Associate Design Director

As an Associate Design Director at our company, you will play a crucial role in leading key client engagements and ensuring the delivery of high-quality UX/UI design solutions that are in line with business objectives. You will be responsible for translating intricate requirements into simple and intuitive experiences across various platforms such as web, mobile, and enterprise. Moreover, you will oversee multiple projects, ensuring a balance between timelines, quality, and scope while collaborating with Strategy, Engineering, and PMO teams to deliver integrated solutions effectively. In addition to delivery leadership, you will also be tasked with managing and mentoring a team of designers, spanning from junior to senior levels. Your support in their career growth, performance evaluations, and skill development plans will be instrumental in fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance team culture. Your role will extend to shaping design strategy and storytelling for both new and existing pursuits, driving workshops, discovery sessions, and co-creation exercises with clients. Furthermore, you will guide research synthesis and insight generation for product and service design initiatives. On the operational front, you will assist in resource planning and capacity management, support hiring, onboarding, and knowledge-sharing efforts, and ensure quality control and process consistency across projects. To excel in this position, you should possess 8-10 years of experience in UX/UI/Product Design with exposure to leadership roles. A strong portfolio showcasing work across various industries or platforms, experience in mentoring designers, and leading cross-functional teams are essential. Proficiency in Figma, including prototyping, variables, and tokenization, is required, along with familiarity with other modern design tools such as Sketch, Adobe Suite, and methodologies like design thinking, agile, and lean UX. Strong communication and presentation skills are also crucial for success in this role. Nice-to-have qualifications include prior experience in consulting or agency environments, exposure to service design, accessibility, or systems thinking, comfort working across time zones and with global teams, and familiarity with early AI design tools like Midjourney, Firefly, Figma Make, Loveable, Cursor, or similar. At our company, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where individuals from diverse backgrounds can come together to produce exceptional work. Benefits and perks include 30 paid leaves, public holidays, a casual and open office environment, a flexible work schedule, family medical insurance, life insurance, accidental insurance, regular cultural and social events, continuous training, certifications, and learning opportunities, as well as first-hand experience dealing with security incidents.,