact on millions of users, captains and partners transforming their interactions and enhancing their lives on a daily basis.What you'll do:

Contribute to the UX design strategy, aligning it with business goals, industry best practices, and emerging trends.
Advocate for user-centered design principles, championing the importance of empathy, research, and iterative design methodologies throughout the organization.
Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of user experience design into the product development process.
Contribute to user studies, usability testing, and gather insights to inform the design strategy and optimize the user journey.
Create, collaborate, and iterate on wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs, ensuring they adhere to best practices in interaction design, accessibility, and visual aesthetics.
Contribute & support in the maintenance of thedesign system, style guides, and UI components to ensure consistency, efficiency, and scalability across products and platforms.
Stay up to date with the latest trends, technologies, and design innovations, sharing knowledge and inspiring the team to push boundaries and explore new possibilities.
Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align design initiatives with the overall business strategy, presenting compelling design concepts and advocating for user needs.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of design processes, tools, and methodologies, optimizing efficiency and quality throughout the design lifecycle.
Help deliver and refine clear storytelling around product needs and opportunities
Design and ship high quality product improvements
Support the evolution of the design processes within the broader org to optimize for efficiency
Nurture and champion the design culture at Careem

We'd love to hear from you if:

You love tackling complex and ambiguous problems and shaping them into clear goals
You strive to find answers to difficult questions, garnering insights from research & data to close the gaps in knowledge
You leverage prototyping skills to articulate your designs, especially in cases where interactions may be particularly nuanced
You value high quality well crafted visual & interaction design, and care about the details
You are comfortable leading large initiatives
You advocate for user needs, leveraging insights to create better designs while making sure everything built is scalable and follows our guidelines, best practices and standards
You love supporting team members passing on your skills/ to helpshaping the next generation of designers

What youll need:

4+ years of extensive product design experience with a strong focus on excellent craft and a proven track record of contributing toprojects with demonstrated impact on the organization success
UnderstandingGrowth domains and data-informed design approach
Strategic and critical thinking, paired with flexibility and being open minded
Ability to effectively contribute to end-to-end design process within your team

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