# Head Of Design

> Weekday AI · Mumbai, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-13

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

## Description

**This role is for one of the Weekday's clients**

Min Experience: 10+ years

Location: Mumbai

JobType: full-time

## Requirements

**Key Responsibilities**

**1\. Design Leadership & Strategy**

-   Define and own the overall design vision and strategy aligned with business objectives.
-   Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of product, visual, and brand designers.
-   Foster a strong design culture centered around innovation, user empathy, and collaboration.
-   Establish design processes, frameworks, and best practices across the organization.

**2\. Product Design**

-   Lead end-to-end product design across web and mobile platforms.
-   Drive user-centric design decisions through customer research, usability testing, and data insights.
-   Create seamless and intuitive user experiences that improve adoption, engagement, and retention.
-   Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality product experiences.

**3\. Design Systems & UX Excellence**

-   Develop and maintain scalable design systems and component libraries.
-   Ensure consistency across products, platforms, and customer touchpoints.
-   Define and monitor UX metrics and continuously improve customer experiences.

**4\. Brand & Marketing Design**

-   Oversee the company's visual identity across digital and offline channels.
-   Ensure consistency in branding, messaging, and visual storytelling.
-   Support marketing initiatives through high-quality creative assets for campaigns, events, social media, and sales enablement.

**5\. Cross-functional Collaboration**

-   Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Leadership teams to align design efforts with business goals.
-   Translate complex business and technical requirements into intuitive and elegant user experiences.
-   Advocate for design thinking across the organization.  
      
     

**What We’re Looking For**

**1\. Experience**

-   **10+ years of experience** in Product Design, UX/UI Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design, or related disciplines.
-   Demonstrated experience leading and scaling design teams in high-growth SaaS or enterprise technology organizations.
-   Experience working within B2B SaaS, CRM, ERP, MarTech, CPaaS, or enterprise software environments is highly preferred.
-   Proven track record of delivering customer-centric experiences that drive adoption, engagement, and business outcomes.

**2\. Leadership**

-   Experience managing and mentoring senior designers and cross-functional teams.
-   Ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive alignment across functions.
-   Strong strategic thinking with the ability to balance long-term vision with execution excellence.

**3\. Technical & Functional Expertise**

-   Deep understanding of user-centered design methodologies and modern product development practices.
-   Expertise in design systems, information architecture, interaction design, and usability principles.
-   Proficiency with industry-standard design and collaboration platforms including Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro, prototyping solutions, user research tools, and design system frameworks.
-   Experience working within agile product development environments.

**4\. Communication**

-   Exceptional communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
-   Ability to articulate design decisions through customer insights, business metrics, and strategic outcomes.

**5\. Preferred Qualifications**

-   Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Engineering, Fine Arts, or a related discipline.
-   A master's degree or MBA is considered advantageous.
-   Experience designing for enterprise users and complex business workflows.
-   Familiarity with experimentation frameworks and data-driven product design practices.  
      
     

**Why Work With Us?**

-   **Accelerated Career Growth** – Fast-track your way into leadership roles with a clear growth path.
-   **Challenging Work Environment** – Collaborate with large enterprises and solve complex technology problems. 
-   **Career Flexibility** – Explore transitions into roles like Product Manager and beyond.
-   **Supportive Culture** – Work with a friendly, approachable team and management that values people.
-   **Founder-Led Exposure** – Get a front-row seat to the startup journey and work closely with the founding team.
-   **Sharpen Customer-Centric Skills** – Gain hands-on experience and build strong customer-facing and problem-solving skills.
-   **Hands-On Innovation** – Be directly involved in AI bot creation, prompt engineering, and cutting-edge customer engagement solutions.

### Must-have skills

Product Designer

## Apply

[Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/07674969FF/apply)

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