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

LinkedIn

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



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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!