Job Title: Head of Product Design
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: Bangalore
Salary: 30-40 LPA
Experience: 7-15 Years
Job Overview
We are looking for a visionary
Head of Product Design to lead and shape the design strategy across all product experiences. This role will be responsible for defining the design vision, building and mentoring a high-performing design team, and delivering exceptional user experiences across the platform. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking, leadership capabilities, and hands-on design expertise, especially in emerging technologies such as AI-driven and 3D product experiences.
Key Responsibilities
Design Vision Strategy
- Define and own the product design vision across all product surfaces including editor, platform, APIs, and customer touchpoints.
- Translate complex product and business goals into scalable, elegant design strategies.
- Drive a consistent and high-quality design language across the platform.
- Lead long-term UX strategies for AI-native interaction paradigms, including designing for uncertainty, latency, and generative outputs.
- Build and champion a strong design culture focused on quality, innovation, and user advocacy.
Team Leadership People Management
- Hire, mentor, and develop a team of UX designers, UI designers, and user researchers.
- Establish clear career growth paths and create a feedback-driven design culture.
- Conduct regular design reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high standards.
- Collaborate with design leads to distribute ownership while maintaining cohesive output.
- Promote an inclusive and psychologically safe design environment.
Hands-On Design Craft
- Lead the design of flagship features and complex UX challenges.
- Contribute directly to wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready user flows.
- Design AI-powered and 3D workflows such as AI scene generation, asset manipulation, real-time previews, and spatial editing.
- Maintain and evolve the companys design system and component library in Figma.
- Ensure accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) are integrated into design practices.
User Research Insights
- Build and lead a mixed-methods user research practice including usability testing, surveys, and contextual inquiries.
- Translate qualitative and quantitative insights into actionable design improvements.
- Partner with product managers to define design success metrics such as task completion, error rates, CSAT, and NPS.
- Implement continuous feedback loops from real product usage.
- Conduct competitive UX audits across AI tools, 3D platforms, and enterprise SaaS products.
Cross-Functional Collaboration Leadership
- Work closely with Product Management to influence product roadmap and priorities.
- Partner with Engineering teams to ensure feasibility and maintain design quality during implementation.
- Clearly communicate design decisions and trade-offs to executive stakeholders.
- Represent design strategy in conversations with investors, partners, and enterprise clients.
- Ensure launch readiness through documentation, design handoff, and post-launch QA.
Highly Desirable Skills
- Experience designing 3D tools, WebGL interfaces, AR/VR applications, or spatial computing products .
- Strong understanding of AI-native product design and generative interfaces .
- Experience with real-time or collaborative products (similar to Figma-like environments).
- Background in e-commerce, retail technology, or product visualization platforms .
- Experience building or contributing to open-source design systems .
- Prior startup experience with zero-to-one product development.
- Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to understand implementation constraints.
- Portfolio demonstrating thought leadership through articles, talks, or case studies in UX or product design.
This job is provided by Shine.com
