Senior Design Manager

Job Title: Senior Design Manager

Location: Mumbai & Gurugram

Why join frog?

Joining frog means you’ll be joining the “pond,” a global network of studios, each with a thriving in-person and vibrant virtual culture. frogs are curious, collaborative, and courageous, united by our passion for improving the human experience through design, while each bringing our unique and diverse skills and experiences to the table. We draw on our global reach and local knowledge to solve complex problems and design innovative, sustainable solutions that touch hearts and move markets. frogs prize humour, positivity, and community just as highly as performance and outcomes. Our culture is open, flexible, inclusive, and engaging. Working at frog means being empowered to Make Your Mark on every project, in your studio, your community—and the world at large.

What will you be doing?

This is a leadership role at frog. You are expected to help frog grow its reputation, business and people through Project Leadership, Discipline Leadership, and Business Development.

Project Leadership:

• Lead a project team to achieve the highest level of performance without compromising timelines and team harmony
• Set quality standards, with a deep understanding of the client’s goals, business requirements and constraints, for qualitative foundational & evaluative research, insight articulation, experience model development (e.g., customer journeys, behavioural archetypes, service blueprints, etc.), design and testing.
• Lead and contribute to develop insights, define, and prioritise opportunity areas, and envision concepts
• Lead and contribute to create meaningful customer/user feedback loops through build test & learn cycles
• Lead and contribute to prioritise MVP features, build a backlog, and create strategic product roadmaps

Design Leadership:

• You will manage direct reports and coach and mentor junior colleagues, providing guidance and support for their growth, and specific and actionable feedback
• You will participate in talent acquisition, either as a hiring manager, or member of hiring teams

Business/Account Development:

• You will collaborate on business development efforts with our BD Team and fellow discipline leaders - crafting approaches, writing proposals, and presenting to prospective clients
• You will ensure that the projects you lead continue beyond their initial scopes and identify additional opportunities within the client’s organisation
• You will create content for frog’s demand generation activities and establish yourself as a thought leader in your discipline

We want you to have:

• 14+ years of professional human centred design ‘thinking & doing’ consulting experience with specific experience in one or more areas of the product development lifecycle, for example as a Visual Designer, Interaction Designer, Service Designer, Product Designer, Design Strategist or Experience Designer
• Proficiency with contemporary research, design and prototyping tools and methods
• Affinity with frog’s values, and a passion for creating products that meet peoples functional and emotional needs
• An outstanding track record as a design leader and contributor for experience strategies, design systems, products, services and customer experiences that delight customers/users and achieve business results
• High peer, end-user, or client satisfaction with the work products that you created
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to guide high performing teams using persuasion and influence (rather than command and control)
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills
• Willingness to travel for research, project delivery, and client meetings
• Business level ability in English

It would be a bonus if you had:

• A university degree in a relevant design, business, technology, or social science discipline
• Experience working in a variety of organisations (start-up, corporate, agency/consultancy)
• Academic, professional, or life experience from outside the design field that enriches your perspective as a designer
• Published thought leadership, with a track record of presenting and teaching in public forums and a social media presence.
• A second language (and every additional language is a plus!)