JOB DESCRIPTION: Executive Design DirectorDEPARTMENT: DesignPRIMARY LOCATION: Bengaluru (Comfortable with frequent travel across India and overseas)REPORTING: CEORole OverviewThink Design is looking for a senior design leader to take on the role of Executive Design Director – India. This leadership role will be responsible for driving experience design quality, delivery excellence, and business growth.The Executive Design Director works closely with Deepali Saini, CEO, Think Design & Global Chief Experience Design Officer, Havas CX, and plays a critical role in ensuring that Think Design consistently delivers high-impact experience design while expanding client relationships and winning new business.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Experience Design Quality & DeliveryOwn and uphold experience design quality across all India studios, ensuring consistently high standards of thinking, craft, and execution.Be hands-on in guiding design delivery for complex, high-impact engagements, especially during discovery, concept definition, and key review milestones.Ensure strong integration of design research insights into UX, CX, and product design outcomes.Lead design excellence across enterprise and consumer-facing products, including web and mobile solutions.Act as the final escalation point for design quality and delivery challenges across studios.Client Partnership & Account GrowthBuild deep, trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders through strong design leadership and delivery confidence.Expand existing client accounts through consistent design excellence, strategic thinking, and partnership-led engagement.Identify opportunities to grow scope within accounts by connecting design outcomes to business impact.Ensure client satisfaction translates into long-term relationships and repeat business.Winning Design BusinessActively support new business pitches and strategic pursuits, contributing to win strategy, solutioning, and presentations.Translate client needs into compelling design approaches, scopes, and engagement models.Represent Think Design confidently in senior client conversations, presentations, and industry forums.Strengthen Think Design’s positioning as a strategic experience design partner.Workshops & Senior Client EngagementLead and conduct design thinking, CX, product, and strategy workshops with client leadership teams.Translate complex business goals, technology constraints, and user needs into clear design strategies and roadmaps.Guide teams in handling ambiguity and complexity in large enterprise environments.AI-Driven Experience DesignBring experience in designing AI-enabled experiences, including:Enterprise and consumer products powered by AIAgentic AI workflows and human-AI interaction modelsAI-assisted decisioning and automation journeysEnsure adoption of GenAI tools for experience design across research, synthesis, ideation, prototyping, and delivery.Stay current with evolving AI trends and translate them into practical design approaches.Business & P&L OwnershipOwn P&L responsibility for design delivery across India studios.Balance design excellence with commercial discipline, ensuring projects are delivered profitably.Support leadership in shaping pricing, resourcing, and delivery models.Contribute to revenue growth through strong delivery and account expansion.People & Multi-Studio LeadershipHave proven experience managing and scaling geographically distributed design teams across India.Have consistently managed design teams of 40+ people or more across multiple studios or engagements.Build a strong culture of craft excellence, accountability, and collaboration.Strategic ContributionWork closely with the CEO, Think Design & Global Chief Experience Design Officer, Havas CX on India design strategy.Align India delivery with global expectations and standards within the Havas CX ecosystem.Contribute to shaping and evolving Think Design’s service offerings.Required Experience & Capabilities15+ years of experience in UX, UI, CX, product, or service design, preferably from a services or consulting background.Proven experience managing large, geographically distributed design teams across India, with team sizes of 40+.Strong hands-on experience guiding design delivery across multiple teams and studios.Demonstrated ability to win design work and grow client accounts through delivery excellence.Deep understanding of design research tools and methods as a foundation for experience design.Experience designing across multiple industries, including BFSI, EdTech, and Healthcare.Strong exposure to enterprise and consumer-facing digital products, including web and mobile platforms.Well-versed with GenAI tools for experience design and modern AI-enabled workflows.Experience working on international projects is a strong advantage.Excellent communication, storytelling, and senior stakeholder management skills.Comfortable operating in a global, matrixed organization.Travel & LocationBased in Bangalore.Open to frequent travel within India and internationally for client meetings, workshops, presentations, and leadership interactions.What This Role IsA hands-on experience design leader, not only a people manager.Accountable for experience design quality, delivery confidence, and client growth across India.A senior partner to the CEO in scaling Think Design without dilution of craft or values.About Think Design – a Havas CompanyThink Design, a Havas Company, has been one of the frontrunners in the UI UX Design industry since 2004. Spread across the world, the agency has enabled mission-critical initiatives of some of the world's most renowned organisations and brands to help drive impact. It works closely with top leadership and foundational teams to identify elements that constitute success, propose solutions, and help build them. With a team of 130 experts in UI UX Design, Data Visualisation, Digital Design, and User Research, Think Design delivers meaningful human-centered experiences that transform businesses at scale.For more information, visit & follow Think Design Collaborative on LinkedIn.About Havas India:Founded in 1835 in Paris, Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups, with nearly 23,000 people in over 100 countries. With the ambition to help brands unlock Growth, Powered by Desire, Havas brings together creativity, media, technology and production capabilities to build strong, desirable brands that people genuinely want to engage with. Its integrated model is supported by Converged.AI, the Group’s operating system that unifies data, technology, and AI to deliver optimized, scalable marketing solutions across the full customer journey. AI-driven, fueled by human ingenuity, and grounded in the belief that desire drives both brand performance and business outcomes, Havas teams collaborate within Havas Villages worldwide to cultivate reputation, relevance, and long‑term preference for clients. India is one of Havas’ major markets. Havas India brings together the expertise of 25 agencies, specialised divisions, and strategic alliances across three verticals: Havas Creative Network, Havas Media Network & Havas Health Network. To meet the evolving needs of its clients, Havas India has developed a seamlessly integrated strategy and operating system, Converged.AI, fusing global expertise, tools, and capabilities to create, produce, and distribute real-time, optimised, and personalised marketing solutions at scale. With inspired human ideas at the heart of this unique model, supercharged by the latest data, technology, and AI, teams work with agility and in perfect synergy through Havas’ distinctive Village model. The network operates across three Villages in Mumbai, Gurugram, and Bengaluru, with regional offices in Kolkata, New Delhi, Hyderabad, and Chennai, and is powered by over 2,500+ professionals and associates. Together, they deliver tailor-made solutions that support clients in their positive transformation. As one of India’s fastest growing and most agile networks, Havas India has secured multiple new clients across verticals and won several prestigious awards over the last three years. These include being Great Place To Work® Certified™ thrice in a row (Nov 2022–Nov 2023 and Dec 2023–Dec 2024, Jan 2025-Jan 2026), consistently ranking among the top three in the R3 New Business League, and winning accolades at the Cannes Lions, Effies, Campaign Asia-Pacific Agency of the Year Awards, London International Awards (LIA), e4m Indian Marketing Awards, ABBY One Show, Campaign Women Leading Change Awards, and more. Havas India is equally committed to its people, fostering inclusive, responsible and inspiring workplaces where talent can thrive, because desire also starts from within. Further information about Havas India is available at:
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Head of User Experience Design