Staff Product Designer
Nykaa · Posted Oct 13
Beauty, wellness, fashion, and personal care omnichannel retail services
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About the role
Nykaa is India's largest beauty and wellness destination for B2C shopping, and its Design team is a close-knit group of product designers, UX researchers, UX writers, design operations and visual designers building user-first shopping journeys across the Nykaa product ecosystem. As a Staff/Lead Product Designer, the role sets the long-term design vision for Nykaa's digital products, owns end-to-end product experiences within pod structures, and mentors designers while partnering with Product, Engineering and Marketing.
What you will do
- Innovate & Elevate: Stay on top of design trends and emerging technologies, bringing fresh ideas that push the boundaries of user experience on B2C platforms.
- Product Design Execution/Ownership: Own product experiences in certain pod structures, from early concepts and user flows to final execution and launch. Define design direction for key product areas and ensure a clear, consistent experience across multiple touchpoints while advocating for users and balancing customer needs with business goals and technical constraints.
- Solving complex user and business problems by turning insights, data, and customer needs into simple, effective experiences.
- Functional Ownership: Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and other teams. Influence product decisions beyond visual design and help teams make clear, user-focused decisions. Identify opportunities to improve the overall customer experience across the product ecosystem.
- Lead and mentor designers, helping them grow their craft, product thinking, and ownership by setting clear design standards and ways of working across the team. Provide thoughtful feedback, challenge ideas constructively, and help designers make stronger decisions. Foster a collaborative and inclusive environment where designers can experiment, take ownership, and do their best work. Raise the overall quality and maturity of the design practice through better processes, principles, and collaboration.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- You have 7+ years of experience designing compelling user experiences for B2C platforms.
- You are a systems thinker who sees the larger ecosystem, not just isolated features.
- You possess the psychological power to place yourself in the user's shoes and a highly refined aesthetic sense.
- You are opinionated, able to give constructive feedback, and passionate about establishing a perspective behind design decisions.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Nykaa
Nykaa (FSN E-Commerce Ventures) is a premier Indian omnichannel consumer technology platform specializing in beauty, personal care, and fashion products. Founded by Falguni Nayar, the company operates extensive online e-commerce channels alongside a growing nationwide network of physical retail stores. Nykaa also features an array of in-house private label brands and an eB2B distribution division.
- Industry
- E-commerce
- Company size
- 5001-10000 employees
- Founded
- 2012
- Location
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $156.89M raised
- 2022-11-21Post-IPO Secondary$41.08M
- 2022-11-09Post-IPOUndisclosed
- 2020-11-25Secondary MarketUndisclosed
- 2020-06-01Series H$2.61M
- 2020-05-07Series F$8.88M
Leadership
Founder, Executive Chairperson, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Executive Director and CEO, Nykaa Beauty E-Commerce
Executive Director and CEO, Nykaa Fashion
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
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