Director Product Design UX

Location Details: Gurugram or Remote India 

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This is a hybrid or remote position. If Hybrid you’ll divide your time between working remotely from your home and in our Gurugram office at least one day each week, so you should live within commuting distance For candidates residing outside Gurugram, this position is remote, with the expectation of quarterly visits to the GoDaddy office for team events or off-site meetings.

Join our Team…

GoDaddy is seeking our next Director of UX for our online store and appointments features, who will lead and inspire our UX design team across India. Play a pivotal role, elevating design quality and processes across our global organization. Collaborating as a partner and point of contact to UX leadership in the U.S, helping drive innovation and excellence in user experience design across local UX teams. Establish a strong presence in the region, encouraging relationships with local designers and stakeholders’ whist collaborating closely with our US product and UX leadership. Demonstrating your extensive experience to improve design processes, craft organizational structures, and lead cross-functional initiatives. This role demands a balance of strategic oversight and hands-on program management, guiding teams to achieve bold outcomes.

This is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic team that is transforming our organization’s approach to user experience design. Build a Center of Excellence which will influence our direction of UX design and processes on a global scale. If you are an accomplished UX leader ready to connect vision with execution through people and design, we would love to hear from you.

 What you'll get to do...

• As the in-region design leader for UX design, improve design quality and process ensuring alignment between Global GoDaddy UX and IN
• Lead and build a UX center of excellence in India, identifying and efficiently implementing processes to internationalize our teams
• As the key point of contact between UX leadership in the US and design operations in India, implement regular touchpoints with UX leadership in the US, ensuring alignment and collaboration
• Cultivate positive relationships with designers on the ground, both direct and dotted line reports, to understand and address difficulties within the region
• Coordinate UX standards and processes with rigorously defined policies, processes, and tools
• Collaborate with senior leadership on long-term product and design strategies, driving UX perspectives into company-wide planning
• Mentor and manage mid-level and junior UX designers, encouraging a culture of continuous improvement and skill elevation
• Orchestrate organizational UX research, insights, and metrics reporting to advise strategic decisions
• Promote a human-centered philosophy, influencing organizational culture and capabilities

Your experience should include...

• 10+ years in UX, 4+ in a management role as a Director of UX or Design collaborating with US organizations across global time zones, leading and mentoring design teams, with a focus on developing future design leaders
• A track record of optimally delivering major product features, building design processes that help maintain a high-quality bar
• Strong technical proficiency, enabling effective collaboration with global engineering teams
• Proven experience in UX architecture, interaction design, and visual design, supported by a robust portfolio able to present and promote design thinking to stakeholders
• High proficiency in experimentation and testing 

You might also have...

• BA in Interaction Design, Communication Design, Industrial Design, HCI, or equivalent

We've got your back...  We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us. 

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to [email protected]. 

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