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Hands-on design + product leader.

Throughout my career, I’ve helped startups and large companies build and grow their products with great design. I’ve worked in a variety of domains – consumer tech, education, enterprise SaaS, fintech, healthcare, mobility and more.

Hardik Pandya

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2025 – now

Head of Design & AI Principal, Service Collection
Atlassian

I lead the talented multi-geography team of designers working on the ITOM portfolio in Service Collection. My team builds a state-of-the-art suite of deep-tech products to ensure resilience and reliability of critical tech infrastructure of global companies – including ~50% of the Fortune 500.

I also lead the AI transformation of Service Collection (the fastest growing portfolio in Atlassian with ~$1B ARR) as AI Principal, in conjunction with a direct mandate of the C-suite leadership.

2020 – 2024

Senior Vice President, Design
The Unacademy Group

I led the talented design team at the Unacademy group, for the following group companies:

  • Airlearn: The all-new storytold language learning app for the world, Top 10 app in Education with ⭐ 4.8 on App Store & Play Store globally.
  • Unacademy Test Prep: The best digital & physical education experiences for competitive test preparation in India.
  • Graphy: The fastest way creators can monetize their knowledge & expertise.
  • NextLevel: The better way apply to jobs and level up your career.
2018 – 2020

I led the design of the Searchbox & Autocomplete experience – the most used text-field in the history of the Internet.

  • Rich entities in searches
  • Flights, sports and weather suggestions
  • Private historic suggestions
  • Trending searches
  • Search apps on phone from searchbox
  • Mini-doodle on searchbox on mobile
2017 – 2018

Design Lead, G Suite
Google Cloud

I worked on the Enterprise UX team where I led the experience refresh of multiple critical modules in the Admin Console.

  • Group management in admin console
  • Roles & identity management in admin console

Googleplex, 2019

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