Headline

Leading Design System @Locus (acquired by IKEA) • Previously Bureau, PepperTap, Spinny

About

Saurabh Das is a seasoned Senior Product Designer based in Bangalore, India, with a decade of experience in logistics, payments, and delivery operations. Specializing in platform design foundations, Saurabh has significantly improved task completion times and onboarding processes at companies like Locus and Bureau. His expertise in design systems and UX review practices has consistently enhanced designer and developer efficiency, making him a valuable asset in the tech industry.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Product Designer at Locus, May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos, I lead the design of frameworks that shape how new product surfaces are built. Collaborate with product and engineering across platform verticals to define and ship platform-wide architecture. Impact: • ~4.5x faster task completion with a reusable detail page framework • ~33% faster onboarding by unifying seven product modules • Compressed new module delivery from ~1 month to ~1 week through reusable architecture

Product Design Consultant at Locus, Jan 2024 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos, Brought in as a consultant to lead design system work across the platform. Audited the existing product across modules, identified structural inconsistencies, and established the interaction foundations that the full-time role later scaled. Impact: • ~33% improvement in designer efficiency through design system stabilization • ~50% improvement in developer efficiency through scalable UI foundations

Designer and Founder at Shift Labs, Oct 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Ran an independent design studio working with early-stage startups. Owned design end-to-end across strategy, visual direction, and execution, taking products from concept to shipped across three domains: sports technology, developer tooling, and consumer fintech. Clients: Matchday.ai (acquired by Game Theory), Composio.dev, Curie.money

Product Designer at Bureau, Inc., Oct 2021 - Jul 2022 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Retained full-time after launch. Led the major redesign of Blaze Checkout, owning the end-to-end experience. Collaborated closely with product and engineering to ship and iterate. Impact: • ~31% conversion, up from ~16%, through checkout redesign • ~27% reduction in payment support tickets during peak UPI traffic

Product Design Consultant at Bureau, Inc., Jun 2021 - Sep 2021 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Bureau is a fintech infrastructure company. Brought in to design Blaze Checkout, a UPI-first payment experience for D2C brands. Impact: • Onboarded 11 merchants from concept to launch within a four month engagement

Senior Product Designer at Locus.sh, Jan 2021 - Apr 2021 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Promoted from Product Designer. Led the redesign of the Dispatcher module, used for planning last-mile deliveries. Worked across product and engineering. Impact: ~38% reduction in planning time through Dispatcher module workflow redesign

Product Designer at Locus.sh, Mar 2017 - Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Joined as an early design hire, building the visual and interaction language from the ground up. Led the rider app redesign and established UX review practices. Impact: • ~12% reduction in rider task completion time through LOTR app workflow redesign

Visual Designer at NuvoEx, May 2016 - Feb 2017 · 10 mos, Gurugram, I worked on the rebrand of the company, responsibilities including branding, identity design and creating the style guide and pattern library, marketing materials, and some promotional videos.

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun

Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Sir Padampat Singhania Education Centre, Kanpur

Public links

github: https://github.com/scribbbler

saurabhdas.framer.website: https://saurabhdas.framer.website/