Design team's north star balances current and future needs
Plan and communicate yearly design roadmap
Team development, Year-end evaluation, Hiring, Team engagement initiatives and forward planning.
Quarterly Cadence
Dept. Connects
Strategy planning and user research for direction.
Execution focus with regular team alignment.
Progress review, Key Launches, feedback gathering, and iterations.
Weekly Rhythm
Strategic initiatives
Weekly checkins
Requirement walkthrough, Design Review Sessions
Zen Hours
1:1s with Team, Stakeholder Connects, Learning Session, Fun Session
UX Strategy
Understand Business Context
Define Information Architecture based on business drivers
Create Conceptual Prototypes
Execute exploratory research and experiments
Build Scalable Systems
Contribute to product strategy across multiple areas
My Strengths 💪🏼
Proven Design Leadership
Lead Product Designer at Flipkart guiding critical initiatives. Mentor designers and drive innovation across product areas.
Expertise in Scalable Systems
Spearheaded enterprise design system adopted by 5+ product teams. Orchestrated DLS week with 30+ developers.
Complex Data Products Experience
Designed enterprise solutions for Reconciliation, Payments, Supplier Management, and Inventory Planning. Developed data formatting standards.
Measurable Impact
Led Seller Hub Mobile app redesign, improving rating from 3.8 to 4.4. Desktop improvements significantly boosted seller NPS.
My Motivations 🛕
Embracing the Player-Coach Model
I am motivated by the opportunity to formally step into a "player-coach" role that combines my experience in balancing hands-on design with mentoring.
Building Impactful Products
The role's focus on creating "world-class data products" excites me, building on my prior work with complex, data-intensive enterprise systems.
Driving Strategic Design
I am motivated to collaborate with Product, Tech, and Data Science to shape product strategy and roadmap, leveraging my experience in defining architecture and philosophy.
Advocating for User-Centered Design
I am driven to apply human-centered design methods to bring "ingenuity, simplicity and humanity" to the financial industry, building on my passion for user-centricity and integrating accessibility.
My Fit 🧩
1
Management Need
My role as a Lead Product Designer involving mentoring teams and leading design efforts directly aligns with the "player-coach" nature and preferred people management experience.
2
Directly Relevant Data Experience
My work on RAP, SRM, and IP systems, managing complex enterprise data, meets the required "2+ years of experience designing for data product experiences".
3
Strong Design Systems Alignment
My experience spearheading, developing, and scaling a comprehensive design system across multiple teams fulfills and exceeds the preferred requirement for design system familiarity.
4
Proven Collaboration
I have a history of collaborating effectively with engineering, product, and business teams, fitting the need to work with cross-functional partners.
5
Experience Delivering Impactful End-to-End Design
I have led the design process from start to finish for projects that delivered significant, measurable outcomes like improved app ratings and NPS, aligning with the role's expectation to drive end-to-end design.
6
Human-Centered Design Focus
My commitment to user- first design and accessibility integration aligns perfectly with human-centered design methods.