Fractional Head of DesignOpsVarun Prasad
For scaling B2B SaaS teams who need strategic design leadership—but don’t need (or can’t justify) a full-time hire.
This service delivers fractional Head of DesignOps leadership, helping your team evolve their workflows, implement scalable systems, align cross-functional teams, and operate like a mature product org.
You'll get a strategic partner embedded in your team to drive process clarity, operational efficiency, and design system excellence.
What's included
DesignOps Strategy & Roadmap
Strategic plan for scaling your design operations across tools, teams, and workflows. Includes prioritisation of initiatives, capability building, and long-term goals.
Design System Leadership
High-level system governance, component audits, versioning plans, and collaboration with design system owners to ensure usability and adoption.
Workflow & Process Ownership
Designing and improving workflows for design–product–engineering alignment. Creation of rituals, standards, async processes, and playbooks.
Cross-Functional Team Alignment
Facilitating structure, clarity, and communication across teams—ensuring design, dev, and product work toward shared goals.
Performance Metrics & Governance Oversight
Implementation of measurable DesignOps KPIs (e.g. design debt, time to handoff, system adoption) and decision-making frameworks.
Leadership, Coaching & Team Enablement
Guidance and mentoring for internal design/system leads. Strategic input across hiring, onboarding, and scaling team maturity.
FAQs
Most teams work with me on a 3–6 month basis, often longer. This ensures we have time to build and embed long-term improvements.
I'm available on a part-time leadership basis (typically 10–20 hours/week) with weekly syncs, async comms, and regular check-ins with stakeholders.
This service includes strategy, team leadership, coaching, roadmap planning, and org alignment—not just design system updates or audits.
Yes. I act as a thought partner to product, design, and engineering leads, and can also support recruiting and team scaling if needed.
If that becomes the goal, I can help build your internal DesignOps function, hire the right person, and support a smooth handover.
Starting at$7,000 /mo
Tags
Figma
Jira
Miro
Notion
Storybook
Business Consultant
Design Systems Specialist
Operations Lead
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Fractional Head of DesignOpsVarun Prasad
Starting at$7,000 /mo
Tags
Figma
Jira
Miro
Notion
Storybook
Business Consultant
Design Systems Specialist
Operations Lead
For scaling B2B SaaS teams who need strategic design leadership—but don’t need (or can’t justify) a full-time hire.
This service delivers fractional Head of DesignOps leadership, helping your team evolve their workflows, implement scalable systems, align cross-functional teams, and operate like a mature product org.
You'll get a strategic partner embedded in your team to drive process clarity, operational efficiency, and design system excellence.
What's included
DesignOps Strategy & Roadmap
Strategic plan for scaling your design operations across tools, teams, and workflows. Includes prioritisation of initiatives, capability building, and long-term goals.
Design System Leadership
High-level system governance, component audits, versioning plans, and collaboration with design system owners to ensure usability and adoption.
Workflow & Process Ownership
Designing and improving workflows for design–product–engineering alignment. Creation of rituals, standards, async processes, and playbooks.
Cross-Functional Team Alignment
Facilitating structure, clarity, and communication across teams—ensuring design, dev, and product work toward shared goals.
Performance Metrics & Governance Oversight
Implementation of measurable DesignOps KPIs (e.g. design debt, time to handoff, system adoption) and decision-making frameworks.
Leadership, Coaching & Team Enablement
Guidance and mentoring for internal design/system leads. Strategic input across hiring, onboarding, and scaling team maturity.
FAQs
Most teams work with me on a 3–6 month basis, often longer. This ensures we have time to build and embed long-term improvements.
I'm available on a part-time leadership basis (typically 10–20 hours/week) with weekly syncs, async comms, and regular check-ins with stakeholders.
This service includes strategy, team leadership, coaching, roadmap planning, and org alignment—not just design system updates or audits.
Yes. I act as a thought partner to product, design, and engineering leads, and can also support recruiting and team scaling if needed.
If that becomes the goal, I can help build your internal DesignOps function, hire the right person, and support a smooth handover.
$7,000 /mo