Lead Product Designer

Who are we and what do we do?

BrowserStack is the world's leading software testing platform powering over two million tests every day across 19 global data centers. BrowserStack's products help developers build bug-free software for the 5 billion internet users accessing websites and mobile applications through millions of combinations of digital environments—devices, browsers, operating systems, and versions. We help Tesco, Shell, NVIDIA, Discovery, Wells Fargo, and over 50,000 customers deliver quality software at speed by moving testing to our Cloud. With BrowserStack, Dev and QA teams can move fast while delivering an amazing experience for every customer.

BrowserStack was founded by Ritesh Arora and Nakul Aggarwal in 2011 with the vision of becoming the testing infrastructure for the internet. We recently secured $200 million in Series B funding at a $4 billion valuation in June 2021.

At BrowserStack we solve real problems—each day is a unique challenge and an opportunity to make a difference. We strive to be open, transparent, and collaborative, so no feat is too big to achieve. BrowserStack is an extension of its people and a place where they can grow both professionally and personally. To that effect, we’re humbled to be recognized  by leading organizations around the world:

• BrowserStack is Great Place to Work-Certified™ 2020-21

• Named “SaaS Startup of the Year” in 2022 by SaaSBOOMi

• Ranked in Forbes Cloud 100 in 2021 - for the second time

• Featured in LinkedIn Top Startups India 2018

As a Lead Product Designer, you are responsible for contributing to the design direction for an initiative and bringing it to life by partnering closely with product and engineering counterparts. An in-depth understanding of how different browsers and OS platforms work would be essential in addition to having a constant focus on uplifting the overall product experience with specific attention to the visual and interaction design practice.

What this means is:

• Working closely with other designers, product & engineering partners in researching how our products are being used, identifying opportunities, defining design approaches, and creating rational, well articulated, elegant solutions to these complex problems.

• Set and contribute to design standardization, documentation, processes alongside your team members to further our design practice.

• Execute product strategy and vision together with product managers by building storyboards, user flows, wireframes, low-fi, high-fi mockups, and prototypes to communicate design ideas at the appropriate level of details.

• Have a significant impact across the products you contribute to.

• Follow and define consistency practices on products you contribute to.

• Drive and participate in activities that are aimed at developing the culture at BrowserStack — Hiring and expanding the community presence of Design@BrowserStack.

• Work with other members of the Design team to help them deliver great work and develop their own skills. This could be as a mentor, a coach, or a collaborator.

This role is for you if you:

• Are comfortable with ambiguity.

• Are able to work autonomously, and multi-task in an agile environment.

• Leverage available insights like market analysis, customer feedback, usage/engagement metrics, and usability findings to make informed design decisions.

• Are fluent in working with state of the art UI and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Principle, Adobe CS, html/css).

• Are able to break down complex problems into consumable execution items.

• Are fantastic at communicating your thinking and design decisions - you’re able to get buy-ins from people you collaborate with.

• Are passionate about deep tech and are comfortable with development processes and tools, have had hands-on engineering experience in either Frontend or Backend systems at some point in your career.

• Are willing to get your hand dirty when it comes to solving problems. 

• An obsession for tasteful visual design & details along with a good sense of typography.

• A proactive and self motivated spirit.

• An enduring sense of humor.

• An appetite for learning.

• Enjoy mentoring other designers.

Qualifications:

• Preferably 6/7+ years of relevant work experience in Interaction Design, UI/UX design or Product design. Alongside a strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience and relevant, user-centered design solutions.

• Experienced in working on SaaS products.

• Have had a successful track record having led mid to large scale design efforts.

• Experience working with international teams.

• Bachelors/ Masters degree in Design/ Computer Science would be an advantage.

Benefits:

In addition to your total compensation, you will be eligible for following benefits, which will be governed by the Company policy:

• Medical insurance for self, spouse, upto 2 dependent children and Parents or Parents-in-law up to INR 5,00,000

• Gratuity as per payment of Gratuity Act, 1972

• Unlimited Time Off to ensure our people invest in their wellbeing, to rest and rejuvenate, spend quality time with family and friends

• Remote-First work environment that allows our people to work from anywhere in India

• Remote-First Benefit for home office setup, connectivity, accessories, co-working spaces, wellbeing to ensure an amazing remote work experience