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Design Leader — AI and UX | AI Product Builder | Founder of UnmissableAI.com | Enterprise and Consumer UX Strategy for leading platforms ($10 million to $400 million funding/ 30 million+ users / 40,000+ businesses)

About

14+ years of diverse, hands-on experience — AI and UX Strategy | Designing and Building end-to-end AI Native Products | Building high-performing design teams | Enterprise SaaS and Consumer UX Strategy for enterprises/startups (backed by $10M–$400M in funding / 30 million+ users / 40,000+ businesses) Building end-to-end AI native products using tools such as Lovable, Claude Code, and Replit — AI "Chief-of-Staff" Assistant | AI Wealth Management Platform | AI Conversational Agent Platform | Interactive Reflex-based Game | Personalized Travel. Part of an AI Product Leadership Cohort, mentored by two global AI product leaders — Henry Shi (Anthropic), Technical Chief of Staff and Rohan Verma (OpenAI Codex), earlier the first Product Manager at Cursor — first-principle AI practitioners, who own product decisions at the frontier of AI. Founded UnmissableAI.com — your daily AI update and briefing — curating the latest AI breakthroughs, insights, and trends — from leading publishers and independent voices — The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Verge, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, ZD Net, PC Mag, TechCrunch, Fast Company, CNET, Fortune, Time, Axios, The Guardian among many. Collaborating with executive leadership and product/ engineering/ business teams, to distill complex ideas into elegant and intuitive experiences. Led and scaled 4–25+ member Product and UX Design teams; accelerated delivery through adoption of AI-powered ideation, prototyping, and scenario simulation workflows. Key projects include AI-native Products across verticals | Gupshup Conversational AI Platform (40K+ brands, 10 billion+ messages/month, $300 million+ ARR), used by Unilever, HDFC, Swiggy etc, Shine (30 million+ users), Embibe, Hilton, Airtel, Cisco, and Moët Hennessy. Author of “It’s The Prompt,Stupid” (available on Amazon), a handbook on how to write clear, effective AI prompts for writing, research/planning — with real world examples. Constantly learning and helping businesses navigate the AI transformation — by defining AI-driven UX strategies, AI design workflows and multimodal interactions, that feel intuitive, and deeply human. Mentoring and consulting with startups and enterprises — helping leverage UX as a strategic differentiator — offering strategic guidance, as well as focused engagements — MVPs / AI-Native product design frameworks / Concepts / Competitive Benchmarking / New module/feature development / Onboarding / Usability enhancements. Also, mentoring at startup accelerators — IIT Kharagpur (Empresario) and BITS Pilani (Conquest) .

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

lovable

replit

Work experience

Design Leader – AI and UX Strategy | AI Product Builder at AI Consulting, Aug 2025 - Present · 1 y 1 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Designing and building end-to-end AI native products, using the latest AI tools — // Second Brain — Your AI “Chief of Staff” Designed and built an AI-native task intelligence platform that automatically captures decisions, commitments, and follow-ups across email, calendar, Slack etc, to generate a prioritized daily brief. // Convoba — AI-powered Conversational Agent Platform An AI-powered conversational agent platform that helps businesses automate customer engagement at scale. It lets you create, train, and deploy intelligent agents across channels — your always-on AI workforce — handling outreach, bookings, and support. // WealthNexa — AI-driven Wealth Management Platform A mobile-first, AI-driven wealth management platform, purpose-built for youth who want to grow their money without the complexity of traditional finance. It combines investing, tax optimization, goal planning, and spending insights into a single, elegant app // Gotcha! — Real-Time Reaction Game (Mobile) Designed and built a high-intensity reaction game around focus, precision, and pressure. Conceptualized a scarcity-driven gameplay mechanic, creating high-stakes engagement and differentiating the experience. // AI Trip Planner — Trip Management Hub Travel planning is often fragmented and overwhelming, with travelers juggling multiple platforms. Conceptualized a unified, AI-powered solution that generates a detailed, one-click, customizable itinerary tailored to individual preferences (family needs, accessibility, budget etc). Mentoring and consulting with startups and enterprises — helping leverage UX and design as a strategic differentiator — offering both long-term strategic guidance, as well as focused engagements for a range of design challenges — MVPs / AI-native product design frameworks / Integrating AI / Competitive Benchmarking / New module/feature development / Onboarding / Usability enhancements.

Director – User Experience (UX) at Gupshup, Jun 2021 - May 2025 · 4 yrs, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Excited to have shaped generative AI user experiences and AI Agent UX workflows, in close collaboration with cross-functional teams, for Gupshup’s Conversational AI Cloud & AI Agent Builder platform — that enable leading businesses & brands across the globe, to seamlessly build, customize, and deploy conversational AI workflows and AI Agents, enhancing the entire customer journey across marketing, commerce, and support. Gupshup's Conversational AI Cloud platform enables over 40,000 businesses (Nivea, Reserva, Swiggy, Khan Academy, HDFC, AkzoNobel, Flipkart, Myntra, HSBC, Ola etc), to send over 10 billion messages every month, to nearly a billion users. Gupshup is a global leader in the Conversational AI space – and has raised over $400 million in funding.

Head – User Experience (UX) at Embibe, Feb 2020 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Evolving the cross-platform user experience strategy and framework for Embibe’s next-generation, core consumer product (mobile, web, OTT), that uses data analytics to deliver personalized learning outcomes. Embibe is one of India’s leading AI-powered learning platforms and startups – and has raised around $200 million in funding.

Head – User Experience (UX) & Design at Shine.com, Jul 2014 - Jan 2020 · 5 yrs 7 mos, Delhi, Driving the cross-platform user experience and design strategy for Shine, one of the largest job networks globally, with over 30 million users, and new/pilot initiatives. Previously, defined the UX strategy for some of HT Media's key other online consumer brands, accessed by millions of users every month – in the education and entertainment spaces as well.

Education

AI Product Leadership Cohort l Mentored by Henry Shi (Anthropic) and Rohan Verma (OpenAI Codex), earlier first PM at Cursor

Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi

Public links

dropbox.com: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/60dhkyvqpjppfom6t8afr/Presentation__AI-Product-Design-Anand-Dawson.pdf?rlkey=vzbmyb3qi730yg0ocahp5uqt7&st=9zc69d9b&dl=0