Senior Product Designer

Design

• Full-time
• Bengaluru / Hyderabad

About Keka

Keka is an HR SaaS platform used by 8,000+ companies, built to make HR simple, intuitive, and adaptable for businesses of every size. As we scale across 29+ countries, our product surface area keeps growing in complexity. Design at Keka isn't decoration on top of engineering; it's how we decide what to build and why.

About The Role

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to own design outcomes for a significant slice of the Keka product, someone who can move fluidly between systems-level thinking and pixel-level craft. You'll partner directly with Product, Engineering, and design leadership to shape how modules work, not just how they look, while also raising the bar for design quality across the team.

This is a senior individual-contributor role: you'll drive your own product area end-to-end and act as a strong voice in critique and design direction for the wider team.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end design for a product area from problem framing and research through to shipped, measured outcomes.
• Translate ambiguous, cross-functional problems into clear design direction, working closely with Product and Engineering leads as a true partner, not an execution arm.
• Apply systems-level thinking: identify when a request is a symptom, a root cause, or a structural gap, and design accordingly rather than just shipping the requested screen.
• Set and uphold craft standards for your area- interaction design, visual design, and content in line with Keka's design system.
• Partner with the Design System team to identify gaps, propose new patterns, and ensure your area's work strengthens (not fragments) the system.
• Use data (Pendo, Snowflake, usage analytics) and qualitative research to validate design decisions and identify where design debt is creating real user or business cost.
• Contribute to team-wide design operations - audits, debt tracking, capacity planning alongside design leadership.
• Present and defend design decisions to senior stakeholders, including leadership, with clear reasoning grounded in user and business impact.

What We're Looking For

• 4-5+ years of product design experience, with a track record of owning significant product areas end-to-end.
• Demonstrated ability to think in systems, you can zoom out to information architecture and business logic, and zoom back in to a single interaction without losing either thread.
• Strong craft: your portfolio shows both the thinking behind decisions and the polish of the final product.
• Experience working in complex, data-dense B2B or SaaS products; HR tech, fintech, or other operationally complex domains are a strong plus.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and incomplete information, you can bring structure to a messy problem rather than waiting for it to be handed to you.
• A collaborative, direct communication style; you give and receive critique well and can influence without relying on authority.
• Experience mentoring designers or informally leading design efforts within a team.
• Working knowledge of tools like Figma, and comfort collaborating within an established design system.
• Thinks in scale designs solutions that hold up as the product and user base grow, not just what solves today's ticket.
• Able to make the trade-off call when needed, balancing scope, timeline, and quality with clear reasoning rather than deferring the decision.
• A first-principles thinker who questions assumptions and works up from the core problem rather than defaulting to precedent.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience in HR tech or other workforce-management products.
• Experience designing for multi-country / multi-entity products with localization or compliance variance.
• Exposure to using AI tools (prototyping, research synthesis, content generation) as part of the design workflow.

What Success Looks Like

In your first 90 days, you've gone deep on your product area, mapped its structural gaps and debt, and built trust with your Product and Engineering counterparts. By 6 months, you're driving your roadmap with clear design rationale, your area's craft bar has visibly gone up, and other designers are seeking you out for critique. By a year in, you've shaped a lasting piece of Keka's product architecture not just shipped features.