Lead Product Design

Experience: 6.00 + years

Salary: Confidential (based on experience)

Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)

Opportunity Type: Office ()

Placement Type: Full time Permanent Position

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers client - Ctruh)

What do you need for this opportunity

Must have skills required:

UX Design, Product Design, Figma, Prototyping, User Interface Design, Sketch, User Experience, Design Thinking

Ctruh is Looking for:

Role: Lead Product Design

Company: Ctruh

Location: Bengaluru, India

Experience: 6+ Years in Product Design with Team Leadership

Role Overview:

Ctruh is redefining how the world creates, experiences, and interacts with 3D and spatial

content. We're looking for a visionary Lead Product Design to lead the design function at one

of India's most ambitious spatial computing companies. This is not a role for someone who

manages design from a distance — you will shape the design culture, drive the product

experience across our AI-powered 3D platform, and get into the craft alongside your team.

You will own design strategy from first principles, working across the full spectrum of our

product: from the initial blank canvas of a 3D scene editor to AI-assisted creation workflows,

from enterprise dashboards to consumer-facing AR previews. You care deeply about how

things feel, not just how they look — and you know that the best design decisions are rooted

in user empathy, rigorous research, and iterative validation.

What you will own:

Design Vision & Strategy

• Define and own the product design vision across all of Ctruh's surfaces — editor,
  
  

platform, APIs, and consumer touchpoints

• Translate complex product and business goals into coherent, elegant design
  
  

strategies that scale

• Drive a consistent, high-quality design language and evolve Ctruh's design system as
  
  

the product grows

• Lead long-term UX strategy for AI-native interaction paradigms — designing for
  
  

uncertainty, latency, and generative outputs

• Establish and champion a design culture of rigour, craft, and user advocacy across
  
  

the company

Team Leadership & People Management

• Hire, mentor, and grow a team of UX designers, UI designers, and user researchers
• Create clear growth paths and foster a feedback-rich culture that makes designers
  
  

better every quarter

• Conduct regular design reviews, provide high-quality critique, and set the bar for
  
  

what great looks like

• Partner with design leads to delegate ownership without losing coherence across the
  
  

team's output

• Champion psychological safety and inclusion in design decision-making
  
  

Hands-On Design & Craft

• Lead design for flagship features and complex UX challenges — actively contributing
  
  

wireframes, prototypes, and spec-ready flows

• Own the design of core 3D and AI-powered workflows: AI scene generation, asset
  
  

manipulation, real-time previewing, and spatial editing

• Produce and review high-fidelity prototypes to validate interaction patterns before
  
  

engineering investment

• Maintain and evolve Ctruh's component library and design system in Figma, ensuring
  
  

adoption across teams

• Design for accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA) as a baseline standard, not an afterthought
  
  

User Research & Insight

• Define and drive a mixed-methods user research practice: usability testing,
  
  

contextual inquiry, surveys, and analytics-led discovery

• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative signals into clear, actionable design insights
• Partner with PMs to establish success metrics for design: task completion, error
  
  

rates, time-on-task, CSAT, and NPS

• Embed continuous feedback loops from production usage into the design iteration
  
  

cycle

• Conduct competitive UX audits across 3D creation tools, AI productivity apps, and
  
  

enterprise SaaS platforms

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner deeply with Product Management to co-own the product roadmap — design
  
  

should shape prioritisation, not just execute it

• Collaborate with Engineering to ensure design feasibility, maintain quality during
  
  

implementation, and influence frontend architecture decisions

• Communicate design decisions and tradeoffs clearly to executive stakeholders —
  
  

with rationale grounded in user data

• Represent design strategy in investor, partner, and enterprise customer
  
  

conversations

• Drive launch readiness from a design perspective: documentation, handoff quality,
  
  

and post-launch design QA

Tools and Technical Stack:

Design & Prototyping

• Figma (primary) — components, auto-layout, variants, Dev Mode, and collaborative
  
  

design workflows

• Framer, ProtoPie, or Principle for advanced interaction prototyping
• Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop) for visual asset creation
• Spline or equivalent for 3D design exploration and web-ready 3D UI elements
  
  

Research & Testing

• UserTesting, Maze, Hotjar, or FullStory for usability testing and session analytics
• Dovetail or Notion for research synthesis and insight management
• Mixpanel, Amplitude, or PostHog for behavioural analytics and funnel analysis
  
  

Design Systems & Handoff

• Figma Tokens or Style Dictionary for design token management
• Storybook for design-engineering alignment on component behaviour
• Zeroheight or Notion for design system documentation
  
  

Collaboration

• Linear for project and sprint tracking
• Slack, Loom, and Notion for async communication and documentation
• GitHub (read-level comfort) — able to review implementation and file design-related
  
  

issues

What we are looking for:

Must-Haves

• 7+ years of product design experience, including 2+ years in a design leadership or
  
  

management role

• A portfolio that demonstrates both exceptional craft and strategic design thinking —
  
  

at system level and interaction level

• Proven experience building and scaling design teams — hiring, mentoring, and
  
  

growing designers at different career stages

• Deep expertise in UX methodology: end-to-end design process from discovery
  
  

through delivery and iteration

• Mastery of Figma and modern design tooling — you are faster and more thorough
  
  

with tools than most

• Strong written and verbal communication — you can defend design decisions with
  
  

clarity and receive critique constructively

• Experience designing complex, data-rich, or technical products — SaaS platforms,
  
  

developer tools, or productivity applications

• Track record of partnering with PMs and engineers at a senior level, influencing
  
  

roadmap and technical decisions through design

• Comfort with ambiguity — you know how to make principled design decisions in
  
  

fast-moving environments with incomplete information

Highly Desirable

• Experience designing 3D tools, WebGL interfaces, spatial computing products, or
  
  

AR/VR applications

• Familiarity with AI-native product design — crafting UX for generative outputs,
  
  

uncertainty states, and model latency

• Exposure to real-time or collaborative product experiences (e.g., Figma-like
  
  

multiplayer, live preview environments)

• Background in e-commerce, retail tech, or product visualisation at scale
• Experience contributing to or building open-source design systems
• Prior startup experience: comfort with zero-to-one design at speed alongside
  
  

structured scaling

• Basic front-end literacy (HTML/CSS/JS) — enough to understand implementation
  
  

constraints and engage meaningfully with engineers

• Published writing, talks, or portfolio case studies that demonstrate thought leadership
  
  

in UX or product design

Design Challenges you will Tackle:

• Designing intuitive UX for 3D scene editing — making spatial manipulation
  
  

accessible to non-technical users without sacrificing power

• Building AI-native interaction patterns for generative 3D: prompt inputs, output
  
  

previews, iteration loops, and error recovery

• Scaling a design system that works across a 3D web editor, a mobile AR viewer, an
  
  

enterprise dashboard, and developer-facing APIs

• Designing for trust in AI-assisted workflows — where the model may produce
  
  

surprising or imperfect outputs

• Balancing visual fidelity and real-time performance constraints in WebGL and spatial
  
  

environments

• Creating design processes that support a fast-moving engineering team without
  
  

becoming a bottleneck

• Establishing UX standards for a category that is still being defined — there are no
  
  

obvious playbooks for AI-powered 3D creation

Why Join Ctruh

• Own the entire design function — from team building to design culture to product
  
  

craft — not just a slice of it

• Work at the frontier of 3D + AI, one of the most technically exciting intersections in
  
  

consumer and enterprise software today

• Your design decisions are experienced by millions of customers and some of India's
  
  

largest enterprise brands

• Collaborate directly with a senior team with deep domain expertise in 3D, AI, and
  
  

spatial computing

• Access to frontier tools, real user data at scale, and the freedom to evolve how
  
  

design works at Ctruh

• Direct collaboration with investors from NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google
• A craft-forward culture where great design is celebrated and given the space and
  
  

resources to be exceptional

Compensation:

• Competitive salary benchmarked to senior design leadership market rates
• Stock options with a 4-year vesting schedule
• Performance-based bonuses tied to product quality, team growth, and design impact
• Design tools and conference / learning budget included
  
  

Ideal Candidate Profile:


You've led design teams and made them better. You've shipped products that real people

love, and you've written the critique in design reviews that made your team level up. You

hold both the micro — the kerning, the micro-interaction, the error state — and the macro —

the design system, the user journey, the strategic vision — in your head simultaneously. You

know that great design leadership is mostly about taste, trust, and the relentless pursuit of

clarity. You're excited not just about the destination but about building the map.

To Apply:

Please provide the following:

• Your resume / CV with links to shipped products you've led design on
• A portfolio that showcases your design process — not just final screens, but thinking,
  
  

iterations, and decisions

• A short note on your most complex design leadership challenge and how you
  
  

resolved it

• Why you're excited about designing at the intersection of AI and 3D at Ctruh
  
  

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