Vikas Johiya

CEO

India13 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 13 years of experience in design leadership.
  • Expert in aligning business goals with user needs.
  • Proven track record in building and scaling design teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a design leader with expertise in Fintech, Healthcare, and Travel Tech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DesignDesign Management

Other Skills

Concept DesignConcept DevelopmentDesign ConsultingDesign StrategyDesign ThinkingEntrepreneurshipExperience DesignGraphic DesignIllustratorIndustrial DesignInteraction DesignMarketingMarketing StrategyRapid PrototypingService Design

About

I’m a design leader who believes that great products are built at the intersection of empathy, clarity, and storytelling. Over the past 13+ years, I’ve led teams across startups, mid-sized organisations, and enterprises — designing experiences that align business intent with real human needs. I thrive in fast-paced environments, bring lateral thinking to complex challenges, and consistently champion the “why” to inspire confidence and direction. At my core, I turn insight into narrative — and narrative into product journeys that connect meaningfully with people.

Experience

Mobile premier league (mpl)

Vice President of Product Design

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Leading the Platform design team at the org, focusing on Onboarding journeys and Retention Meta loops.

Jar

Head Of Design

Jun 2022Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Built and led the design team across product design, visual & motion design, design system and UX writing. Grew the team from 4 members to 18+ people across multiple business verticals. Strategic partner to product, business and engineering for short and long term efforts. Consistently delivering experience for our users to improve their relationship with money - Save, Grow and Borrow.

Salesforce

Lead Designer

Dec 2020Mar 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

  • Health & Life Sciences
  • As a design lead, I had end-to-end responsibility of the design projects, conducting user research with subject matter experts (SMEs) in and outside of the company.
  • At Salesforce Health Cloud, I worked primarily on Medication Management, delivering products in Medication Therapy Management and Advanced Therapy Management.
  • During this time I also partnered with Research & Insight team to create the opportunity roadmap for the area Medication Management.

Trodly.com

Co-Founder

Dec 2016Nov 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Trodly is a travel tech platform that helps travellers research about the destination and book thing-to-do there. From sightseeing to trekking expeditions, Trodly offers 2500+ travel experience across 50+ categories.
  • Started in Bangalore, initially offering a travel guides for travellers to find a weekend trip based on the kind of place and how far they want to travel.
  • Designed and built to cater to the pain points of travellers and operators alike. Trodly offers all-round solution that includes:
  • 1. Booking & managing platform (web & app) for travellers.
  • 2. Single platform for operators to manage their listings, leads, customisations, analytics and billing.
  • 3. Ground staff app to access booking details, manage and fulfil bookings to delivery unhindered experience for the customers.
  • 3. Reseller marketplace for operators to expand their business to new destinations.

Moonraft innovation labs

Associate Design Director

Jan 2014Nov 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore · On-site

Product DesignDesign ManagementDesign ConsultingUser Research

National institute of design

Visiting Faculty Member

Jul 2013Dec 2013 · 5 mos · Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India

  • I assisted Prof. Praveen Nahar for System Design Course for the final year product design students. My contribution involved guiding student groups and help them craft out a system design model by following key steps of stakeholder research. With a detailed understanding of the system, faculties worked with each group to help define their design propositions.

Indian institute of technology gandhinagar

Visiting Faculty Member

Aug 2012Oct 2012 · 2 mos · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

  • As a part of the course - Introduction to Design, we worked with the 2nd & 3rd year Engineering students to familiarise them with the design process. With the aim to inculcate a step-by-step way to a problem solving and developing empathy for the users.

Cresque

Co Founder

Dec 2011Aug 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

Venture studio

Design fellow

Oct 2011Apr 2012 · 6 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

Oce

Graduation project

Nov 2010May 2011 · 6 mos · Venlo

Education

National Institute of Design

Graduation — Product Design

Jan 2006Jan 2011

The Glasgow School of Art

Exchange Programme — Service Design

Jan 2010Jan 2010

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