Recro.io - Lead UI /UX Designer - User-Centered Design

Job Description : The UX/UI Design Leader will play a pivotal role in shaping the visual and interactive design of our digital platforms. You will build and lead a talented team of UX and UI designers to create user-centered and high-performing digital experiences that enhance user engagement, satisfaction, and conversion rates. You are a key contributor for the digital user experience and growth of online business for India and oversee various phases of the team's design process : research, conception, development, and execution while ensuring the team is in the best conditions to meet expectations and objectives. Responsibility : - Understand the company's design vision, how your team fits into it, and translate it into relevant objectives. - Communicate as much as possible about the "why" rather than the "what. " - Develop and execute the overall design strategy for our website and mobile App, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user needs - Co-create a roadmap with the product team and ensure its adoption. - Work closely with product leaders and tech to break silos and deliver meaningful new features or products. - Define and monitor relevant KPIs, capable of monitoring them over time to ensure the validity of the solutions proposed by your team. - Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and design tools to drive innovation and improve the digital user experience. Skills Related to Responsibility 1 : - Deploy the OKRs methodology. - Establish a design vision. - Strategic thinking - Understanding of Product Management and IT. - Functional Management - Market Research and benchmarking Responsibility 2 : - Ensure that each feature your team works on is delivered on time with the highest level of quality possible. - Translate the product roadmap into a design roadmap for your team. - Co-create new agile operational models and implement them, helping to facilitate delivery quality during design rituals (design review, design retro, etc. ). - Improve overall design quality by defining standards, processes, and templates with other managers and principals, and training your team to learn them. Skills Related to Responsibility 2 : - Backlog management and prioritization. - Roadmap definition. - Co-defining product/user experience design. - Autonomy Responsibility 3 : - Recruit, lead, and inspire a team of UX and UI designers. - Mentor your team members and create a pleasant and conducive learning environment. - Identify and onboard external partner agencies as per the need of the project and the team. - Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment. - Enable your team members to evolve and help create a strong internal and external network. - Promote the design culture within and outside the company : write blog articles, organize and speak at conferences, and represent Decathlon at major events. - Implement personalized career development plans for each member and support them in their evolution Skills Related to Responsibility 3 : - Product design framework. - Rituals and organization. - Human Management - Leadership - Project Building - Vendor Onboarding Management Responsibility 4 : - Assist in the implementation of the design system and other design standards within your scope. - Advocate for a user-centric design approach, conducting user research, usability testing, and translating insights into design improvements. - Create interactive prototypes to demonstrate design concepts and facilitate team and stakeholder discussions. - Synchronize with other product designer managers to identify cross-team improvements and issues. - Develop internal relationships with various stakeholders in different business units. - Participate in community expertise activities. Skills Related to Responsibility 4 : - Knowledge of DesignOps and Design System. - Co-creation and synchronization rituals with Managers - Verbal communication - Persuasion - Results-oriented Key Deliverables : - UX Revamp for App and Website - Decathlon United Vitamin Design System adoption in India - Digital Delighted Customers - Conversion - Click-Through Rate - Bounce Rate - Web Vitals / App Performances - A/B Tests - Time to Market / Productivity of Design Team - Digital To Growth - Potential Leaders developed Pre-Requisites : - 6 years in Ecom in UX / UI - 7 years in UX research - 5 years of Leadership and mentoring Regular Interactions : - Product Managers - Engineering Managers - Product Designers - E-commerce Leader - Business Teams - CX/UHC Teams - Users - Agencies. (ref:hirist.tech)

Location: bangalore, IN

Posted Date: 5/10/2025