CarDekho - Lead Product Designer

About the role

CarDekho Group runs one of India's largest auto classifieds platforms, where millions of users search, compare, and buy/sell vehicles every month.

We're hiring a Lead Product Designer to build and scale the design system powering our consumer surfaces for search & discovery, listing pages, and transaction flows, and to raise the design bar across the team. consistency.

What you'll own

• Design Systems as Infrastructure: Architect and scale a high-performance, component-based design system from the ground up across Web, Android, and iOS. Treat the system as a living product, ensuring it serves as the foundational infrastructure for all product squads

• AI-Native System Governance: Implement AI-augmented workflows to manage system adoption, documentation, and versioning. Use AI to automate routine maintenance, audit consistency, and accelerate the evolution of tokens and atomic architecture.

• Emphasize design tokens, atomic architecture, and comprehensive documentation to ensure visual and functional consistency across all platforms

• Rapid Iteration & Validation: Use AI-powered tools to prototype, iterate, and validate complex interaction patterns at 10x speed. Shift from manual pixel-pushing to high-level architectural decision-making and pattern generation.

• High-Fidelity Visual Storytelling: Deliver pixel-perfect, high-fidelity interfaces that balance aesthetic quality with functional requirements. You own the visual standard, ensuring every surface is both beautiful and performant.

• Inclusive UX/UI Standards: Champion usability and accessibility standards, ensuring inclusive design is baked into the system level rather than treated as an afterthought.

• Data-Driven Evolution: Drive end-to-end design for high-traffic surfaces, using funnel metrics and user data to iterate post-launch and refine the user journey.

• Mentor and elevate the craft of fellow designers, fostering a culture of high feedback and design excellence.

• Partner closely with Engineering and Product leads to balance build-vs-reuse tradeoffs and technical feasibility.

What we expect you to bring

• Proven experience scaling design systems in high-traffic, B2C, or e-commerce environments.

• 6+ years of experience in product design, with a deep portfolio demonstrating high-fidelity visual design, complex interaction patterns, and systemic thinking.

• AI-Augmented Design Fluency: Proven ability to leverage AI (Claude, Cursor, or similar agentic tools) as a primary workflow for architectural scaffolding, debugging design logic, and rapid scaling—not just as an experiment, but as a standard for delivery.

• Expert-level proficiency in Figma with a mastery of auto-layout, variants, and design system governance in high-traffic B2C environments.

• Exceptional ability to articulate design rationale and technical tradeoffs to Engineering and Product leads, focusing on ownership and end-to-end product impact.