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Principal Product Designer | Design Systems | SaaS amp; AI Products | Open to Remote

About

Product Design Leader with 18+ years of experience transforming complex, high-stakes enterprise systems into intuitive, scalable SaaS platforms. My primary focus is securing high-impact Remote / Work From Home (WFH) leadership opportunities globally, followed by selective senior corporate roles. ​Throughout my career, I have excelled in driving distributed design initiatives asynchronously across global time zones for major international brands—including AT&T (US), Dell (Canada), Rakuten (Japan/Singapore/Dubai), and III Corp (Arizona). ​Core UX Toolkit & Distributed Execution: ​Strategy & Research: Remote user interviews, global competitor benchmarking, and data-driven personas. ​Architecture & Interaction: Complex Figma-based information architecture, end-to-end user journeys, and interactive prototypes. ​Testing & Validation: Rigorous usability testing and A/B testing to optimize high-density SaaS workflows. ​Leadership & Modern Workflow: I lead cross-functional teams and establish robust UX standards tailored for remote, sprint-based workflows. As a forward-thinking designer, I integrate an advanced AI stack (Claude, Figma AI, Lovable.dev) as a productivity multiplier to accelerate discovery and validation timelines from anywhere in the world. ​Let's collaborate to build enterprise experiences that scale. ​✉ ashwinkalyanpur@hotmail.com | Primary Focus: Remote & WFH Opportunities | Secondary: Senior Corporate Positions

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

aistudio

meta

openai

Firecrawl

Fireflies.ai

Sourcegraph Cody

Work experience

Consultant at Freelance UI/UX Designer and Product Consultant, Nov 2024 - Present · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineering at Rakuten Symphony, Mar 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Product Service Coordinator at Rakuten Symphony, Mar 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos, India

Solutions Architect at Rakuten Symphony, Mar 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Led UX for Carrier, SMS, and eSIM Admin platforms serving global telecom operators. Conducted end-to-end user research, created personas & task flows tied to operational KPIs. Designed hybrid mobile + web interfaces with adaptive layouts and tokenized components. Created Figma-based design system with 100+ reusable components (forms, tables, widgets, alerts). Built KPI dashboards showing transaction volume, routing success, and automation results. Improved form accuracy & reduced manual review by ~30% through iterative A/B testing. Partnered with Engineering to ensure compliance with WCAG, performance targets & API behavior. Led a global UX team of 8 members, managing sprints, reviews & design critiques.

Solutions Architect at Experis, Sep 2020 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Solutions Architect at Self-Employed, Nov 2019 - Aug 2020 · 10 mos, Karnataka, India, Providing application design, development and maintenance solution. Allocation of team for developing application from designer, Developer, Testing and back-end developer. System study, development, testing, manpower allocation, time line, discussion of project delivery module vise with time line and deployment to server with application set up. attending regular scrum call meeting, Follow up on the projects, Agile methodology. Boosting team with regular at work make them comfort feeling at work.

Sr Team Lead UX UI Developer at Managed IT Services - Externetworks, Dec 2017 - Oct 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Annamalai university

Diploma of Education, CS, arena animation

Public links

ashwinkalyanpur.github.io: https://ashwinkalyanpur.github.io/portfolio/index.html