Designers Won't Have Job Titles in 5 Years - Mayur Chaudhary

In this episode, I sit down with Mayur Chaudhary (linkedin.com/in/mayurchaudhary/?skipRedirect=true), VP of Experience Design at Publicis Sapient, to unpack what really changes for designers when AI absorbs the craft — and why the answer isn't better tools, it's a rewired mindset.With over two decades of experience, Mayur has watched the industry evolve from Photoshop to Sketch to Figma, built and scaled design teams across nine geographies, and now operates in high-stakes consulting where clients run 770 million transactions a day. His conviction: tools are just the medium — mindset is what compounds.In this conversation, he lays out the advisor → strategist → executioner model for designers, explains why every designer should know their CFO, shares how his team shipped quarterly features written by designers as PRDs (not Figma files), and demonstrates how he built an hourly-updating industry intelligence dashboard with zero code. He also makes a provocative closing argument: we are the last generation of designers with a consistent job title.If you're a mid-level designer, design leader, or product professional trying to quantify your impact and stay relevant through the AI shift, this episode offers grounded, practical playbooks you can apply Monday morning.