Headline

Head of Design | AI Product Design Leader for Consumer Products

About

I build AI-powered products used by millions of people - end to end, from concept to shipped product to successful exit. 10+ years in product and design. 3 companies founded. 2 exits. Built a studio that reached $200K ARR and a SaaS product that reached $20K MRR. Reached YC Final Round. 350M+ downloads across my portfolio. Currently Head of Design at Phot.AI - shipping 40+ AI creative tools used by global brands and creators. What makes me different: → I design AND build. At Phot.AI I designed and developed complete web tools with AI — not just wireframes handed to an engineer. → I understand AI at a product level. I've shipped 40+ AI tools, directed the creation of 10K+ AI training creatives, and designed UX for model-driven experiences where latency, error states, and output quality are all design problems. → I've led real teams. 10+ designers (UI, visual, motion, graphics). 20+ person cross-functional team as a founder. Fundraising. Client management. Hiring. → I operate with founder accountability. Two bootstrapped exits mean no one needs to hold my hand — I define the problem, align stakeholders, and ship.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

aistudio

anthropic apis

claude

cursor

hermes agent

mcp

Work experience

Head of Design at Phot.AI, May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Gurugram, AI-powered creative platform — 40+ tools for image generation, background removal, photo enhancement, and visual content creation. → Conceptualised, designed, and shipped 40+ AI-powered tools end-to-end — covering image generation, object replacement, background AI, and photo enhancement workflows. → Designed Phot.AI Studio — a full Canva-like collaborative creative suite — from information architecture through final UI, balancing power-user needs with first-time-user simplicity. → Built and launched an AI-powered e-commerce automation tool that handles Amazon, Walmart, and Shopify product listings end-to-end: images, descriptions, and keyword optimisation. → Managed a team of 10+ designers (UI/UX, visual, graphics, motion) — establishing design reviews, critique culture, and async workflows across a distributed team. → Directed a team of graphic designers to produce 10,000+ AI training creatives — defining quality standards and style guidelines for model training datasets. → Designed and developed complete web tools with AI integration, including all associated landing pages, from concept to production. → Led client engagements for brands including Nat Habit, MG Motors, and Chumbak — translating complex brand needs into AI-assisted creative solutions. → Contributed to fundraising efforts — preparing design narratives, investor decks, and product demos that supported the capital raise. → Launched products on Product Hunt; achieved Product of the Day and Product of the Week recognition.

Entrepreneur in Residence at AppyHigh, Sep 2021 - Aug 2024 · 3 yrs, Gurugram, Global mobile internet company — 350M+ downloads across a portfolio of consumer apps. → Led product and design across 50+ apps spanning every major consumer category, including Scanner Go and other chart-topping titles on Android and iOS. → Established a repeatable product and design pipeline that dramatically reduced time-to-ship for new app launches — enabling the team to iterate at portfolio scale. → Drove Product Hunt launches; achieved Product of the Day across multiple releases. → Contributed to the 350M+ download milestone by setting design and UX standards applied consistently across the entire app portfolio.

Head of Design & Founder at Due.work, Dec 2020 - Sep 2021 · 10 mos, Gurugram, Bootstrapped SaaS — a customer support widget merging ticketing, private feedback, and community for growing B2B products. → Founded and designed the product end-to-end: brand identity, information architecture, core UI, and customer onboarding experience. → Integrated seamlessly with third-party tools; shipped fast in a fully async, distributed early-stage environment. → Achieved successful exit after validating core use-case with paying customers.

Senior Design Consultant at Delightree, 2020 - 2022 · 2 yrs, United States, AI-powered franchise operating system — helps multi-unit franchise brands manage location launches, audits, training, tasks, and operations in one platform, trusted by 2,000+ franchisees. → Led concept creation and product strategy for key platform modules, conducted user research with franchise operators and multi-unit owners to inform design direction. → Identified engagement and growth opportunities across the product; planned feature roadmaps in collaboration with the founding team. → Operated fully remote with a US-based team — async design reviews, documented specs, and cross-timezone collaboration.

Head of Design & Founder at Birtly, Sep 2019 - Feb 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Gurugram, Bootstrapped SaaS — collaborative task and project management platform. Acquired by Dendri, LLC (Feb 2021). → Built the company from zero — sole designer, co-founder, and product lead across web and mobile. → Scaled the business to $20,000 MRR through product-led growth, with zero paid acquisition. → Managed a team of 20+ spanning developers, product managers, designers, sales, and customer success. → Selected for the final rounds of Y Combinator — a validation of product vision and execution quality. → Negotiated and closed acquisition by Dendri, LLC — a successful bootstrapped exit

Founder at Snaphy Labs, Sep 2015 - Sep 2019 · 4 y, Gurugram, Mobile product studio — custom app development for startups and enterprises across 30+ domains. → Grew the studio to $200,000 ARR - bootstrapped, no external funding. → We build mobile applications for Startups and Enterprises. The idea to start a technology company in India is not a new one, but to start a company that purely focuses on automating technology is something we don’t see every day. → Built internal automation tooling to streamline the design-to-development handoff, enabling a lean team to ship at high velocity

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Jaipur Engineering College and Research Centre (JECRC)

High School, Mathematics, St Pauls school

Public links

artofravi.com: https://artofravi.com/