Product Designer

Most design jobs ask you to make things look good. This one asks you to make hard things work AND look exceptional, without sacrificing one for the other. That's a rarer combination in B2B software than it should be. Getting there takes craft all the way down: the transitions, the states most teams never get around to designing for, the edge cases that ship right instead of looking broken.

We help schools increase their fundraising efficiency and keep their alumni communities active. As one of India's few profitable, bootstrapped SaaS companies, we're building lasting value for our team, customers, and the educational institutions we serve.

• 6 million alumni connected

• 500,000 students impacted

• $10M+ in donations raised

• 54 million engagement opportunities created

• Profitable and bootstrapped since day one

You'll join our 35-person PDEQ team (Product, Design, Engineering, Quality) that researches, designs, and ships products transforming how educational institutions connect with their communities.

You'll design for multiple audiences with distinct needs: advancement professionals, alumni, students, and administrators. Each brings different technical comfort levels and emotional relationships with their institution.

• How do you simplify complex workflows without removing the things people need?

• What does a professional tool look like when users need to move fast without making mistakes?

• How do you present dense data in a way that drives action, not analysis paralysis?

As part of a lean, focused design team, you'll contribute to design practices, evolve our design system, and help raise the bar as we grow. Your input will influence how we approach design for years to come.

• Own complete design process from concept to execution for key product area(s)

• Define new interaction patterns for core/new workflows

• Create clear, intuitive experiences for professional users across complex B2B scenarios

• Partner closely with engineers and PMs to define problems and deliver high-quality solutions

• Balance craft, speed, and business results in every design decision

• Contribute to product strategy through design thinking and user advocacy

• Maintain high standards of craft while moving quickly

• Build and evolve our design system using atomic design principles

• Share knowledge and refine processes as we scale

Every interface decision either helps or hinders someone accomplishing their goals. You approach design as a conversation between user and product, ensuring clarity at every step.

B2B products involve intricate workflows, but that doesn't mean they need to feel complicated. You excel at finding elegant solutions hidden within seemingly chaotic requirements.

You know when to ship the 80% solution to learn faster and when to perfect details that matter. You're comfortable iterating in public while maintaining quality standards.

Great product design considers the entire user journey, from discovery to successful task completion months later. You design for adoption, not just usability.

You use AI tools as part of how you work, not as a novelty. Whether it's exploring ideas faster, generating variations, or automating the repetitive parts of the process, you treat AI as a practical collaborator while keeping the judgment that makes design good.

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• CS background or genuine technical curiosity (we use AI tools heavily across our workflows)

• HTML/CSS familiarity

• Motion and animation experience in Figma or equivalent

• Get to know the various problems we are solving, and the people we are solving them for

• Learn about the products we offer and how they address the needs of our customers

• Schedule 1:1 chats with members of the Almabase team across all functions to learn how we work

• You will take on interface design work right from your first week, helping you understand current design processes within the product team

• You have your first monthly 1:1 with your manager to identify priorities for your ramp-up

• Several features you've designed have been released to production. You have your first quarterly review with your manager

• You've observed customer calls and user feedback sessions to understand how users interact with your designs

• You're comfortable using our design system and contributing components and patterns

• You're collaborating effectively with engineers and PMs on design implementation and iteration

• You're designing complete user flows and features from wireframes to high-fidelity mockups

• You understand our key user personas and can design with their needs and contexts in mind

• You're contributing ideas for improving user experience based on data insights and user feedback

• You're participating in design critiques and providing thoughtful feedback on team projects

• You can articulate your design decisions clearly to stakeholders across the organization

• You're independently owning design for specific product areas or user journeys

• You're using user research, analytics, and feedback to inform and iterate on your design decisions

• You're mentoring newer team members and helping maintain design quality standards

• You're contributing to design process improvements and helping scale our design practices

• You work with your manager to identify areas for continued growth and expanded responsibilities

1. Our customers are primarily in the US. So any research and feedback calls that you need to conduct will happen between 4PM and 2AM IST. But apart from scheduled calls, most of the collaboration with the product and engineering team happen async and during the day.

2. The product team works out of our office in Bangalore. Our work processes allow anybody to work remotely for extended periods of time when they need to, but in general, everybody is in the office while they are in Bangalore.

3. If you love working with people around, you will enjoy the work we do at Almabase.