Flipkart - UX Design Manager

About Flipkart:

Flipkart is India's largest e-commerce player with a valuation of over US $11 billion and sales of US $3 billion. Globally, it is among the top 5 most valued privately-funded technology-driven company (after Xiaomi, Uber and Airbnb).

Our goal is to re-invent how people shop and buy digitally. Flipkart is known for its path-breaking services such as Cash on Delivery, and a 30-day replacement policy. Flipkart is the only online player offering services like In-a-Day Guarantee (50 cities) and Same-Day-Guarantee (13 cities) at scale.

Flipkart's mobile app is one of the most downloaded and used app in the country.

Launched in October 2007, Flipkart has become the preferred online marketplace for leading Indian and international brands offering over 20 million products cross 70+ categories including Books, Media, Consumer Electronics and Lifestyle.

Flipkart, currently 33,000 people strong, has 30 million registered users clocking over 10 million daily visits. Flipkart's technology has enabled it to deliver 8 million shipments per month - and this number's only growing.

Position- UX Design Manager

Location: Bangalore

What you will be doing-

- Establish communication across the design team including best practices for meetings, facilitating progress, sharing updates and connecting with other teams.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with product management and engineering, by leveraging user research and communication design.

- Guide the team to develop best practices for ensuring a high bar of quality

- Provide mentorship to a team of UX Designers; lead creative and holistic thinking across diverse product releases, platforms, and devices.

- Actively scope task-time, prioritise tasks, estimate solutions, plan agile sprints, execute and track efforts in tools such as JIRA.

- Take responsibility for overall customer satisfaction with the product and design.

- Act as a gatekeeper and ensure quality of PRDs and designs.

- Be able to multitask and handle other non-related projects

Reach out to the community and hire designers relevant for the domain

Requirements-

Excellent communication, presentation and analytical skills.

- 10+ years dedicated hands-on experience applying User Experience design principles and methodologies to develop web and mobile based solutions

- Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision

- Relevant experience in User Research, Information Architecture, interaction design, wireframes, visual designs and visual design specifications

- UX focused portfolio

- A strong network in the UX community and the ability to attract and retain the best designers