Product Designer at Amagi Media Labs · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 5 - 8 years · ₹25L - ₹35L / yr · Profitable · Posted 5 Jan 2022
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Product Designer
Bon Appétit and Epicurious are seeking a Product Designer to design and launch new native mobile apps to help home cooks find the perfect recipe.
In this role, you’ll create and iterate on features that define and enrich the experience of Bon Appetit & Epicurious readers on its mobile platforms. You’ll introduce our readers and subscribers to our incredible range of recipes and guides and work out the way we allow users to find the perfect recipe.
As a member of the Product Design team, you will partner closely with UX writers and researchers, as well as cross-functional product, engineering, marketing, and editorial teams, to solve complex problems while exploring new approaches that delight existing readers and grow our subscription business. As the brands create digital experiences focussed on enabling users to find the perfect recipe you will help us create products that delight and inspire readers and communicate the established voice of the brands.
This role will report to Bon Appétit and Epicurious’s Product Design Lead, who oversees the user experience across all of our digital products, and will coördinate with the Mobile team based in India, as well as the Art and Interactive departments within editorial and the global Condé Nast Product Design team.
What you’ll do
You will focus on creating thoughtful design improvements to how we help users log into our products and manage accounts.
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Work with the design lead, product manager, and engineers to craft user-focused solutions for our native apps to enable users to find the perfect recipe
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Demonstrate strong ability to effectively communicate ideas and project statuses
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Ensure all designs are pixel-perfect and adhere to our design system’s standards.
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Simplify complex flows so they are easily understandable for users
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Partner with teammates in across the USA and Europe
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Research and share relevant UX best practices and competitor products to keep our products competitive
About you
As a designer, you’re excited about problem-solving and expanding your craft. You have a passion for how people use digital products and experiences, and are eager to deepen your expertise.
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A portfolio of thoughtful work encompassing user experience and visual design and demonstrating holistic thinking
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Solid product design execution skills; experience launching real mobile and web products a plus
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Understanding of current web technology capabilities and limitations (HTML/CSS/jquery)
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Experience prototyping, iterating, and refining design solutions based on user feedback
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Familiarity with design research methods and how user insights/behaviors inform design decisions and strategies
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Experience creating design artifacts (user journeys, wireframes, functional specs) to communicate your ideas to others
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Awareness of existing UX + visual design systems and a desire to learn more about them
As a member of the product and technology group, you’re a solid contributor and an enthusiastic collaborator with engineers, product managers, designers, and team leaders.
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Able to create design solutions based on specific product requirements; plus an interest in shaping requirements
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Flexible working style; comfortable with a collaborative and iterative design process and working closely with engineers to ensure pixel-perfect implementation
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Some experience presenting design work to others, strong articulation and speaking skills
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A holistic approach to problem-solving; visual thinker and rapid synthesizer of information
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Humble with a willingness to jump into solving any problem
As a teammate, you show a desire to learn, share, and proactively improve things around you.
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Ability to establish a perspective and articulate your thinking behind design decisions
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Experience providing and receiving critique; works with feedback gracefully and productively
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Proactive style; ability to take direction from other team members while also showing initiative
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Excitement about the design community at large as we increase the visibility of Condé Nast’s growing capabilities across the organization
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An interest in driving the future of storytelling which will help frame the larger context we are working within, including the nature of an advertising-driven and subscription products
About Conde Nast
Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, and many others. The company's award-winning content reaches 84 million consumers in print, 367 million in digital and 379 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month.
The company is headquartered in London and New York and operates in 32 markets worldwide, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S, with local license partners across the globe.
About Condé Nast Product and Technology
Our mission is to empower our brands such as Vogue, GQ, Allure, Glamour, AD, Conde Nast Traveler for business and creative success by creating the next-generation suite of content publishing, membership and commerce experiences. We are a group of designers, product managers, engineers, strategists, and researchers dedicated to building innovative, user-centric products.
About Our Design Team
We are a team of experience-designers with expertise in visual design, UX, interaction design, and research. We partner closely with editorial, product management, engineering, and business partners to strategize, design, and launch effective and beautiful digital products. We believe that a well-formed design culture is essential to delivering excellent products.
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Who we are looking for
- Understands product requirements and designs user journeys that look good, are easy to use, and help the user reach their goal. (High quality design sense and usability sense)
- Deep understanding of Android and iOS design systems, with a strong mobile app portfolio.
- Likes talking to users directly (calls, interviews) and acts on their feedback.
- Works smoothly with developers and hands off designs cleanly.
- Understands core product metrics.
- Takes strong ownership of the quality of their work.
Core skills
- Figma (strong fluency)
- Prototyping
- Motion design (Lottie or Rive)
- Wireframing
- User journey mapping
- Competitive research and design breakdowns
- Product sense
What to look for when screening
- Experience at product companies (not agencies or services firms); e-commerce and q-commerce profiles first.
- A portfolio of shipped mobile app work, with the problem, the decisions and the outcome explained.
- Evidence of user research and metrics in the case studies.
Application requirement: Candidates must share their resume along with a portfolio link.
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
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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 (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 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
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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 to 34 Years.
Strong Product Designer from top college profile
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Mandatory (Experience) - Minimum 1+ 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
FigmaProduct Designer, AM:PM
Compensation: 6–7 LPA
- You do not push pixels. You design products that feel inevitable. The kind where users do not notice the design because everything lands where it should.
- You do not show up with a moodboard. You show up with a flow that already solves the problem.
- You are not a “visual designer.
- You think hard about how Gen Z actually uses their phones.
- Why some apps stick. Why most do not. How a vertical video product can feel native without looking like every other vertical video product.
- You have built for Gen Z before. Not posters for a Gen Z brand. Product screens that real Gen Z users touched, used, skipped, returned to, or abandoned.
About AM:PM
AM:PM is a VC-backed news platform built for short-form video, reels, and fast threads, for Gen Z and millennials who want to stay informed without sitting through a panel of five people agreeing with each other for 40 minutes. We go deep without going slow. We understand internet culture because we live in it, not because we read a report about it.
Why this role matters
AM:PM is not building another news app. We are trying to change the form itself. The slash mechanic. The wraps. The newsroom. The discourse layer. These surfaces only work if the design pushes the product forward, not if it plays safe. You will decide what AM:PM looks like, feels like, and how users move through it.
What you will own
- Design the AM:PM app end-to-end across wraps, newsroom, and discourse
- Build the slash interaction for opinion and counter-opinion switching so it feels native, not gimmicky
- Create and maintain the AM:PM design system from the brand foundation up
- Use Figma, Claude, and any AI tool that helps you move faster without lowering the quality
- Run usability calls with real Gen Z users and use what you learn, not what you assume6. Work directly with the founding team and CTO to ship what you design
- Experiment fast, kill what does not work, and double down on what does
Who you are
- 1+ years of designing consumer mobile products that have shipped to real users
- You have worked on at least one Gen Z product end-to-end, not just one screen
- Your portfolio shows visual range, motion thinking, product logic, and more than one design language.
- You move at startup pace and do not need a perfect brief to begin
- Based in Mumbai or willing to relocate within commutable distance
This is a 0-to-1 journey. No senior designer above you. No safe template to copy. You are the design team. If that sounds like your kind of problem, drop your CV below or DM us.
Roles & Responsibilities
To drive design excellence for the assigned digital customer journeys (app & web) by leading a team of designer(s) and owning the end-to-end design and testing strategy for these journeys. The role partners closely with business/product stakeholders, product management and analytics teams to identify customer pain points, prototype new-age (including AI-led) design concepts, validate design hypotheses through structured testing (A/B, moderated/un-moderated research) and institutionalize design system adherence across the assigned journeys, while managing the design talent within the team.
Minimum required Accountabilities for this role
- Own the end-to-end design vision and strategy for the assigned business POD's digital journeys (app & web)
- Lead, guide and manage the Design & Testing Member(s) in the POD, including performance management and capability building
- Partner with the POD Lead, Product Managers and Business stakeholders to translate product strategy into intuitive design solutions
- Drive user research (moderated/un-moderated) and synthesize customer pain points and expectations into actionable design interventions
- Define and drive the A/B testing and experimentation roadmap for POD journeys in partnership with testing/analytics teams
- Champion adoption and governance of the organization's design system across the POD
- Guide the team on prototyping (including AI-based tools) of new concepts, backed by user research and industry best practices
- Track, review and report design impact using customer experience (CX) metrics and behavioural data, and continuously identify improvement opportunities
Additional Accountabilities pertaining to the role
- Represent design in cross-functional forums, product reviews and stakeholder governance meetings
- Benchmark journeys against industry, competitor and emerging design/AI trends
- Contribute to design operations, process improvement and design system evolution at the organization level
MAJOR CHALLENGES
- Balancing fast-paced digital delivery timelines with rigorous, research and data-backed design decisions
- Driving design consistency and design-system adherence across multiple, concurrently evolving customer journeys
- Influencing cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize design/UX interventions
- Building, mentoring and scaling a high-performing design and testing team
DECISIONS
- Final design direction and sign-off for POD journeys prior to development handoff
- Prioritization of the design and testing roadmap within the POD
- Selection of design variations to be tested and the success metrics used to evaluate them
Other Information
- Total Team Size: As per POD design team structure (between 3 to 13)
- Number of Direct Reports: 1–2 (Design & Testing Member(s))
- Number of Indirect Reports: As applicable, through the POD structure
- Number of Outsourced employees: As applicable, through the POD structure
- Number of locations: 1 (Head Office)
- Number of products: As per POD journeys assigned
Ideal Candidate
1.Strong Product Design & Usability Testing Lead Profile, with end-to-end ownership of digital customer journeys
2.Mandatory (Experience 1) - 5+ years of relevant design experience, with hands-on experience designing and scaling digital customer journeys for app and web platforms in a high-growth, digital-first environment
3.Mandatory (Experience 2) - 1+ years leading, mentoring and managing designers as direct reports, including performance management and capability building
4.Mandatory (Experience 3) - Owning end-to-end design vision and strategy for assigned journeys, including final design direction and sign-off prior to development handoff
5.Mandatory (Experience 4) - Strong experience in building, governing and driving adoption of design systems across multiple teams or journeys, not just consuming an existing design system
6.Mandatory (Experience 5) - Defining and driving A/B testing and experimentation roadmaps in partnership with analytics or testing teams, including selecting design variations and the success metrics used to evaluate them
7.Mandatory (Tech skill 1) - Hands-on prototyping of new concepts using AI-based design and prototyping tools
8.Mandatory (Company) - Top B2C digital-first product environment with high-volume app and web journeys
9.Mandatory (Education) - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design (UX/UI, Interaction Design, HCI) or a related field from a recognised design institute (like NID, IIT, NIFT, Srishti etc)
10.Mandatory (Portfolio) - Strong portfolio of end-to-end journey design for app and web, design system work, and research or experimentation outcomes with measurable impact
LeadershipWe 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.
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