We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to drive innovation and deliver intuitive, impactful design solutions across multiple product verticals. In this role, you will lead the design vision and strategy, mentor a growing design team, and ensure that our products deliver exceptional user experiences aligned with business goals.
Key Responsibilities :
- Lead the creation of innovative design solutions that set new benchmarks for user experience and design excellence.
- Define and articulate the design vision and strategy across products, ensuring a cohesive and consistent user journey.
- Foster a culture of experimentation, encouraging the team to test, learn, and adopt innovative approaches.
- Align user needs with business objectives, crafting solutions that resonate with users while driving company goals.
- Champion accessibility and inclusive design principles, ensuring products are usable by the broadest audience.
- Use workshops, journey mapping, and design research to deeply understand user needs and pain points.
- Mentor and guide designers to achieve their full potential, fostering creativity, collaboration, and professional growth.
- Uphold the highest standards of design excellence across all deliverables.
- Streamline and optimize design workflows to enhance productivity and efficiency.
- Oversee the end-to-end design lifecycle from concept to delivery.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and marketers to translate product requirements into impactful designs.
- Ensure that final outputs align with both strategic vision and technical feasibility.
- Leverage user insights, analytics, and usability testing to inform design decisions.
- Continuously refine and improve designs to enhance user engagement and business performance.
- Present design ideas and strategies to stakeholders and cross-functional teams with clarity and influence.
- Act as a collaborative partner, bridging design, product, and engineering for seamless execution.
- Develop and refine scalable design systems to ensure consistency across products.
- Advocate for continuous improvement in design standards, usability, and developer efficiency.
Requirements :
Experience : 510 years in product design, with at least 23 years in a leadership or senior design role.Proven track record of delivering user-centric, scalable product designs.Expertise in UI / UX design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, InVision (or similar).Strong knowledge of prototyping and wireframing tools (Figma, Axure, Marvel, etc.).Solid understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, basic JavaScript) to ensure technical feasibility.Experience working with and developing design systems at scale.Strong grasp of user research methodologies (interviews, usability testing, A / B testing).Knowledge of data analytics tools (Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Hotjar, etc.) to inform design decisions.Excellent visual design, typography, and interaction design skills.Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.Deep passion for accessibility and inclusive design.Experience in SaaS / B2B product design.Familiarity with motion design and micro-interactions (After Effects, Principle, Lottie).Exposure to agile methodologies and working in cross-functional squads.Prior experience designing for multi-platform products (web, mobile, tablet, desktop).(ref : hirist.tech)