Key Details
- Location: Bangalore
- Work Experience: 7 years Exp (5 years in UI/UX Design and 2 years in Product design)
- Employment type: Full-time role
About Company
We are on a mission to make education affordable to everyone by helping universities & schools build better relationships with their alumni, which leads to increased donations.
- Democratising quality education: Quality education is a great equalizer. When many students receive scholarships to access education because of alumni generosity they pay-it-forward when they have the capacity to do so. We derive our inspiration from actions like this
- Building a large profitable business: We envision building a capital-efficient, large profitable business to achieve our mission of democratising quality education. This means less dependence on investors & more ownership with the team. We are one of the few profitable Indian SaaS startups building Value SaaS.
- Employee Wellness Customer Success: We give as much importance to each team member's personal & professional success as much as we care about our customer's success. We believe it's all about balance. Our recent WFH policies reflect this belief.
Our impact so far
- 3 million alumni connected
- 450,000 students impacted
- $3 million donations raised
- 54 million engagement opportunities created
- 32 months since profitability
Why should you join Almabase
- Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who wants to take up challenging work & push your personal boundaries, then this is the right place for you. This article does a fantastic job of articulating the growth mindset we're trying to develop - https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/29/carol-dweck-mindset/
- Great Salary & Equity: For our top performers and leaders, we grant stock options. As Almabase continues to grow, you'll have a real opportunity to create wealth for yourself and your family. We'll ensure you are financially well-off in the end.
- Holistic Growth: Building a career doesn't have to be at the cost of missing out on your personal front. We believe that professional success is worth when the personal goals are nurtured with equal importance. We will support you on that journey of yours.
- Transparency: If you ever wanted to know what it's like to be on an entrepreneurial journey, then working with Almabase gives you that opportunity to experience it all first hand.
- Food & Snacks: You'll never have to worry about your hunger pangs. We provide tasty home cooked food & snacks at all times of the day. Obviously this is applicable when you are in office only :)
- Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage for you & your dependents.
- Unlimited leaves & work-from-home: There is no ceiling to the leaves or work from home days. Our only policy is that you use your good judgment. We only care about the work being effective and on-time. Do it from wherever you want to do it.
- The comfort of home: On a tiring day, if you want to take a break on a bed or if you want to jog & take a shower at work or play your hearts our on PS4.
- Remote-work friendly: Allowances to setup workspace at home and recurring allowances to make you happier and more productive. Team bonding activities like quizzes, games and more.
Roles and responsibilities
The PDEQ team at Almabase is a roughly 20-member team across product, design, engineering, and quality.
You will be joining the team at a time when we need to continue innovating on some of our best-selling products globally while building the for our next wave of customers.
As a Senior Product Designer, you will need to be research driven, explore solutions collaboratively, bring an experimental mindset, and have a sharp eye as we ship delightful experiences to our customers worldwide.
You will start off designing experiences on the integrations team - a team that simplifies complex integrations. But over time, we'd want you to grow into a design leader and oversee the design function at Almabase.
- You will work on some of the most complex user journeys on Almabase - Database Integrations. This team builds interfaces that help the user define how data is exchanged between databases in real-time.
- Identify improvements to the design system and standardise interface across a wide span of Almabase products.
- You will be involved in peer review of design releases happening on other teams.
- You will report to the Head of Product.
Location & Timings
- Our customers are primarily in the US. So any research and feedback calls that you need to conduct will happen between 4PM and 2AM IST. But apart from scheduled calls, most of the collaboration with the product and engineering team happen during the day.
- The PDEQ team works out of our office in Bangalore. Our work processes allow anybody to work remotely for extended periods of time when they need to, but in general, everybody is in the office while they are in Bangalore.
- If you are love working with people around, you will enjoy the work we do at Almabase.
Requirements
- You have at least 5 years of experience building UI/UX and at least 2 years of work as a product designer building a B2B product.
- You can write great copy, and have great communications skills.
- Product and design are intertwined at Almabase. You have to be enthusiastic about breaking down complex problems with design.
- Almabase is a B2B company with a multiple products. We're looking for someone who has experience building and understand the nuances of multi-product and multi-user platforms.
- This is not a UX research role. You have to be great with visuals and be comfortable with iterating on interfaces quickly on Figma
