Are you ready to shape the future of experience design at Philips? As a Design Team Lead for Philips Experience Design in Bangalore, you will create lasting business impact by a) building a high-performing culture leading our Bangalore design office, and b) elevating our software experiences across Philips’ digital portfolio by spearheading the implementation of our design system locally.
Your role
As a Design Team Lead, you will:
Act as a design ambassador: Represent Philips Design in Bangalore towards VIPs, local customer engagements, and co-create authorship and communication with local leadership.
Lead and mentor the Bangalore design office: Develop a strong local design team by fostering a culture of high performance, exceptional design quality, and professional growth having direct and in-direct reports.
Optimize design system value: Develop strategies to increase the design system’s impact on product teams by reducing complexity, eliminating unnecessary variants, and promoting consistent and scalable design practices.
Build relationships across the organization: Collaborate with local product teams and stakeholders to drive adoption of the Philips Design System while aligning with the broader enterprise and program strategy.
Drive collaboration: Ensure alignment with global design teams, creating a seamless connection between Bangalore and Philips’ other design hubs.
Key responsibilities
Lead the local design office, reporting into Design System and representing local concerns in the central design leadership.
Partner with customers, product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure design solutions align with business goals and customer needs.
Ensure consistent, design quality execution of UI/UX across consumer and professional software products, leading by example with hands-on guidance and feedback to designers and front-end developers to elevate their craft.
Oversee the integration of the design system into front-end development stacks, balancing design excellence with technical feasibility.
Advocate for the end-user experience, maintaining a firm customer-first mindset in all decisions.
We are looking for
You are a seasoned design leader with:
Bachelor's/Master's degree in design with 19 - 25 yrs of work experience in a related field
Proven expertise in UI/UX design: Demonstrated success in designing consumer and professional software, improving design processes, and driving large-scale design initiatives.
Design system knowledge: Experience creating and managing scalable design systems, including strategies for adoption and migration in complex business settings.
Business acumen: A clear understanding of how design impacts business objectives, with a focus on driving measurable results.
Leadership skills: A track record of managing and mentoring designers to achieve new performance heights. Bonus: design studio management experience
Stakeholder management: Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, especially in matrixed organizations, to engage with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders effectively.
Technical acumen: Strong understanding of front-end technologies and experience working with developers to implement design standards.
Regulated industry experience (bonus): Familiarity with regulated industries, particularly clinical domains, is a plus.
The mindset we value
We’re looking for a leader who brings:
Positive energy and a can-do attitude: A solutions-oriented mindset with a passion for creating large-scale impact.
Attention to detail and consistency: A sharp eye for design excellence and a commitment to delivering cohesive and high-quality user experiences.
Collaborative spirit: The ability to harmonize and influence across diverse teams and geographies.
Customer-first focus: An unwavering dedication to putting users at the center of every design decision.
Active listening and career guidance: Foster individual growth by understanding team members’ strengths, ambitions, and aspirations, and providing tailored support to help them thrive in their careers.
In return, we offer you
A path towards your most rewarding career. In Philips Design we always believe in the transformational power of Design in making our world healthier and more sustainable. We are an integral and valuable part of the organisation and its long heritage. Succeeding in this role in a complex environment will open many doors for your long-term career, within Philips Design, in other areas in Philips or otherwise. We also believe that we are at our best as a company when you are at yours as a person. Thus, we offer competitive health benefits, a flexible work schedule and access to local well-being focused activities.
How we work at Philips
Our newly-adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to 3 days working from the office and 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.
Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way. Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.
Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:
We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There's a certain energy when everyone’s in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.
We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn’t office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams and our customers on a case-by-case basis.
We want to be at our best: The way we work and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.
Why should you join Philips?
Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.
Make a difference. The work of your life begins here
