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About this Head Of Design role at Weekday AI

Weekday AI · Onsite · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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

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About Weekday AI

At Weekday (backed by YC; also Product Hunt #1 product of the day), we are building the next frontier in hiring. We have built the largest database of white collar talent in India and have built outreach tools on top of it to generate highest response rates.

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