What would you be doing/ Expected from this role
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a multidisciplinary product design team
- Drive strategic design decisions across multiple product streams
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to define product vision, roadmap, and execution
- Collaborate with visual designers and motion designer to create aesthetically beautiful and delightful interface.
- Translate insights, research, and business needs into intuitive product experiences
- Set and maintain a high bar for design craft, usability, and accessibility
- Build predictable processes for reviews, feedback, collaboration, and delivery
- Oversee end-to-end design-from discovery to launch and iteration
- Partner closely with UX Research, Content Design, and Design System teams
- Ensure alignment with brand and platform guidelines across experiences
- Advocate for users in key decision-making spaces and represent design leadership
- Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and performance development of designers
Who are we looking for
- 8+ years of experience in product/UX design with at least 2+ years in a leadership role
- Strong portfolio demonstrating shipped products across platforms (web, Android/iOS)
- Experience managing and growing design teams
- Strong storytelling and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to simplify complex data and workflows into elegant experiences
- Expertise working with design systems and scalable patterns
- Solid understanding of research methods and analytics-based decision making
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
Nice-to-Have
- Experience in e-commerce / marketplace / B2C
- Familiarity with motion, illustration, and tools like rive/lottie etc
- Designed with AI workflow is plus
(ref:hirist.tech)
