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Design Leader | Craft, Systems & AI-Native Product Thinking | 20+ Years

About

I’m a design executive with 20+ years of experience building products, teams, and systems that scale—currently serving as AVP of Product Design. My career has evolved from hands-on craft to leading global organizations through complex product and organizational change. Along the way, I’ve learned that great design is less about isolated moments of brilliance and more about clarity, consistency, and the systems that enable good decisions to happen repeatedly. In recent years, my work has focused on what it means to design in an AI-native world—not AI as a feature, but as a structural shift in how products are built, teams operate, and decisions are made, while keeping human judgment and craft firmly in the loop. I’m known for turning ambiguity into direction, building systems that unlock speed and quality, and leading high-trust teams through change. Sharing these lessons—through mentorship, podcasts, guest lectures, and industry conversations—is a natural extension of my work, and a way for me to contribute back to the design community. I care deeply about design craft, but equally about impact, sustainability, and the people doing the work. The best design organizations, in my experience, are the ones where humans and systems are both thoughtfully designed. Outside of work, I’m a lifelong learner, reader, and gamer, with a continuing interest in leadership, technology, and creativity.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

gemini

lovable

notebooklm

notion

openai

Work experience

Father, Son, Conqueror at On a break, Oct 2026 - Present · 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Taking a short career break before my next gig. During this time I'm going to spend time with family, friends and travel to a galaxy far far away.

AVP product design at Cornerstone OnDemand, Apr 2025 - Sep 2026 · 1 y 5 mo, Remote

Senior Director of Product Design | Head of Design, APJ at Cornerstone OnDemand, Apr 2023 - Mar 2025 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Director of Product Design, Digital Design at Dell Technologies, Mar 2021 - Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Led global teams in Sales & Partner Experience, Marketing IT, and Customer insights, driving a multi-million-dollar transformation project to enhance productivity by 60%. • Developed Maturity Models for capacity management and optimization across Design, Operations, Automation, Analytics, and AI. • Advocated for Design Enablement, Education, and Engagement on the APJC CIO Council, organizing 13+ events with 10K+ attendees in 24 months.

Sr. Manager, Product Design, Digital Design at Dell Technologies, Oct 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Led design initiatives across Legal, CSR, and Supply Chain, reducing end-to-end journey friction by 30-50%. • Evangelized design practices within Dell ecosystem, optimizing operational excellence for 300+ global design resources.

Sr. Manager, Web Production, Content Management at Dell Technologies, Aug 2015 - Oct 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Leading the Digital Transformation Program globally with global & regional leadership, engineering & automation teams and product management teams to drive transformation across People, Process and Technology; and meeting our Annual Operating Plan Financial Goals. • Program Management and Governance teams to liaise, manage and lead product management and engineering governance through the product management lifecycle and tie back with Finance and the budget teams to realize cost and optimization benefits • Operational Analytics to drive consistent data structures and management, tracking organization KPIs of Cost, Quality and Velocity through tracking resource utilization, SLA, AHT, Mean time to Resolve, Head Count and Resource tracking etc. and operational metrics standardization. • People Transformation – working with the regional leadership to drive programs around cross training, upskilling to build skills to augment digital transformation efforts. • Business Process Management organization through Lean Six Sigma, process optimization and value stream mapping In the same role over the past 3 years have also led teams in multiple sites in India by being a leader of leaders that have managed a workforce of 180+ head count, that encompasses all transactional and non-transactional elements on Dell.com, globally, by working with various business and functional groups such as Marketing, Quality, IT, Engineering, Design, and Digital transformation teams. Primary focus is on delivering strong leadership across the India teams and delivering on our people strategy. Building future leaders, and driving leadership excellence across the India organization. Leading the Operational Excellence Program globally, to optimize processes and tools through Automation and process management . Establishing operational analytics to drive metrics across the organization for on-demand reporting, capacity management, resource utilization.

Manager II, Content Management at Dell Technologies, Sep 2013 - Aug 2015 · 1 y 11 mo, Bengaluru

Senior Advisor - Project Program Management, Digital Design at Dell Technologies, Apr 2011 - Sep 2013 · 2 y 5 mo, Bengaluru

Advisor - Project Program Management, Digital Design at Dell Technologies, Jan 2009 - Mar 2011 · 2 y 2 mo, Bengaluru

Sr. Business Manager at Regalix Inc, Mar 2006 - Dec 2008 · 2 yrs 10 mos, • People manager – managing business development and client management. • Account management, campaign management and vendor management • Hands on across SEM/SEO, Affiliate Marketing, email Marketing and Social Media • Internal consultant for Design and Online content

Wealth Manager - Citigold at Citibank N.A, Jul 2005 - Mar 2006 · 9 mos, Wealth Management and new business acquisition for CitiGold client base.

Unit Manager at ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited, Dec 2004 - Jun 2005 · 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Education

MBA, Marketing & Human Resources, bangalore university

BBM, Marketing, bangalore university

Public links

kiranpk.com: https://www.kiranpk.com/