Associate Director – Product Design (High - IC)

We're hiring a Lead Product Designer (IC) to set the design direction for CarDekho's consumer experience — search & discovery, listing pages and transaction flows used by millions of buyers and sellers every month. This is a hands-on role with org-wide reach. You will define the design system, the quality bar and the AI-native way of working that every product squad builds on.

You'll be the design counterpart to Product and Engineering leadership on the highest-stakes problems: unifying a fragmented multi-brand, multi-platform experience, raising conversion across the buying funnel, and making design move at the speed of AI-assisted delivery.

What You'll Own
Design Vision & Experience Strategy
• Set the multi-year design vision for CarDekho's consumer surfaces across Web, Android and iOS, and translate it into a sequenced roadmap Product and Engineering can commit to.
• Own the end-to-end experience of the core buying funnel — search, discovery, comparison, listings,



lead and transaction flows — and the coherence across brands (CarDekho, BikeDekho, Zigwheels and others).
• Lead the hardest design problems directly, from framing and research through high-fidelity delivery, rather than only reviewing others' work.

Design System as Infrastructure
• Architect the design system as a product: tokens, atomic components, theming for multiple brands, and parity across Web, Android, and iOS.
• Define governance at scale—contribution model, versioning, deprecation, and adoption metrics—so every squad builds on one foundation.
• Make build-vs-reuse calls with engineering leads, balancing speed, performance, and long-term maintainability.

AI-Native Design Practice
• Define how the design org works with AI — Claude, Cursor or similar agentic tools as the primary workflow for scaffolding, prototyping, documentation and consistency audits.
• Build AI-augmented system tooling: automated token and component audits, generated docume

📌 Associate Director Gurugram
🏢 CarDekho Group
📍 Gurugram