Responsibilities
- People Leadership: Manage, coach, and develop a team of product designers. Own career growth, performance conversations, feedback loops, and hiring. Create the conditions where designers do the best work of their careers.
- Craft & Quality: Set and uphold the design quality bar across your pod. Lead critiques, give sharp feedback, and intervene directly on work when it matters. Make sure what ships reflects the standard the team is capable of.
- Strategy & Prioritization: Translate company and product strategy into design priorities for your team. Decide what gets worked on, what gets deprioritized, and why — and communicate that clearly upward and downward.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Operate as the senior design partner for product managers, engineering leads, and editorial stakeholders within your pod. Build trust through clarity, judgement, and results — not volume of output.
- Business Outcomes: Own the impact of your team’s work on conversion, engagement, and revenue metrics. Partner with growth and analytics to connect design decisions to measurable outcomes.
- AI-First Practice: Embed AI tooling into your team’s day-to-day workflow — from ideation and prototyping through to production. Help define what “modern design practice” looks like within the organization.
- Process & Rituals: Shape the operating model of the design team — critiques, planning, quality reviews, design-to-engineering handoffs. Improve what isn’t working and protect what is.
- Hands-On Contribution: Step into the work directly when it’s the right call — on the most strategic initiatives, during capacity gaps, or when craft judgement is needed in the room.
- Team Development: Build a culture of feedback, curiosity, and ownership. Run rituals that grow the team’s craft and strategic thinking over time.
Requirements
- Minimum of 12 years experience in product design, with 5+ years in people management
- Proven experience managing senior designers and design leads, not just junior or mid-level ICs
- Portfolio or case studies demonstrating both team outcomes and your own hands-on craft
- Proven ability to coach and develop designers over time
Nice to Have
- Experience in marketplace, fintech, comparison, or editorial/media product environments
- Working fluency with AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Figma AI, v0, Lovable) as part of day-to-day practice
- Experience contributing to or governing a design system at scale
- Background in growth, experimentation, or CRO-adjacent design work
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Group Medical Insurance, Term Life Insurance & Personal Accident Coverage & Gratuity
- Fitness & Commute Reimbursement
- Third Friday of every month off
