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Payal Rodrigues

Staff Product Designer & Strategist | Product Strategy | Enterprise SaaS & Fintech | Design Systems | Accessibility | AI-assisted Product Development

Bengaluru

4+ years of work experience

Self-Employed
Jul 20262 mosPresent

Data Sutram
Sep 20233 yrsPresent

Bengaluru

Leading product strategy, experience design and AI-enabled product development for enterprise decision-support platforms. Acting as the bridge between founders, business and engineering, and functioning as de facto product manager across multiple teams.
Gojek
Dec 20229 mosAug 2023

Bengaluru

Gojek
Nov 20211 yr 10 mosAug 2023

Led major initiatives across accessibility, design quality and product experience for one of Southeast Asia's largest consumer platforms. Influenced cross-functional teams through facilitation and design leadership despite an individual contributor title.

Payal’s AI Stack

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Education

Certification, Applied Arts

Rachna Sansad

20061 yr2007
Arena Multimedia

Diploma in Multimedia, Designing

Arena Multimedia

20003 yrs2003

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Headline

Staff Product Designer & Strategist | Product Strategy | Enterprise SaaS & Fintech | Design Systems | Accessibility | AI-assisted Product Development

About

I design products that make complicated things feel navigable. Twenty-plus years in, the method has not changed: understand the problem properly before designing anything. Everything else follows from that. What that looks like in practice At Data Sutram, where I am Staff Designer and Lead Strategist, I designed the Axis Bank Collections Platform end to end. A 30+ person collections team uses it, it generates roughly ₹25 lakh in monthly recurring revenue, and it directly opened the door to ICICI Bank. I also built Sandbox, an internal revenue enablement platform, using an AI-assisted workflow. Shipped in about a month for roughly $300, replacing two separate products where every new feature had previously taken three to five months. All three co-founders use it. Before that, at Dream11, a landing page redesign I led helped grow the customer database from 8 crore to 12 crore in three months. At Gojek, I owned the GoFood homepage redesign, contributed to the accessibility roadmap, and built a Design QA framework through a workshop I facilitated. The team kept using the checklist after I left. At Ola, I functioned as informal Head of Design for Ola Money, leading five designers through a credit card launch. How I got here Human Factors International, where I spent nearly six years learning human-centred design and usability engineering from the ground up. Then agencies, enterprise consulting in Singapore, and product teams at Housing.com, Landmark Group, Ola, BookMyShow, Dream11 and Gojek. Today: location intelligence and geospatial analytics for enterprise customers. What I care about Discovery before drafts. What, why, who, how, when. Accessibility as a property of good products, not a compliance step at the end. Systems, not screens. Leaving teams more capable than I found them, which is why I mentor designers on ADPList and Topmate alongside the two I manage directly. If you are building something genuinely complex and want a design partner who will interrogate the problem before shaping a solution, let’s talk.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Independent Contractor - Design Services [Fully Hands-on] [Advisor] at Self-Employed, Jul 2026 - Present · 2 mos

Staff Designer / Lead Strategist at Data Sutram, Sep 2023 - Present · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Leading product strategy, experience design and AI-enabled product development for enterprise decision-support platforms. Acting as the bridge between founders, business and engineering, and functioning as de facto product manager across multiple teams.

Product Designer – Visual Design Lead at Gojek, Dec 2022 - Aug 2023 · 9 mos, Bengaluru

Senior Interaction Designer (Level 4, Individual Contributor) at Gojek, Nov 2021 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos, Led major initiatives across accessibility, design quality and product experience for one of Southeast Asia's largest consumer platforms. Influenced cross-functional teams through facilitation and design leadership despite an individual contributor title.

Education

Certification, Applied Arts, Rachna Sansad

Diploma in Multimedia, Designing, Arena Multimedia