Product Designer

Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all. Our mission is to drive transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector and create significant impact using the power of technology, data science and collaboration.

GradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and financial institutions in an integrated manner. It enables students to find and fund high return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an effective and efficient manner.

In the last three years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 2.8+ Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 350+ Million in loans. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India. With a strong presence in the U.S. and subsidiaries in India and commencement of UK operations, GradRight is well-poised for global expansion, having raised a Series A round of investments. GradRight’s 200+ team members across Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Kolkata and the US are led by alumni of IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, BITS Pilani, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania.

Brief about the role:

We imagine the Product Designer to contribute to productizing the entire journey of finding, selecting and financing the right college for students in conjunction with how colleges find and select students and banks fund the students. We want you to bring an unmatched student-centricity and focus on designing for the long term and large scale for a global student, university and lender ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Understand customer journeys, problems, and needs. Document the same in a way that cross-functional teams can understand and use
• Work with product managers, owners and engineering team to understand problem statements and design products/features that are technically feasible
• Drive big picture and day-to-day execution of design work work across our products, from service design to high fidelity mockups
• Establish, track and own success metrics for design and user experience across all our products
• Help build the design organization in the company and manage/mentor junior designers

Requirements:

• At least 4 - 6 years of product design experience
• An exceptional design portfolio showcasing both B2C and B2B work
• Solid understanding and experience in design research methodologies and design standards
• Practical experience in applying various UI/UX design principles
• Proficient in design software i.e Figma, Invision, Sketch
• Experience in understanding user psychology and passion for design thinking
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving aptitude

Good to have:

• Experience designing for an international audience
• Experience in ed-tech or fin-tech domains

Location:

Additional resources:

1. Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html

2. Customer testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html

3. GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram