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Lead Product Designer - User-Centered Design

Naukari Wale
Bangalore
5 - 10 Years

Posted on: 18/08/2025

Job Description

We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to drive innovation and deliver intuitive, impactful design solutions across multiple product verticals. In this role, you will lead the design vision and strategy, mentor a growing design team, and ensure that our products deliver exceptional user experiences aligned with business goals.


Key Responsibilities :


- Lead the creation of innovative design solutions that set new benchmarks for user experience and design excellence.


- Define and articulate the design vision and strategy across products, ensuring a cohesive and consistent user journey.


- Foster a culture of experimentation, encouraging the team to test, learn, and adopt innovative approaches.


- Align user needs with business objectives, crafting solutions that resonate with users while driving company goals.


- Champion accessibility and inclusive design principles, ensuring products are usable by the broadest audience.


- Use workshops, journey mapping, and design research to deeply understand user needs and pain points.


- Mentor and guide designers to achieve their full potential, fostering creativity, collaboration, and professional growth.


- Uphold the highest standards of design excellence across all deliverables.


- Streamline and optimize design workflows to enhance productivity and efficiency.


- Oversee the end-to-end design lifecycle from concept to delivery.


- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and marketers to translate product requirements into impactful designs.


- Ensure that final outputs align with both strategic vision and technical feasibility.


- Leverage user insights, analytics, and usability testing to inform design decisions.


- Continuously refine and improve designs to enhance user engagement and business performance.


- Present design ideas and strategies to stakeholders and cross-functional teams with clarity and influence.


- Act as a collaborative partner, bridging design, product, and engineering for seamless execution.


- Develop and refine scalable design systems to ensure consistency across products.


- Advocate for continuous improvement in design standards, usability, and developer efficiency.


Requirements :


- Experience: 510 years in product design, with at least 23 years in a leadership or senior design role.


- Proven track record of delivering user-centric, scalable product designs.


- Expertise in UI/UX design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, InVision (or similar).


- Strong knowledge of prototyping and wireframing tools (Figma, Axure, Marvel, etc.).


- Solid understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, basic JavaScript) to ensure technical feasibility.


- Experience working with and developing design systems at scale.


- Strong grasp of user research methodologies (interviews, usability testing, A/B testing).


- Knowledge of data analytics tools (Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Hotjar, etc.) to inform design decisions.


- Excellent visual design, typography, and interaction design skills.


- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.


- Deep passion for accessibility and inclusive design.


- Experience in SaaS / B2B product design.


- Familiarity with motion design and micro-interactions (After Effects, Principle, Lottie).


- Exposure to agile methodologies and working in cross-functional squads.


- Prior experience designing for multi-platform products (web, mobile, tablet, desktop).

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