Principal Product Designer

JioCinema is seeking a talented Principal Product Designer with a proven track record, to lead our Acquisition, Identity and Consumption teams combined. This hugely impactful role covers a wide spectrum of customer experience across all JioCinema products. The Acquisition Pod focus on getting our customers in the front door; from first-time user experience and partnerships to SEO.

The Identity pod focus on the persona of a JioCinema customer; everything from their profile, to personalisation, recommendations, favourite sports team or app settings. The Consumption team ensure your watching experience is world class, caring for our streaming, players and reels across every screen size. You will be leading the end-to-end production of design craft and solutions across all 3 of these landscapes as well as guiding and line managing Designers in those spaces already.

These are exciting times to join an extremely fast-paced and dynamic Indian consumer tech company. JioCinema’s success speaks for itself - a world record audience of billions during the 2023 IPL, the world's biggest TV shows and movies for all of India with HBO, Warner Bros Discovery, NBCUniversal and JioStudios - and now, the onward journey of our digital revolution in entertainment

What you’ll do

• User ExperienceDesign: Work into each pod’s strategy by defining and crafting the look, feel, and interaction of each experience. Everything from wireframes, prototypes, and user flows which communicate design concepts - to final fit and finish, interaction design, animation and development handover. You are expected to lead by showing, not telling. Your work exemplifies best-in-class process and design solutions.
• InteractionDesign: Transition your creative exploration and screen design into interactive, moving prototypes. You understand how motion helps tell a story, moves customers from A to B, and brings games to life. From subtle movements to playful and expressive transformations, you can incorporate motion into UI to help amplify the personality of our products and enhance user experiences.
• ContinuousImprovement: Evangelise your knowledge of current industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to first-time-user-experiences, profiles and personas, streaming services, and entertainment players. Actively seek feedback from users and stakeholders to iterate and improve designs based on insights and data.
• CollaborationandCommunication: In this role specifically, you will be managing the workload of 3 independent pods. Therefore, you will be liaising, planning and prioritising with Product Leads, Engineering Managers and Technical Product Managers on a daily basis. You will need evidenced experience of working closely with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers, Engineers, Data Analysts, and Marketers to ensure alignment on roadmaps and implementation. Effectively communicate design concepts and rationale to stakeholders

We are looking for you if :

• 7+ years of experience as a Product Designer with a proven track record.
• 2 + years of demonstrable people management experience coaching and developing team members
• Energised by hands-on work, designing flows, building prototypes, running discovery activities and polishing final designs.
• Experience working cross-platform (TV/Mobile/Web) and collaborating closely with Design Systems teams.
• Able to challenge assumptions and biases in themselves and others.
• Able to work collaboratively in real time and asynchronously.
• Enjoys mentoring Designers.
• A mastery of Design tooling for production and prototyping (Figma, Principle etc)

Principal Designer's at JioCinema :

• Principal Product Designers differentiate themselves through the ability to own large, highly-strategic projects. They are considered experts across a broad range of design and are expected to provide structured mentorship and technical training for Designers to help them grow and mirror that expertise. They have excellent communication skills and are able to present design vision and rationale in a compelling and convincing manner to a diverse set of stakeholders. They build relationships and forge alliances, influencing decision makers outside of Design. They represent the Design department holistically, exemplify the JioCinema culture and are generous with their time and knowledge.They uncover and solve unique, unidentified, complex problems across JioCinema, demonstrating critical and innovative thinking to achieve this. They lead design production for an entire business unit or several smaller teams.They possess the toolkit to not only deliver impressive design solutions, but demonstrate project management, business intelligence and operational rigour which enables them to command the confidence of peers elsewhere in the org. As a trusted expert, they are held accountable for design quality and cohesion across the product, continually raising the bar of what is expected.They are dependable and a role model for getting things done. Principals are accountable for leading teams towards the timely delivery of outcomes which have a profound impact on the business.

Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd. is one of India’s fastest-growing entertainment networks and a house of iconic brands that offers multi-platform, multi-generational, and multicultural brand experiences. Viacom18 defines entertainment in India by touching the lives of people through its properties on air, online, on the ground, in cinemas, and merchandise. Its portfolio of 38 channels across general entertainment, movies, sports, youth, music, and kids genres delights consumers across the country with its eclectic mix of programming. JioCinema, Viacom18’s OTT platform, is one of India’s leading streaming services and most popular destination for live sports. Viacom18 Studios has successfully produced and distributed iconic Hindi films and clutter-breaking regional films for over 13 years in India.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status.