UI/UX Designer at AlgoUniversity (YC S21)

About Us

AlgoUniversity is democratizing education, by enabling personal connection between educator and student at scale. Anyone with skills can teach and anyone with will can learn and we mould them into building life transformative experience. Currently we are building live teaching infrastructure that enables handful of top educators to coach a large number of students.

We house a young energetic team of ACM ICPC world finalists, Olympiad medalists (won a total 4 medals for India!), people with experience of managing operations in Edtech startups, and engineers from Google, Apple, etc. Our core team is alumni from IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Bombay, IIM Indore, check us out!

What are we looking for:

Two of our existing products have achieved strong product-market fit through their websites, marking a significant milestone in our journey. To drive the next phase of growth, we are planning to launch a mobile app for one of these products. We are seeking a talented UI/UX designer to design this new mobile app. Upon completion, the designer will redesign all of our current websites and products to maintain a consistent and coherent design language across our entire portfolio for continued success.

What You'll Do:

• You’ll own design projects end-to-end, from ideation and research to pixel-perfect execution for new and existing products and features.
• You’ll partner closely with Engineering and Product Management to build and ship experiences that delight our users.
• You’ll add to and maintain our visual design language across both our external and internal-facing products.
• You’ll act as a design and UX expert for our employees, advising on design best practices and solutions.

Basic Qualifications and Skills:

• 1+ years of proven experience as a UI/UX Designer
• Bachelor's degree in Design, Fine Arts, or a related field
• Experience with Figma or a similar tool for design and prototyping.
• Strong portfolio showcasing a diverse range of design projects.
• Excellent understanding of typography, layout, colour theory, and visual communication. -Bonus: Occasionally you can also design graphics and illustrations for our landing page, newsletters, and social media.

Fast Track by Applying Here

We start off with a video conversation to get to know each other, answer any questions you might have about the process, and assess an initial potential match.

That will be followed up with a call with our CTO Nalin Abrol to discuss your past experience as a designer and a take-away assignment will be shared with you.

Depending on how that goes, you will have a Founders Call with our CEO Manas Kumar Verma, to make you understand the long term vision of our work. If the interview goes well, candidates will receive an offer within 24-48 hours.