Lead UI UX Designer

Lead UI/UX Designer Global Brand & Web Experience (Founding Role)

Location: Bangalore

Type: Full-Time

Experience: 610+ years

Reporting to: Product / Marketing Leadership

Tools: Figma (Advanced), Adobe CC; familiarity with 3D & motion tools (Spline, Blender, Rive, Lottie) is a strong plus

The Mission

T57 is building a world-class digital presence to introduce its AI-native food security and global trade ecosystem across 70+ countries.

We are creating a 150+ page, content-rich, narrative-driven marketing platform that combines:

The intellectual authority and editorial depth of global consultancies (think McKinsey-style microsites), and

The immersive, cinematic storytelling of advanced WebGL experiences (interactive 3D, scroll-triggered narratives, motion-led storytelling).

This is not a product UI role.

This is a founding design leadership role to architect how governments, enterprises, and institutional partners first experience T57.

You will design persuasion, clarity, and trust at scale.

What You Will Own

1) Global Web Experience & Visual Direction

Define and own the visual and interaction direction for T57s public-facing website and microsites.

Lead the art direction for immersive experiences (e.g., interactive 3D globe, narrative scrollytelling, motion-led storytelling).

Ensure premium aesthetics while maintaining strict performance budgets across devices and geographies.

Translate complex concepts in food systems, trade, logistics, and digital infrastructure into clear, compelling visual narratives.

2) Information Architecture & Microsite Framework

Own the information architecture for a 150+ page platform spanning industries, geographies, and solutions.

Design scalable navigation models, page archetypes, and microsite frameworks (e.g., industries, countries, use cases).

Partner with content and leadership teams to structure complex narratives into coherent, discoverable user journeys.

Ensure the platform can scale without UX debt as new markets, sectors, and content are added.

3) Global Design System & Content Framework

Architect and govern the Global Web Design System: components, design tokens, typography, grid systems, responsive behaviors, and content templates.

Build modular CMS-ready blocks (slices) in Figma that engineering can translate into Strapi modules.

Maintain consistency and quality across 150+ pages and future microsites while allowing flexibility for storytelling.

Own documentation, versioning, and long-term evolution of the web design system.

4) Editorial Design & Marketing Data Visualization

Design editorial layouts for long-form content (reports, whitepapers, insights, case studies) that are elegant, readable, and conversion-aware.

Create high-fidelity infographics and interactive diagrams to explain abstract concepts such as smart contracts, halal logistics, and digital trade flows.

Design public-facing market widgets and data visuals that feel native to the T57 brand.

5) Performance, Accessibility & SEO by Design

Define performance budgets for motion, media, and WebGL-heavy pages (LCP, CLS, TTI targets).

Design reduced-motion, low-bandwidth, and graceful fallback experiences.

Ensure WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility across typography, contrast, navigation, and motion.

Collaborate with content and growth teams to ensure layouts support SEO and discoverability, not just aesthetics.

6) Conversion, Trust & B2G/B2B Experience

Design high-trust landing pages for governments, enterprises, and institutional buyers.

Architect Trust Centers, credibility signals, and authority-driven narratives (certifications, partners, compliance).

Optimize lead journeys for high-value actions: Contact Sales, Request Demo, Partner With Us.

Continuously refine conversion flows based on qualitative and quantitative feedback.

7) End-to-End Design Ownership

Own the full lifecycle: discovery IA wireframes UI interaction concepts dev handoff QA iteration.

Define design quality standards, review rituals, and acceptance criteria for all public-facing web experiences.

Act as the final design authority for the marketing platform in close collaboration with engineering and leadership.

Required Experience & Skills

610+ years designing premium web experiences for global brands, platforms, or leading agencies.

Strong background in brand-led, content-heavy, marketing websites (agency experience highly preferred over pure SaaS dashboard work).

Deep mastery of Figma (Auto Layout, Components, Variables, Libraries) to manage large-scale systems.

Strong editorial design sensibility: typography, whitespace, grids, long-form readability.

Proven experience shipping interactive marketing sites with motion, scroll-based narratives, parallax, or 3D/WebGL elements.

Strong understanding of web performance constraints and mobile-first design.

Ability to collaborate effectively with front-end teams (Next.js, Tailwind, modern web stacks).

Preferred (Bonus) Skills

Ability to create or prototype lightweight 3D assets (Spline, Blender).

Motion design experience (After Effects, Rive, Lottie, Framer, ProtoPie).

Experience working with CMS-driven websites (Strapi, Contentful, Sanity).

Prior exposure to global or multilingual websites (including RTL layouts).

Portfolio Requirements

Please share a portfolio with:

At least one shipped, public-facing marketing website (URL required).

A case study demonstrating interactive or narrative-driven web storytelling.

Examples of content-heavy layouts (articles, reports, microsites) with strong editorial design.

Evidence of design system thinking (components, templates, scalable frameworks).

We are less interested in UI kits and more interested in systems, storytelling, and shipped outcomes.

Growth Path

This role is expected to evolve into Head of Web Experience / Brand Design as T57 scales globally.

You will have the opportunity to shape the web design culture and build a small, high-caliber in-house design team over time.