High Salary: Head of Design and Development

Job Description About WhatJobs Ltd WhatJobs Ltd is a global job search platform headquartered in the UK, operating in over 70 countries. Since launching in 2011, we've connected millions of job seekers and employers across Europe, the USA, Asia, and beyond. As we scale globally, we're investing heavily in the design and performance of WhatJobs.com ensuring every page, flow, and user journey is intuitive, fast, and conversion-optimised. We are now hiring a Head of Design with a sharp focus on web UX/UI and performance-led digital experience to lead that mission from Bangalore. Role Overview This is a hands-on leadership role focused on designing, testing, and optimising the WhatJobs.com web and email experience across global markets. You'll take full ownership of our UX and UI design strategy, creating high-conversion landing pages, user flows, brand-consistent marketing emails, and future-ready mobile and voice experiences. Reporting to the COO in India and working closely with the Global CEO, you'll lead the design strategy across the business supported by a high-performing team of 23 specialists. The role demands speed, smart use of AI, and a sharp eye for measurable outcomes. You'll regularly present design insights and creative direction to senior stakeholders across our UK, USA, and European operations. Key responsibilities international leadership teams and stakeholders. - Present ideas clearly to senior stakeholders and act as the design voice within the leadership team. - Own the full UX/UI strategy for WhatJobs.com, delivering seamless and high-performing web experiences. - - Design responsive web pages, user flows, and conversion-optimised landing pages for global markets. - - Lead the design of high-impact marketing and outreach emails that reflect our brand and drive engagement. - - Develop and maintain a scalable design system to ensure consistency across all digital channels. - - Run A/B testing on pages and emails, using data to optimise design for performance. - - Collaborate closely with product, marketing, SEO, and engineering teams to align visual strategy with business goals. - - Work closely with front-end developers to ensure efficient implementation of designs, maintaining consistency, responsiveness, and pixel-perfect quality across devices. - - Use tools like Figma, Hotjar, and AI platforms (e.g. ChatGPT, Midjourney) to increase design velocity. - - Analyse user behaviour and feedback to continually improve UX and UI quality. - - Lead design strategy for future WhatJobs mobile app interfaces, ensuring a cohesive cross-platform experience across web and mobile. - - Contribute to long-term UX planning, including future use cases such as voice search, conversational interfaces, and multimodal design. - - Hire, mentor, and lead a small internal design team. - - Regularly present design strategy, testing insights, and UX recommendations to Requirements - 8+ years in digital and web design, including 35 years in a leadership capacity. - - Deep experience with web UX/UI design, especially for high-traffic websites or platforms. - - Proven success in designing marketing and transactional emails with strong understanding of layout, CTA design, and responsiveness. - - Experience designing for both web and mobile platforms, with a focus on intuitive, responsive, and performance-optimised UX. - - Strong command of Figma, Adobe CC, A/B testing tools, and analytics platforms. - - Demonstrated use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Midjourney, Firefly) in accelerating and scaling creative workflows. - - Comfortable interpreting metrics like conversion rate, bounce rate, click-through rate, and using them to guide design decisions. - - Awareness of evolving UX trends including voice interaction, and willingness to explore emerging technologies in the job search journey. - - Excellent communication and presentation skills confident presenting strategy and creative direction to senior international stakeholders across time zones and business cultures. - - Experience creating and managing design systems, and working with SEO and dev teams to ensure web best practices. - What We Offer - Competitive salary with long-term growth potential. - - Full ownership of WhatJobs global web, email, and mobile design strategy. - - A high-impact leadership position reporting directly to the COO and Global CEO. - - Opportunity to build and shape your own compact, high-performance design team. - - Full creative ownership with the autonomy to shape the WhatJobs visual language across all channels. - - Centrally located modern office in Bangalore. - - Daily collaboration with international teams across the UK, USA, and Europe. - - A creative environment that embraces AI and testing-led design as standard. - How to Apply Please send your CV and portfolio. We're especially interested in work that demonstrates web UX/UI performance improvements, responsive email design, mobile interface design, and smart use of AI in your workflow. #hiring #CareerOpportunity #JobOpening #WorkWithUs