At Srishti Labs, Design Innovation is a multidisciplinary process that enables us to develop solutions that are sustainable and successful within the context. Business and design thinking will play an important role in this multi-disciplinary approach. Design and business thinking will be utilized in empowering our client organizations with deep insights about customers’and end users latent needs and uncovering opportunities that will lead to ground breaking ideas, services and products.

 

Staff positions

We are looking for innovation specialist (s)in a doer-manager role, who has hands-on experience with multidisciplinary innovation and is also capable of managing such work with our external partners. If you have a passion to generate insights and understand the business environment regarding what it takes to create ideas that have market and/or social potential for emerging markets please contact us. Formal education in any of the fields such as industrial design, business design, visual design, interaction design, UX design and human factors engineering, with additional experience in ethnographic methods, user research methods is a plus.

We are always looking for people with proven skills in discovering, interpreting and communicating design insights and opportunities, and in contributing to all phases of design.A critical element of these roles is to deliver insights – verbally and visually - in a way that generates empathy, emotion, and engagement from the overall team and our clients. Candidates must have strong presenting, verbal and written skills.

Fellowships

Few ONE &TWO year fellowships are available for deserving and outstanding fresh graduates who want to develop hands-on experience with multidisciplinary innovation, design thinking, business thinking and a capability of managing such design innovation work with external clients. As part of this fellowship, you will spend approximately 50% of your time on client projects, 30% on your own research interests picked from the labs theme research areas and 20% on career development. Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to developing user and design research plan, conducting research and converting the research findings into actionable insights, discovering, interpreting and communicating design insights and opportunities, and contributing to all phases of design, planning validation research to help determine how interested both the customers and line-of-business end users are in the planned product capabilities, and to refine design constraints for delivering compelling user experiences.

Fresh bachelors, masters on doctoral degree from top schools in any of the design fields such as industrial design, business design, visual design, interaction design, UX design and human factors engineering are preferred. Candidate who have some experience but are not qualified for Innovation Specialist jobs currently can also apply for these fellowships.

Candidates must truly believe in a Human-centered approach to design and be comfortable going out into the world for inspiration. They understand basic Human Centered Design methodology, are comfortable with ambiguity and want to push design methodologies. Must be prepared to plan and immerse into user research to discover insights first hand.

 

Application Procedure

If you are interested in exploring opportunities with us either as a full time staff, consultant, fellowship or internship, please send your resume and innovation portfolio to labs@srishti.ac.in -- Attn: Girish Prabhu, Director: Innovation, Srishti Labs with a Subject Line mentioning the type of position you are interested in: Innovation Specialist OR Fellowship Position at Srishti Labs)

SrishtiLabs only accepts resumes/CV's submitted to us directly by the candidate. To enable us to process your application, please submit your resume/CV to the email id provided above. SrishtiLabs hires qualified candidates who are authorized to work in India, that is, authorized to work without restriction as to a particular employer. At Srishti Labs, we are committed to equal employment opportunity. We respect, value and welcome diversity in our workforce, as well as in our customers, our suppliers and the global marketplace. SrishtiLabs also values being a great place to work and strives to maintain a safe and drug-free workplace. Accordingly, SrishtiLabs conditions all offers of employment on satisfactory completion of a background check. Srishti Labs does not accept resumes from headhunters or suppliers that have not signed a formal fee agreement. Therefore, any resume received from an unapproved supplier will be considered unsolicited, and Srishti Labs will not be obligated to pay a referral fee.