About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Design Execution: Deliver high-fidelity product designs for complex, high-impact initiatives, balancing user needs with business goals through elegant, scalable solutions.
• Strategic Impact: Actively shape product roadmaps with product and engineering, ensuring design thinking is embedded early, not retrofitted.
• Systems Thinking: Establish, maintain, and refine scalable design systems and reusable patterns that enable consistency without stifling innovation.
• Mentorship & Nurturing: Guide, mentor, and nurture young designers, helping them build craft, confidence, and strategic thinking while maintaining accountability for quality.
• Detail & Perspective Switching: Maintain a strong eye for detail while frequently switching between 30,000 ft strategic views and 400 ft detailed execution, ensuring alignment without losing sight of critical nuances.
• Operating in VUCA: Thrive in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous (VUCA) environments by adapting approaches, prioritizing effectively, and maintaining design momentum under shifting conditions.
• Research and Validation: Lead or support user research, usability testing, and rapid prototyping to validate hypotheses and uncover user needs.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to align on goals while championing user-centered design.
• Thought Leadership: Contribute to the design culture through critiques, knowledge sharing, and codifying design approaches for repeatability and team growth.

Requirements

• 8–12 years in UX/UI/product design with a strong, shipped portfolio demonstrating end-to-end problem-solving in complex systems.
• Advanced skills in interaction design, visual design, and information architecture and great storytelling skills, with fluency in tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe CS.
• Proven experience establishing and scaling design systems.
• Ability to simplify complex workflows without oversimplifying essential user needs.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, using structured thinking to influence diverse stakeholders.
• Comfort and effectiveness in VUCA environments, balancing speed with quality and adaptability.
• Strong eye for design detail, coupled with the discipline to zoom out to align with business strategy.
• Demonstrated mentorship of junior designers, with evidence of helping others improve craft and confidence.
• Familiarity with front-end technologies to collaborate meaningfully with engineers.

Nice to Have

• Experience in startup, zero-to-one, or high-growth environments.
• Exposure to AI-powered design challenges and designing for intelligent systems.
• Basic coding knowledge or understanding of technical constraints.