Product Design Manager

Sense; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Sense is looking for a seasoned Design Manager to lead our design team in Bengaluru. This player-coach role involves mentoring product designers while owning strategic design projects. You will represent design at the highest level, manage a team, and facilitate design thinking in product strategy discussions.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in B2B SaaS design, at least 3 years of leadership experience, and a passion for creating intuitive and approachable designs. This hybrid position requires in-office presence for at least 3 days a week.

Qualifications

• Strong track record of shipping B2B SaaS products that customers love.
• 3+ years of design leadership experience with direct reports.
• 7-10 years of hands-on product design experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a growing design team in Bangalore.
• Own end-to-end product design lifecycle for strategic projects.
• Facilitate design workshops and define UX patterns.
• Ensure high-quality design while aligning with customer needs.

Skills

B2B SaaS product design

Design leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven design

Recruiting and HR tech

Job description

We re looking for a seasoned Design Manager to lead the growing design team in our Bangalore office. To begin with, this is a player-coach role. You will be mentoring and coaching the product designers to excel at their craft, help elevate the design maturity across product pods, and have hands-on design responsibility on strategic design projects. You will report to the Head of Design in California.

What Youll Do

• As the senior most design leader in our Bangalore office, represent design at the highest level, manage a team of 3 product designers, and help scale and grow the team
• Be the hands-on design lead for strategic design projects; own the end-to-end product design lifecycle from problem definition to ideation, validation, implementation, and future iterations
• Facilitate design workshops and bring design thinking to the forefront of product strategy discussions
• Help define frameworks and UX patterns for how we communicate the ROI of our products with analytics and insights to various customer segments, user personas and decision-makers
• Drive design process, collaboration, and operations optimisation
• Help define and inspire long-term direction while delivering high-quality products on a regular cadence
• Ensure Sense remains simple, intuitive, and approachable by enabling designers to work across projects, products, and teams
• Define and evolve our processes and tools, building constructive and healthy systems for sharing work and feedback between people, functions, and teams
• You ll set an extremely high bar for our craft and quality across visual design, interaction, UX, and content; while staying focused on our customers needs and our company s goals
• This is a hybrid role with a mix of people management and hands-on design responsibilities
• Be part of a global team responsible for the user experience, brand design, and user research to support all product initiatives at Sense

What Were Looking For:

• You have a strong track record of shipping B2B SaaS products that customers love
• Some experience in Recruiting, HR tech or Talent Engagement domains
• You have 3+ years of design leadership experience, with direct reports and ownership of company goals
• You have 7-10 years of hands-on product design experience, building, and shipping high-quality products
• You collaborate well cross-functionally especially with research, product management, engineering, and data and pride yourself on being able to get teams of smart people working together toward strategic objectives
• You have experience sharing and representing work in large forums, tailoring your communication to the needs of your audience
• You have built, or are committed to building, diverse and inclusive product teams
• You will be comfortable with a hybrid work setup, with at least 3 days in the Bangalore office

Please include a portfolio of product design case studies (Online or PDF)

Bonus Points:

• Experience designing for data-driven products
• Experience working with marketing and sales teams
• Understand the pain of fragmented tools and information silos created by them, and have a strong urge to fix them