Design Leadership & Team Management :

- Lead and mentor the UI/UX design team, conduct design reviews, manage workloads, and maintain high design quality standards.

User Experience & Journey Design :

- Own end-to-end user journeys including onboarding, comparison flows, checkout/application flows, and post-conversion experiences.

Design System & UI Standards :

- Build and maintain scalable design systems, reusable components, interaction patterns, and accessibility standards.

User Research & Data-Driven Design :

- Conduct user research, usability testing, and analyze user behavior data to improve usability and conversion.

Cross-Functional Collaboration :

- Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering, Analytics, and leadership teams to deliver intuitive product experiences.

Mobile-First & Accessibility Focus :

- Ensure responsive, mobile-first, and WCAG-compliant user experiences across all platforms.

Design Operations & Development Handoff :

- Manage prototyping, design documentation, and design-to-development handoff processes for smooth implementation.

AI-Assisted Design & Innovation :

- Utilize AI-assisted design tools and stay updated with modern UX trends and best practices.

Strategic Product & Team Growth :

- Support hiring, onboarding, capability building, and contribute hands-on to complex product journeys.

Ideal Candidate :

- Strong Lead / Manager Product Design (UI/UX) Profile

- Must have 8+ years of product design experience with minimum 3 years managing a design team direct reports, quality ownership, critique culture.

- Must have hands on End-to-end ownership from problem definition and rapid prototyping through to final Figma handoff, across both web and mobile

- Must have exceptional UI skills combined with deep mastery of UX psychology with demonstrated ability to deliver world-class visual and interaction design.

- Must have built or evolved a design system adopted in production code token structure, engineering handoff, versioning, and cross-platform consistency. Maintaining a Figma component library alone is not sufficient.

- Must have hands-on experience leading and mentoring a design team setting the quality bar, running structured design critiques, and managing delivery across parallel tracks. Someone who builds the team up, not just manages output.

- Must be comfortable presenting to VP Product, CTO, and C-suite able to articulate design rationale in business terms and influence product direction through user-centric logic and data.

- Must include 2+ end-to-end transactional consumer journeys with process and outcomes; design system work with engineering context; mobile-first screens; measurable conversion or usability outcomes.

- B2C product companies