OPENGROWTH VENTURES
Venture studio building AI and SaaS products
Lead Product Designer
New York, NY
Mar 2026 – Present
- Leading design across multiple venture products, including AlphaStreet, a financial research platform covering 5,000+ publicly listed companies; consolidated 34 ad hoc screen patterns into 11 core templates, cutting new screen design from about a week to under 2 days and enabling a single template update to propagate across thousands of live earnings and transcript pages.
- Building an agentic AI design system defining how agents behave inside the product: plan previews, step-by-step progress states, human-in-the-loop approval gates, source citations, and AI-generated labeling, adopted across 3 venture products so teams ship agent features without redesigning trust patterns for each release.
- Standardized data-dense financial UI patterns (tickers, price movement, sentiment tags) into a tokenized Figma library of 48 components and 200+ design tokens shared across venture projects, eliminating duplicate component builds across web and mobile surfaces.
- Made the design system AI-consumable by connecting the Figma library to Claude via MCP connectors, exposing design tokens, component specs, and usage guidelines so engineers and AI coding tools generate on-system UI directly from prompts, cutting a typical component build from a full day to under an hour and keeping AI-generated screens consistent with the system by default.
CANDIDATE.FYI
Founding Product Designer and Manager
New York, NY
Oct 2025 – Mar 2026
- Shaped the core AI product experience during a major platform evolution, redesigning recruiter workflows across scheduling, interview planning, pipelines, and analytics. The overhaul improved usability for hiring teams and supported adoption across 15+ enterprise customers, whose recruiting teams now coordinate an estimated 1,500+ interviews a month through the redesigned workflows.
- Designed and launched the AI Interview Note-Taker agent, which automatically captures interviews, generates transcripts, and produces structured hiring insights. The capability became a key differentiator in sales conversations, with a ~$2M enterprise pipeline attributed to this feature, and cut interview documentation from about half an hour of manual note-taking to a quick review per interview, an estimated 600+ recruiter hours saved monthly across enterprise accounts.
- Led the design of the platform's AI-first infrastructure, including an AI agent configuration system and a tokenized design system migration (Chakra to shadcn), delivered end to end in 1.5 months. This let the team ship new AI features in weekly release cycles instead of month-long builds, accelerating product development as the platform expanded its customer base.
- Designed the chat-based agent interface and its governance model: message and tool-call primitives with visible intent, live execution status, and result receipts; 14 agent tool actions mapped across 3 permission tiers (autonomous reads, confirm-first calendar and email writes with previews, human escalation for destructive actions), with every agent action auditable in an activity log and undoable, plus edit-and-override feedback loops used to decide which actions the agent runs without asking.
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY – HCI INSTITUTE (PARTNERED RESEARCH)
UX Researcher | CMU-HCI
Pittsburgh, PA
Jan 2025 – Oct 2025
- Led UX research for an AI-powered grading tool for educators: ran interviews and usability studies with instructors and TAs to surface trust and adoption barriers, then designed the onboarding experience, support documentation, and video walkthroughs that directly addressed the concerns surfaced in research.
- Prototyped an AI grader designed for Canvas compatibility (LTI 1.3); concept testing with educators showed automated evaluation could cut grading turnaround from days to hours, shaping the research team's recommendations for the production build.
HYPHENOVA
Creator-focused omni-channel platform
Product Manager Intern
Los Angeles, CA
May 2024 – Jul 2024
- Designed a 100+ component design system for a dual-sided AI platform to accelerate feature delivery.
- Built a mobile-first tokenized Figma library, reducing prototyping cycles from a week to 2 days and handoff rework for the engineering team.
- Established UI and accessibility standards, achieving WCAG 2.1 AA compliance across core flows.
GE HEALTHCARE
Global medical technology company
Senior Product Designer (On-site Consultant Deployed from TATA ELXSI)
Bengaluru, India
Dec 2021 – Jun 2022
- Led end-to-end design of a task manager for ICU clinicians, used daily by intensivists and tele-ICU nurses monitoring 100+ ICU beds per virtual command center, supporting an estimated 7,000+ ICU patient encounters a year.
- Built a scalable design system with Figma Dev Mode, replacing one-off screens with reusable clinical components (alarm hierarchies, severity color semantics, vitals views) adopted across product lines.
- Defined UX standards across product lines, raising usability-test task success from 7 of 10 to 9 of 10 core ICU tasks completed without assistance.
TATA ELXSI
India's leading design and technology services firm
Product Designer
Bengaluru, India
Mar 2021 – Nov 2021
- Redesigned a maternal-fetal monitoring system adopted by 20+ hospitals.
- Conducted usability studies and resolved workflow issues, resolving 9 of the 11 recurring workflow errors surfaced in testing with clinicians.
- Adapted UX strategies across 4 markets to support localization and adoption.
PENSAAR DESIGN – Design & Innovation Consultancy
UX Designer
Bengaluru, India
Oct 2020 – Jan 2021
- Improved B2B antivirus upgrade flow via competitive analysis, increasing customer satisfaction by 15%.
- Revamped the Yahoo Cricket app using heuristic evaluation, boosting user engagement by 50%.
RMZ CORPORATIONS
User Experience Designer
Bengaluru, India
May 2019 – Jun 2019
- Redesigned key workflows for the MEX app, improving usability by 12% for 1,500+ users.
- Built a cohesive design system with cross-functional teams, reducing UI inconsistencies by 50%.
- Supported smart building features, boosting operational efficiency for property managers.
Education & Certifications
Master of Science, Integrated Innovation for Products & Services
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA2023 – 2024
Capstone UX lead for Volvo Group – Mack Trucks, improving fleet uptime.
Bachelor of Design, Human-Centered Design
Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology
Bengaluru, India2016 – 2020
Certifications
- Google UX Design Professional Certificate
- Nielsen Norman Group UX Certification
- Design Thinking Certification - IDEO
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Let's go beyond the bullets
Designing for What Matters
A good design creates customer delight.
Today, AI can help build almost anything.
But what I bring as a designer, along with the full AI toolkit,
is the ability to create those moments of unexpected customer delight.
The kind that feels intuitive, personal, and lasting.
I focus on uncovering unmet needs.
Not just what users ask for, but what truly helps them.
I turn those insights into thoughtful, usable, and meaningful experiences.
I've designed for healthcare, creator platforms, and enterprise systems.
What connects all of it is a systems thinking mindset and a deep curiosity
to understand people, processes, and what makes good design work in the real world.
Design is not one fixed path for me.
It's a journey shaped by listening, adapting, and creating with purpose.