Director of Product Design

About Asper

Asper is an enterprise AI SaaS company for consumer-packaged goods (CPG). Our products Ask Asper (conversational insights), Dynamic Demand AI (forecasting), and Revenue Growth Management (pricing and promotion) help CPG companies make faster, smarter decisions in complex, data-heavy workflows. We care deeply about usability, trust, and measurable impact.

Role Name: Director, Product Design

Location: Bangalore | Hybrid

The Role

Were looking for a Director of Product Design to lead our growing design team and partner with Product, Engineering, and AI leadership. Youll set the design vision, scale the team, and embed design deeply into how we build. Your mission is to ensure Aspers AI platforms are usable, reliable, and loved by our customers.

What Youll Do

• Set the vision: Define design strategy, quality standards, and a roadmap tied to business goals.
• Build the team: Hire, coach, and grow a high-performing team of designers and researchers.
• Champion design: Evangelize design thinking and user-first practices across the company.
• Establish systems: Build and roll out design systems (tokens, theming, accessibility, and governance).
• Drive research and insights: Lead customer interviews, workshops, and usability testing to guide product direction.
• Partner cross-functionally: Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Data, AI, and Customer Success on discovery, experimentation, and release quality.
• Deliver outcomes: Connect design work to metrics such as adoption, retention, NPS/CSAT, and revenue impact.
• Communicate with impact: Share strategy and results with executives and customers.

What Were Looking For

• 14+ years in product design, including 6+ years leading design for SaaS products (B2B preferred).
• Proven experience building data-dense, workflow-heavy products and design systems at scale.
• Strong user research backgroundcomfortable leading interviews, contextual inquiries, and workshops.
• Skilled at aligning design with adoption and behavior change strategies.
• Track record of mentoring design talent and collaborating closely with Product and Engineering.
• Excellent communicator and storyteller, comfortable with executive and customer audiences.
• Bonus: Experience with AI and agentic design patterns, enterprise compliance, and multi-brand theming.