Manager - Industrial Designer (Consumer Electronics)

We are looking for a senior product design lead who can not only get hands on with business, analytics, UX and visual, but comes with great client handling, communication, team management and leadership skills.

Energetic, self-motivated, driven and ready to take on key responsibilities on the product and the business side.

Not a relaxed job. Will be hectic and would need someone who constantly has his/her eye on the ball.

Job includes directing a product, leading a design team and also owning parts of the UX design. Major role in visual design both on the product side and on the marketing and brand front.

Strong Product Designer from top college profile

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Mandatory (Experience) - Minimum 5+ YOE in UX / Product Design, with strong focus on B2C Products

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Mandatory (Portfolio) - Strong portfolio of UX / Product Design works for top / high-traffic B2C Products

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Mandatory (Company): Top B2C product company

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Mandatory (Education) - Must have Design Education (BDes, MDes) from Tier1 college (NIT, NIFT. IIT). Tier2 colleges will be given 2nd priority

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Mandatory (Exclusion) - Only UX designer wont work, we need product designers

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Mandatory (Age) - Candidate's age should be within 30 Years.

Apply here (application form): https://forms.gle/NTa8z6TpCg8PzUYD8

SuperKalam (YC W23) is building the best AI tutor platform out of India, in the vein of Duolingo. We are eager to talk to a Product Designer with an amazing sense of quality and strong ownership.

Requirements

• Ideally 2 to 4 yrs of experience of both functional and beautiful designs
• Solid product thinking, previously worked in a product based org
• Strong design portfolio
• Asks the right questions, knows user data and keeps different user segments in mind
• Has worked on design systems, like dark and light themes
• Must use AI in design processes and product thinking
• Multidisciplinary thinking, e.g. motion design flows using tools like Jitter / Rive / Lottie
• Bonus: gamification / personalisation flows

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the founders and engineering team and lead initiatives
• Prototype in Figma or build AI prototypes
• Add visual delight to the UI via illustrations and animation
• User insights, competitive analysis, data-driven decisions, collating user feedback

Who will thrive here: enjoys complex product problems, balances speed vs design perfection, hungry to learn, ownership mindset and a strong individual contributor.

Compensation: 18 to 25 LPA based on experience. ESOPs for the right candidate.

Interview: resume shortlisting, 20 min intro call, then an assignment (about 2 days; we never use assignment work without permission or pay), product round (1 hour, in person) and final closure discussion.

Location: Bengaluru. Full-time. Full JD: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/superkalam/jobs/gvVQ5BQ-product-designer-2-4yrs-experience

Strong Product Designer from top college profile

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Mandatory (Experience) - Minimum 6+ YOE in UX / Product Design, with strong focus on B2C Products

3

Mandatory (Portfolio) - Strong portfolio of UX / Product Design works for top / high-traffic B2C Products

4

Mandatory (Company): Top B2C product company

5

Mandatory (Education) - Must have Design Education (BDes, MDes) from Tier1 college (NIT, NIFT. IIT). Tier2 colleges will be given 2nd priority

6

Mandatory (Exclusion) - Only UX designer wont work, we need product designers

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Mandatory (Location) - Candidates from Pune and Mumbai are only considered, who can F2F interview

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Mandatory (Age) - Candidate's age should be within 30 to 34 Years.

Strong Senior UX Designer Profile with full-stack design depth (UX research, UX design, UI) and product thinking

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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 5+ years professional design experience with a proven track record of designing world-class products with the recent 3+ years in a product company

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Mandatory (Experience 2): Must be full-stack in design, hands-on across UX research, UX design and UI, taking projects start to finish with minimal supervision

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Mandatory (Skill 1): Must be strong on product thinking, discovery and understanding user pain points, able to break product strategy into design deliverables

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Mandatory (Skill 2): Must have hands-on experience using design research methods and both data-driven and heuristic approaches, with consumer validation

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Mandatory (Skill 3): Must design end to end (wireframing to flows and prototypes), with strong UI craft, aesthetic sense, motion/interaction thinking, and Figma best practices plus design-to-developer handoff

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Mandatory (Skill 4): Must have worked closely with product teams and cross-functional partners, and be able to demo and defend design decisions backed by research or benchmarking

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Mandatory (Skill 5): Must be curious about and able to use AI as a design material (how it shows up in the interface, explains itself, and supports users)

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Mandatory (Company): Must come from a product company (any industry)

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Mandatory (Portfolio): Must share a portfolio with detailed case studies on Notion, Medium or a personal website; Dribbble portfolios not acceptable

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Mandatory (Education): Graduation is mandatory; higher design education preferred

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Mandatory (Stability): Candidate should have moved jobs too quickly in the past. 1 transition is fine, if otherwise candidate stays for at least 1+ year in a Company.

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Preferred (Domain): Fintech or Lending experience

Strong Product Designer from top college profile

2

Mandatory (Experience) - Minimum 6+ YOE in UX / Product Design, with strong focus on B2C Products

3

Mandatory (Portfolio) - Strong portfolio of UX / Product Design works for top / high-traffic B2C Products

4

Mandatory (Company): Top B2C product company

5

Mandatory (Education) - Must have Design Education (BDes, MDes) from Tier1 college (NIT, NIFT. IIT). Tier2 colleges will be given 2nd priority

6

Mandatory (Exclusion) - Only UX designer wont work, we need product designers

7

Mandatory (Age) - Candidate's age should be within 30 to 34 Years.

Strong Product Designer from top college profile

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Mandatory (Experience) - Minimum 2+ YOE in UX / Product Design, with strong focus on B2C Products

3

Mandatory (Portfolio) - Strong portfolio of UX / Product Design works for top / high-traffic B2C Products

4

Mandatory (Company): Top B2C product company

5

Mandatory (Education) - Must have Design Education (BDes, MDes) from Tier1 college (NIT, NIFT. IIT). Tier2 colleges will be given 2nd priority

6

Mandatory (Exclusion) - Only UX designer wont work, we need product designers

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Mandatory (Age)—The candidate's age should be below 28 years

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Preferred (Experience) - Must have design system, AI product design, conversational design keywords

We're building the AI operating system for the $600B global managed IT market.

Managed service providers (MSPs) run IT for lots of small and mid-sized businesses. Their technicians spend most of the day on repetitive tickets — setting up new joiners, sharing folders, fixing sign-in issues. Our first product is an AI service desk. It learns how each MSP works, turns a ticket into a plan of exact steps, and runs only what a technician approves.

Our vision is to build additional products for other parts of the MSP's business (such as voice AI, business operations and analytics), turning this into the one AI operating layer for the MSP business.

We've just raised a $4.4M pre-seed from Seedcamp, Futurepresent and Entree Capital. Our founders previously built upGrad ($2B) and Kapiva ($250M), and come from Bain Capital, Parthenon, and Morgan Stanley. Our co-founders both studied CS at IIT Delhi.

We're building a small team with very high talent density in Mumbai — people from IIT Bombay, Yale, Rippling and more.

The role:

We're hiring our first Product Designer — someone who will shape how the product looks, feels, and works from the ground up.

The hardest design problem we have is trust. A technician needs to feel comfortable letting AI make changes in a customer's Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. So every screen needs to make it very clear what the AI knows, what it plans to do, and what it changed — and still be fast enough that a busy service desk actually uses it.

You'll work directly with the co-founder who leads product and our engineers, and own design end to end — from customer calls to shipped product.

What you'll do:

• Own the product experience end to end. Take problems from a first customer conversation to rough sketches, prototypes, and polished UI that ships — then keep improving it once it's live.
• Design how people and AI work together. Decide how the product explains what it knows, asks for approval, shows its progress, and owns up when something goes wrong. Make it easy for a technician to say yes with confidence.
• Make complex work feel simple. IT work is detailed and technical. You'll turn it into clear, fast experiences that busy teams can use without training.
• Stay close to customers. Join customer calls, watch technicians at work, test ideas with them every week, and bring what you learn straight into the product.
• Prototype fast, ideally in code. Use AI and design tools (Claude, Figma and others) to build working prototypes, so we learn from real use rather than static mockups.
• Design everywhere the product shows up — the app, integrations with tools technicians already use, operational dashboards and more.
• Build a lean design system. Give our engineers the building blocks to ship consistent UI without waiting on you.
• Set the bar for design. As our first designer, you'll shape how design is done here — the standard of quality, how we work, and who we hire next.

A few problems you might pick up in your first months: a single approval to set up 50 new joiners, with a clear "48 done, 2 need attention — and why"; a way for teams to see what the AI has learnt about each client, where it came from, and how to undo it; and a simple view that tells an owner the AI is working.

What we're looking for:

• Great product design work you've actually shipped. Consumer or B2B doesn't matter — we care much more about how you think than where you've worked.
• Strong craft and taste. Simple, clean and fast over flashy — think Linear, not a design studio website.
• Comfort going deep on a complex subject. You'll need to learn how things like Microsoft 365 groups and licences work, and enjoy doing it.
• Speed. You prototype in code or with AI tools and get ideas in front of users quickly.
• You use AI every day. You have opinions on what makes AI products feel trustworthy — and what makes them feel risky.
• High ownership and clear writing. You can take a messy problem all the way to something shipped, and explain your thinking simply along the way.

Nice to have:

• You've designed AI or agent products before.
• Early-stage startup or founder experience.
• You can write front-end code (React / Tailwind).

Probably not the right fit if

• Most of your work is brand, marketing, or research.
• You need a detailed spec and a design manager to do your best work.

Why join us?

• Real ownership. We're very early, so you'll shape how design works here — not inherit someone else's system.
• A hard, new problem. AI that takes real actions on real systems is still being figured out. You'll help define what good looks like.
• Fast impact. You'll work directly with the founders and see your work in customers' hands within weeks.

Strong B2C Product Designer Profile with end-to-end ownership and prototype-in-code ability

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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 3+ years designing B2C products at a high-growth consumer or fintech company

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Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have owned a product area or a 0-to-1 launch end to end, not just individual screens inside a large team

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Mandatory (Skill 1): Must own design end to end, from understanding the problem to shipping the experience, turning product ideas into clear, usable flows

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Mandatory (Skill 2): Must be fluent with AI tools, both to code prototypes and POCs and to accelerate exploration and iteration through the design process

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Mandatory (Skill 3): Must have built and maintained a design system

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Mandatory (Skill 4): Must run hands-on customer research, talk to users regularly, think from first principles with strong user empathy, and track post-launch performance to improve designs based on feedback and data

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Mandatory (Domain): Must have experience in high-growth consumer or fintech companies

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Mandatory (Portfolio): Must share a portfolio that shows the problem, the decisions made and measurable outcomes, not just polished UI

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Mandatory (Note) – Seed-funded WealthTech startup. Candidate must be comfortable in an early-stage, fast-paced environment

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Mandatory (Compensation Alignment) – Candidate must be comfortable with fixed pay matched to current CTC (no hike) plus ESOPs worth 20–30% of total CTC on top, within an overall budget of up to ₹28L total CTC (for example, a candidate on ₹20L current CTC would get ₹20L fixed plus ESOPs worth roughly ₹5L to ₹7L, taking total CTC to ₹25L to ₹27L)

Candidate must be comfortable with fixed pay matched to current CTC (no hike) plus ESOPs worth 20–30% of total CTC on top, within an overall budget of up to ₹28L total CTC (for example, a candidate on ₹20L current CTC would get ₹20L fixed plus ESOPs worth roughly ₹5L to ₹7L, taking total CTC to ₹25L to ₹27L).

Strong B2C Product Designer Profile with end-to-end ownership and prototype-in-code ability

2

Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 3+ years designing B2C products at a high-growth consumer or fintech company

3

Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have owned a product area or a 0-to-1 launch end to end, not just individual screens inside a large team

4

Mandatory (Skill 1): Must own design end to end, from understanding the problem to shipping the experience, turning product ideas into clear, usable flows

5

Mandatory (Skill 2): Must be fluent with AI tools, both to code prototypes and POCs and to accelerate exploration and iteration through the design process

6

Mandatory (Skill 3): Must have built and maintained a design system

7

Mandatory (Skill 4): Must run hands-on customer research, talk to users regularly, think from first principles with strong user empathy, and track post-launch performance to improve designs based on feedback and data

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Mandatory (Company): Must have recent experience in a B2C product-based or fintech company

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Mandatory (Portfolio): Must share a portfolio that shows the problem, the decisions made and measurable outcomes, not just polished UI