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Head of Design, ThoughtSpot

About

Over the course of my career, I have designed products that are highly intentional, built with great care for quality, and respect for users. I believe a designer's primary job is to develop strong intuition about users and blend it with good taste to craft something that they can be really proud of. Rather than simply moving KPIs, I focus on generating positive emotional responses from users that reflect the thought and care invested in each decision. Currently, I lead the design team at ThoughtSpot and focus on helping team members do their best work. I've been fortunate to hire and mentor amazing designers across different countries and cultures, and I take pride in seeing them grow as leaders. I love spending time reviewing work to ensure it stays true to our team vision, resulting in an experience that feels cohesive—as if it came from a single mind. I also enjoy partnering with Product Management and Engineering leadership to shape the future of our products. I'm always open to mentoring and chatting with fellow designers. Feel free to reach out if you think I can help you with anything.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Sr. Director of Product Design at ThoughtSpot, Aug 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Leading the India design team - Reviewing design across all products areas at ThoughtSpot. - Championing to envision thoughtful, differentiated, and noble design solutions across all products. - Helping build design leaders within the team to help scale the company during our next growth phase. - Working closely with PM and Engineering leadership to accelerate growth across all fronts. - Continue to improve and evolve design process in the world of AI

Director of Product Design at ThoughtSpot, Jun 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Moved to Bangalore, leading design operations in india - Helped transform the company from a pure BI to an AI analytics company with launch of products like Spotter and AI Highlights. - Hired and mentored a strong team of designers and drastically improving design output. - Worked closely with PMs on defining clear product vision and faster delivery and iterations. - Represented ThoughtSpot design in the India design community and grew our presence.

Director of Product Design at ThoughtSpot, Feb 2021 - Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, - Lead the "Core apps" studio, leading all projects for ThoughtSpot's primary persona of Business Users. - Helped transition the company from an on-prem to a SaaS and cloud company. - Managed and grew the team across different geos. - Set design process and practices to enable strong review culture resulting in thoughtful design outcomes. - Created weekly Loom videos sharing design updates with the whole company. It really helped get team's visibility during tough times in pandemic.

Lead User Experience Designer at SuccessFactors, Mar 2015 - Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo, San Francisco Bay Area, I worked and lead the designs for the next generation of new employee onboarding tool for new hires and managers. Also, helped envision next version of recruiting experience for recruiters and hiring manager. Being a senior member in the team, helped and mentored younger designers. Also worked with customer partners to prototype a conversational mobile experience that was demoed in the keynote of the company's annual customer conference.

Senior User Experience Designer at SuccessFactors, Mar 2014 - Mar 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo, San Francisco Bay Area, Worked on building an interview scheduling tool for our recruiting product. Worked closely with product manger and engineerings to formulate thinking on core user flows and defining viable product. Successfully shipped the product with great quality in a short release cycle with got good customer feedback.

User Experience Designer at SuccessFactors, Oct 2012 - Mar 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, I am responsible for ensuring high standards of user experience in the Compensation and variable pay modules of SuccessFactor’s BizX suite. Also, involved in developing innovative designs. I work closely with Product Management and Development people to help smooth flow of product development process.

Interaction Design Lead, Capstone project at Eaton Corporation, Jan 2012 - Aug 2012 · 8 mos, Greater Pittsburgh Area, Worked with a multiple-disciplinary team of CMU students to simplify Eaton’s switchgear configuration and installation process. We proposed an mobile (iPad+iPhone) application for field engineers that could reduce the expertise threshold by making the installation process easy and intuitive for end users. I helped in conducting user research, develop key insights, iterate on prototype by conducting Usability testing and evaluation.

Design and Usability Specialist at Webfluenz Intelsys Pvt Ltd, May 2009 - Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Working in a vibrant technology start-up, I was actively involved in the complete product life cycle from ideation to development to management. I was involved in defining interactions, design strategies, managing product, and ensuring high user experience in the final product.

Industrial Internship at User Vision, Jun 2008 - Jul 2008 · 2 mos, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Conducted an Eye tracking study on a leading UK bank website. The objective of the study was to research the image positioning and its effect on the information hierarchy of website homepage.

Education

MHCI, Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University

B.Des, Usability, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati