Senior Manager, Product Design

Product India


Position at Confluent India Private Limited

With Confluent, organisations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organisation to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. 

  

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. 

  

Data Connects Us. 

  

About the Role: 

Here at Confluent, we’re building a streaming platform that’s changing the way people access and use data in real-time. What we’re making is already at the heart of thousands of companies and has led to a whole new generation of incredibly smart software that’s integrated into many aspects of our lives including banking, entertainment, transportation, health care, and more.  We’re seeking a versatile, strong design leader who loves problem solving, has a great eye for design, and is excited to lead strategic design efforts.  
 

What You Will Do: 

  • Guide, mentor and grow a small but mighty design team
  • Use design to make our data streaming technology easy to understand and use.
  • Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into useful solutions for our customers.
  • Contribute to our product strategy with a keen understanding of customer goals, business goals, and our platform capabilities.
  • Design experiences and workflows that are incredibly simple, elegant, and delightful.
  • Give and solicit feedback from stakeholders. Continuously raise our bar for quality and polish.
  • Partner with functional groups and collaborate with designers to bring new product experiences to market, track our success, and iterate.

  

What You Will Bring: 

  • Manage multiple projects and guide other design team members
  • Work closely with product managers, engineers in order to deliver customer value
  • Ability to innovate like crazy and guide designers through the toughest problems.
  • Experience working closely with engineers to develop features. Have a strong understanding and appreciation for technical details.
  • Excellent craftsmanship. Extreme attention to detail when it comes to construction of UI, systematic solutions, and workflows.
  • Comfortable iterating rapidly at low fidelity.
  • Thrives off giving and receiving excellent feedback.
  • Skilled at producing realistic prototypes to communicate your ideas around interaction design is a plus.
  • Web development experience is a plus.
  • A portfolio or link to examples showing your process, eye for aesthetics, and depth of design work along with your role in specific projects
  • 12 to 16 years working as a Product Designer and at least minimum of 3+ years experience managing design teams

  

  

Come As You Are 

  

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