Senior Product Designer

Job Title: Senior Product Designer
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-site)

About apna

apna — Transforming Careers Through Technology

Since 2019, apna has connected over 60 million jobseekers with more than 250,000 enterprises and small businesses across India. Founded by Nirmit Parikh, a Stanford graduate and serial entrepreneur who recognized the challenges in entry-level hiring, apna has rapidly grown to become India’s fastest unicorn in 2021—achieving this milestone in just 21 months.

Backed by marquee global investors—Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital, and GSV—we’re revolutionizing livelihood creation across India.

Apna Advantage — Education with Guaranteed Outcomes

We’re expanding beyond job matching with our new EdTech vertical that delivers:

Premium Online Education: Partnerships with top-tier universities offering UGC-accredited undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

Career Success Ecosystem: Leveraging our network of 700,000+ recruiters to provide real job interviews.

Personalized Career Journeys: Dedicated career facilitators, AI-powered job preparation tools, and guaranteed interviews.

Join us and be part of Apna Advantage, where you’ll help students stay engaged, succeed in their programs, and build meaningful careers.

Personalized Career Journeys: Dedicated career facilitators, AI-powered job preparation tools, and guaranteed interviews

Join us and be part of Apna Advantage, where you’ll shape careers and make a lasting impact on the lives of jobseekers!

Why Join Our Mission

• Massive Market Potential: Over 3-4L students pursue online degrees annually in India and this is growing 50% every year
• Consumer Impact Legacy: Build a consumer-facing business that transforms lives
• Exponential Growth Trajectory: Early-stage opportunity in a rapidly expanding market
• Competitive Advantage: Our platform makes degree programs with job guarantees uniquely sellable
• Elite Team Environment: Collaborate with experts across product, operations, and engineering
• Wealth Creation Potential: Join during our early high-growth phase
• Meaningful Impact of work: Deliver genuine value by connecting education directly to career outcomes.

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end design strategy and execution across core product areas, aligning user needs with business goals and key performance metrics.
• Proactively bring new product ideas and innovative solutions to the table based on market insights and user needs.
• Architect, scale, and govern our comprehensive design system to ensure visual, interaction, and brand consistency across all platforms.
• Mentor junior and mid-level designers, fostering a culture of design excellence, critique, and continuous improvement.
• Pioneer the integration of AI tools and workflows into the product design process to accelerate rapid prototyping, testing, and feature delivery.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Analytics leadership to define product roadmaps, drive strategic initiatives, and validate solutions through data-driven research.

What We’re Looking For

• 3–5 years of experience in product design, delivering high-impact B2C or scale-stage digital products.
• Advanced mastery of Figma, prototyping, motion design, and modern UI/UX design systems.
• Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product ownership, strong systems thinking, strategic decision-making, and measurable user/business impact.
• Experience shipping products on AI platforms and designing with an AI-first approach.
• Has worked directly under design leadership and cross-collaborated with other teams