**Overview** **About BU:** The Product team forms the crux of our powerful platforms and helps connect millions of customers worldwide with the brands that matter most to them. This team of innovative thinkers develops and builds products that position Epsilon as a differentiator, fostering an open and balanced marketplace built on respect for individuals, where every brand interaction holds value. Our full-cycle product engineering and data teams chart the future and set new benchmarks for our products, by leveraging industry best practices and advanced capabilities in data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Driven by a passion for delivering smart end-to-end solutions, this team plays a key role in Epsilon’s success story. We are looking for a **Senior Director, Product Design (UI/UX)** to establish and lead a dynamic and high-performing design team, responsible for delivering exceptional user experiences across a broad range of digital products. In this leadership role, you will help shape experience strategy —from conception to execution—ensuring that user needs and business goals are seamlessly integrated into every product. You will work in close collaboration with the U.S. Product Design Team, Product, and Product Engineering teams to align on vision, strategy, and execution while fostering a unified and innovative approach to design across the regions. Your leadership will play a pivotal role in making sure that designs are not only conceptually strong but also seamlessly translated into high-quality in-market product experiences. This is a unique opportunity to drive the expansion of our design ecosystem globally, mentoring and growing a talented team in India while partnering with the U.S. team to ensure consistency, scalability, and alignment. **Responsibilities** + Establish and lead a team of talented team of product designers and UX engineers, collaborating closely with the U.S. Product Design Team to align on design vision, strategy, and execution. + Foster a high-performance culture of creativity and innovation, encouraging continuous learning and cross-team collaboration to elevate design standards and output. + Mentor and guide team members, providing feedback and development opportunities to help them grow while ensuring that their work aligns with global design expectations and business goals. + Align the product design strategy in partnership with the U.S. team, ensuring product goals, business priorities, and user needs are met. + Stay on top of emerging design trends, tools, and methodologies, and collaborate with the U.S. team to introduce fresh ideas that push the boundaries of design and user experience. **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** + Collaborate with the U.S. design team to maintain a shared vision for user experience across all touchpoints, ensuring consistency in design quality and functionality. + Establish and uphold design standards for interaction design, visual design, wireframing, and prototyping, ensuring seamless integration with engineering and QA teams. + Partner with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders in both India and the U.S. to define design requirements, technical constraints, and business goals, ensuring alignment and shared ownership of the product vision. + Communicate design strategies, concepts, and solutions to senior leadership and cross-functional teams in both regions, ensuring transparency and alignment on the design direction. + Advocate for the importance of user experience in product decision-making, ensuring that design priorities are effectively integrated into product development cycles. + Collaborate with Engineering and QA teams to ensure that design specifications, including interactions and UI elements, are accurately translated into the final product, aligning technical capabilities with design goals. + Serve as the design lead in cross-functional meetings with engineering and QA teams to resolve any design challenges, ensuring that user experience is maintained throughout the development and testing process. + Champion user research (such as user testing, persona development, and journey mapping) to gather insights into user needs and behaviors, using these insights to drive design decisions. **Cross-Regional Touchpoints:** + **Bi-Weekly Syncs with U.S. Design Team:** Regular design check-ins to align on strategy, review ongoing projects, and identify opportunities for collaboration and cross-team learning. + **Design Reviews:** Facilitate joint design reviews with both the India and U.S. teams, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment across the entire product design process. + **Workshops & Ideation Sessions:** Lead collaborative brainstorming and design workshops with the U.S. team to explore innovative solutions, address complex design challenges, and ensure a unified design direction. + **Feedback Loops:** Establish continuous feedback loops between the India and U.S. teams, ensuring designs are iterated on based on cross-regional perspectives and platform consistency. **Qualifications** + Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field + 15+ years of relevant industry experience + Proven experience in leading global product design teams, with a strong focus on cross-regional collaboration, particularly between teams in different time zones. + Expertise in product design strategy, user-centered design principles, and the ability to translate complex business goals into intuitive user experiences. + Strong experience working with Engineering and Design QA teams, ensuring designs are implemented accurately and meet both functional and aesthetic standards. + Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage and align diverse teams across multiple disciplines. + A portfolio that demonstrates leadership in creating high-quality, user-centric design solutions and successful collaboration with cross-functional teams. **Additional Information** Epsilon is a global data, technology and services company that powers the marketing and advertising ecosystem. For decades, we’ve provided marketers from the world’s leading brands the data, technology and services they need to engage consumers with 1 View, 1 Vision and 1 Voice. 1 View of their universe of potential buyers. 1 Vision for engaging each individual. And 1 Voice to harmonize engagement across paid, owned and earned channels. Epsilon’s comprehensive portfolio of capabilities across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions bridge the divide between marketing and advertising technology. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day using advanced AI and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon has been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Epsilon is a global company with more than 9,000 employees around the world. Epsilon has a core set of 5 values that define our culture and guide us to create value for our clients, our people and consumers. We are seeking candidates that align with our company values, demonstrate them and make them meaningful in their day-to-day work: + **Act with integrity.** We are transparent and have the courage to do the right thing. + **Work together to win together.** We believe collaboration is the catalyst that unlocks our full potential. + **Innovate with purpose.** We shape the market with big ideas that drive big outcomes. + **Respect all voices.** We embrace differences and foster a culture of connection and belonging. + **Empower with accountability.** We trust each other to own and deliver on common goals. **Because You Matter** YOUniverse. A work-world with you at the heart of it! At Epsilon, we believe people make the place. And everything we do is designed with you in mind. That’s why our work-world, aptly named ‘YOUniverse’ is focused on creating a nurturing environment that elevates your growth, wellbeing and work-life harmony. So, come be part of a people-centric workspace where care for you is at the core of all we do. Take a trip to YOUniverse and explore our unique benefits, here (https://www.epsilon.com/apac/youniverse) **Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.** Epsilon is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunities by using reasonable efforts to attract, recruit, engage and retain qualified individuals of all ethnicities and backgrounds, including, but not limited to, women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities and any other underrepresented groups, traits or characteristics.