Head of Design

Description:

About the Role :

- In this role, you will own the design strategy, vision and execution for the whole of Meesho's businesses: Demand, Supply, Fulfillment & Experience, Ads (Monetization) & Superstore. You will lead 60+ (currently ~60) top class design workforce with multiple layers of leadership.

- Majority of your time would go into building a world class design team(hiring), building the design-first culture, best design and design management practices and delivering products at high velocity.

- You will lead the design team that plays a critical role in creating and delivering usable and delightful experiences across the product for our ~140 Mn Indian users & 17 Mn suppliers.

- Manage multi-layered large design team across multiple skills (Value: People centric workplace)Set vision and strategy for the team and drive executing the same.

- Hire and grow top talent. Collaborate with all internal teams (Talent Acquisition, Rewards etc) in making this happen.

- Build the culture of User first, Thinking 10X, Problem first mindset, Speed over perfection. (refer to Meesho's 9 values)

- Drive clarity, convergence and closure in cross organizational teams, projects.

- Collaborate with product, business and engineering leaders in execution and delivery.

- Mentor, teach and educate designers and leaders in your organization.

- Facilitate the delivery of high-quality work. Consistently works towards raising the bar in design

- Build Meesho into a design-first organization and contribute to attracting great design talent.

- Represent Meesho in all relevant external forums, channels etc.

What You will Need:

- 12+ years experience in top tier design companies with 5+ years of experience in leadership roles.

- Premier pedigree of education would be an added bonus.

- Should have managed 50+ team sizes via different layers of managers.

- Experience in a high scale tech environment and first hand experience in scaling things 10X to 100X.

- Deep expertise in the B2C & B2B domain.

- Should be technically sound and have a good understanding of industry best practices for design choices.

- Should have a keen eye for details.

- Strong decision making ability.

- Proven experience in shipping high quality designs in record breaking timelines.

- Proven experience in grooming leaders across levels, building loyal design organization and in attracting top tier design talent.

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