Head Of Product Design

About The Role

You’ll lead and manage a team of designers responsible for the entire Amartha product suites. This includes experiences such as Amartha+, BP app, MIS, Amartha Core, Amartha Score. You’ll partner closely with your product manager and engineering leaders to define a UX strategy for Amartha product suites.

You and your team will distill complex problems and propose clear, efficient, consistent solutions. You're meticulous and excited about beautiful design, and you love seeing products ship. You're hungry for new ways to do things. You follow the latest trends, download the newest apps, experiment with the latest devices and wearables. You have a keen eye for useful products, and you share your findings with the team. You're a tireless advocate for the end user. You have deep empathy for their everyday struggles and challenges. You always put their needs first, and you're unwavering in your desire to provide the best experiences for users.

The ideal candidate enjoys creating experiences with technology, hacking on new projects, and intensely working on high-value, strategic initiatives under tight time constraints. You must have excellent communication skills, energy, and thoughtfulness to build and deliver the best in the world for our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Evangelize design system guidelines and patterns
• Building a high performing, diverse team that delivers exceptional experiences for our end users in a timely manner. Hire top talent and develop existing talent
• Work with devs and QA to deliver polished final product
• Collaborate closely with product managers to find opportunities for new products/features and validate assumptions through user testing and research
• Recruit, nurture and retain best-in-class talent
• Solve complex UX design problems across multiple channels
• Build strong partnerships across disciplines, such as Design, Product, Engineering, and Marketing
• Reinforce a design-thinking culture that leverages the best product, technology and innovative talent
• Influence and compellingly communicate the vision to a wide variety of key stakeholders
• Work with engineering to deliver final product
• Driving your team to utilize a user-centered approach to solve design challenges and support business needs
• Giving and receiving feedback, early and often
• Shaping and driving the UX strategy for our core platform
• Own various application interfaces
• Cultivating an inclusive, constructive, and collaborative culture within your team

Requirements

• A strong passion for managing and mentoring designers
• 3+ years of management experience
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, agile environment, while also leading process improvement efforts
• A deep appreciation and talent for simple solutions to complex problems
• 7-10+ years of experience designing and delivering products in cross-functional teams from start to finish
• Basic understanding of Accessibility
• Power to influence others and build consensus, while dealing with ambiguity
• Managed an entire product lifecycle from concept to release
• Self-motivated, a good communicator, and able to balance great design with meeting short deadlines
• Experience using analytics, user research and other approaches to help make decisions and iterate on the product
• Constant drive to stay up-to-date with the latest industry news and developments
• Deep understanding of user-centered design methods and best practices - and you’re always looking to improve on your process