Product Design Lead

Position: Product Design Lead (B2C) Overall/Total Experience: 7-9 years only Location: Gurugram Working Days: 5 Days Working from office Notice Period Requirement: 30 Days (Maximum) Client's Company Size: Mid-Sized Note: Final Round will be face to face in Gurugram office Roles & Responsibilities: - Define and evangelize the long-term UI/UX roadmap for the company, ensuring design serves as a competitive advantage in the market. - Build, lead, and mentor a team of designers, fostering a culture of excellence, continuous learning, and creative rigor. - Oversee the creation and evolution of scalable, elegant design systems and UI patterns that ensure brand parity across all platforms. - Partner with C-suite stakeholders, Product, and Engineering leaders to align design initiatives with overarching business goals and technical feasibility. - Clearly articulate complex design challenges to non-design stakeholders, influencing product direction through user-centric logic and data-driven insights. - Implement and refine design workflows, from rapid prototyping to final hand-off, ensuring the team delivers high-quality outcomes at scale. - Conduct regular design reviews and critiques to maintain a high bar of execution across all visual and motion design projects. Candidate Requirements: - Must have 7+ years of total professional experience, of which at least 5+ years should be in UI/UX Design roles. - Must have hands-on experience across the full product design lifecycle for both web and mobile applications. - Must have 1+ year of experience in team leading with managing and overseeing design for high-impact consumer products. - Must have exceptional UI skills combined with deep mastery of UX, with demonstrated ability to deliver world-class visual and interaction design across web and mobile platforms. - Must have proven expertise in building and evolving scalable design systems and UI patterns that ensure brand parity and consistency across platforms. - Must have proficiency in industry-standard tools - Figma, Principle, and Adobe Suite. - Must have a comprehensive portfolio showcasing elite visual design, design system work, and evidence of leading teams and solving large-scale product problems for consumer products. - Must hold a formal degree in Design (HCI, Interaction Design, Visual Communication, or equivalent) from a premier global institution / Tier-1 design college. - Must be from B2C product companies only.