Product Management

Product/UX Designer - LP0122033

Bengaluru, Karnataka   |   Full Time

About us

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In short, we are building the platform to drive global careers for millennials from emerging economies We work at the exciting intersection of the 2 hottest trends around - edtech & fintech! And we love that we succeed as a business while powering the dreams of talented students!

Founder Profile

Arnav Kumar is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. Leap is his second company and he has raised more than $30M in capital for his startups. In his last role, he was a VC investor with SAIF Partners (Now Elevation Capital), which is an early investor in paytm, meesho, urban company, unacademy and many other unicorns. He thinks and tweets about Product, Business Models and Company Building, here

Vaibhav Singh is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. He spent his first 6 years at DeutscheBank, across Singapore & Sydney to manage a $3Bn flow book. He has built 2 fintech startups before, as a founding member of CapitalFloat and Incred, both pioneering businesses valued >$500Mn The Leap team has a fine balance of industry experience (edtech, fintech, study abroad) and technical skills (engineering, product, design)

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About the Role :
We are searching for a Product/UX Designer at Leap Scholar and Leap Finance

The charter for this role includes : 

  • Collaborating effectively with product, engineering, and management teams to deeply understand the problems you're solving for our customers, and explore multiple high-level approaches to solving them 

  • Design UI elements such as input controls, navigational components and informational components

  • Design prototypes and perform usability testing on design work completed by your team

  • Ensure the voice of the customer is present by incorporating customer feedback, usage metrics, and usability findings into design

  • Help shape our design standards and patterns

Ideal Persona : 

  • Someone who comes from a deep background of mature design practice from a B2C setup, who can contribute to building design culture as well in addition to individual contribution.

  • Working knowledge of the following technologies and software: Figma, InVision and Adobe Creative Suite. 

  • Created and understood how responsive design works across devices

  • A true focus on the customer—you make your design decisions based on research, including interviews, usability testing and quantitative data

  • A passion to learn and grow every day and curious about the “why” of design, as well as the “what”

  • An interest in designing for customer growth and engagement. 

  • Working knowledge of front-end code and frameworks (Optional).

  • Experience working on consumer facing products where you have been through the life-cycle of design and release iterations (Optional). 

  • Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies.


Everyone at Leap is entrepreneurial, moves fast, and operates with extreme ownership. There is minimal management and extreme autonomy. If the above defines you, you will fight in snugly

Why is this a great opportunity for the right candidate :

  • Experienced founding team

  • Right to win - The founding team knows the business & its secrets inside out. We are starting with a significant head start and a precise plan of action

  • Barriers to entry - This is a specialized play with natural barriers to entry, allowing for significant value creation for all equity holders

  • Backed by marquee global investors

  • Exposure to all aspects of company building - exposure to investors, fund-raising, decision making, building the team & culture

  • All of the above perks of joining a high potential company very early, along with a competitive market salary.

Let’s Chat !

We are now building our leadership team and would love to chat with you

This is a great time to join the rocketship and participate in the upside -

  • You will have super interesting & challenging problems to solve

  • In a super fast-paced environment that will challenge you

  • With enough resources to play offense

  • And mentorship from the founding team


Life @ Leap

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Mutual Respect

We love people who are ‘relentlessly resourceful’. Find your way out. Focus on the possibilities instead of the problems.

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Bias for action

We take calculated risks backed by data and information available and encourage fail fast to find the best solutions as soon as possible

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Learn & get better

Continuous learning and improvement is the key. We don’t stop learning. We treat feedback as a gift and as an opportunity to get better.

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Growth mindset

We operate with a growth mindset and not a mindset of fear or judgement. You are in control of your own ability to learn and improve. We love Resilience.

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