Headline

Design Leader | AI Design & Builder | Product Design Strategy | Product, UX & CX | Mentor | Psychology in Design | AI Governance || Ex- Dr Reddy’s, MPL & Experion

About

Sajin — currently Associate Director of Design at Material+, leading multi-disciplinary design teams and shaping the UX and CX vision across product verticals. With 14+ years of experience, specializing in design leadership, strategy, and execution — guiding teams to create products and services that solve real-world problems while elevating design as a core strategic driver. Experienced across industries, cultures, and disciplines — from digital health and finance to emerging tech platforms — bringing a holistic, systems-thinking mindset that balances user needs, business goals, and technology. Career highlights include defining product visions, designing end-to-end experiences, building scalable design systems, and driving initiatives across product design, service design, and brand experience. Strong focus on mentorship, collaboration, and embedding design thinking into organizations. Belief: Honest, well-crafted experiences create lasting, joyful customer relationships. Skills & Expertise •Design Leadership & Strategy: Leading multi-disciplinary teams, embedding design thinking, sprints, agile & scrum •UX & Research: Heuristic evaluation, quantitative & qualitative research, journey mapping, ethnographic studies, usability testing •Product & Service Design: Wireframes, prototypes, design systems, information architecture, rapid prototyping •Analytics & Optimization: A/B testing, surveys, market research, Hotjar, Google Analytics, Optimizely Tools: Most of the latest AI tools, Figma, Sketch, Balsamiq, Axure, InVision, Miro, ProtoPie, Zeplin, Principle, Photoshop, UXPressia, Google Optimize, Atlassian, and more Portfolio: https://www.sajinphilip.com/

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

cursor

openai

Supabase

Work experience

Designer & Founder at MatchBrain, May 2026 - Present · 5 mos, India, Building digital products from idea to launch. Currently building MatchBrain, a social football prediction app that lets friends create private leagues, make match predictions, and compete on leaderboards. My focus spans product strategy, UX, AI-assisted product development, prototyping, go-to-market, and rapid iteration—learning by building real products used by real people.

Associate Director Design at Material, Apr 2025 - Sep 2025 · 6 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, As Associate Director of Design at Material+, I provide design leadership while guiding a talented team to deliver impactful user experiences. I play a key role in shaping the company’s UX and CX vision across all product verticals, elevating design into a core strategic lever that influences both business outcomes and customer satisfaction. Key Responsibilities: - Design Leadership – Leading and mentoring the design team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and craft excellence. - Strategic Decision-Making – Partnering with leadership to influence design strategy and ensure design is integrated into product and business decisions. - Experience Vision – Defining and building a cohesive UX and CX vision that cuts across products, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and delight. - Cross-Functional Collaboration – Working closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to align on goals and deliver impactful solutions. Impact: -Elevated design to a strategic function within the organization. -Built scalable design practices that support growth across multiple product lines. -Established a forward-looking UX/CX vision that strengthens both user trust and brand differentiation.

Strategic Design Lead CX, UX at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Jan 2024 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, At DRL, my role spanned Design Strategy, Service Design, Product Design, Design Research, and Design Leadership — with a focus on shaping the future of digital health interventions. I worked at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and design, ensuring that every initiative not only met regulatory and clinical standards but also created meaningful experiences for patients, clinicians, and stakeholders. Key Contributions: -Design Strategy – Partnered with cross-functional teams to align digital health products with business goals, regulatory frameworks, and patient needs. -Service Design – Mapped patient and clinician journeys, identifying pain points and opportunities to improve adoption and compliance. -Product Design – Translated clinical insights into intuitive digital solutions that enhanced usability and accessibility. -Design Research – Led studies combining user research, unmet need analysis, and real-world evidence (RWE) to validate product-market fit. -Design Leadership – Mentored teams, facilitated workshops, and championed design thinking practices within a highly regulated healthcare environment. Impact: - Strengthened the value proposition of DRL’s digital health products through evidence-backed design. - Elevated patient and clinician experience by integrating service design and user research into clinical studies. - Established design as a strategic driver in digital health innovation at DRL.

Personal goal pursuit at Career Break, Feb 2023 - May 2023 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, I took advantage of these three months to feel young again! I traveled extensively and spent quality time with my family.

Senior Product Designer at Mobile Premier League (MPL), Jun 2022 - Jan 2023 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Primary Products: MPL Rummy, MPL CallBreak, Striker - Fanstasy Game app • Contributed to two important products called "MPL Rummy" and "MPL Callbreak" • As an Individual Contributor (IC), I designed a solution that had a good influence on the business • Led two major products • Successfully contributed create a Fanstay cricket game that goes from Zero-to-One

Education

Diploma, Multimedia, Rutronix

+2, Biology Science, GHSS Ottakkal

Public links

sajinphilip.com: https://www.sajinphilip.com/