Visual Designer I - Meesho

Job Title: Visual Designer I
Job Location: Bangalore, Karnataka
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/meesho/18d34c4d-52d5-4eb8-8f6b-4d882bad2d5b
Job Description: About the Team

Meesho is on a mission to enable 100 million businesses to succeed online. With your help, we can go beyond!
We’re making e-commerce accessible for tier-2+ markets who are new to e-commerce and have almost never transacted online before🤩 Our Design team is as diverse as our users. Today, the team comprises of 30 Designers – including Product and Visual Designers🙌
As a Visual Designer, you’ll be part of a team solving a unique problem, one that’s mostly untouched by other e-commerce players.
But wait, there’s more! We’re individuals who are obsessed with our users. We empathize. We solve at grassroots levels. We’re breaking all the barriers -- be it language, literacy, culture, or technology💪
If you’re someone who wants to work at a place that creates massive impact, then join us!

About the Role

As a Visual Designer, these skills you will bring to a team solving a unique problem, one that’s mostly untouched by other e-commerce players. We are making e-commerce accessible for Tier-2+ markets who are new to e-commerce and have rarely transacted online. A Visual Designer’s role involves a lot of creativity, quirkiness, and user understanding.

As a Visual Designer I, you will ensure consistency and quality of visual communication across all our products by using and shaping our Design System. You will closely work with the Design team to understand our customers to create illustrations, iconography, micro-transitions, and animations that will help improve our product communication with our end users. In terms of execution, you’ll build, continually evolve and document Design Systems guidelines to support Designers and Engineers.
What you will do
Bachelor’s degree in Design, or a relevant field
Define visual guidelines and standards
Work closely with Design teams in defining, designing and evolving design components, patterns, templates, guidelines, and necessary tooling
Understand user/product context to design extensible solutions that can be leveraged by other teams
Ensure consistency, a high degree of UI craft, and leverage animation and motion design in products
Schedule and facilitate regular meetings for planning and critiquing of design work
Proactively communicate updates, and enable/unblock Designers and Engineers as they run into issues
Work on illustrations, iconography, micro-transitions and animations that will help communicate better with our customers
Develop influence and working relationships with front-end engineers
What you will need
0-2 years of strong and relevant experience as a UI/Visual Designer
Resume and a portfolio that demonstrates your best work in UI, illustrations & animations
Ability to think creatively and to pay attention to detail
Deep understanding of platform-specific design patterns and Design System
Deep understanding of UX and psychology, design patterns, and research methodologies
Strong communication and collaboration skills