Lead Product Design
Wenger & Watson
- Location
- India
- Job type
- Full-time
Required skills
- compliance
- cross-functional
- design patterns
- front-end
- user empathy
- visual design
About the role
Wenger & Watson
Website:
wengerwatson.com
Job details:
Responsibilities
- Lead design strategy and execution for one or more product pillars
- Drive design quality reviews and own standards for usability, accessibility, and design consistency
- Mentor and grow the design team; provide thoughtful feedback and career guidance
- Partner with PMs and Engineering to translate business goals into design roadmaps
- Influence the product vision through storytelling, data synthesis, and user empathy
- Contribute to and evolve our design system, ensuring cohesive experiences across surfaces and devices
- Define metrics for design quality and impact (usability scores, accessibility compliance, NPS, etc.)
- Create alignment between design and cross-functional teams through documentation, office hours, and design critiques
- Stay current on design trends, emerging tools, and industry best practices—bringing back actionable insights to the team
Qualifications
Required Skills
What We’re Looking For
- 7+ years of relevant design experience, with 2+ years in a leadership or mentorship capacity
- Proven record of delivering elegant, data-informed experiences across the full design lifecycle—research, IA, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and testing
- Deep fluency in design systems, accessibility, and scalable design patterns
- Strong visual and interaction design craft—you care about hierarchy, layout, motion, and usability as much as strategy
- Experience designing for AI-driven or intelligent interfaces, including collaboration with ML and data teams
- Track record of influencing design direction at a system or platform level, not just at feature level
- Natural mentor—comfortable coaching Senior and Junior designers while promoting shared standards of excellence
- Strong facilitation skills: workshops, design critiques, and decision frameworks
- A portfolio that demonstrates systematic thinking and measurable product impact
- Excellent communication—able to simplify complex ideas for different audiences and advocate for design-led solutions
- Familiarity with front-end implementation constraints; ability to work closely with engineers to ship quality
- Committed to inclusive, accessible, and scalable design
- Passionate about improving team operations—processes, tools, and documentation
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