Job Summary

We are seeking a Product Design Manager to lead and grow our Product Design team in Bengaluru. This is a player-coach role: you'll spend part of your time managing and developing a team of designers, and part of your time as a hands-on practitioner, designing intuitive, elegant, and scalable experiences across our platform.

You'll participate in creating the design vision and hold the quality bar for your team while directly owning design work on key initiatives-from discovery and research through prototyping, visual design, and delivery. You're as comfortable giving feedback in a design review as you are opening Figma yourself. You'll work closely with Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional partners in India and globally to drive clarity, alignment, and innovation across the product lifecycle, while building a strong, high-performing design team on the ground in Bengaluru.
Responsibilities
People & Team Leadership
- Manage and mentor a team of product designers based in India, including hiring, performance management, and career development.




- Set clear goals and quality standards for the team, and give regular, actionable feedback through critiques and 1:1s.
- Foster a team-oriented, inclusive team culture, and represent the India design team within the global Product Design org and the broader company.
- Partner with design leadership, product, and engineering to plan team capacity, prioritize work across initiatives, and spot growth opportunities for team members.
- Build strong relationships with cross-functional peers, communicating proactively and consistently.
Hands-On Design (Player)
- Lead design initiatives from discovery to delivery across multiple product surfaces, personally owning end-to-end design for key projects.
- Translate complex systems into intuitive, elegant experiences for a diverse set of users.
- Conduct or guide user research and usability testing to inform and validate design decisions.
- Contribute to and evolve

📌 Manager, Product Design (Bengaluru)
🏢 Project44
📍 Bengaluru