Product Designer

Product Designer (UI/UX Designer) || Digiaccel Learning || Work from Office - Gurugram

What is Digiaccel Learning?

Digiaccel Learning is an education company for professionals to upskill on in- demand digital skills. Founded by ex HUL leaders in 2022, Digiaccel is building a system for working professionals to learn skills that help accelerate their careers through various outcomes – career transitions, getting promoted or doing better at work.

In almost 4 years, the company has over 6000+ paying learners and is well on its 1 to 10 journeys. We have also setup our own institute in Cybercity, Gurugram to help students land their dream careers in eCommerce, Brand, and Product roles with the help of our industry-backed education.

Where would you fit?

Digiaccel is looking for a Product Designer (UI/UX Designer) to lead the design thinking for various touchpoints for Digiaccel. These would include our entire web presence as well as all our learning products. The person would work closely with the founders on thinking and strategy, and with the product and engineering team to bring the design to life. He/She will work with other designers and cross-functional team members and will rely heavily on both qualitative and quantitative data to make informed decisions. The person will have end-to-end ownership of the UI to enhance the user experience and deliver delight at each touchpoint.

What you will be responsible for?

• Work closely with the product team to define design thinking for Digiaccel

• Ownership of all things design – website, learner experience on different products

• Create a design system for all Digiaccel products to deliver a consistent experience and speed up development cycles as well

• Collaborate with other design team members for consistent communication

• Drive a user-centric design approach with rapid testing and iterative prototyping

• Working with the engineering team to ensure immaculate execution of ideas

• Establish systems to monitor platform behavior and register user feedback to constantly enhance learner experience

Skills and Experience

• Formal degree in design from a reputed institute preferably with a specialization in Interaction Design or Visual Communication

• 2-4 years of experience in design and proficiency in prototyping tools such as Figma or Adobe XD

• Previous experience of working in a design role for a product-led company

• Have an exceptional portfolio demonstrating strong product and visual design sensibilities and experience in creating concepts, customer journeys from scratch

• Excellence at communicating design decisions and justifying them to peers and stakeholders

• A track record of working with teams to deliver quality software products for web and mobile platforms

• Intellectual honesty, passion for excellence and ability to collaborate

About the Company

Digiaccel Learning is an edtech company aimed at solving for digital skilling in India. As technology evolves, the skills required by the job market are very different from the traditional skills that the formal education system in India prepares students for. These new age careers like digital marketing, eCommerce, data science, UI/ UX are not facilitated by traditional education institutes and need an alternate pathway of upskilling and placement. Digiaccel aims to facilitate this pathway for graduating students and working professionals looking to shift to digital careers.

Digiaccel is setup by experienced industry professionals with deep expertise in eCommerce and digital marketing. The curriculum is designed and taught by industry professionals. It is application based and intended to give learners hands on experience to real work problems and situations. The company has some very strong industry validation and has signed up some of India’s largest consumer and consumer tech companies as placement partners.

Digiaccel is well funded by a large US based VC fund. It also has some marquee founders like Mr. Kamesh Goyal (Digit Insurance), Varun Alagh (Mamaearth) among its investors.

About Altera Institute

Altera is reimagining what business education should look like in the digital age. Traditional MBA programs were built for an offline world. While companies struggle to find execution-ready talent, students lack access to careers they deserve. We’re solving this by reimagining business education from scratch - curriculum, pedagogy, placements - all built around what drives outcomes in the real world.

From the Founders

We are looking for smart passionate folks to join us in the mission of building a better, smarter and more outcome-oriented education system, thereby enabling thousands of learners to meet their career aspirations. We are a young company and look on our early team as the culture co-founders. We can assure of a very talent dense, intellectually honest, action oriented and collaborative environment. We endeavor to bring joy to work by enabling everyone to bring their best self and do their best work. We are sure that you will join for the opportunity and stay for the experience.