Tata Consultancy Services · 17 hours ago
Design Director
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$177K/yr - $225K/yr
10+ years expTata Consultancy Services is seeking a Design Director for TCS Interactive, who will lead the design efforts in their New York Design Studio. This role focuses on new business development and end-to-end digital product design, requiring a blend of creative vision and strategic thinking.
Business Information SystemsConsultingInformation TechnologyIT Management
Responsibilities
You'll be a critical voice in how we show up in the market
Partner with the Executive Design Director to develop pitch concepts, prototypes, presentations and workshops that demonstrate design-led thinking
Contribute to new business strategy. Shaping the design narrative, building pitch prototypes, and presenting in the room when it matters
Help translate client problems into product opportunities. You understand how CDOs and Heads of Product think, and you can articulate how design solves their business challenges
Use AI to visualize faster and explore more possibilities in pitch development: pre-viz, rapid prototyping, concept iteration
Build your profile in ways that support the studio's reputation. Write, speak, share work. Your expertise is a credibility signal
Direct complex digital product engagements: apps, web platforms, service experiences, AI-native products, and connected ecosystems
Set the design vision and creative bar for your projects. Ensure every deliverable meets the standard you'd put in your own portfolio
Design products with intelligence at their core: conversational interfaces, personalization engines, recommendation systems, agentic workflows. You understand what AI can and can't do, and you design accordingly
Lead design reviews, critique, and iteration. Push the team to find the better idea. Create the conditions for breakthrough work
Partner with Engineering, Product, and Delivery to ship on time, on quality, on outcome. You know how to navigate complex stakeholder environments
Serve as a primary design voice with client stakeholders. Presenting in steering committees, leading design reviews, and building relationships with VPs and Heads of Product
Translate client business challenges into design opportunities. You understand that enterprise clients operate with real constraints—compliance requirements, legacy system integration, stakeholder complexity—and you see those constraints as design problems to solve, not obstacles to resent
Earn trust through craft and strategic thinking. Clients should want you in the room because you make the work better and their jobs easier
Mentor and develop Product Designers and UX leads on your projects. Your feedback is specific, actionable, and makes people better
Contribute to hiring. Sourcing candidates, reviewing portfolios, conducting interviews. Your network and judgment help build the team
Help establish the rituals, standards, and design systems that define how the studio operates
Create a culture of rigor, craft, and creative ambition. Where people do their best work and grow their careers
Qualification
Required
10+ years in digital product design, with 5+ years leading design on complex engagements at agencies, consultancies, or in-house product teams that ship
Portfolio of shipped products at scale Apps, platforms, digital experiences that reached millions of users and moved business metrics. Show work that changed outcomes, not just won awards
Pitch experience. You've contributed to winning new business—building prototypes, presenting concepts, helping close deals. You know how to make design the differentiator
Led design teams. You've mentored designers, run design reviews, and created the conditions for great work. People you've developed have gone on to do great things
Client-facing credibility. You've presented to senior stakeholders—VPs, CDOs, Heads of Product—and earned their trust through your craft and strategic thinking
Enterprise fluency. You've designed within the realities of enterprise—compliance reviews, legal approvals, legacy system integration, multi-stakeholder alignment—and delivered work that didn't just win awards but actually shipped
AI fluency. You've shipped at least one product with AI at its core. Not just used AI tools, but designed experiences where intelligence was a feature. You have a point of view on what AI changes for design and what it doesn't
Preferred
You've shipped innovative, first-of-kind products—not just incremental improvements
You've designed AI-native products: conversational UX, personalization systems, generative interfaces, agentic experiences
You use AI in your design process—pre-viz, prototyping, production—and you know when to ship AI output and when to hand off to craft-critical finishing
Your work has been recognized—D&AD Pencils, Cannes Lions, Apple Design Awards, Fast Company Innovation by Design, Webby Awards—or equivalent recognition that required surviving rigorous peer review, not just a submission fee
You've worked across categories: fintech, retail, healthcare, B2B, consumer tech
You understand systems, not just surfaces: design systems, design operations, research integration
Company
Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services is a business solutions company that specializes on information technology services and consulting.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
K. Krithivasan
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
Aarthi Subramanian
President and Chief Operating Officer
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