Street cred

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I’ve created a visual resume (with a portfolio of work) to give you a quick idea of my work, work ethics, impact, and more. Download here.

I’ve witnessed time and again that quality and speed can co-exist in design. Comfortably. It just needs a driven leader with a clear vision.

I believe design can absolutely make a difference to product metrics and business metrics.

I like building my own team, have a set of trusted folks who share my way of thinking, building products, and approach to design.

I strongly believe the shape of design needs to be pragmatic. Don’t build monuments when your users need basic amenities.

Research is valuable. But sometimes you need strong intuition and hunches to change the game. I have worked with both methods.

Writing copy is a critical design skill. It also feeds into one’s ability to tell stories.

At Atlassian

Leading design for a $380M annual revenue business growing at 35%+ YoY. Managing teams across 4 time zones in the US, Australia, Turkey, and India.

• Leading AI transformation of core JSM product portfolio, contributing directly to Atlassian’s CPO transformation strategy.
• Writing AI-native strategy for JSM product portfolio, driving the vision work for what the products would look like in the future.
• Helping create a path to get there in partnership with C-suite leaders.
• “Your ambition is not at all a secret” — Senior Leader, Atlassian.

At the Unacademy Group

Built the best design team in India with the highest quality throughput and talent density.

• Managed teams as large as 34 product designers and visual designers.
• Also managed the complete product marketing function on top of this.
• Shipped over 12 products including the language learning app now earning revenue globally.
• Built the language learning app completely with AI from day one.
• Got the content design operations powered by AI off the ground — first of its kind in India.
• Was even offered a cofounder role + equity for the language learning app Airlearn that I declined.
• Even in tough times at the company, design was the most respected and healthiest culture backed by Glassdoor reviews.
• Strongest design team brand in India in that era.
• Multiple recognitions through online forums, Webby and Awwwards nominations for the work the team did.
• Took direct ownership of product and business metrics — had a direct role in activation, retention and revenue growth metrics for multiple products.
• Scripted, storyboarded and executed complete product launch videos.
• Done on stage product keynote presentations.
• Led digital marketing design, successful newspaper campaigns and more.
• Transformed company operations by taking ownership of design of critical internal tools.
• Launched an internal CRM to support our sales-led business fully designed in house.
• Built Atlas for employee management, educator management, and service procurement designed fully in-house.
• Built a control and command center-like dashboard to manage 50 offline learning centers around the country.

At Google

Led the complete user experience for the search box and autocomplete in Google Search org. This remit included the search experiences on Google.com, Android and iOS search apps, Chrome omnibox, Pixel quick search box, and mobile web search experience. 16B+ queries a day at a time.

• Launched rich visual entities in search and suggestions, weather, sports score suggestions, flights search, continue searching for, people also ask for and more.
• Also launched the Google Doodle support on quick searchbox on Pixel phones.
• Created a query-first search vision for Google.com homepage that never shipped.
• Led growth experiments for query growth on search results page.
• Launched the ‘clear search box’ cross icon that is still present to this day.
• Created an in-house detailed UI spec for search box and autocomplete experiences referred to by other search consumers like YouTube, Chrome, and more.
• Before search, designed and led revamps of critical SaaS modules in G Suite / Admin Console experience.

At Ola

Was at Ola at a time when they were inventing a lot of new features in mobility and really shaping consumer behavior in a new domain of on-demand urban mobility.

• Led the redesign of Ola’s driver app as a key team member.
• Innovated on Ola Autos — a critical feature service for India.
• Innovated on the multi-hop shared ride experience which became the bread and butter for India in that era.
• Was the lead designer on Ola Play — India’s first connected mobility experience on a tablet form factor in cars for media entertainment, cab tracking, and a potential F&B commerce play.

I’ve been fortunate to be a very prominent design figure in the Indian and global design community with a vast network of people and champions in India and Silicon Valley.

• Actively given back to the community in terms of talks, blogs, coaching, mentoring, and growing designers.
• Created a line of designers who are detail-oriented, craft-first, and very capable of executing at high quality with speed.
• Proved that both of these are not orthogonal.

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