Product Designer

HSR Layout, Bengaluru

We're hiring a product designer to own Ambitio's products end to end: the problem, the flows, the interface, and the outcome after launch.

About Ambitio

Ambitio is India's first AI-powered global admissions platform. We help students get into their dream universities by combining personalized AI guidance with mentorship from alumni of those schools.

We're founded by IIT BHU alumni who went through the admissions grind themselves. 100,000+ students have used Ambitio, with admits to Stanford, Oxford, NYU, Cornell, Columbia and more. We're backed by BLinC Invest, First Cheque and We Founder Circle.

The role

Ambitio already has a set of live products: a student app, a student dashboard, and tools for our mentors and internal teams. You'll work across all of them, with complete ownership of the products you take on.

As a product designer here, you own outcomes, not screens. You'll design the product, work through every edge case with engineering, and stay with it after launch until the numbers and user feedback show it's working. You'll work directly with our head of design and product, the founders, engineering, and our visual and motion designers.

What you'll do

We don't have product managers. You'll take complete ownership of the products you work on and work directly with our developers to ship them.

Own a product area end to end, from defining the problem and success metrics to shipping it and iterating on it.
Talk to students, parents, mentors and our internal teams regularly, and turn what you hear into clear product decisions.
Design complete flows, including edge cases, empty states, error states and every part most designers skip.
Design AI features people trust: how they show what the AI did, where a human expert steps in, and what happens when the AI gets it wrong.
Work with engineers from day one, write handoffs that leave no open questions, and review what ships against what you designed.
Track how your work performs after launch using product analytics and user feedback, and improve it.

What we're looking for

1-2 years of product design experience.
Strong product thinking. You define the problem before the solution, and you back every decision with user insight or data.
Taste. You know what great looks like, and every piece in your portfolio shows it.
Excellent UI skills. Your interfaces are polished down to the details: typography, spacing, hierarchy, color and interaction states. You hold that bar even under deadlines.
You solve problems you haven't seen before, quickly, and you change direction when the evidence says so.
Complete ownership. You don't wait for a perfect brief, and your work isn't done at handoff.
Advanced Figma skills: auto layout, components and variants, and interactive prototypes.
Clear communication with founders, engineers and non-designers.

Big plus

Building working prototypes and internal tools with AI coding tools.
Using AI across your design process, from research synthesis to ideation and prototyping.
Experience designing AI products, especially ones that combine AI output with human review.
Experience in edtech or consumer apps at scale.

What we offer

Complete ownership of the products you work on.
Work that ships quickly and reaches 100,000+ students.
Every AI and design tool you need.
Competitive compensation based on your skill and experience.

Before you apply

The form is short on purpose. We'd rather see how you think than read long essays.

Use AI as much as you like in your design work. For the written answers, we want to hear from you, not a chatbot.

Name *

Email *

Phone Number *

Resume *

Current City *

Are you willing to relocate to Bangalore? (If residing outside of Bangalore) *

Already in Bengaluru

Yes, willing to relocate

Experience *

Less than 1 year

1-2 years

2-3 years

3+ years

Current CTC *

Expected CTC *

How soon can you join? *

Links to portfolio/previous work *

Tell us about a product you've built end to end *

How did you take it from idea to live, and what's one decision you'd make differently now?

What kind of design work do you enjoy most? ( UI, product thinking, motion, branding, visual design, etc.) *

Share the best-looking thing you've designed *

Something you're proud of purely for how it looks: a landing page, an app, a poster, a banner, anything. Link it and tell us what you want us to notice.

Which product do you think is designed really well? *

Pick one and tell us about a specific decision they made that most people wouldn't notice, and why it works.

Introduce yourself in a quick video, in your own words and your own way

Tell us who you are, the kind of problems you love solving, and what good product design means to you. No need to be polished, we just want to meet you.

Anything else you'd like us to know?

Anything the form didn't ask that you think we should see.

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About Ambitio

The role

What you'll do

We don't have product managers. You'll take complete ownership of the products you work on and work directly with our developers to ship them.

Own a product area end to end, from defining the problem and success metrics to shipping it and iterating on it.

Talk to students, parents, mentors and our internal teams regularly, and turn what you hear into clear product decisions.

Design complete flows, including edge cases, empty states, error states and every part most designers skip.

Design AI features people trust: how they show what the AI did, where a human expert steps in, and what happens when the AI gets it wrong.

Work with engineers from day one, write handoffs that leave no open questions, and review what ships against what you designed.

Track how your work performs after launch using product analytics and user feedback, and improve it.

What we're looking for

1-2 years of product design experience.

Strong product thinking. You define the problem before the solution, and you back every decision with user insight or data.

Taste. You know what great looks like, and every piece in your portfolio shows it.

Excellent UI skills. Your interfaces are polished down to the details: typography, spacing, hierarchy, color and interaction states. You hold that bar even under deadlines.

You solve problems you haven't seen before, quickly, and you change direction when the evidence says so.

Complete ownership. You don't wait for a perfect brief, and your work isn't done at handoff.

Advanced Figma skills: auto layout, components and variants, and interactive prototypes.

Clear communication with founders, engineers and non-designers.