Sahil Pandita

Head of Design

Gurugram, Haryana, India10 yrs 3 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led AI-powered product development at Google.
  • Co-founded a social media suite with 7 million downloads.
  • Mentored aspiring designers through various platforms.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a UX design leader with extensive experience in AI-driven product development across multiple industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Design LeadershipUx DesignDesign StrategyProduct DesignStart-up LeadershipUser Interface DesignUx Research

Other Skills

Adobe Creative SuiteChange ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipDesign SystemsDesign ThinkingDesignOPSGenerative AIHeuristic AnalysisHuman Computer InteractionInformation ArchitectureLean UXPeople ManagementPrompt EngineeringSketch AppStakeholder Management

About

Sahil is a self-taught UX design leader with over a decade of experience, passionate about crafting innovative, user-centered products and democratizing design education. Specializing in building from the ground up and solving complex 0-1 problems, he brings order to ambiguity - a skill honed across startups and enterprises. His experience spans industries like healthcare, hospitality, logistics, e-commerce, and enterprise tools, offering a global perspective to his design approach. At Google, Sahil leads the development of AI-powered products that enable non-technical users to generate business insights, optimize workflows, and understand customer needs. He built this ecosystem from scratch while scaling a cross-functional team in design, research, and content. Previously, at Gojek, Goibibo, Rivigo, and Engineer.ai, he contributed to AI-driven solutions, user-generated content products, and scaled businesses in high-growth markets, integrating AI before it was mainstream. As an entrepreneur, Sahil co-founded Gbox: A social media suite that reached 7 million downloads in a year without additional marketing spend. Imli Studio: A design studio partnering with startups to build MVPs, achieve product-market fit, and scale. Committed to nurturing future designers, Sahil actively contributes to the design community. He has spoken at IIT Delhi, IDF, Design Sundays, and hosts a YouTube channel featuring conversations with design leaders. Through mentorship platforms like 10k Designers, he helps aspiring designers grow into impactful professionals. Sahil values creating passionate teams where individuals find joy in their work. Through coaching and mentorship, he aims to develop the next generation of "10x designers," emphasizing empowerment, collaboration, and a culture of growth.

Experience

Google

3 roles

Staff Design Manager

Promoted

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos

  • Leading design for Google Play apps, books, and shop, focusing on emerging markets and new product offerings.
Design LeadershipPeople ManagementUx strategyUX Design

Product Design Manager

Mar 2023Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Product Design manager across the Core UX India Team leading a team of Designers and working closely in collaboration with Product and Engineering Partners to build the future of AI and ML Tools and platforms for non-tech users.
  • At Google, my goal and vision is to build an Ecosystem of ML/AI Platforms that serve as an end-to-end solution for Ingestion, visualization & consumption of large data and conversations to create insights and trends that help business stakeholders and leadership tune in on their business and explore ways to optimize it further.
  • Currently leading design across the following charters
  • PromptMaker - A Prompt Training and Tuning solution for non-tech users to leverage Google's state-of-the-art advancements and build personalized ML models that help generate business insights and help make sense of Millions of customer interactions, feedback, and journeys.
  • Insights Central - A centralized hub of business insights for leaders, stakeholders and business partners to visualize their business health through key metrics and knowledge prompts and inform long-term Product and People strategy as well as monitor the pain points and needs of users
Design LeadershipDesign StrategyDesignOPSUX DesignStakeholder ManagementChange Management+1

UX Design Lead

Jul 2022May 2023 · 10 mos

  • Working with the Google Core Design team to help improve user experience across partner apps and eco-systems by creating consistent experiences through Design systems and standardising operational principles and defining the benchmark for good experiences.
Ux strategyDesign LeadershipDesignOPSStakeholder ManagementUser Experience (UX)Design Strategy+2

10kdesigners

UX Design & strategy Mentor

Jun 2021Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Remote

User Interface DesignProduct DesignUX designUser Experience (UX)Design ThinkingDesign Strategy+1

Gojek

Product design lead

Oct 2019May 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

  • During my tenure at Gojek, I had the opportunity to lead the Discovery, User Generated Insights & Content and Booking product areas/PODs for the Food Delivery platform, GoFood. I successfully delivered several key projects, including:
  • 1. Design and development of a reviews and ratings platform from scratch, leveraging Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to harness user-generated content and feedback to empower customers to make informed decisions and improve awareness for small food outlets and merchants.
  • 2. Implementation of data analysis streams for the GoBiz Merchant Platform using user-generated content to assist restaurant owners and partners in scaling their businesses. This was achieved by providing them with insightful data based on order history and patterns, which helped them improve their business and customer relations and increase customer loyalty.
  • 3. Lead the redesign of the GoFood Home screen to address scalability, insights, and the growing number of merchants on the platform. I played a crucial role in defining the strategy for the redesign, obtaining alignment from multiple stakeholders and business units, while keeping the different user personas at the forefront of the product experience. The redesign resulted in a more scalable, personalized, and predictable experience for different users.
  • 4. In addition, I played the role of an advocate for DesignOPS for the team by helping to build a well-connected team culture and setting benchmarks for collaboration, documentation, and processes. This helped to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the team.
Product DesignDesignOPSDesign StrategyUX Design

The creative hustle

Founder and Content Creator

May 2019Dec 2025 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Gbox

Co-Founder

Aug 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Delhi, India · Remote

  • Co-founded a startup focused on empowering social media influencers through innovative design strategies.
  • Developed and executed a comprehensive design strategy to identify product-market fit, enhancing user engagement.
  • Successfully scaled Android and iOS platforms from 0 to 5 million users within one year without paid marketing.
  • Achieved recognition in over 10 publications for exceptional user experience and innovative offerings.
Start-up LeadershipStart-up VenturesDesign LeadershipDesign StrategyDesign SystemsDesign Thinking+3

Goibibo

Senior Product Designer

Jun 2018Oct 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

  • Goibibo Experiences
  • 👉 Lead Design and Strategy for a New Product Paradigm - Experiences which helps people find recreational activities, events & things to do around them.
  • 👉 Conducted User research and Usability tests to constantly improve the conversion and overall UX of the Product.
  • UGC
  • 👉 Lead Research & Design on Hotels - User Generated Content Paradigm, Helping travellers find better hotels using User Generated content.
  • 👉 Redesigned the Reviews and ratings funnel to increase conversion and get qualitative insights from users.
  • 👉 Designed a Persuasion system leveraging the Reviews and rating data to suggest users the best hotels around them.
  • 👉 Redesigned the hotel viewing experience by designing a UGC focused Image viewing experience.
  • This gives users an insight of the experience of other travellers using Self-programmed data amounting for a 2% increase in Traffic on the Hotels segment.
  • Crowdsourcing
  • 👉 Designed a Crowdsourced Community powering the User Generated Content to build a platform for data solicitation and verification.
  • IPL
  • 👉 Designed for IPL - A High Growth Gaming Platform which saw a footfall of 2 Million Users in 2 weeks.

Builder.ai

User Experience Designer

May 2017Jun 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • At Engineer.AI, I was responsible for leading multiple Projects for Startups and Enterprise Clients.
  • My responsibilities included conducting user research and designing solutions across multiple industries, including food, hospitality, and travel.
  • I led the following projects with and end to end focus:
  • Cheers On Demand - a hyperlocal liquor delivery app for iOS that allows users to discover the best products and deals from the comfort of their homes.
  • Sherlock Keyboard - an ergonomic keyboard designed for single-handed phone usage and featuring a variety of customization options and learning capabilities.
  • GoChallangeMe, a crowdfunding platform backed by Microsoft. I conducted user research, competitive analysis, and diary studies to validate the business idea, and developed seamless UX flows for donating to social causes.
  • Instago, a web experience for a vending machine platform that increases awareness and engagement with potential buyers.
  • Healthhunt, a healthcare marketplace and content platform that provides access to verified healthcare products and insights from top specialists across India.
  • Oxygene, a native online ski course platform in France, which I revamped to improve customer tracking and the online course experience.
  • The Style Stamp, Lead a redesign of a key navigation and engagement-focused project using heuristics.

Imli studio

Co-Founder

Nov 2016Jun 2017 · 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • 🛠 Headed design at Imli-Studio
  • Lead the UX and Design Strategy at multiple products in Domains like Legal, Marketplace, and e-Commerce.
  • Conducted UX Research for discovering user mental models and product market fit.
  • Designed Web and Mobile products for users for a seamless experience
User Interface DesignUX ResearchStakeholder ManagementUser Experience (UX)Visual Design

Rivigo

UX Consultant

Jul 2016Dec 2016 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • 🚚 Rivigo Cross-Platform
  • Designed Multiple Products that help build the Rivigo platform from Ground Up to make logistics more Intelligent and functional.
  • Set up visual Design Guidelines across all the Products to maintain a consistency
  • Defined key user flows across all apps to give a unified user experience and make it easy for Field Agents/Pitstop executives to track and plan trips on field.
  • 🏎 Rivigo Prime
  • Revamped Vehicle Consignment tracking Dashboard to make it more usable and friendly.
  • Designed flows to help field executives assign and allot trucks for upcoming shipments.
  • 📄 Rivigo Documentation app
  • Made a Dashboard from end to end to Handle On-Field Documentation for the Vehicles.
  • Build UX Flows that helped Agents/Pitstop executives to access and maintain details and paperwork for incoming and outgoing Consignments.
  • 🍏 Rivigo Green
  • Designed a mobile app to help 3rd Party Services and partners track their consignments sent through Rivigo.
  • Designed UX flows to help the partners monitor and control the temperature of the Vehicles remotely as per the requirement of the goods.
  • ⚖️ Vyom Marketplace
  • Designed a consignment and goods marketplace to enable 3rd party logistic providers to enlist their businesses and vehicles for contractual delivery of Goods
  • Designed the customer experience for authentication and acquisition of businesses on the Vyom platform

Rydo

Product Designer

Apr 2015Mar 2016 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • As a solo Designer at Rydo, my Role was spread across areas of User Experience, Research, Product Design and communication as well.
  • I designed the Mobile App and the Web platforms to increase user Engagement and build trust among the carpooling community in India.

Cronos tech

Mixed Media Designer | 2M+ views | Content Strategy, YouTube, Tech Journalism

Apr 2012Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Delhi, India · Hybrid

  • I worked independently across video and editorial, creating tech content end-to-end from research and scripting to shooting, editing, and distribution. I designed visual systems and content strategies for media houses, wrote timely tech coverage, and grew multi-format video streams that helped audiences understand and adopt new technology.
  • Designed content and visual guidelines for media brands like 91 Mobiles, JK24, and others setting the tone, look, and editorial cadence while crafting strategies to break into new audience segments.
  • Wrote for Cronos-Tech on the latest tech news: phone launches, feature breakdowns, event coverage, and ecosystem updates.
  • Built recurring content streams at Cronos Tech Media (explainers, how-tos, reviews), surpassing 2M+ cumulative views in 2 years.
  • Produced practical tutorials for early adopters rooting/unlocking, device optimization, tips & tricks balancing capability, safety, and clarity.
  • Owned the full video pipeline: research → script → shoot → edit → thumbnail/SEO → publish → analytics iteration.
  • Collaborated with editors and producers to align topics, packaging, and release schedules with audience growth goals.
  • Established a reusable visual guideline & content playbook for tech channels, improving consistency, watch-time, and click-through.
  • Launched multi-format series that expanded reach to new viewer cohorts (beginners, power users, and niche device communities).
  • Streamlined production workflows to increase output without sacrificing quality, enabling faster coverage of launches and updates.

Education

Maharshi Dayanand University

Bachelor of Computer Applications — Computer Science

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