Design Director, Product Design, India

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised $240M in Series E venture funding is valued at $5.5B and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs Menlo Ventures IVP Google Ventures J.P. Morgan Capital One Ventures Citi Ventures ServiceNow Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industrys leading AI-powered software delivery platform enabling teams worldwide to build test and deliver software faster safer and more reliably. Writing code is only 3040% of the engineering lifecycle the rest involves testing deployments security compliance and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop turning complex time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.

The platform includes industry leading products inCI/CD Feature Flags Cloud Cost Management Service Reliability Chaos Engineering Software Engineering Insights Internal Developer Experience and API discovery observability governance and runtime protection. Over the past year Harness powered 128M deployments 81M builds 1.2T API calls protected and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery and were looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

About You :

You are an experienced product design leader with 10 years of experience designing and delivering high quality SaaS products at scale. You have led and grown product design teams and understand how to operate effectively in complex cross functional and globally distributed environments.
You set a clear and uncompromising bar for design quality. While you are not a full time individual contributor you stay close to the work and actively guide outcomes. You know when to step in to shape direction unblock teams or demonstrate what great looks like especially in moments where quality clarity or speed matter most.
You bring strong operational discipline to design. You believe great design organizations run on clear processes predictable delivery and strong partnership with Product and Engineering. You are comfortable owning planning resourcing prioritization and design review rhythms that scale.
You think in systems. You have deep experience with design systems and understand how to evolve them responsibly in partnership with engineering balancing consistency with flexibility and innovation.
You are a coach and mentor. You invest in growing designers through clear expectations direct feedback and thoughtful career development. You know how to develop senior designers and build teams that are accountable motivated and proud of their craft.
You are an effective stakeholder partner who can align leaders around a shared vision navigate tradeoffs and translate strategy into execution. You communicate clearly and build trust across functions and geographies.
You are comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels helping connect long term product vision to near term delivery. You are forward looking and curious about emerging tools and practices including AI native workflows and how they can improve how teams design and ship.

Responsibilities :

As Design Director for India you will lead a team of up to 10 product designers based in India operating in a hybrid model. This role reports directly to the Head of Product Design and is a key part of the global design leadership team.
You will be accountable for the quality consistency and effectiveness of design outputs across your area. You will establish and uphold clear standards for UX interaction and visual quality and ensure those standards are consistently met.
You will manage coach and mentor designers providing regular feedback performance guidance and career development support. You will build a culture of high standards collaboration and continuous improvement.
You will partner closely with Product Management Engineering and Design leaders in the US and India to align on priorities strategy and execution. You will help translate company and product direction into clear design guidance for your team.
You will drive design operations excellence including planning resourcing workflow definition design reviews and cross team coordination. You will ensure design is predictable well integrated and effective at scale.
You will play an active role in shaping and evolving the design system working closely with design and engineering partners to ensure consistency adoption and quality across the platform.
You will contribute to broader design leadership initiatives helping define how Product Design operates and scales globally.

Location

Bangalore India

What You Will Have at Harness

Experience building a transformative product
End-to-end ownership of your projects
Competitive salary
Comprehensive healthcare benefit
Flexible work schedule
Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
Monthly quarterly and annual social and team building events
Monthly internet reimbursement

Harness in the news:

Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
How Harness runs 16 startups within a startup at scale Jyoti Bansal
Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare
Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

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Required Experience:

Director

About You :

You are an experienced product design leader with 10 years of experience designing and delivering high quality SaaS products at scale. You have led and grown product design teams and understand how to operate effectively in complex cross functional and globally distributed environments.
You set a clear and uncompromising bar for design quality. While you are not a full time individual contributor you stay close to the work and actively guide outcomes. You know when to step in to shape direction unblock teams or demonstrate what great looks like especially in moments where quality clarity or speed matter most.
You bring strong operational discipline to design. You believe great design organizations run on clear processes predictable delivery and strong partnership with Product and Engineering. You are comfortable owning planning resourcing prioritization and design review rhythms that scale.
You think in systems. You have deep experience with design systems and understand how to evolve them responsibly in partnership with engineering balancing consistency with flexibility and innovation.
You are a coach and mentor. You invest in growing designers through clear expectations direct feedback and thoughtful career development. You know how to develop senior designers and build teams that are accountable motivated and proud of their craft.
You are an effective stakeholder partner who can align leaders around a shared vision navigate tradeoffs and translate strategy into execution. You communicate clearly and build trust across functions and geographies.
You are comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels helping connect long term product vision to near term delivery. You are forward looking and curious about emerging tools and practices including AI native workflows and how they can improve how teams design and ship.

Responsibilities :

As Design Director for India you will lead a team of up to 10 product designers based in India operating in a hybrid model. This role reports directly to the Head of Product Design and is a key part of the global design leadership team.
You will be accountable for the quality consistency and effectiveness of design outputs across your area. You will establish and uphold clear standards for UX interaction and visual quality and ensure those standards are consistently met.
You will manage coach and mentor designers providing regular feedback performance guidance and career development support. You will build a culture of high standards collaboration and continuous improvement.
You will partner closely with Product Management Engineering and Design leaders in the US and India to align on priorities strategy and execution. You will help translate company and product direction into clear design guidance for your team.
You will drive design operations excellence including planning resourcing workflow definition design reviews and cross team coordination. You will ensure design is predictable well integrated and effective at scale.
You will play an active role in shaping and evolving the design system working closely with design and engineering partners to ensure consistency adoption and quality across the platform.
You will contribute to broader design leadership initiatives helping define how Product Design operates and scales globally.

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