Digital Product Thinker & Maker with a simple Humans First approach…
I co-create meaningful experiences, through extensive collaborations and vanishing boundaries across multiple organization functions.
My Expertise
Research
Research strategy
Vision-led products
Product strategy
User research plan & conduct
Usability testing
UX metrics & UX goals
Competitive analysis
Heuristic analysis
Actionable insights
Design
AI first approach
AI Collaboration
Focus on UCD
Inclusive design
Interaction design
Design systems
Design maturity
Design leadership
Leadership
Problem-solver
Creating clarity
Super collaborator
Design management
Inclusive leadership
Team mentorship
VUCA adaptability
Servant leadership
Drive innovation
Research tools
AI Collaboration tools
Figma + FigJam
Miro
Mural
Whiteboards
Sketches
Design tools
AI Collaboration tools
Figma + FigJam + Figma Make
Adobe CC
Principle
Framer
Sketches
Leadership style
Lead cross-function team collaborations
Ability to think at X scale & complexity
Inspire each one to be a user advocate
Guided by strong ethics, inclusive design
Learner, educator, mentor
Leave positive impact on the world
Experience
I rely on strong research and insights to understand real world human perspectives to ground design decisions
Staff Product Designer
May 2025 - Present day
Strategic XFN Leadership: Partner with Data Science, Engineering, and PM to lay foundations, define, and transform ambiguous business goals of enterprise customers into holistic platform solutions and scalable interaction models.
Foundational Strategy: Drive teams & solve high-ambiguity unstructured problems, apply platform thinking and service design principles to streamline complex workflows across the LinkedIn Business Platform ecosystem.
Ecosystem Orchestration: Streamline complex enterprise workflows across multiple business verticals to drive long-term adoption & economic opportunity.
Leadership & Mentor: Fostering a culture of continuous learning and non-linear growth for a dynamic talent pool of product designers, engineers, and PMs.
Microsoft
Senior Product Designer
Jun 2017 - Present day
Business Impact: Led design and research for MS Enterprise Commerce, directly enabling a $25B+ annual business engine.
AI-Driven Product Leadership: Spearheaded AI-first product development, shipping 3+ core AI products and defined Human-AI principles for the platform.
XFN Collaboration: Partnered with multi-geo UXRs, UXDs, PMs, Developers, Data Scientists, Business Leaders, Consumer-facing Teams, and end-users to foster a culture of innovation, inclusivity, and experience excellence.
User Research, Product Design: Led product and design teams, facilitated, conducted, and oversaw multi-project, UX design, design delivery, user research, usability tests, and cognitive walkthroughs within & external organizations.
Enterprise Design System & A11y: Introduced and led scalable EDS from the ground up shipping 3+ platform products in 2 years with MAS Grade B scores.
Team mentor & coach: Established, curated, and managed a nimble but high- performance team of 14+ designers and researchers for Finance, Sales, and PS.
Publicis Sapient
Associate Creative Director
Dec 2015 - May 2017
Design Strategy & Leadership: Established and drove Design Strategy Series with Studio
leadership to co-create disruptive customer experience strategy & solution frameworks
hugely elevating customer success and satisfaction.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven track record in leading impact with cross-geo,
multidisciplinary teams of Research, Design, Content, Engineering, Data Science, PMs,
and Business LT, accountable for product and experience strategy, and successfully
steered and shipped 16+ international enterprise + consumer UX products and platforms.
Design Leader & Mentor: Hired & fired, scaled, managed, and mentored a dynamic,
young talent pool, fostered a culture of continuous learning, established best in class
practices & processes, design methods, documentation rigor, inventive activities,
inspiring radical experimentation and non-linear growth hacks.
IGATE Global Solutions Limited (Capgemini)
Associate Creative Director
Jul 2013 - Aug 2015
Global UX Strategy: Partnered with international clients to align project scopes with
data-informed User-Centered Design (UCD) goals.
Talent Scale: Managed, coordinated, and mentored high-performing UX teams, delivered
world class UX training and successfully recruited top-tier design talent for scale.
INDI Design
Digital Experience Head
Apr 2011 - Jun 2013
Strategy Leadership at INDI Design, Pune: Managed researchers and designers to
redefine customer business models through personae and service blueprints.
Prior roles and responsibilities included creative agency management, enterprise
product user interface design, design for corporate communication & marketing,
product branding, design for online & offline advertisements, UI coding, and similar roles.
Education
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
2024 - 2027*
Masters in Business Administration
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
2010
Masters in Strategic Design Management
Mumbai University, Mumbai
1998
Bachelors in Commerce
Say “Hello!”
As a visionary UX design leader with expertise in shaping exceptional user experiences and leading dynamic teams, I am always looking for ways to turn complex challenges into elegant solutions. Let’s connect and together elevate great ideas into outstanding realities!

