UI UX Manager

As a UI/UX Manager at our Pune location, you will play a crucial role in establishing design standards for our team, providing training and support in UX best practices, and collaborating closely with product management, stakeholders, and the engineering team. Your responsibilities will include planning budgets and timelines, monitoring progress on deliverables, and ensuring the delivery of intuitive, visually appealing, and user-centered designs that align with business goals and enhance the overall user experience. You will be tasked with developing and executing the UI/UX strategy, roadmap, and design guidelines to support the organization's goals and objectives. Collaboration with stakeholders to understand user needs, business requirements, and market trends will be a key part of your role. Defining user flows, interaction models, and information architecture to create seamless and intuitive user experiences will be crucial. You will need to ensure consistency and usability across different product features and platforms. In addition, you will build, lead, and mentor a team of UI/UX designers, providing guidance, feedback, and support to foster a collaborative and high-performing design team. Effective resource allocation and workload management will also fall under your purview. Creating wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes to visualize and communicate design concepts will be part of your responsibilities. Collaboration with cross-functional teams, including developers and product managers, to iterate and refine designs based on feedback and user testing will be essential. Furthermore, you will lead the development of visually appealing and consistent UI designs that align with the organization's brand identity and style guidelines. Ensuring the use of appropriate color schemes, typography, and visual elements to enhance the user experience will be a key focus area. Your role will also involve defining intuitive and user-friendly interactions, workflows, and navigation patterns. Conducting usability evaluations and heuristic reviews to identify usability issues and propose design improvements will be part of your routine tasks. Establishing and maintaining a design system that provides reusable UI components, patterns, and guidelines will be crucial for promoting consistency and efficiency in design implementation across products and platforms. Collaboration with cross-functional teams, effective communication of design concepts, rationale, and trade-offs to stakeholders will be essential. To excel in this role, you should have at least 10 years of experience as a UI/UX designer or in a related role, with a minimum of 5 years of experience in designing scalable products and 7 years of experience in managing a team. Expertise in tools like Sketch, Adobe XD, or Figma, experience in product development in an agile environment, and familiarity with formal project management methodologies are required. Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, along with the ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities effectively, are also essential. Possessing relevant certifications such as PMP, PgMP, SaFe, Scrum Certifications would be advantageous.,