Design Innovation Lead

About the team

Salvador Dali once famously said “Have no fear of perfection you’ll never reach it ”. We love you Dali, but you kinda don’t know the design team at slice. Meticulousness, attention to detail, creativity - 3 strong pillars that make every design ever created at slice perfection. Check out our website and you know we ain’t lying.

About the role

If creating elegant and customer-focused designs that make people talk about it is your thing, then this role is with you. Such products come out of working in close collaboration with business, product, technology teams, and fellow designers. You would also be presenting design propositions and solutions to stakeholders using wireframes, mock-ups, or high-fidelity prototypes. Feedback is breakfast of champions, and we'd ensure you'd get as much as you need to iterate and improve to reach our mutual goal of building a world-class produ ct.

What you’ll do

Ideate and implement solutions that overlap customer needs, design and technology.

Gather requirements from stakeholders, derive problem statements and plan design engagements. Also, proactively launch efforts to improve different aspects of the product.

Be the owner & decision-maker of design for one or more major features in the consumer app.

Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and content strategists to oversee the user experience of a product from conception until it’s launch.

Ensuring design quality, consistency, and coherence within the product.

Design flows and experiences that are incredibly simple and elegant. Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.

Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to complex design roadblocks.

Collaborate and conduct user research and evaluate user feedback on designs and do iterations according to feedback.

Research, learn and implement design guidelines, best practices and design standards. Experiment and validate design ideas and opinions.

What you'll need

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent practical experience in design.

1-4 years of experience designing in consumer-focused product companies.

Expertise in design tools like Figma, Sketch, Principle etc.

Exceptional analytical skills, with an ability to quickly translate both qualitative and quantitative data-driven insights into actions.

Excellent visual design skills, experience in illustration & motion design is a plus.

Excellent communication skills & attention to details.

About us

slice

A new bank for a new India

slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good, because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.

Our cornerstone products and services : slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, and slice business are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.

We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.