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Design Manager (UX)

The Product Guys
Full-time
On-site
Bangalore North, Karnataka, India

As our client build out our product offerings for the content creators, talent managers, brands, agencies & publishers,
we are looking for an experienced Design Manager to lead a team within this new vertical at our client. As they build
out our product offerings for the content creators, talent managers, brands, agencies & publishers, we are
looking for an experienced UX Designers to work within this new vertical at our clientย 

The Design Manager will be responsible for building, managing, and scaling a team of talented designers and
engineers to contribute to developing a compelling and scalable SaaS product. They will also be responsible for
upholding clients values and building those into the team.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Support and lead a team of product designers, by applying your expertise in strategic design methods
    and strategic design processes, across a multi-disciplinary team (UX, UX research, IxD, UI, VD,
    Graphics, etc) Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps.

  2. A key contributor to product team working closely with PM and key stakeholders (product,
    engineering, data science, sales, marketing & PR) to dene a long term strategy that delivers on the
    vision

  3. Be able to deliver value for end-to-end user experience design with a focus on interaction design and
    visual design.

  4. Develop process flows, wireframes, and mockups to effectively conceptualize and communicate design
    strategies and detailed interaction models

  5. Be accountable for the system designs within the scope of your team to fulfill both functional and
    non-functional requirements, that enables building a scalable and reliable product

  6. Bring predictability & visibility of the teamโ€™s delivery to all relevant stakeholders, which includes
    making complex technological context more accessible to improve the quality of decision making

  7. Continually research the user experience through interviews/systematic feedback from internal/external
    customers to dive into root problems and uncover opportunities to improve our product

  8. Responsible for building & growing the design team - skills development, personal development,
    mentoring & leadership growth

  9. Work towards inculcating a Design Thinking culture within the team



Requirements

Technical Skills:

  1. Experience managing a design project from start to finish

  2. Ability to communicate effectively to different audiences within the organization

  3. A keen sense of design - both interaction design and visual design

  4. Knowledge of wireframe tools (e.g. Sketch and InVision)

  5. Experience developing UX wireframes, interactive prototypes and mock-ups

  6. Team spirit, strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders

  7. Can get hands dirty with all parts of the design process

  8. Understanding of influencer marketing space is a good to have


Qualification & Prior Experience:
  • 5-7+ years of hands-on experience in product design preferably in B2B space, working collaboratively with tech,
    product, engineering & data science team

  • 3-4 years experience managing a multi-disciplinary product design team
  • Previous work experience in a fast growth product start-up is a huge plus