Design Director, Product Design, India

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle. Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform. Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With a global team across 14 offices and 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster. About You : You are an experienced product design leader with 10+ years of experience designing and delivering high quality SaaS products at scale. You have led and grown product design teams and understand how to operate effectively in complex, cross functional, and globally distributed environments. You set a clear and uncompromising bar for design quality. While you are not a full time individual contributor, you stay close to the work and actively guide outcomes. You know when to step in to shape direction, unblock teams, or demonstrate what “great” looks like, especially in moments where quality, clarity, or speed matter most. You bring strong operational discipline to design. You believe great design organizations run on clear processes, predictable delivery, and strong partnership with Product and Engineering. You are comfortable owning planning, resourcing, prioritization, and design review rhythms that scale. You think in systems. You have deep experience with design systems and understand how to evolve them responsibly in partnership with engineering, balancing consistency with flexibility and innovation. You are a coach and mentor. You invest in growing designers through clear expectations, direct feedback, and thoughtful career development. You know how to develop senior designers and build teams that are accountable, motivated, and proud of their craft. You are an effective stakeholder partner who can align leaders around a shared vision, navigate tradeoffs, and translate strategy into execution. You communicate clearly and build trust across functions and geographies. You are comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels, helping connect long term product vision to near term delivery. You are forward looking and curious about emerging tools and practices, including AI native workflows, and how they can improve how teams design and ship. Responsibilities : As Design Director for India, you will lead a team of up to 10 product designers based in India, operating in a hybrid model. This role reports directly to the Head of Product Design and is a key part of the global design leadership team. You will be accountable for the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of design outputs across your area. You will establish and uphold clear standards for UX, interaction, and visual quality, and ensure those standards are consistently met. You will manage, coach, and mentor designers, providing ... (truncated, view full listing at source)