Meesho - Manager - Design

Design Manager

Description:

About the Team:

Meesho is on a mission to enable 100 million businesses to succeed online. With your help, we can go beyond! We're making e-commerce accessible for tier-2+ markets who are new to e-commerce and have almost never transacted online before Our Design team is as diverse as our users. Today, the team comprises about 47 Designers including Interaction, Visual, Motion, and Content Designers

As Design Manager, you'll be part of a team solving a unique problem, one that's mostly untouched by other e-commerce players.

But wait, there's more! We're individuals who are obsessed with our users. We empathize. We solve at grassroots levels. We're breaking all the barriers - be it language, literacy, culture, or technology

This year we created a brand new Design System followed by a full app revamp - all in just 3 months! It's hardly a coincidence that our monthly orders improved massively in the last six months.

If you're someone who wants to work at a place that creates an impact, then join us!

About the Role:

If you love designing, keeping users first, getting deep into data, and enhancing user experiences, you may be our next Design Manager!

As a Design Manager, you'll strategize, communicate, negotiate, and drive design solutions for our products. You'll collaborate with Research, Product, Business, Data, and Engineering teams to create delightful and impactful experiences for our users. You'll build products with a deep understanding of our users' needs and transform them into usable designs by conducting frequent user testing. You'll articulate your decisions and solutions verbally as well as through sketches, user flows, wireframes, hi-fi mocks, and functional prototypes.

What you will do:

- Design and validate new experiences via mockups, wireframes, flow diagrams, sketches, and other UX artifacts

- Lead a team of designers to ensure product success while ensuring designers growth and development

- Conduct quick rounds of usability testing

- Individually contribute to the design decisions and mentor senior and junior Designers for holistic growth

- Effectively use quantitative and qualitative data to drive decisions and measure success

- Collaborate with the research, product, business, and engineering teams to build scalable and impactful solutions

What you will need:

- 8+ years of design experience in a product company

- Experience with startups and fast-paced environments is an added advantage.

- A strong portfolio demonstrating UX/UI design skills, curiosity, empathy, and business acumen

- Understanding business and applying customer feedback and research to the design process

- Experience working with cross-functional teams and stakeholder management

- Experience leading a project or a vertical - with multiple designers. Experience managing designers will be a bonus

- Ability to quickly incorporate feedback and think about how the UI will scale in the future and integrate with the rest of the product

- Strong desire to see how Designers can support the companys goals, team initiatives, and broader product vision

Note: For your candidature to be considered on this job, you need to apply necessarily on the redirected career page of the company as well.