Role Overview:-

We are seeking an accomplished Product Design Leader to define design strategy, elevate product experience, and build a high-performing design organization.

This is a strategic leadership opportunity for someone who combines solid product design expertise with exceptional people management, product thinking, and stakeholder leadership.

You will work closely with senior leadership across Product, Engineering, and Business while leading and mentoring a team of approximately 15–20 designers.

The focus will be on driving design vision, strategic solutioning, customer-centric innovation, design excellence, and measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities:-

- Define and drive the design vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with business and product objectives.
- Partner with senior leadership across Product, Engineering, and Business to influence strategic decisions and product direction.
- Translate customer needs and complex business challenges into intuitive, scalable product experiences.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of approximately 15–20 product designers.
- Coach junior designers (PD1s and PD2s), conduct design reviews, and drive performance management and career development.
- Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Maintain exceptional standards of design quality, simplicity, usability, and visual craftsmanship.
- Champion user-centered design practices supported by customer insights, product analytics, and measurable outcomes.
- Drive design strategy, prioritization, wireframing, prototyping, and solutioning across product charters.
- Establish design systems, reusable patterns, and best practices across the organization.
- Delegate effectively, remove roadblocks,



and empower designers to deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Ensure design initiatives create meaningful customer value and measurable business impact.

Required Qualifications & Experience:-

- 7+ years of overall Product Design experience, covering user research, interaction design, and visual design.
- 4+ years of experience working in a B2C/D2C product-based organization with its own customer-facing digital application.
- Minimum 2+ years of formal people management or design leadership experience, directly managing junior designers.
- Proven experience hiring, coaching, mentoring, and developing product design teams.
- Strong expertise in design strategy, product thinking, solutioning, and roadmap ownership.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and collaborate effectively across Product, Engineering, and Business.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and data-informed design decisions.
- Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and design storytelling skills.
- A strong functional portfolio demonstrating product strategy, design leadership, and measurable business impact.

Educational Background:-

Candidates should preferably have a design education from leading institutions such as:

- National Institute of Design (NID)
- National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)
- Pearl Academy
- IIT Bombay
- IIT Delhi




- IIT Guwahati

Preferred Experience:-

- Fintech, financial services, digital banking products, or high-scale B2C product environments.
- Experience with customer-facing mobile applications and digital platforms.
- Exceptional B2B product or reputed design studio experience may also be considered if supported by a strong portfolio and demonstrable design leadership.

Mandatory Portfolio Requirement

Please share a functional portfolio along with your updated resume.

Your portfolio should demonstrate:

- End-to-end product design expertise.
- Design strategy, vision, and roadmap ownership.
- Leadership and team development contributions.
- Customer-centric problem-solving and product thinking.
- Strong design execution and quality standards.
- Measurable business outcomes and customer impact.

For password-protected portfolios, please provide the access password along with your application.

Pay: ₹4,000,000.00 - ₹6,500,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

- How many years of end-to-end product design experience do you have (research, interaction and visual design)?
- How many of those years were in a B2C product company with its own customer-facing app? Please name the companies.
- How many years have you formally managed designers? How many reported to you directly, and at what level (junior, mid, senior)?
- Are you currently working as a designer at a bank? (Banks such as IDFC and HDFC are an exclusion.)
- Have you designed a fintech or financial product (lending, UPI, insurance, mutual funds, gold)?

Education:

- Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

- in product design (end-to-end across research: 7 years (Required)

Work Location: In person

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