Nissan Hiring for Sr. Visual Designer at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Full Time

Nissan is a pioneer in Innovation and Technology. With a focus on Mobility, Operational Excellence, Value to our Customers and Electrification of vehicles, you can expect to be part of a very exciting journey here at Nissan.

Nissan is going after a massive Digital Transformation backed by leading technologies across the organization globally. We are committed to building a diverse, entrepreneurial organization, and our current team is a strong evidence of that. Our people are what drive the business forward. At Nissan Digital, you will be part of a dynamic team with ample opportunities to grow and make a difference.

Intro to Role

As a Sr. Visual Designer with the UX CoE team, you will use your skills developed over the years to implement cutting edge solutions using the established visual design principles & practices and solve challenging business problems. You will provide your expertise in crafting beautiful & meaningful solutions, mood boards, low & high fidelity visual designs and other artefacts in the product UX design process.

You’ll work on complex projects and contribute to the overall strategic vision of the organization.

You’ll integrate a broad range of ideas regarding organizational UX maturity and ensure alignment with the Sales, Product and, Enterprise architectural vision & roadmap.

Key Specific Responsibilities:
Actively participate in business discussions to understand user requirements, understand and assist in crafting VD strategy, creating efficient product design roadmaps & other UX processes that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.

Participating in business meetings, design reviews, architecture discussions to provide design direction to the product.

Being responsible for Scaling, Performance & Quality for the product.

Assist the UX lead to setup best practices to help the team achieve the above and constantly thinking about improving the UX process to aim for better organizational UX Maturity.

Adoption of these best practices to ensure the best possible quality w.r.t. UX roadmap.

Experiment with new & relevant trends and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create

Collaborate with Product Management and Product Development leaders in developing product visions and strategies.

Assist the UX Lead to define & drive implementation of long term UX vision for your team & the CoE.

Be primary owner of the design architecture of your product and will also be responsible for getting it reviewed, and making sure the system is built accordingly.

Be an evangelist for UX & represent company in external forums.

Technical Competencies and Qualifications:
Good communication & presentation skills required to demonstrate designs to clients in a story telling mode.

Strong hold on Structural Design knowledge and how it impacts perception

Great sense of Visual Design and Visual Communication

A great eye for detail and crave for pixel precision

Able to translate business requirements to Visual Design

Able to translate wireframes into innovative and original Visual Designs

Knowledge of Color Theory, Visual Hierarchy, Typography, Colour and Information Composition

Strong understanding of Visual Design and composition principles

Able to create original icons, other design elements

Close collaboration with front-end developers to ensure quality and consistency after design hand-off

A great attitude towards co-workers and management to put forth requirements, observations in a professional manner

A quick learner of industry product, design trends, corporate design language to translate global know-how to specific scenarios thereby maintaining the overall idea of a suite design

Strong knowledge of Design Systems, importance & implementation protocols.

Great sense of Visual Design and Visual Communication, an eye for detail

Knowledge of vector graphic design tools such as Adobe Illustrator and Sketch

Good to have skills:
Interaction Design skills, knowledge of Principles

Automobile Domain knowledge

Good hand drawing skills to demonstrate ideas without a need for digital tools

Good knowledge of Accessibility principles

Experience & other expected expertise:
6-8 years of Visual Design work experience

Required qualification (BFA, MFA, Any other certification or design course). Skill demonstration is more important

Quick & Excellent Problem solving skills for complex & large scale problems.

Technical Breadth – Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies.

Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments where boundaries aren’t clearly defined.

Trivandrum Kerala India