Junior Designer
About jhana
jhana is an early-stage, seed-funded startup that builds intelligent and thoughtfully designed practice tools for the law across research, drafting, and document management. At jhana, we are transforming the legal industry with India’s first AI-driven Paralegal. Our product delivers critical legal insights through advanced AI, producing outputs like redlines, memos, and risk assessments to streamline workflows for legal teams. Recognized as the Best Legal Tech Startup in Asia and Oceania by ALITA, we believe that great design is the bridge between complex legal technology and human experience. Beyond our product interfaces, we're set to build a distinctive brand reflecting our commitment to excellence and innovation in legal tech.
About the Role
As our founding member in the design team, you'll be crucial in building jhana's product experience and brand identity. Working alongside our Design Lead, you'll own significant parts of our design work across product and marketing. This role is ideal for a designer with a few years of experience who's ready to take on broader responsibilities.
The day-to-day
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Own and execute design for key product features.
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Create and maintain our design system components.
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Design marketing materials and sales collateral.
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Work on illustrations, iconography, and other visual assets.
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Drive the visual direction for our brand presence.
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Work with engineering on implementation.
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Create data visualizations and technical illustrations.
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Design pitch decks and presentations.
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Work with senior designers on product and website design.
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Help in the end-to-end design process from user research and wireframing to high-fidelity prototypes and implementation.
Skills & Qualifications
Required
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Understanding of fundamental design principles.
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Understanding of brand design, typography, colors, and graphic design.
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Experience across multiple design disciplines.
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Proficiency in design tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, etc.).
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Strong attention to detail and a keen eye for aesthetics, ensuring consistency and quality in all design deliverables.
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Demonstrated ability to work across teams.
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Portfolio showcasing versatile design work.
Added Bonuses
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Experience with video and motion design.
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Basic understanding of front-end development.
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Experience with AI design tools such as MidJourney, Photoshop Beta, and Firefly to create unique and innovative imagery, enhance creative workflow, and generate novel visual concepts is a big bonus!
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Ability to clearly articulate design decisions to key stakeholders and design leaders.
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Being creative-minded and intensely customer-focused. Caring about design all the way from a strategic level down to design details and getting the pixels right.
About the Team
We are a public benefit corporation headquartered in Bangalore. We operate in rapidly changing legal systems with awareness of the stakes at hand. Our intention is to influence beneficence and alignment into the technological systems that are augmenting and replacing human institutions. Our team spans diverse identity and training, from physics and mathematics to law and public policy. We are small, fast-moving, horizontally flat, and built on collaboration between lawyers, academics, and engineers. We ship fast, and every pixel our team designs has a >0.9 expectation of making it to production.
What we offer
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Opportunities for growth – fast track to end-to-end design ownership.
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High autonomy environment.
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The chance to work on exciting projects with a focus on design and innovation.
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Competitive salary and benefits package.
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Flexible work hours.
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Collaborative and creative work environment.
Miscellany
The expected compensation range is INR 6-10 lakhs per annum and may include equity. Compensation is negotiable based on levels and mutual excitement.
This role will start ASAP and requires in-person presence for at least 4 days of the week at our Bangalore HQ.
Come as you are: we are a diverse team constituted by members of different backgrounds in nationality, religion, caste, gender, and sexual orientation. We sincerely and wholeheartedly welcome diverse individuals.