Graphic Designer

Intro to Org

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