The posting
Job Description: Lead Product Designer
Location: Bengaluru | Team: Product | Experience: 7-10 years
About SolarSquare
SolarSquare is India’s largest and fastest-growing residential rooftop solar company. We are on a mission
to make solar simple, safe, and reliable for every Indian home - powering the country’s transition to
independent clean energy.
Recognized by the World Economic Forum (Technology Pioneers 2025), TIME & Statista’s World’s Top
GreenTech Companies, and Forbes Top 100 To Watch, SolarSquare is helping shape the future of home
energy in India.
The Role
As Lead Product Designer, you will be responsible for raising the quality, consistency, and effectiveness
of product design across SolarSquare’s entire product surface area. This is a player-coach role - as the
first dedicated design leader at SolarSquare, you will lead and develop designers while remaining
hands-on as an individual contributor on high-impact problem areas.
Your scope spans SolarSquare’s full product surface - customer-facing journeys (acquisition, onboarding,
CX app) and internal workflow-heavy products used by sales, operations, and field teams. Design
decisions here directly affect how field operators work, how customers experience their energy journey,
and how product teams frame and solve problems.
You will establish research as a core practice, build practical design rituals that raise output quality
without slowing delivery, and partner closely with product leadership to shape how design works at SSE.
This role is designed for someone who enjoys being close to the work and raising quality through craft
and judgment.
Scope of Responsibility
● Own design quality and consistency across SSE’s full product breadth - customer journeys,
acquisition and onboarding flows, internal operator tools, sales and ops execution, and
field-facing applications.
● Lead, mentor, and review the work of a small team of designers - set clear quality standards,
provide hands-on guidance, and build a high-bar design culture from the ground up.
● Act as an individual contributor on complex or high-impact problem areas - own design
end-to-end and set the bar through example.
● Establish user research as a core practice, including methods suited to non-desk users - field
observation, workflow shadowing, and contextual inquiry with operators and ground teams.
● Partner with PMs upstream in problem discovery - shape problem statements and workflow logic
before screens are designed, not after.
● Establish practical design rituals - reviews, critiques, handoffs, that improve output quality
without creating overhead.
● Mature and evolve SSE’s design system, starting from a basic external-agency foundation and
iterating toward greater consistency and reuse.
● Drive design UAT and own the gap between design intent and what ships.
● Bring AI tools into the design workflow to accelerate iteration, generate rapid variants, and
synthesise research at scale - and coach the team to build the same fluency.
What Success Requires
● 7-10 years of product design experience, with at least 2-3 yrs’ experience managing or mentoring
junior designers.
● Strong design fundamentals across both consumer-facing experiences and internal or
workflow-heavy products - comfort switching contexts and knowing what each requires.
● A track record of raising design quality and building design systems in fast-moving environments
where processes and inputs are still evolving.
● Functional design instinct - designs for workflows, task efficiency, and decision support, and not
just visual quality.
● Specific experience designing for non-desk, operator, or field-force users - logistics, field services,
manufacturing, healthcare operations, or similar.
● Comfort with low-fidelity, high-speed prototyping - knows when to sketch and test vs. when to
invest in polish, and defaults to the former.
● Familiarity with AI design tools and a genuine interest in building AI-first workflows within the
team - not just personally fluent, but able to bring others along.
● Ability to hold their ground on design decisions with PMs, engineers, and senior stakeholders
without relying on positional authority.
● Collaborative, low-ego working style that builds trust quickly in a cross-functional environment.
