Head of Design
Meesho
Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
JOB DESCRIPTION Bangalore, Karnataka | Product & Design APPLY NOW About the Role In this role, you will own the design strategy, vision and execution for the whole of Meesho’s businesses: Demand, Supply, Fulfillment & Experience, Ads (Monetization) & Superstore. You will lead 60+ (currently ~60) top class design workforce with multiple layers of leadership. Majority of your time would go into building a world class design team(hiring), building the design-first culture, best design and design management practices and delivering products at high velocity. You will lead the design team that plays a critical role in creating and delivering usable and delightful experiences across the product for our ~140 Mn Indian users & 17 Mn suppliers. What You Will Do Manage multi-layered large design team across multiple skills (Value: People centric workplace)Set vision and strategy for the team and drive executing the same. Hire and grow top talent. Collaborate with all internal teams (Talent Acquisition, Rewards etc) in making this happen. Build the culture of User first, Thinking 10X, Problem first mindset, Speed over perfection. (refer to Meesho’s 9 values) Drive clarity, convergence and closure in cross organizational teams, projects. Collaborate with product, business and engineering leaders in execution and delivery. Mentor, teach and educate designers and leaders in your organization. Facilitate the delivery of high-quality work. Consistently works towards raising the bar in design Build Meesho into a design-first organization and contribute to attracting great design talent. Represent Meesho in all relevant external forums, channels etc. What You Will Need 12+ years experience in top tier design companies with 5+ years of experience in leadership roles. Premier pedigree of education would be an added bonus. Should have managed 50+ team sizes via different layers of managers. Experience in a high scale tech environment and first hand experience in scaling things 10X to 100X. Deep expertise in the B2C & B2B domain. Should be technically sound and have a good understanding of industry best practices for design choices. Should have a keen eye for details. Strong decision making ability. Proven experience in shipping high quality designs in record breaking timelines. Proven experience in grooming leaders across levels, building loyal design organization and in attracting top tier design talent. About Meesho Meesho is India’s fastest growing e-commerce company. We started in 2015 with the idea of helping mom & pop stores to sell online. Today, 5% of Indian households shop with us on any given day 😎. We’ve helped over 15 million individual entrepreneurs start online businesses with zero investment. We’re democratising internet commerce by offering a 0% commission model for sellers on our platform — a first for India. We aim to become the e-commerce destination for Bharat. How? Find out from our blogs ! We’re currently valued at $4.9 billion with marquee investors supporting our vision. Some of them include Sequoia Capital, Softbank, Fidelity, Prosus Ventures, Facebook and Elevation Capital. We were also featured in Y Combinator’s 2021 Top Companies List , and were the only Indian startup to make it to Fast Company’s The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2020. We ranked 6th in Linkedin’s Top Startups List 2021 . Our strongest asset is our people. We have gender-neutral and inclusive policies to promote our people-first culture. Please check out meesho. careers for our openings. Our Mission Democratise internet commerce for everyone Our Purpose Har Indian ka APNA MARKET
