Arindam Raha

Product Manager

Berlin, Berlin, Germany9 yrs experience

Key Highlights

Over 7 years of experience in product design.
Expert in building and maintaining design systems.
Passionate about creating meaningful user experiences.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Product Designer with expertise in SaaS and Media industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DesignDesign SystemsInteraction Design

Other Skills

A/B TestingAdobe AuditionAdobe IllustratorAdobe PhotoshopAdobe Premiere ProAerial PhotographyAfter EffectsCSS3CommunicationCross-team CollaborationData AnalyticsData VisualizationDesign SprintDesign ThinkingDeveloper Handoff

About

I am a dedicated, motivated, result-driven professional with an exceptional ability to execute multiple tasks/projects at any given time successfully. As a Senior Product Designer at Heycar, I design and build products that bring value to the users and the business. I have over 7 years of experience in creating and maintaining design systems, mockups, prototypes, and user flows for web and mobile platforms. I collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on design strategies, business objectives, user requirements, and market trends across multiple countries. My passion is to create meaningful experiences that are emotive, sustainable, and engaging. I use design sprints, user research, and interaction design to innovate and solve problems. I have worked on projects involving e-commerce, Internet of Things, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and voice-enabled solutions. I have also earned multiple certifications from The Interaction Design Foundation on topics such as user experience, user research, and design for augmented and virtual reality. I believe in delivering quality over quantity and in KPI-driven results.

Experience

9 yrs

Total Experience

1 yr 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 6 mos

Current Experience

Axel springer national media & tech gmbh & co. kg

Design - Product and Platforms

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Berlin, Germany · On-site

Driving design across multiple products and teams, right from strategy to execution.
Building a core B2B AI-powered content platform (Editorial.one) for our editors at Bild and Welt, to help them in their Research -> Creation -> Curation -> Measurement life cycle.
Owning and scaling the design system (with design tokens) for editorial tools, aiming to unify design across all Axel Springer brands like BILD and WELT.
Leading workshops to bring clarity, align teams, and build shared understanding, especially around tokens and systems thinking.
Actively involved in design sprints, helping teams explore, validate, and refine product ideas.

Heycar

Senior Product Designer, Platforms & Design Systems

Dec 2021 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Berlin, Germany · Hybrid

My responsibilities here are:
Building heycar design system from scratch, maintaining the molecules, and collaborating with the devs to make sure the implementation is on point.
Creating mockups, interactive prototypes, and user flows to visualize and communicate design concepts.
Working on the core functionalities, and defining design strategies while collaborating with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure business objectives, user requirements, and market trends (UK, DE, FR, ES, NL).
Conducting user research to gain insights into user needs, preferences, and behaviors which involves interviews, surveys, usability testing, and analyzing user data. Later A/B test and iterates based on the data.
Providing guidance and mentorship to junior designers, sharing knowledge and best practices.

Rapid PrototypingDesign SystemsProduct DesignInteraction DesignRemote User TestingVisual Design+4

Roundglass

Senior Product Designer

Oct 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

My responsibilities here were:
Integration of products under the RG umbrella.
Collaborating with the team for Care (Patient Management Software)

Interaction DesignSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Remote User TestingRapid PrototypingDesign SystemsGraphic Design+2

Gympik

Product Designer

Sep 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

My responsibilities here are
Brainstorming/Ideating on features along with the design team and the PMs. Converting those ideas into user stories, user flows, low-high fidelity designs to dev hand-offs.
Governing and maintaining the design system for Traqade (SAAS Product) , tackling inefficiency, inconsistency while collaborating with the dev and growth team.
Mostly involved in creating the final Visual & Motion design for the products across Gympik (Traqade, Traqade Connect & Traqade Pro) for web and mobile.
Increased user activity by working in a cross-functional growth team and improved product experience by reducing user painpoints through business progress visibility.

Rapid PrototypingDesign SystemsProduct DesignRemote User Testing

Iqvia

UIUX Designer

Nov 2018 – Apr 2019 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Collaborated with other designers and product managers to understand the scope of the product called HCP Space mainly focused on connecting medical professionals and students.
Ideation process was mainly driven by Design Sprints, based on that we conducted few user interviews for usability testing of the prototypes.
My core contribution on this was to form a design system for the company, which lead to executing a consistent and further scalable product.

Rapid Prototyping

Cumulations technologies

Senior UI UX Designer

Aug 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

I am currently fulfilling my responsibilities of a UX/UI designer at Cumulation technologies,
My responsibility includes:
Work closely with engineering and product management team to understand product capabilities, function, usage and limitations.
Conducting research based on product requirements.
Rollout the information architecture for data representation to users.
Create wireframes or visual blueprints for product design.
Usability testing and user interface design.
Understand and develop design patterns for product development.

Rapid Prototyping

Yoola

UI Designer

Mar 2017 – Aug 2017 · 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Revamped the interface of the app, for better experience.

Technotrikz.in

UI Developer

Jul 2016 – Dec 2016 · 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Responsible for developing web layout mockups and wireframing.
Designed the website using HTML5 and CSS3 right from scratch.
Clearly understood the factors of user experience and designed the website accordingly.
Explicitly used the principle of colours, typography and shapes.
Worked effectively to create some creatives in photoshops and illustrator.

Findbestvenue.com

Graphic Design Intern

Feb 2016 – Apr 2016 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

worked explicitly on creatives for social media platforms and twitter campaigns.

Carwale

Video Compositor

Aug 2015 – Aug 2015 · 0 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

This was a small project for which me and my team were hired in order to make a video about the company, it's rituals and familiarity with the employees.
My job in team was to take interview and to edit and composite a video for their conventional day.