Senior Manager, Product Design

Lead and support a team of designers contributing to our Maintenance & Fuel domain.

Drive high-quality, user-centered design solutions that simplify complex workflows for fleet managers, drivers, and operations teams.

Partner with product and engineering to shape strategy, prioritize initiatives, and deliver impactful outcomes aligned with business goals.

Own design execution end-to-end—from early framing and concepting through detailed design, validation, and iteration.

Align teams around a shared vision through strong storytelling and strategic thinking and communicate design rationale clearly and persuasively to stakeholders, including senior leadership.

Contribute to and evolve our design system to ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across platforms.

Champion the use of modern AI tools to accelerate design exploration, prototyping, and delivery.

Introduce and scale AI-assisted workflows across design and cross-functional teams.

Stay at the forefront of emerging tools and practices, bringing new ideas into the organization.

Advocate for design excellence and a user-centric mindset across the organization.

Serve as the on-the-ground design leader in Bangalore, supporting designers across multiple teams in the region.

Mentor and coach designers who may not directly report to you, helping elevate craft, execution quality, and career growth.

Foster a strong, connected design culture in South Asia, including team rituals, critiques, and knowledge sharing.

Act as a key connector between regional teams and global design leadership, ensuring alignment and strong collaboration.

Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of product designers based in Bangalore.

Help establish Bangalore as a center of excellence for product design within the organization - playing a hands-on role in attracting, sourcing, hiring, interviewing, and closing top design talent in India.

8–10+ years of experience in product design (UX/UI/interaction), with experience managing and growing design teams in a SaaS environment.

Proven track record designing complex, data-rich web and mobile products, ideally in fleet management, logistics, or similarly complex domains.

Experience working with distributed/global teams, with strong collaboration across time zones.

Demonstrated success hiring and scaling design teams, ideally in India or similar markets.

Experience mentoring designers across reporting lines or contributing to regional/team-wide design culture.

Strong portfolio showcasing:

End-to-end design thinking

Systems-level problem solving

High-quality execution

Measurable business impact

Deep experience with design systems and scaling them across products and teams.

Hands-on familiarity with modern AI tools and workflows, and a strong point of view on how they reshape design and product development.

Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence across disciplines.

Strong business acumen and an understanding of how design drives product and company outcomes.

Curiosity, adaptability, and a bias toward action in a fast-moving environment.

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