Hozefa Ayyajiwala

Head of Design

India18 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 15 years of product design expertise across diverse sectors.
  • Achieved #1 position for Coinbase exchange in the UK.
  • Established #1 ed-tech platform in APAC for UpGrad.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and EdTech design leader with extensive experience in user experience and product design.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience Design (ued)Product VisionCross-functional Team Leadership

Other Skills

CommunicationDesign StrategyFigma (Software)LeadershipProduct DevelopmentProtoPieStart-upsTeam BuildingUser ResearchUser-centered DesignWebflow

About

* Over 15 years of product design expertise spanning diverse sectors, including food, fashion, finance, and education. * Headed design and research teams for the past 9 years, leading groups of up to 40 members, including senior design and research managers of multiple product groups, and senior product designers and researchers. * Led the design for Coinbase's international expansion, overseeing 12 focus countries in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, as well as 130 broader-reaching countries for retail and wallet. * Leading PED for International expansion with the Senior Director of Engineering and Senior Director of Product. * Achieved a favourability rating of 84 in Coinbase 19 above PED org and 31 above design organisation as measured by Cultureamp. Achieved a Leadership NPS of 40 at UpGrad highest at the level conducted by xto10x. Latest business impact delivered: * Attained the #1 position for Coinbase exchange in the UK and top 3 in major EU markets and Canada. * Established the #1 wallet within four months of launch in key Southeast Asian markets - Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. * Secured the position of #1 higher ed-tech platform in APAC for UpGrad.

Experience

Google

Head of Design - Workspace Commerce, Customer onboarding and Admin Console

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Hybrid

Coinbase

3 roles

Head of Design - APAC, EMEA, LATAM, Onboarding and Payments

Promoted

Oct 2022May 2023 · 7 mos

  • Responsible for product design teams and launches across International geo's
  • Ensuring US + Global onboarding and retail activation
  • Payment experiences across fiat, P2P and first trade
  • Localisation and internationalisation for Go-broad across geo's
  • Growth in go deep geo's across EMEA, LATAM and APAC.
  • Collectively accounting for 20% of overall revenue for Coinbase.
User ResearchProduct VisionCommunicationCross-functional Team LeadershipUser Experience Design (UED)

Head of Design - APAC, LATAM & CET

Jun 2022Oct 2022 · 4 mos

  • Provided the additional responsibility of managing LATAM and CET
  • Ensuring launch in Brazil
  • Building growth and compliance for Canada
  • Managing customer experience and internal tools including chat, help centre and agent cockpit
  • Executive star awardee + High impact award
  • India site lead for product design
User ResearchProduct VisionCommunicationCross-functional Team LeadershipUser Experience Design (UED)

Sr. Manager Product Design + UX site lead India

Oct 2021Jun 2022 · 8 mos

  • Responsible for building the APAC team and region
  • Built international team ground up spread across Japan, Singapore and India
  • Launched in India, Australia and Singapore
  • Ensured achieving guardrail metrics for Japan with a 200% jump in onboarding and payment success rates
User ResearchProduct VisionCommunicationCross-functional Team LeadershipUser Experience Design (UED)

Upgrad

Director - Design & Research

Feb 2020Aug 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra

  • Responsible for the user experience, product design and research for the overall product
  • delivering business. learning experience and operational goals which have collectively grown more 3x YoY
  • Setting up team, organisational structure, systems, processes
  • upwards of 85% relaibility in delivery both planned and agile projects
  • highest MNPS in the product org
  • lowest attrition in the product org
  • more details on team and work on upgrad.design
User ResearchProduct VisionCommunicationCross-functional Team LeadershipUser Experience Design (UED)

Hdfc life

AVP - Design

Jan 2019Jun 2019 · 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Created Design systems, helped design UX and launch the NPS product which was the highest growth in the past 16 quarters.
User ResearchProduct VisionCommunicationCross-functional Team LeadershipUser Experience Design (UED)

Limeroad.com

Head of Design

Feb 2018Jan 2019 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • set up the design team and function within Limeroad
  • created the design systems, bringing consistency and speed to product cycles, also brought the production time down by 30%
  • redesigned the overall user experience from onboarding to retention to reduce friction and improve growth curves
  • created a pod culture for better cross collaboration and consumer visibility with faster response cycles across user touchpoints
User ResearchProduct VisionCommunicationCross-functional Team LeadershipUser Experience Design (UED)

Pluck digital design

2 roles

Cofounder and head of design

Promoted

Apr 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Established and led the design function, collaborating with Fortune 500
  • companies and startups to shape their product design experiences. Provided
  • support and coaching to the product design and servicing team, while instituting
  • a career framework, managed costs to ensure the sustainability.
Cross-functional Team Leadership

Co-Founder

Jan 2010Feb 2015 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai

  • - helped grow business and lead design team at Pluck. driving design systems, high-level user interaction flows, low and high fidelity wireframes accross projects
User Experience Design (UED)

Tinyowl

Head of Design

Feb 2015Mar 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • hired, scaled and retained the design team, scaling to 16 designers
  • worked with product head in shaping the organisation and product process cycles, resulting in 43 percent productivity uptick
  • lead the research and user experience defining the core product
  • streamlined cross collaboration amongst product teams, to both, build consumer visibility across team and get faster feedback to iteration, resulting in rich product experiences when shipped
User ResearchProduct VisionCommunicationCross-functional Team LeadershipUser Experience Design (UED)

Dy works

Sr. Consultant

Oct 2008Jan 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • - Led Design and Brand Strategies: conducting design research, synthesis, brand idea, brand positioning, brand architecture, user experience navigation, design strategy, and brief.
User Experience Design (UED)

Kankei relationship marketing services pvt. ltd.

Manager - Client service

Feb 2006Aug 2008 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Epicentre

Customer Service Representative

Jan 2003Aug 2005 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Education

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) — Economics

Jan 2004Jan 2005

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