Head Of Design

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 10+ years

Location: Mumbai

JobType: full-time

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

1. Design Leadership & Strategy

• Define and own the overall design vision and strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of product, visual, and brand designers.
• Foster a strong design culture centered around innovation, user empathy, and collaboration.
• Establish design processes, frameworks, and best practices across the organization.

2. Product Design

• Lead end-to-end product design across web and mobile platforms.
• Drive user-centric design decisions through customer research, usability testing, and data insights.
• Create seamless and intuitive user experiences that improve adoption, engagement, and retention.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality product experiences.

3. Design Systems & UX Excellence

• Develop and maintain scalable design systems and component libraries.
• Ensure consistency across products, platforms, and customer touchpoints.
• Define and monitor UX metrics and continuously improve customer experiences.

4. Brand & Marketing Design

• Oversee the company's visual identity across digital and offline channels.
• Ensure consistency in branding, messaging, and visual storytelling.
• Support marketing initiatives through high-quality creative assets for campaigns, events, social media, and sales enablement.

5. Cross-functional Collaboration

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Leadership teams to align design efforts with business goals.
• Translate complex business and technical requirements into intuitive and elegant user experiences.
• Advocate for design thinking across the organization.
  
  

What We're Looking For

1. Experience

• 10+ years of experience in Product Design, UX/UI Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience leading and scaling design teams in high-growth SaaS or enterprise technology organizations.
• Experience working within B2B SaaS, CRM, ERP, MarTech, CPaaS, or enterprise software environments is highly preferred.
• Proven track record of delivering customer-centric experiences that drive adoption, engagement, and business outcomes.

2. Leadership

• Experience managing and mentoring senior designers and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive alignment across functions.
• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to balance long-term vision with execution excellence.

3. Technical & Functional Expertise

• Deep understanding of user-centered design methodologies and modern product development practices.
• Expertise in design systems, information architecture, interaction design, and usability principles.
• Proficiency with industry-standard design and collaboration platforms including Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro, prototyping solutions, user research tools, and design system frameworks.
• Experience working within agile product development environments.

4. Communication

• Exceptional communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to articulate design decisions through customer insights, business metrics, and strategic outcomes.

5. Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Engineering, Fine Arts, or a related discipline.
• A master's degree or MBA is considered advantageous.
• Experience designing for enterprise users and complex business workflows.
• Familiarity with experimentation frameworks and data-driven product design practices.
  
  

Why Work With Us?

• Accelerated Career Growth - Fast-track your way into leadership roles with a clear growth path.
• Challenging Work Environment - Collaborate with large enterprises and solve complex technology problems.
• Career Flexibility - Explore transitions into roles like Product Manager and beyond.
• Supportive Culture - Work with a friendly, approachable team and management that values people.
• Founder-Led Exposure - Get a front-row seat to the startup journey and work closely with the founding team.
• Sharpen Customer-Centric Skills - Gain hands-on experience and build strong customer-facing and problem-solving skills.
• Hands-On Innovation - Be directly involved in AI bot creation, prompt engineering, and cutting-edge customer engagement solutions.

Must-have skills

Product Designer