UX / UI Designer at Kickdrum - India

About Kickdrum

We turn your complex challenges into products that transform the trajectory of your business.

Kickdrum is a world class team of software professionals that helps large enterprises deliver dramatic results. Collectively, we have worked with over 100 of the Fortune 500. Our core team averages 15 years of enterprise experience. We deploy lean, specialized all-stars who are thought leaders but who wouldn't be satisfied unless they're rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands dirty.

We have special expertise in:

• Taking out cost with the cloud, collaborative tools, and project management best practices.
• Web, mobile, and app development that enhances, improves, and increases visits, conversion, acquisition, and adoption.
• Drastically lowering the cost of directed development through offshoring, outsourcing.
• Building and motivating large geographically distributed teams.
• Partnering, empowering, streamlining and coaching large corporate IT teams.
• Developing, targeting, and achieving real operational business metrics.
• Vast exposure to diverse industries including healthcare, retail, automotive, telecom, food & beverage, hi-tech, consumer electronics, real estate, banking.
• Digital marketing and advertising, online acquisition and conversion, SEO/SEM, eCommerce, enterprise configuration, pricing, and quoting, CRM, content and product information and lifecycle management, and procurement systems.

Job Description

Function: Design and Creative → UX / Visual Design

As a UX/UI Designer -AI Powered, you will be responsible for creating AI-enhanced user experiences that are both powerful and approachable. This role uniquely blends design and engineering, requiring 70% expertise in design and 30% in development.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the full design process, from discovery to ideation, execution, and handoff to engineers.
• Create various design deliverables, including journey maps, wireframes, user flows, UI designs, and prototypes.
• Utilise AI deep research tools like Google Gemini for preliminary research, insights gathering, data collection, and both quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Design, develop, and maintain reusable UI components on Figma that are additionally compatible with AI tools.
• Leverage AI coding assistants (v0 Replit, Figma AI) whenever required to accelerate design iterations, UI prototyping, testing, and efficient handoff.
• Collaborate effectively with engineering teams for seamless design implementation.
• Build functional prototypes using v0 Figma Make.

Requirements:

• At least 4 years of combined experience in UX/UI design and front-end development.
• Hands-on experience with AI tools - Figma AI, v0 Google Gemini.
• Experience collaborating across design, product management, engineering, and research.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex design concepts and rationale to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership and clients.
• Understanding of front-end frameworks and ability to implement code.
• Proficiency with HTML5/CSS3 with responsive design, CSS frameworks (Tailwind CSS, Material-UI).
• Knowledge of prompt engineering for AI-assisted design and content generation.
• Familiarity with WebGL/Three.js for advanced visualisations.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, able to prioritise, and manage multiple projects.
• Experience with UI development is a big plus.
• Demonstrated use of GenAI in discovery and/or delivery processes that improved work or design.
• Passion for experimenting with emerging AI tools and an experimental approach.
• A desire to contribute to a culture of human-AI collaborative practices.
• Hands-on experience with Git version control.
• Comfortable with browser developer tools (Chrome DevTools, React DevTools).

Why Explore a Career at Kickdrum

We are a bunch of geeks who love to solve tough problems that others would cringe to go anywhere near. Technology is just a tool for us. What brings us closer is our deep belief in collaboration, quality and continuous learning. We try to keep things simple and transparent. We care less about titles, team hierarchy and even where someone works out of. We hold a high technical bar for our new hires but equally care about the culture and compatibility.

We are technology agnostic in our approach. Having said that, here are the technologies we are currently working with:

• Backend: Java, C++, Python
• Frontend: MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express. js, AngularJS, and Node. js)
• Database: Relational (SQL) and Non-relational (NoSQL) DBs
• Data Science: R
• DevOps: AWS, Atlassian

Here are a few more things we offer:

• Flexible leave policy, Flexible work hours and telecommuting- No prior approvals needed. Just keep your immediate team and customers informed
• Sponsored professional certifications for job relevant skills (e. g., AWS Certification)
• Medical insurance - You and your family get Rs. 5,00,000 insurance coverage for Hospitalization. Kickdrum pays the policy premium
• Free foodin our cafeteria
• Bring your own laptop- Use your personal laptop for work. We pay you a monthly rent of Rs. 2500. Your laptop must comply with our "fit for use" criteria
• Own your office laptop- If you decide to use the company provided laptop instead, after 2 years of continuous service, the company laptop is yours
• Bring your own ideas- If you have a cool idea for a product that Kickdrum decides to invest in, you will get a stake in it
• Awards and celebrations- Celebrations are part of our culture
• A free cab ridefor those emergencies - If you end up staying late at the office or have to leave your vehicle at the body shop and come to the office, we pay for your cab ride against bills