Senior Product Designer

Location: DGS India - Bengaluru - Manyata N1 Block, DGS India - Pune - Baner M- Agile

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Product Designer (DCF 35)

Location: Bangalore / Pune
Practice: Experience Design (XD) – Merkle / Dentsu Global Services

Role Overview

As a Senior Product Designer (DCF 35), you are a high-impact individual contributor who owns end-to-end design delivery across complex product journeys within global client pods (US/UK/India).

You operate at the intersection of UX craft, systems thinking, and delivery excellence, translating ambiguous problem spaces into scalable, high-quality design solutions. You are expected to independently lead workstreams, contribute to business outcomes, and actively elevate team capability.

Key Responsibilities

1. Product & Experience Design

• Own end-to-end design for features / journeys across discovery → definition → delivery
• Translate business and user needs into clear problem statements, flows, and interaction models
• Deliver high-quality UX and UI aligned to design systems and accessibility standards
• Contribute to experience strategy and solutioning in collaboration with XD, Product, and Engineering

2. Delivery Excellence (Client / Pod Model)

• Work within global pods (US/UK/India) to deliver against timelines and quality expectations
• Ensure design readiness for development (handoff clarity, edge cases, states, documentation)
• Actively participate in design critiques, sprint rituals, and client reviews
• Maintain high utilization / chargeability (aligned to 80–85% targets)

3. Craft & Systems Thinking

• Apply and extend design systems (tokens, components, patterns) effectively
• Ensure consistency, scalability, and reusability across solutions
• Demonstrate strong interaction design, visual hierarchy, and usability principles
• Leverage data, heuristics, and user insights to inform decisions

4. Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate effectively with Product, Tech, Strategy (XS), and Visual Design (VD)
• Communicate design decisions with clarity and rationale (not just outputs)
• Participate in client conversations with confidence, focusing on outcomes over outputs

5. Capability Building & Culture

• Contribute to team learning through critiques, knowledge sharing, and mentoring juniors (DCF 25/30)
• Actively participate in XD practice initiatives (XEN / XEN+)
• Demonstrate ownership, accountability, and a growth mindset

6. AI & Future-Ready Design

• Leverage AI tools (e.g., Figma AI, generative tools, prototyping accelerators) to improve speed and exploration
• Focus on problem framing, direction setting, and evaluation of solutions while using AI for execution efficiency

Required Skills & Experience

Core Skills

• Strong UX fundamentals: IA, interaction design, usability, journey mapping
• Good visual design sensibility (layout, typography, spacing, hierarchy)
• Experience working with design systems and component-based design
• Proficiency in Figma (advanced), prototyping tools, and collaboration workflows

Experience

• 4–7 years of experience in product design / UX design
• Experience working on complex digital products (B2B / SaaS preferred)
• Exposure to global stakeholders / distributed teams is a strong plus

Behavioral & Leadership Traits

• High ownership and reliability in delivery
• Ability to operate with moderate ambiguity and structure problems
• Strong attention to detail with a bias for quality
• Evolving storytelling skills (moving from screens → outcomes)

Success Metrics (DCF 35 Expectations)

Delivery & Craft

• Consistent delivery of high-quality, dev-ready design outputs
• Reduction in design iteration cycles and rework
• Strong adherence to design systems and standards

Business Impact

• Contribution to feature adoption, engagement, or conversion improvements
• Ability to connect design decisions to measurable outcomes

Collaboration

• Positive feedback from cross-functional stakeholders and clients
• Effective participation in pods and global team environments

Capability Building

• Active contribution to team critiques and junior mentoring
• Demonstrated growth toward owning larger problem spaces (DCF 40 readiness)

What Success Looks Like

• Moves from feature ownership → problem space ownership
• Demonstrates strong storytelling and strategic framing
• Begins to influence clients and solution direction
• Drives consistency across multiple workstreams / designers

Why Join Us

• Work on global client engagements across industries
• Be part of a scaling XD practice with strong leadership and standards
• Exposure to AI-led design transformation and enterprise-scale problems

Location:

Brand:

Time Type:

Contract Type: