About
Shayak is a design leader with more than 15 years of experience in building and leading design teams. He brings a unique combination of corporate and entrepreneurial experience with multidisciplinary expertise in the product innovation process. Shayak is the Head of Design and part of the tech leadership team at Myntra - India's largest fashion e-commerce platform. Prior to this Shayak led design teams at Vedantu, Meesho, Practo, and Commonfloor. Shayak was a part of the frog's India team in 2011, facilitating design and delivery in coordination with frog's worldwide centers. Earlier in 2008, Shayak co-founded Cheese, a User Experience design and development company steering it to a 100% YoY growth. Cheese was one of NASSCOM's Fastest 50 companies in India in 2010. Throughout his career, Shayak has focused on developing strong frameworks and scalable architectures, putting the user at the center of the design process, conducting research, and creating designs that are both aesthetically pleasing and usable. He has also mentored several designers who continue to contribute to design around the world. In his free time, Shayak believes in lifelong learning and enjoys doing illustrations, playing guitar, and writing design raps. Specialties Team leadership, design strategy, design roadmap, design management, design Process, user research, innovation, product management, marketing, and new initiatives. Key accomplishments - Finalist in British Council's Young Creative Entrepreneur Award 2010 - Visiting faculty at Le'cole de Nantes Atlantique (2012-2014) - 'Cheese' is recognized as one of NASSCOM Emerging 50 companies in India in 2010 - Rediff recognizes Cheese as the company that is making waves in Bangalore - DNA covers 'Cheese' for Twitterbot, an internally developed CRM tool on Twitter in 2010 - Speaker at UXIndia, Hyderabad in 2019 - Speaker at UXNow, Delhi in 2022 - Speaker at Rethinking UX in 2021 - Panelist at YourStory's Future of Work 2020 event
Work experience
Head of Design at Tata Digital, Jul 2026 - Present · 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Head of Design at Myntra, Mar 2023 - Jun 2026 · 3 y 3 mo, Bangalore
VP, Head of Product Design and Paid Student Experience at Vedantu, Aug 2020 - Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, A leading 'Online Learning Platform' in Indian K12 segment, Vedantu is valued at 1 Billion USD and funded by marquee investors like Accel, Tiger Global, Omidyar, and TAL, Vedantu has close to 35 Million monthly visits and around 80K paid students across all grades. I built and led the design team of 50 members including Product Designers, User Researchers, Visual Designers, and UX Writers. Besides design, as part of the core leadership group I also head the Paid Customer Experience Business Charter. Key Initiatives - Led and oversaw key projects like App redesign for free user engagement, Content Library, Game mode, Storefront, Study Tab, Wave Portrait Mode, and the Onboarding Experience for Paid Customers. - Created multiple channels for user research and VoC in form of Student advisory groups and Focus groups. - Led documentation and framework projects like Student Journey, Communication strategy, Culture book as part of the Paid Customer Experience Charter.
VP, Product Design at Meesho, Oct 2019 - Aug 2020 · 11 mos, Bengaluru Area, India
AVP Design at Practo at Practo, Feb 2017 - Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India
Executive Coach at IPL - Institute of Product Leadership, 2014 - 2016 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru Area, India
Head of Design at CommonFloor.com, Apr 2012 - Sep 2015 · 3 y 5 mo, Bangalore
Lead Interaction Designer at frog, Jan 2011 - Mar 2012 · 1 y 2 mo, Bangalore
