Head of Product Design
Job description
About the role
The Head of Design leads product, brand, and marketing design while balancing strategic direction with hands-on work.
Designers shape how products look and feel. Designers create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished visuals. They test ideas with users and iterate on feedback. Design work spans research, interaction design, and visual design. Collaboration with product and engineering happens daily. Design decisions are judged by outcomes such as usability, conversion, and customer satisfaction. Most design teams keep a living design system to keep products consistent.
Key facts
What you'll do
A unified design vision is defined across apps, web, brand identity, and growth creative so user experiences feel cohesive worldwide. The design system evolves to remove workflow and handoff friction for product and marketing teams. Design quality standards, critique practices, and a shared operating rhythm are established to elevate craft consistency.
Requirements
The posting states a bachelor's degree requirement. Design professionals bring 8+ years of experience, with 3+ years in leadership, including hands-on product design and at least one of brand or marketing design. Multi-disciplinary design teams are built and led, showing how to structure for scale beyond immediate needs. Strong foundations are demonstrated in UX flows, interaction design, high-fidelity UI, and design systems using tools such as Figma or equivalent. Fluency in brand and marketing design is shown through visual identity, campaign creative, and the ability to create one cohesive system. Problems are treated as your own until solved, with decisions made without waiting for a brief to show high ownership. Ambiguity is handled by proactively building structure instead of waiting for clarity to arrive. Prior experience in fintech, regulated industries, or multi-market consumer products is a strong advantage for this role.
Nice to have
Navigating complex regulatory environments while preserving design quality and user trust is required.
Skills & tools
Proficiency in Figma or equivalent design tools is used for systems, flows, and high-fidelity UI. Design direction enables collaboration across Product, Engineering, Growth, and Marketing through clear influence.
Practical notes
This role is based in Bangalore and operates full time with standard local work arrangements. Typical interview steps
Design interviews usually include a portfolio review, a design exercise, and a team conversation. Candidates present past work and explain their process and decisions. Some loops include a live design challenge. Communication matters as much as the visual output. Portfolios are strongest when they show the problem, the constraints, and the iteration, not just the final screens. Interviewers also watch how you take feedback.
Good to know
Design roles in fintech often require balancing regulatory constraints with user-centered outcomes. Cross-functional collaboration is central, involving close work with product, engineering, growth, and marketing teams. Design systems are critical in financial services to ensure consistency and compliance across markets. Global product and brand consistency requires structured design processes and clear quality standards. Familiarity with financial products and regulated environments can reduce friction in delivery and stakeholder alignment.
Questions to ask
Worth asking in any interview: how the team measures success, who the role works with daily, what the onboarding looks like, and what the company is trying to achieve this year. Asking what past hires did well is a strong final question. Keep the list short and pick the questions that matter most to you.
Career growth
Design careers grow from junior to senior, staff, and principal levels. Some designers move into design management or design operations. Specializations include UX research, interaction design, and brand design. Cross-functional influence grows with seniority. Senior designers are expected to influence product strategy, not just execute visuals. Building a habit of user research strengthens any design career.