Lead Product Designer

Bridgetown Research; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,100,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Bridgetown Research in Bengaluru is seeking a senior product designer to own strategically important product areas from framing to launch. You will partner with founders, product and engineering to shape what we build, not just how it is designed.

You will turn complex research, data, and AI workflows into simple, trustworthy experiences, set a high bar for interaction and visual craft, and help shape design culture as the team grows.

Qualifications

• Exceptional product, interaction, and visual design craft across shipped products.
• A track record of owning complex or high-impact product areas with substantial autonomy.
• Strong product judgment; comfortable operating without a fully specified roadmap or PRD.
• Ability to influence senior cross-functional partners while remaining open to evidence and better ideas.

Responsibilities

• Own strategic product areas from framing to launch.
• Influence what we build with founders, product, and engineers.
• Turn complex research and AI workflows into simple, trustworthy experiences.
• Set a high bar for interaction, visual craft, systems thinking, and the quality of what ships.
• Create clarity in ambiguous problems and guide trade-offs.
• Be hands-on and elevate other designers through critique.
• Shape design culture, principles, and ways of working as the team grows.

Skills

Design craft

Product ownership

Cross-functional influence

Systems thinking

Strong communication

Hands-on design

Job description

Responsibilities

• Own ambiguous, strategically important product areas from problem framing through launch and iteration.
• Partner with founders, product, and engineering to influence what we build, not only how it is designed.
• Turn complex research, data, and AI workflows into simple, trustworthy product experiences.
• Set a high bar for interaction, visual craft, systems thinking, and the quality of what ships.
• Create clarity when the problem is poorly defined, identify the important trade-offs, and move teams toward strong decisions.
• Stay deeply hands‑on while raising the bar for other designers through critique, collaboration, and strong examples.
• Help shape the design culture, principles, systems, and ways of working as the team grows.

Requirements

• Exceptional product, interaction, and visual design craft across shipped products.
• A track record of owning complex or high‑impact product areas with substantial autonomy.
• Strong product judgment and comfort operating without a fully specified roadmap or PRD.
• Ability to influence senior cross‑functional partners while remaining open to evidence and better ideas.
• Strong systems thinking, clear communication, and a high bar for the details of the final product.

Nice to have

• Experience with complex B2B, SaaS, data, productivity, workflow, AI, or agentic products; or experience helping establish design practices in a small team.