Senior Product Design Manager – HRIS | India Design Site Lead
Leads a team of product designers building complex HCM and HRIS experiences, while serving as the India design site lead. The role requires extensive product design and people-management experience, strong systems thinking, and expertise in AI-native or automation-driven enterprise products.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of product designers across the HCM product suite, driving high-impact work across HR, Talent, Benefits, and Workforce Management.
- Design and deliver complex, business-critical experiences that are intuitive, scalable, and trustworthy across global and regulatory contexts.
- Define and drive AI-native experiences using automation, intelligent defaults, and agentic systems to reduce operational overhead.
- Set a high bar for craft, quality, and execution by mentoring designers, providing actionable feedback, and fostering a high-performing team environment.
- Drive end-to-end product thinking from problem definition and research through execution and iteration across both 0-to-1 initiatives and mature product areas.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to define product strategy, prioritize initiatives, and deliver ambitious roadmaps.
- Establish systems thinking across the team through patterns and frameworks that scale across products and ensure platform consistency.
- Translate complex operational, compliance, and workforce challenges into simple, elegant experiences for administrators and employees.
- Champion customer understanding in global HR, compliance, and hourly workforce management.
- Contribute to and evolve the design system to enable consistency, quality, and speed.
- Drive alignment across interdependent HRIS, Time, and platform systems.
- Serve as the India Design Site Lead by fostering office culture, collaboration, and site-wide operational leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional product design experience.
- 5+ years leading and managing design teams.
- Track record delivering high-impact, customer-facing products in complex domains such as HCM/HRIS, fintech, enterprise software, or workforce management.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and large problem spaces, turning complex systems into intuitive experiences.
- Strong systems thinking and experience designing across interconnected products or platforms.
- Experience defining and shipping AI-native or automation-driven experiences, including intelligent workflows, decision support, or agentic systems.
- Experience owning end-to-end product design from strategy and roadmap definition through execution and quality assurance.
- Ability to lead, mentor, and grow designers at different experience levels.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong product judgment balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
- Deep customer focus and experience translating real-world workflows into effective product experiences.
- Bias toward action, ownership, and clarity in fast-paced environments.
- Strong leadership presence and ability to manage site operations and cultivate a high-performing design community.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with HR operations, scheduling, compliance, or related workforce workflows.
- Experience designing intelligent workflows, automation, decision support, or agentic systems.
Skills
Product Design, Hcm, HRIS, AI, Automation, Agentic Systems, Systems Thinking, Product Strategy, User Research, Design Systems, Stakeholder Management, Workforce Management, Compliance, Quality Assurance
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