Senior Product Designer

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Product Designer (DCF 35)

Location: Bangalore / Pune

Practice: Experience Design (XD) – Merkle / Dentsu Global Services

Role Overview

As a Senior Product Designer (DCF 35), you are a high-impact individual contributor who owns end-to-end design delivery across complex product journeys within global client pods (US/UK/India).

You operate at the intersection of UX craft, systems thinking, and delivery excellence, translating ambiguous problem spaces into scalable, high-quality design solutions. You are expected to independently lead workstreams, contribute to business outcomes, and actively elevate team capability.

Key Responsibilities

Product & Experience Design
Own end-to-end design for features / journeys across discovery → definition → delivery
Translate business and user needs into clear problem statements, flows, and interaction models
Deliver high-quality UX and UI aligned to design systems and accessibility standards
Contribute to experience strategy and solutioning in collaboration with XD, Product, and Engineering
Delivery Excellence (Client / Pod Model)
Work within global pods (US/UK/India) to deliver against timelines and quality expectations
Ensure design readiness for development (handoff clarity, edge cases, states, documentation)
Actively participate in design critiques, sprint rituals, and client reviews
Maintain high utilization / chargeability (aligned to 80–85% targets)
Craft & Systems Thinking
Apply and extend design systems (tokens, components, patterns) effectively
Ensure consistency, scalability, and reusability across solutions
Demonstrate strong interaction design, visual hierarchy, and usability principles
Leverage data, heuristics, and user insights to inform decisions
Stakeholder Collaboration
Collaborate effectively with Product, Tech, Strategy (XS), and Visual Design (VD)
Communicate design decisions with clarity and rationale (not just outputs)
Participate in client conversations with confidence, focusing on outcomes over outputs
Capability Building & Culture
Contribute to team learning through critiques, knowledge sharing, and mentoring juniors (DCF 25/30)
Actively participate in XD practice initiatives (XEN / XEN+)
Demonstrate ownership, accountability, and a growth mindset
AI & Future-Ready Design
Leverage AI tools (e.g., Figma AI, generative tools, prototyping accelerators) to improve speed and exploration
Focus on problem framing, direction setting, and evaluation of solutions while using AI for execution efficiency

Core Skills

Required Skills & Experience

Strong UX fundamentals: IA, interaction design, usability, journey mapping
Good visual design sensibility (layout, typography, spacing, hierarchy)
Experience working with design systems and component-based design
Proficiency in Figma (advanced), prototyping tools, and collaboration workflows

Experience

4–7 years of experience in product design / UX design
Experience working on complex digital products (B2B / SaaS preferred)
Exposure to global stakeholders / distributed teams is a strong plus

Behavioral & Leadership Traits

High ownership and reliability in delivery
Ability to operate with moderate ambiguity and structure problems
Strong attention to detail with a bias for quality
Evolving storytelling skills (moving from screens → outcomes)

Success Metrics (DCF 35 Expectations)

Delivery & Craft

Consistent delivery of high-quality, dev-ready design outputs
Reduction in design iteration cycles and rework
Strong adherence to design systems and standards

Business Impact

Contribution to feature adoption, engagement, or conversion improvements
Ability to connect design decisions to measurable outcomes

Collaboration

Positive feedback from cross-functional stakeholders and clients
Effective participation in pods and global team environments

Capability Building

Active contribution to team critiques and junior mentoring
Demonstrated growth toward owning larger problem spaces (DCF 40 readiness)

What Success Looks Like

Moves from feature ownership → problem space ownership
Demonstrates strong storytelling and strategic framing
Begins to influence clients and solution direction
Drives consistency across multiple workstreams / designers

Why Join Us

Work on global client engagements across industries
Be part of a scaling XD practice with strong leadership and standards
Exposure to AI-led design transformation and enterprise-scale problems

Location:

DGS India - Bengaluru - Manyata N1 Block

Brand:

Merkle

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent#DGS