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Director - UX Design

Petals Careers
Pune
8 - 13 Years

Posted on: 24/09/2025

Job Description

Responsibilities :

- Lead with Vision : Define and evangelize a cohesive UX strategy that aligns with product and company goals.

- Raise the bar for user experience across the platform.

- Team Leadership & Mentorship : Hire, develop, and inspire a high-performing team of UX designers and researchers.

- Create career paths, design rituals, and feedback frameworks.

- Design Culture : Establish UX best practices, design systems, and cross-functional collaboration norms. Foster a culture of creativity, ownership, and user-first thinking.

- Product Partnership : Partner with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders to shape product direction and translate user insights into scalable solutions.

- Customer Obsession : Champion user research and usability testing.

- Advocate for user needs and pain points across the product lifecycle from discovery to delivery.

- Enterprise Experience : Navigate the complexity of enterprise SaaS UX, balancing power with simplicity, and depth with clarity.

- Data-Informed Decisions : Drive UX metrics, measure success through usage and satisfaction data, and influence with qualitative and quantitative insights.

- Brand Stewardship : Ensure consistent visual language and branding across product surfaces and marketing assets.

Requirements :

- 8+ years of experience in UX/UI design with 5+ years in leadership roles, ideally in enterprise SaaS or platform-based products.

- A strong portfolio demonstrating user-centered design solutions for complex, data-rich, or enterprise-grade products.

- Experience in leading and scaling design teams, setting UX vision, and managing stakeholder expectations.

- Deep knowledge of user-centered design principles, design systems, and UX research methodologies.

- Hands-on proficiency with Figma, Adobe CC, and prototyping tools.

- Comfort collaborating with developers and familiarity with HTML/CSS, component libraries, and front-end technologies.

- Bonus : Experience or familiarity with ad-tech, mar-tech, or retail-tech domains.

- Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.

- A curious mindset, structured problem-solving ability, and a relentless drive to improve user outcomes


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