Design Lead - Samya.ai

Job Description

Design LeadDiscovery to Design Implementation About Samya: Samya is a term that means bringing things to equilibrium . In an environment of increasing complexity and uncertainty, AI and machine learning can help organizations achieve dynamic equilibrium and maximize growth.Samya helps organizations unlock revenue growth potential at the intersection of demand and supply. We are an AI/ML cloud-based SaaS product company. We use AI and Machine Learning to reduce operational blind spots, anticipate risks, and close the gap between planning and execution.Samya was created with a vision to build a world-class product and team. Our team combines strengths from various disciplines, including Product Development, R&D, AI/ML, and Engineering teams. Summary: The Design Lead role is responsible for leading and architecting the end-to-end human-centred design process for the Samya products. This includes understanding the user stories, framing the problem, leading the user research & insights process, and translating the insights and needs into effective product design outcomes (along with the product requirements). The outcomes can include the user experience strategy, use cases, key features, wireframes, prototypes, user testing, and iterations, design specs, and guidelines, all while staying true to the voice of the users/stakeholders and ensuring that it is continuously reinforced and refined across the process. The Design Lead takes ownership from the initial Discovery (research and insights) phase to the Design and Development phases of the product.This role will also involve working closely with Product Management and Engineering teams to ensure complete integration and alignment of work done by all the teams and ship the product on time.Preferred Location: Bangalore Key Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day leadership for projects, ensuring that all internal and external stakeholders are aligned to the HCD goals, activities, and deliverables from the design team.
• Closely collaborate with counterparts in other functions/teams, ensuring tight integration between Design and their respective workstreams in the best way that delivers and ships the product features as intended and on time.
• Understand Samyas AI-first process transformation framework and blend it with design paradigms to craft best-in-class products.
• Provide hands-on mentoring and leadership to User Researchers, Behavioural Science experts, Interaction Designers, and Visual Designers through the entire design process from the best research/strategy methods, tools, and approaches best suited for the product.
• Ensures the design teams are delivering world-class deliverables and outcomes to the internal and external stakeholders.
• Thought leadership internally within Samya and in the external communities around the coming together of AI, Engineering and Design (and related topics).
• Shape and refine the culture of the design team, its rituals, practices, personality, values and norms.

Were looking for someone who:

• Has 6-12 years of experience as a design practitioner with at least 2-3 years in leading enterprise products and design teams.
• Must have a demonstrable portfolio of work that reflects the breadth & depth of skills as a Design Researcher OR as in Interaction/User Experience Design.
• May have started their career in research & strategy or in interaction/information design but have graduated to leading projects end-to-end for the last 2-3 years at least.
• Experience in designing and visualizing large amounts of data
• Has real-world experience in managing projects & design teams and stakeholders
• Loves an entrepreneurial culture and is excited about the challenge of building a Design capability (within an established organization)
• Exposure and experience working with international clients / in consulting roles will be a plus

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