Job Title Senior Brand & UI/UX Designer – Motion & Animation Specialist Employment Type Full-time, permanent (40 hrs / week) Location Chennai, India – Onsite Reports To Head of Design / Creative Director Role Overview As the senior design authority, you will own our entire visual and interactive language. From crafting a distinctive logo system to prototyping micro-animations that elevate user delight, you will translate strategy into cohesive, high-impact experiences across web, mobile, and marketing touch-points. Key Responsibilities Brand Strategy & Identity Lead brand-discovery workshops and define visual guidelines (logo, colour, typography, iconography, tone). Audit existing assets and drive consistency across print, digital, and environmental media. UI/UX Design Translate product requirements into user flows, wireframes, and pixel-perfect UI in Figma . Build and maintain a scalable design system (components, tokens, motion specs). Conduct usability tests, A/B experiments, and iterate based on insights. Motion & Interaction Design Create micro-interactions, onboarding flows, and short videos using After Effects, Lottie, Rive , or similar tools. Optimise animations for performance on web and mobile. Collaboration & Leadership Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing from concept to ship. Present work to executives, clearly articulating user value and business impact. Mentor junior designers and champion best-practice processes. Quality Control & Handoff Prepare production-ready assets and detailed interaction specs for developers. Conduct visual QA before release and close the feedback loop post-launch. Required Qualifications 6 + years of hands-on design experience, including at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity. Expert-level proficiency with Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects , and related motion tools (Lottie, Rive, Principle, etc.). A portfolio demonstrating end-to-end brand identity projects, responsive web & native mobile UI/UX work, and live motion/animation pieces. Deep knowledge of interaction patterns, accessibility (WCAG 2.1), typography, colour theory, and brand strategy. Excellent verbal and written communication skills; comfortable justifying design decisions with user data and business goals. Nice-to-Have Skills 3D or AR prototyping (Blender, Cinema 4D, Figma Dev Mode, CAD). Experience with analytics tools (GA4, Hotjar, Mixpanel). Working knowledge of HTML/CSS, modern front-end frameworks, or animation libraries (GSAP, Framer Motion). Success Metrics High brand-consistency compliance across all artefacts. Reduction in design-to-development cycle time. Uplift in key product metrics (conversion, engagement, retention) attributed to design initiatives. Positive mentorship feedback and skill growth within the design team. Show more Show less

Head of Architecture and Technology (Hands-On, High-Ownership) Company: Elysium PTE. LTD. Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu — at office Employment Type: Full-time, permanent Compensation: ₹15 L fixed CTC + up to 5 % ESOP (performance-linked vesting, 4-year schedule with 1-year cliff) Reports to: Founding Team ________________________________________ About Elysium Elysium is a founder-led studio headquartered in Singapore with its delivery hub in Chennai. We are currently building a global gaming-based mar-tech platform while running a premium digital-services practice (branding, immersive web, SaaS MVPs, AI-powered solutions). We thrive on speed, experimentation and shared ownership. ________________________________________ The opportunity We’re looking for a hungry technologist who can work in an early-stage start-up along with the founders to build ambitious global products & services. You’ll code hands-on every week, shape product architecture, and grow a lean engineering pod—owning both our flagship product and client deliveries. ________________________________________ What you will achieve in your first 12 months • Co-ordinate & develop the In-house products with internal & external teams. • Build and mentor a six-to-eight-person engineering/design squad that hits ≥ 85 % on time delivery for IT-service clients. • Cut mean time-to-deployment to under 30 minutes through automated CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code. • Implement GDPR-ready data flows and a zero-trust security baseline across all projects. • Publish quarterly tech radars and internal playbooks that keep the team learning and shipping fast. ________________________________________ Day-to-day responsibilities • Resource management & planning using the internal & external teams with respect to our products & client deliveries. • Pair-program and review pull requests to enforce clean, testable code. • Translate product/user stories into domain models, sprint plans and staffing forecasts. • Design cloud architecture (AWS / GCP) that balances cost and scale; own IaC, monitoring and on-call until an SRE is hired. • Evaluate and manage specialist vendors for parts of the flagship app; hold them accountable on quality and deadlines. • Scope and pitch technical solutions in client calls; draft SoWs and high-level estimates with founders. • Coach developers and designers, set engineering KPIs, run retrospectives and post-mortems. • Prepare technical artefacts for future fundraising and participate in VC diligence. ________________________________________ Must-have Requirements • 5 – 8 years modern full-stack development with at least one product shipped to >10 k MAU or comparable B2B scale. • Expert knowledge of modern full-stack ecosystems: Node.js or Python or Go; React/Next.js; distributed data stores (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka or similar). • Deep familiarity with AWS, GCP or Azure, including cost-optimized design, autoscaling, serverless patterns, container orchestration and IaC tools such as Terraform or CDK. • Demonstrated ownership of DevSecOps practices: CI/CD, automated testing matrices, vulnerability scanning, SRE dashboards and incident post-mortems. • Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex trade-offs to founders, designers, marketers and non-technical investors. • Hunger to learn, ship fast, and own meaningful equity in lieu of a senior-corporate pay check. ________________________________________ Nice-to-have extras • Prior work in fintech, ad-tech or loyalty. • Experience with WebGL/Three.js, real-time event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), LLM pipelines & Blockchain. • Exposure to seed- or Series-A fundraising, investor tech diligence or small-team leadership. ________________________________________ What we offer • ESOP of up to 5 % on a 4-year vest (1-year cliff) with performance accelerators tied to product milestones. • Direct influence on tech stack, culture and product direction—your code and decisions will shape the company’s valuation. • A team that values curiosity, transparency and shipping beautiful work at start-up speed. ________________________________________