Senior Product Designer

Headout; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

A global travel platform is seeking a Product Designer to enhance user experiences for a diverse audience. You will create intuitive designs that lead to memorable moments and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has at least 4 years of experience in digital product design, a strong ability to mentor junior designers, and a commitment to data-driven insights in improving user interactions. Join a growing team to craft exceptional experiences across 8+ languages and 20+ currencies.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience in product design for mobile and web.
• Experience in leading design initiatives and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Proficient in translating concepts into user flows and mockups.

Responsibilities

• Design user experiences for a global audience.
• Conduct usability tests and advocate for user experience.
• Work on a multi-disciplinary team to enhance product offerings.

Skills

Designing digital products

User experience strategy

Mentoring junior designers

Usability testing

Creating wireframes and prototypes

Job description

Product Design is a fast-growing team at Headout of creative, collaborative, strategic people who care deeply about defining new paradigms for our products. You’ll get to work with a cross‑functional team {ex: designer, researcher, and writers} working together to build a global travel platform for the users to rely on Headout to create their memorable moments via experiences.

We’re looking for a Product Designer who has the curiosity to get to know our users and the creativity to design world‑class user experiences. You will be joining a multi‑disciplinary team whose shared mission is to make data analytics highly usable and easily accessible to non‑technical users.

🤩 What makes this role special?

• From India, to the world: Use your talent and expertise to craft truly world‑class experiences for a global audience, it could be a couple from Costa Rica, a family from Australia, a group of friends from Norway or a solo backpacker from all over - you get the idea!
• Forging your way forward: We're a lean team mapping our journey to becoming a mature design org. This ensures you will have a swift, tangible impact, along with a chance to shape the team's trajectory.
• Bring magic to life: If you're passionate about creating delightful consumer products and pushing design boundaries, Headout is the place for you. Our products are crafted to provide magical experiences, ensuring we never settle for anything other than exceptional
• With great challenges come great learnings: Designing for a global audience that spans 8+ languages, 20+ currencies and 24+ unique categories of experiences brings exciting challenges right to your doorstep (or Slack/Figma 😛). And with these, incredible learnings are guaranteed

💝 What skills & experience do you need

• You have at least 4 years of experience designing digital products (for Mobile and Web) in cross‑functional product teams.
• You are a leader and a team player. You are able to lead design initiatives, gather complex requirements around functionality, and translate them into elegant, functional, and aesthetically pleasing solutions. You work closely with junior product designers, Lead UX designers, product managers, developers, and engineers from ideation to implementation on new and existing projects across the platform. You also provide constructive feedback to junior members and mentor individuals facing challenges.
• You know user journeys intimately and strategically. You translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences, consistently producing designs that require zero clarification on details like hover states, edge cases, and screen sizes.
• You champion user experience with data‑driven insights. You conduct usability tests on all your modules, advocate for bettering the user experience, take into account user feedback, and learn from user behaviors to improve product experience, utilizing data for most decisions.
• You embody design excellence and consistency, contributing to design systems. You are no stranger to working with and contributing to design systems in your day‑to‑days. This means documenting it well for the entire team and proposing changes to design elements if necessary. You will be an inspiration for others to follow, enhancing their own projects.