Job Title: Director of Product Design
Salary: 20-40 LPA
Experience: 7-10 yrs
Location: Bangalore
Education: Graduation
Industry: SaaS
Skills Required: Figma, WebGL, UX methodology, Product design, 3D tools
Job Description
Role Overview:
We're looking for a visionary Director of Product Design to lead the design function at one of India's most ambitious spatial computing companies. This is not a role for someone who manages design from a distance — you will shape the design culture, drive the product experience across our AI-powered 3D platform, and get into the craft alongside your team.
You will own design strategy from first principles, working across the full spectrum of our product: from the initial blank canvas of a 3D scene editor to AI-assisted creation workflows, from enterprise dashboards to consumer-facing AR previews. You care deeply about how things feel, not just how they look — and you know that the best design decisions are rooted in user empathy, rigorous research, and iterative validation.
What you will own:
Design Vision & Strategy
● Define and own the product design vision across all of Company's surfaces — editor, platform, APIs, and consumer touchpoints
● Translate complex product and business goals into coherent, elegant design strategies that scale
● Drive a consistent, high-quality design language and evolve Company's design system as the product grows
● Lead long-term UX strategy for AI-native interaction paradigms — designing for uncertainty, latency, and generative outputs
● Establish and champion a design culture of rigour, craft, and user advocacy across the company
Team Leadership & People Management
● Hire, mentor, and grow a team of UX designers, UI designers, and user researchers
● Create clear growth paths and foster a feedback-rich culture that makes designers better every quarter
● Conduct regular design reviews, provide high-quality critique, and set the bar for what great looks like
● Partner with design leads to delegate ownership without losing coherence across the team's output
● Champion psychological safety and inclusion in design decision-making
Hands-On Design & Craft
● Lead design for flagship features and complex UX challenges — actively contributing wireframes, prototypes, and spec-ready flows
● Own the design of core 3D and AI-powered workflows: AI scene generation, asset manipulation, real-time previewing, and spatial editing
● Produce and review high-fidelity prototypes to validate interaction patterns before engineering investment
● Maintain and evolve Company's component library and design system in Figma, ensuring adoption across teams
● Design for accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA) as a baseline standard, not an afterthought
User Research & Insight
● Define and drive a mixed-methods user research practice: usability testing, contextual inquiry, surveys, and analytics-led discovery
● Synthesize qualitative and quantitative signals into clear, actionable design insights
● Partner with PMs to establish success metrics for design: task completion, error rates, time-on-task, CSAT, and NPS
● Embed continuous feedback loops from production usage into the design iteration cycle
● Conduct competitive UX audits across 3D creation tools, AI productivity apps, and enterprise SaaS platforms
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Leadership
● Partner deeply with Product Management to co-own the product roadmap — design should shape prioritisation, not just execute it
● Collaborate with Engineering to ensure design feasibility, maintain quality during implementation, and influence frontend architecture decisions
● Communicate design decisions and trade-offs clearly to executive stakeholders — with rationale grounded in user data
● Represent design strategy in investor, partner, and enterprise customer conversations
● Drive launch readiness from a design perspective: documentation, handoff quality, and post-launch design QA
Tools and Technical Stack:
Design & Prototyping
● Figma (primary) — components, auto-layout, variants, Dev Mode, and collaborative design workflows
● Framer, ProtoPie, or Principle for advanced interaction prototyping
● Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop) for visual asset creation
● Spline or equivalent for 3D design exploration and web-ready 3D UI elements
Research & Testing
● User Testing, Maze, Hotjar, or FullStory for usability testing and session analytics
● Dovetail or Notion for research synthesis and insight management
● Mixpanel, Amplitude, or PostHog for behavioural analytics and funnel analysis
Design Systems & Handoff
● Figma Tokens or Style Dictionary for design token management
● Storybook for design-engineering alignment on component behaviour
● Zeroheight or Notion for design system documentation
Collaboration
● Linear for project and sprint tracking
● Slack, Loom, and Notion for async communication and documentation
● GitHub (read-level comfort) — able to review implementation and file design-related issues
What we are looking for:
Must-Haves
● 7+ years of product design experience, including 2+ years in a design leadership or management role
● A portfolio that demonstrates both exceptional craft and strategic design thinking — at system level and interaction level
● Proven experience building and scaling design teams — hiring, mentoring, and growing designers at different career stages
● Deep expertise in UX methodology: end-to-end design process from discovery through delivery and iteration
● Mastery of Figma and modern design tooling — you are faster and more thorough with tools than most
● Strong written and verbal communication — you can defend design decisions with clarity and receive critique constructively
● Experience designing complex, data-rich, or technical products — SaaS platforms, developer tools, or productivity applications
● Track record of partnering with PMs and engineers at a senior level, influencing roadmap and technical decisions through design
● Comfort with ambiguity — you know how to make principled design decisions in fast-moving environments with incomplete information
Highly Desirable
● Experience designing 3D tools, WebGL interfaces, spatial computing products, or AR/VR applications
● Familiarity with AI-native product design — crafting UX for generative outputs, uncertainty states, and model latency
● Exposure to real-time or collaborative product experiences (e.g., Figma-like multiplayer, live preview environments)
● Background in e-commerce, retail tech, or product visualisation at scale
● Experience contributing to or building open-source design systems
● Prior startup experience: comfort with zero-to-one design at speed alongside structured scaling
● Basic front-end literacy (HTML/CSS/JS) — enough to understand implementation constraints and engage meaningfully with engineers
● Published writing, talks, or portfolio case studies that demonstrate thought leadership in UX or product design
Design Challenges you will Tackle:
● Designing intuitive UX for 3D scene editing — making spatial manipulation accessible to non-technical users without sacrificing power
● Building AI-native interaction patterns for generative 3D: prompt inputs, output previews, iteration loops, and error recovery
● Scaling a design system that works across a 3D web editor, a mobile AR viewer, an enterprise dashboard, and developer-facing APIs
● Designing for trust in AI-assisted workflows — where the model may produce surprising or imperfect outputs
● Balancing visual fidelity and real-time performance constraints in WebGL and spatial environments
● Creating design processes that support a fast-moving engineering team without becoming a bottleneck
● Establishing UX standards for a category that is still being defined — there are no obvious playbooks for AI-powered 3D creation
Why Join
● Own the entire design function — from team building to design culture to product craft — not just a slice of it
● Work at the frontier of 3D + AI, one of the most technically exciting intersections in consumer and enterprise software today
● Your design decisions are experienced by millions of customers and some of India's largest enterprise brands
● Collaborate directly with a senior team with deep domain expertise in 3D, AI, and spatial computing
● Access to frontier tools, real user data at scale, and the freedom to evolve how design works at the Company
● Direct collaboration with investors from companies like NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google
● A craft-forward culture where great design is celebrated and given the space and resources to be exceptional
Mandatory Criteria
- Should have at least 7+ years of product design experience, including 2+ years in a design leadership or management role
- Deep expertise in UX methodology: end-to-end design process from discovery through delivery and iteration
- Mastery of Figma and modern design tooling
- Experience designing complex, data-rich, or technical products - SaaS platforms, developer tools, or productivity applications
- Candidates should be from SAAS/Software/IT Services based start-ups or scaleup companies only
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