UX Leader

Location: Bengaluru

As a Design Leader, you will be responsible for providing strategic design leadership, design management, and client management, setting the vision for design practice s role is a blend of customer engagement, team mentorship, and design execution, while also shaping AI-enabled design processes across projects. You will work across multiple problem spaces and domains, ensuring that design solutions are user-centred, well-reasoned, and feasible to implement.

The Core Responsibilities For The Job Include The Following

AI-Led Design and Acceleration:

Establish and scale AI-assisted design processes using tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and v0 to accelerate research synthesis, ideation, rapid prototyping, and concept-to-validation cycles.
Stay at the forefront of emerging AI tools and patterns, translating them into practical, repeatable workflows for the team.
Guide the design team on applying AI effectively within project deliverables to improve speed and execution quality.

UX Strategy And Execution

Translate research insights into clear UX strategies, actionable design rationale, and customer-ready narratives.
Develop and drive design strategy across journeys, wireframes, and mockups while remaining hands-on in execution.
Elevate the standard for UX practice by proactively proposing solutions that balance user needs, technical feasibility, and delivery constraints.

Client Leadership And Communication

Lead client-facing engagements to uncover key insights and guide customers through necessary constraints, trade-offs, and prioritisation decisions.
Facilitate high-impact workshops and build trust with customers through transparency, clarity, and execution confidence.
Serve as the primary UX contact for key engagements or projects requiring deep UX specialisation.

Delivery, Scope, And Risk Ownership

Owns UX scope and risk management, including pushing back on unrealistic requests, prioritising MVPs, and sequencing UX work to fit delivery constraints.
Collaborate deeply with engineers and product managers to ensure design intent is preserved from discovery through implementation.

Team Enablement And Quality Bar

Provide actionable feedback on design deliverables across projects to ensure consistency and elevate execution quality.
Guide and mentor designers by setting clear expectations for quality, decision-making, and delivery discipline.

Measurement and Impact

Track and communicate UX impact using measurable outcomes in partnership with delivery and product teams.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in product design.
Demonstrated experience with AI-enabled design tools and processes.
Proven success in client-facing environments, with the ability to defend design decisions and provide necessary guidance.
Experience mentoring and leading designers and establishing structured feedback loops.
Proficiency in modern design stacks, including Figma, Miro, and Linear, alongside emerging AI-enabled design tools.
Ability to balance hands-on execution with high-level design leadership and strategy.

Tools And Workflow Experience

Candidates should bring experience with, or strong familiarity with, a range of AI-enabled design tools, such as
Figma (including AI features), design systems, high-fidelity UI, and collaboration.
ChatGPT / Claude - research synthesis, persona development, journey mapping, UX hypotheses.
Dovetail - research synthesis, tagging, insights, and reporting.
Miro - workshops, synthesis, visual storytelling.
v0 / Lovable / Bolt - prompt-to-UI, rapid prototyping, concept validation.
Maze or Useberry - usability testing and UX validation.
Linear - design-to-engineering alignment and execution tracking.
Loom (or similar) - async walkthroughs, design reviews, and client communication.

This job was posted by Sushanth Jain from Kickdrum.