Senior Product Designer

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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 Profile (B2B SaaS / B2C Video / Media Platforms / Top B2C)

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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 3+years of experience as a Product Designer / UX/UI Designer working on SaaS OR Top B2C product OR Video/Media product (Video product like Zoom,Vimeo,YouTube,Twitch)

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Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have Hands-on experience in designing end-to-end product features — from discovery to delivery (user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and interaction design)

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Mandatory (Experience 3): Experience working on complex dashboards, multi-role systems, or workflow-heavy products (e.g., producer tools, admin panels, or data-heavy interfaces)

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Mandatory (Skill 1): Strong proficiency in Figma — including high-fidelity designs, interactive prototypes, and design systems

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Mandatory (Skill 2): Strong foundation in UX design, user flows, information architecture, and usability principles with the ability to simplify complex problems

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Mandatory (Skill 3): Strong product thinking and problem-solving ability — able to translate ambiguous requirements into clear, intuitive user experiences

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Mandatory (Skill 4): Strong experience of using AI tools to create clickable prototypes and iterate rapidly

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Mandatory (Portfolio): Must showcase 2+ shipped products or major features with clear case studies demonstrating impact, problem-solving approach, and design rationale

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Mandatory (Company): B2B SaaS or OR Top B2C product OR Video/Media Companies like Zoom,Vimeo,YouTube,Twitch

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Preferred (Domain Experience): Experience in video streaming, live broadcasting, or media production platforms

Company Description 

Ungrammary is a leading UX/UI design agency based in Mumbai, India, known for delivering high-quality digital design solutions. The agency collaborates with a diverse range of clients, including global brands such as Adobe Inc, Fossil Group, VMware, and Kotak Mahindra Bank, as well as prominent regional organizations. Ungrammary focuses on creating user-centered experiences for sectors spanning technology, finance, retail, and consumer goods. Team members work on impactful design projects that shape digital products used by a wide audience. The environment encourages creative problem-solving, collaboration, and continuous learning in the field of experience design.

Role Description 

At Ungrammary, we believe the role of a designer is evolving. As AI makes execution faster and more accessible, the biggest differentiator will no longer be the ability to create screens quickly, it will be the ability to think, make sound design decisions, and create product experiences with exceptional craft.

We're looking for designers who combine UX fundamentals with outstanding visual design skills and are excited to embrace AI as part of their workflow.

What You'll Do

• Design end-to-end user experiences, from understanding problems to delivering polished interfaces.
• Create user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI designs.
• Design interfaces that are visually distinctive, thoughtfully crafted, and difficult to replicate with generic AI outputs.
• Build scalable design systems and maintain consistency across products.
• Think through interaction design, micro-interactions, and user behaviour to create intuitive experiences.
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, researchers, and clients to solve complex product problems.
• Use AI tools to accelerate your workflow while applying your own judgment, creativity, and product thinking to every decision.

What We're Looking For

• Exceptional UI aesthetics and attention to detail.
• Strong understanding of Design principles, information architecture, user flows, and interaction design.
• Ability to think logically, structure complex problems, and justify design decisions.
• Proficiency in Figma and modern design workflows.
• Curiosity to continuously learn and adapt as design tools and workflows evolve.
• A portfolio demonstrating both excellent visual craft and strong product thinking.

Bonus Points

• Experience working on SaaS, fintech, healthcare, AI, or enterprise products.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted design workflows and prototyping tools.
• Experience contributing to or building design systems.

What You'll Work On

You'll design ambitious digital products for startups and global brands across AI, fintech, healthcare, SaaS, and consumer technology, solving real business problems while working alongside a team that values curiosity, craftsmanship, and continuous learning.

AI-Native Design Workflow (Expected)

We expect our designers to be AI-native in the way they work.

You should be comfortable using modern AI-powered design and productivity tools such as Figma Make, Claude (for design exploration), Paper, Lovable, Freepik AI, and similar tools to accelerate ideation, visual exploration, prototyping, and execution.

We value designers who know how to combine the right tools, iterate quickly, and "hack" together solutions rather than starting everything from a blank canvas. The competitive advantage isn't doing everything manually, it's knowing where human judgment, taste, and product thinking create the most value.

If you're someone who is constantly experimenting with new AI tools and evolving your workflow, you'll fit right in.

What You’ll Work On

• Design end-to-end experiences for SaaS and enterprise products, from understanding the problem and user needs to delivering and iterating on the final experience.
• Translate user needs, business requirements, and product constraints into clear, intuitive, and scalable design solutions.
• Structure complex products through user personas, user journeys, user flows, UX blueprints, interaction patterns, and information architecture.
• Design complex workflows, dashboards, and data-heavy experiences while keeping them intuitive and easy to navigate.
• Work across different user roles, permissions, modules, and product workflows, considering how decisions in one part of the product impact the overall experience.
• Build and maintain scalable design systems, including components, patterns, variants, states, properties, and design tokens.
• Identify opportunities to create reusable patterns and components rather than one-off solutions, ensuring consistency and scalability across products.
• Consider responsive design, accessibility, usability, edge cases, empty states, loading states, errors, and system feedback as part of the design process.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders and ensure designs are implemented accurately.
• Identify UX problems and opportunities proactively rather than simply designing against a given brief.
• Participate in design discussions, critiques, iterations, and product decisions.

What We’re Looking For

Strong design fundamentals are non-negotiable.

You should have a solid understanding of:

• UI/UX and visual design principles
• User personas and user needs
• User journeys and journey mapping
• User flows and task flows
• UX blueprints
• Information architecture
• Interaction design
• Usability and accessibility
• Responsive and adaptive design
• Design systems and component-based design
• Design tokens
• Components, variants, states, and properties
• Figma and modern product-design workflows

More importantly, you should understand why these tools, methods, and systems are used — not just how to use them in Figma.

SaaS & Product Thinking

We’re looking for someone who can think beyond individual screens and understand how an entire product works as a system.

You should be comfortable with:

• Complex, multi-step SaaS workflows
• Role-based experiences and permissions
• Dashboards and data-heavy interfaces
• Product navigation and information hierarchy
• Designing for multiple modules and interconnected workflows
• Scalability, consistency, and maintainability
• Edge cases and system states
• Making design decisions that work across the broader product, not just within a single screen

Design System Mindset

You should be comfortable building, maintaining, and evolving design systems, including:

• Creating and maintaining component libraries
• Defining reusable components, patterns, variants, and states
• Understanding and applying design tokens
• Maintaining visual and interaction consistency
• Deciding when a solution should become a reusable pattern versus a one-off
• Structuring systems that can scale as the product grows
• Collaborating with developers to ensure accurate design-system implementation

Ungrammary is a leading UX/UI and product design agency based in Mumbai, India, working with global brands and ambitious companies to create meaningful digital products and experiences. Our work spans technology, fintech, healthcare, SaaS, retail, and consumer products, with products designed by our team already being used by millions of people. We work with brands including Adobe, Fossil Group, VMware, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and other leading organizations.

We're looking for a Senior UX Designer who can take ownership of complex design problems from ambiguity to execution. Someone who can move comfortably between UX strategy, interaction design, visual design, and product thinking — while bringing clarity to both the team and the client.

You should be comfortable challenging assumptions, asking the right questions, articulating your decisions, and taking a product from an early problem space to a thoughtful, polished experience.

What You'll Do

• Own UX design across projects, from understanding the problem and defining user needs to delivering polished digital experiences.
• Translate complex business and user problems into clear product and design directions.
• Lead user flows, information architecture, interaction models, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI design.
• Make thoughtful design decisions and clearly communicate the reasoning behind them to clients, stakeholders, and internal teams.
• Work closely with founders, clients, product managers, developers, researchers, and other designers to shape product experiences.
• Take ownership of design quality across projects and ensure that the final experience is both strategically sound and exceptionally crafted.
• Create scalable design systems, components, and patterns that enable consistency across products.
• Think deeply about interaction design, user behaviour, edge cases, and the details that make an experience feel intuitive.
• Identify gaps in a product or design direction and proactively propose better solutions rather than simply executing requirements.
• Present and defend design decisions with clarity, adapting your communication to different stakeholders.
• Contribute to product strategy, storytelling, workshops, and client conversations beyond the scope of UI/UX execution.
• Mentor and provide constructive feedback to junior and mid-level designers.
• Stay curious about emerging design tools, technologies, and AI workflows and continuously evolve how you work.

What We're Looking For

• 4–6 years of experience in UX/UI, product design, or a related field.
• Exceptional UI aesthetics and a high level of attention to detail.
• Strong understanding of information architecture, user flows, interaction design, prototyping, and usability.
• Ability to think beyond individual screens and understand the larger product ecosystem.
• Strong product thinking and the ability to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• Ability to independently take ownership of a project or significant workstream.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate and defend design decisions.
• Proficiency in Figma and modern product design workflows.
• Experience working with design systems and scalable product interfaces.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft and thoughtful UX thinking.
• Curiosity and adaptability — you actively explore new tools and ways of working rather than relying on a fixed process.

Bonus Points

• Experience working on fintech or other complex digital products.
• Experience working directly with clients or cross-functional product teams.
• Experience leading design discussions, workshops, or design reviews.
• Experience mentoring junior designers or reviewing design work.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows.
• Experience contributing to or building design systems.
• Experience working in an agency or consulting environment across multiple products and industries.

How do you feel about owning the visual direction of a product? Do you enjoy shaping not just how things look, but how they feel and come together as a cohesive experience?

We’re looking for a Visual Designer who can bring strong visual thinking, consistency, and polish to digital products. You’ll work closely with product managers, UX designers, and developers to elevate interfaces and ensure a high standard of craft across everything we build.

What you’ll do:

• Own and drive the visual direction for projects across web and mobile
• Translate product and UX requirements into refined, high-quality interfaces
• Create polished UI, design systems, and visual languages that scale
• Define and maintain visual consistency across screens, flows, and products
• Collaborate closely with product, UX, and engineering teams to bring ideas to life
• Build and evolve design systems, components, and UI patterns
• Refine typography, color, layout, and hierarchy to enhance usability and aesthetics
• Work on interaction states, micro-interactions, and overall visual experience
• Review and guide design work to maintain a high bar of quality
• Iterate based on feedback, product needs, and user insights
• Stay updated with design trends, tools, and evolving visual practices

What we are looking for:

• Strong portfolio showcasing high-quality visual design work across web and mobile
• Deep understanding of typography, color, layout, hierarchy, and design systems
• Expertise in Figma (Framer or similar tools are a plus)
• Strong eye for detail and visual consistency
• Familiarity with motion design or micro-interactions
• Ability to bring structure and clarity to complex design problems
• Experience working closely with developers and understanding of design handoff
• Strong communication skills and ability to articulate design decisions
• Ability to mentor or guide junior designers is a plus
• Experience with branding and visual identity systems
• Comfort using AI tools to enhance design workflows

What would you be doing? ● Drive strategic design decisions across multiple product streams ● Lead, mentor and inspire a multi-disciplinary product design team. ● Collaborate with Product and Engineering to define product vision, roadmap, and execution ● Collaborate with visual designers and motion designer to create aesthetically beautiful and delightful interface ● Translate insights, research, and business needs into intuitive product experiences ● Set and maintain a high bar for design craft, usability, and accessibility ● Build predictable processes for reviews, feedback, collaboration, and delivery ● Oversee end-to-end design—from discovery to launch and iteration ● Partner closely with UX Research, Content Design, and Design System teams ● Ensure alignment with brand and platform guidelines across experiences ● Advocate for users in key decision-making spaces and represent design leadership ● Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and performance development of designers ● Collaborate with Product and Engineering to define product vision, roadmap, and execution ● Collaborate with visual designers and motion designer to create aesthetically beautiful and delightful interface ● Translate insights, research, and business needs into intuitive product experiences ● Set and maintain a high bar for design craft, usability, and accessibility ● wBuild predictable processes for reviews, feedback, collaboration, and delivery ● Oversee end-to-end design—from discovery to launch and iteration ● Partner closely with UX Research, Content Design, and Design System teams ● Ensure alignment with brand and platform guidelines across experiences ● Advocate for users in key decision-making spaces and represent design leadership ● Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and performance development of designers Who are we looking for? ● 8+ years of experience in product/UX design with at least 2+ years in a leadership role Strong portfolio demonstrating shipped products across platforms (web, Android/iOS) ● Experience managing and growing design teams ● Strong storytelling and cross-functional collaboration skills ● Ability to simplify complex data and workflows into elegant experiences ● Expertise working with design systems and scalable patterns ● Solid understanding of research methods and analytics-based decision making ● Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment What would be a value add? ● Experience in e-commerce / marketplace / B2C ● Familiarity with motion, illustration, and tools like rive/lottie etc ● Designed with AI workflow is plus.

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

What you’ll get to do in this role:

Partner closely with product, content, and growth teams to shape user experiences for StoryTV and the Master App, defining what to build and how to build it.

Deeply understand user and creator behavior across short-form video, live streaming, and interactive social experiences.

Design end-to-end user journeys—from experience maps and storyboards to wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes.

Craft intuitive flows across content discovery, creator tools, engagement loops, and monetization journeys.

Ensure a seamless and consistent experience across StoryTV and the broader Eloelo ecosystem.

Plan and run usability testing to validate concepts and continuously improve product experience.

Contribute to scalable design systems and interaction patterns for rapidly evolving features.

What you’ll bring:

4-6 years of experience in UX/Interaction Design with a strong foundation in human-centered design.

A portfolio that demonstrates end-to-end design thinking, from research to shipped experiences (preferably in content, social, or creator platforms)

Ability to simplify complex product problems into intuitive, user-friendly solutions

Strong understanding of information architecture for content-heavy and social platforms

Ability to clearly articulate design decisions backed by user insights and data

Proficiency in tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD for wireframing and prototyping

Experience working in agile, fast-paced product environments

Strong collaboration and communication skills to work across cross-functional teams

High ownership, initiative, and a “make it work” mindset to take products from concept to launch

Product 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.