User Interface Designer

Company Profile:

Komli Media is an early stage startup developing a range of exciting products for digital media. Komli is run by a small team of highly-qualified, dynamic individuals with work experience at companies such as Microsoft, McKinsey and Symantec. Komli’s leadership studied at some top universities including Harvard and IIT, and has raised over US$40 million in venture capital for some of their past ventures. Our offices are in New York, Mumbai and Pune.

Position: User Interface Designer

Location: Mumbai

User Interface Designer

The User Interface Designer conceptualizes and evaluates web site design ideas, and then builds aesthetically pleasing graphics and layouts. The designer is capable of determining when and how to expose complexity to a user. The designer brings creativity, strength in User Experience Design and excellent graphic design skills.

Essential Job Functions

• Design interactive user interfaces for our web sites and web-based applications including visual look & feel, graphics, styles, navigation, and layout.
• Maintain a consistent user experience through strict attention to detail.
• Develop detailed storyboards, mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas to product managers and engineers.
• Articulate and champion innovative design approaches.
• Formulate ideas on how we can improve customer adaptation by enhancing our user interface designs.

Qualifications
We are looking for individuals with strong creative skills and a keen interest to design for the new web paradigm.

• 4+ years experience designing web-based interfaces.
• Passionate about user experience and demonstrated expertise building simple yet effective interfaces. Strong sense of clean visual design.
• Academic background in human-computer interaction or related field.
• Ability to conceptualize and present design ideas & concepts through mock-ups/ wire frames/ or product walk-through and understand user patterns through web analytics, user surveys and interviews.
• Strong experience with tools such as Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, Dreamweaver, Go Live etc.
• Understanding of HTML, XHTML, CSS a huge plus.
• Experience designing for and troubleshooting cross browser compatibility issues.

Salary and Benefits:

• Salary commensurate with experience
• Cash bonus at the end of the year based on performance
• Stock options
• Free snacks in the office
• Medical insurance

At Komli we are trying to build a great place to work and with your input can make it better.   For example, Komli offers unlimited vacation (you know when you are ready to take a break, just get your work done).  We also have a completely open door policy allowing anyone to interact with anyone in the company, and encourage suggestions from everyone to make us more productive, efficient, and fun.  We expect every member of the team to help us go in new directions and do new things! If this resonates with you, then apply to joinCreative@komli.com with the job title in the subject line.