Senior Product Designer

Senior design roles often quietly shrink into review-and-approve: polish someone else's direction, unblock the team, keep the system tidy. This one is the opposite. You'll own hard product areas end-to-end, shape how a problem is framed before anyone opens a canvas, and set the craft bar the rest of the team designs to. Design here is a stakeholder in what gets built, not a service that makes it look good afterward.

Getting there takes craft all the way down: the transitions, the states most teams never design for, the edge cases that ship right instead of looking broken. As a senior designer here, your work becomes the reference point for what good looks like, and you help every designer around you get there faster.

We help schools increase their fundraising efficiency and keep their alumni communities active. As one of India's few profitable, bootstrapped SaaS companies, we're building lasting value for our team, customers, and the educational institutions we serve.

• 6 million alumni connected

• 500,000 students impacted

• $10M+ in donations raised

• 54 million engagement opportunities created

• Profitable and bootstrapped since day one.

You'll join our 25-person product team (product, design, engineering, and quality)as the senior craft voice on a five-person design team, working alongside the design lead and three product designers.

You'll design for multiple audiences with distinct needs: advancement professionals, alumni, students, and administrators. Each brings a different level of technical comfort and an emotional relationship with their institution. The workflows are genuinely complex (fundraising campaigns, event management, alumni communities, data-heavy admin tools), and the bar is to make them feel simple.

Design at Almabase is a key stakeholder, not a service function. You'll shape how problems are framed before a single screen is drawn, push back with evidence, and own the direction of the product areas you work on.

• Own the complete design process, from problem framing to shipped product, for key product areas

• Take concepts to working prototypes in days using AI tooling, and validate with real users and data

• Set the craft benchmark: interaction, visual, and motion quality that others reference without being asked.
  
  Systems Thinking and Design System

• Bring a systems lens to your work: how flows, data, the product, and the design system connect, so what you ship scales instead of adding one-offcomplexity

• Steward and evolve our design system (components, patterns, tokens, docs)as the layer that keeps designers, engineers, and AI tools all producing consistent output

• Make accessibility a built-in property of the system, with WCAG AA as the baseline

• Raise the bar for the designers around you through pairing, critique, andproblem-framing sessions (craft leadership, not people management; no direct reports)

• Build and share the AI workflows, prompts, and practices that make the whole team faster

• Partner with PMs and engineers to define problems, not just solve them; bring user evidence into roadmap conversations

• Drive alignment through clear written artifacts, so decisions move fast and stay made

Frames problems before drawing boxes

You interrogate the stated problem before designing. When someone says a flow is broken or unintuitive, your first move is to find out what's actually causing it and what success looks like.

Thrives in complexity without creating it

B2B products involve intricate workflows, but that doesn't mean they need to feel

complicated. You find elegant solutions hidden inside seemingly chaotic requirements.

Has taste they can articulate

You don't just know what's better; you can explain why, in terms a PM or engineer can act on. Your quality bar is visible in your work and contagious in your team.

Builds, not just draws

Working prototypes are your default way to think and communicate. You'recomfortable using AI tools (Claude, Cursor, v0, or similar) to go from idea to something clickable fast, and you keep the judgment that separates good output from plausible output.

Multiplies the people around them

You've made other designers better through critique, pairing, and example. You get energy from raising a team's ceiling, not just your own.

• You prefer pure strategy over hands-on craft (this role ships work, constantly

• You need designs handed off and never revisited (we iterate in the open, with engineers

• Deep accessibility experience: WCAG audits, remediation, or VPAT /compliance documentation

• Frontend familiarity (HTML/CSS or working in a real codebase with AI assistance)

• Experience mentoring or leveling up other designers
  

We'd love to see your work and understand your thinking. Please share:

We keep it to a few focused rounds, usually two to three weeks end to end

• Deep-dive into the product, customers, and the problems each audience is trying to solve

• Take on design work from your first week to learn our processes from the inside

• Meet everyone: designers, PMs, engineers, and customer-facing teams

• Agree on your first product area and priorities with your manager
  

• Work you've designed is in production, and you've watched real users interact with it

• You've taken ownership of your first product area and the design system'shealth metrics

• You're an active voice in critiques, and designers are seeking out your feedback
  

• You own design direction for your product areas, grounded in research and data you helped gather

• The design system shows your fingerprints: better patterns, better docs, accessibility improving measurably

• You've shipped AI workflows or practices the rest of the team has adopted
  

• Your areas are the craft benchmark others reference

• You've mentored designers in ways they'd name in their own growth stories

• You're trusted by PMs and engineers across squads, and your judgment carries weight in planning
  

• Your day runs on India time. The large majority of your work, and your collaboration with the product and engineering team, happens during regular IST hours.

• Occasional evenings, only for customers. Our customers are mostly in the US, so if you're running a research or feedback call with them, it will fall later in the day (roughly 4 PM to 2 AM IST). Those are occasional and scheduled, not your default hours.

• Flexible on where you work. The team is based in Bangalore, but we don'tneed everyone in the office every day; it varies by team, and we'reincreasingly async in how we work.