Harish Sivaramakrishnan — Head of Design

Currently - Building CRED. Previously - Head of Mobile transformation for India Region at Google. Staff designer heading design for an early stage idea at Google India. Erstwhile VP of design for the largest online marketplace in India - Snapdeal. I head the design practice for Snapdeal and all its portfolio companies. I will be focusing on building the next generation of consumer experience in a design first way. Lead the much lauded design re-boot for the Snapdeal apps across platforms and re imagined the buyer, seller and customer experience components for the Snadeal. I also headed design and front engineering for FreeCharge. Bootstrapped a team of incredible designers and front end engineers and created arguably the best designed recharge and payments product in the country. I was also part of the core team that led to the acquisition of FreeCharge by Snapdeal. Previously, I worked as the User Experience / User Interface architect at Myntra.com. In this role, I was responsible for the entire client side user interface architecture across web and mobile offerings of Myntra.com. Prior to joining Myntra, I was a Developer Evangelist at Adobe Systems. I also held multiple positions in Engineering functions at Adobe. Core Strength Areas - Ability to understand and balance business needs with customer delight - Ability to hire, nurture and mentor great design talent. - Bootstrapping insanely productive design teams ground up - Expertise in developing large scale applications with web and open standards.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned design leader in E-commerce and Fintech industries.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 24 yrs

Skills

User Experience
Design
User Interface

Career Highlights

Led design transformation at Snapdeal, enhancing user experience.
Bootstrapped top design teams at FreeCharge.
Expert in balancing business needs with customer delight.

Work Experience

CRED

Head of Design and Marketing (7 yrs 5 mos)

Google

Head of Mobile Transformation, India (9 mos)

Head of Design, Enterprise Identity - Google Apps (1 yr 2 mos)

Snapdeal

Vice President and Head, Design (1 yr 2 mos)

Freecharge

Vice President and Head, Design (3 yrs 5 mos)

Myntra Jabong

Technical Architect (5 mos)

Adobe

Worldwide Developer Evangelist ( India, SEA and Europe ) (1 yr 2 mos)

Worldwide Developer Evangelist (3 yrs 7 mos)

Computer Scientist (1 yr)

Lead Software Engineer, Adobe Flex SDK (1 yr 4 mos)

Software Engineer, Adobe Flex SDK (6 mos)

Agam

Co Founder, Lead Vocalist and Strategy (18 yrs 9 mos)

Ascendum Solutions

Software Developer (3 yrs 2 mos)

Education

BE(Hons.) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Harish Sivaramakrishnan

Head of Design

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led design transformation at Snapdeal, enhancing user experience.
Bootstrapped top design teams at FreeCharge.
Expert in balancing business needs with customer delight.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned design leader in E-commerce and Fintech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

User ExperienceDesignUser Interface

Other Skills

Business DevelopmentCSSCSS3Cloud ComputingDesign StrategyEnterprise SoftwareFront-endFront-end EngineeringHTMLHTML 5HTML5JavaScriptMobile ApplicationsMobile DevicesProduct Evangelism

About

Experience

Cred

Head of Design and Marketing

Oct 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

Head of Design & Marketing | Building the most beautifully designed fin-tainment app | Obsessed with aesthetics, details, and turning small moments into delight

Google

2 roles

Head of Mobile Transformation, India

Jan 2018 – Oct 2018 · 9 mos · Bangalore

Helping companies ranging from the largest consumer internet firms to boutique start-ups to realize the true potential of mobile web. Leading the strategy and execution for enhancing consumer experience on mobile web focusing on Performance and User Experience innovations for India.

Head of Design, Enterprise Identity - Google Apps

Nov 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

As the senior most designer in Google India, I lead multiple projects in Enterprise Identity, Enterprise Security and Enterprise Device Management. Also served as the founding member of a stealth mode 1.0 product being built out of India.

Snapdeal

Vice President and Head, Design

Sep 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore Area, India

VP of design for the largest online marketplace in India - Snapdeal. Headed the design practice for Snapdeal and all its portfolio companies. Focused on building the next generation of consumer experience in a design first way, to create the most impactful and magical online shopping experience ever. Continued head design and front end engineering at FreeCharge , creating best-in-the world utility payment experience across web and mobile ecosystems.
Was part of the core team of FreeCharge, which was acquired by Snapdeal in the largest M&A in Indian e-commerce space.

Freecharge

Vice President and Head, Design

Jun 2013 – Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

As the VP of Front End Engineering and Design at FreeCharge, headed all front end and design functions at FreeCharge across web & mobile platforms. Also lead the charge in building the next generation of offerings to make FreeCharge's online recharge and utilities payment experience the best in the world.
I was instrumental in redesigning and rebuilding the entire web experience for FreeCharge ground up. Built and bootstrapped an incredibly talented set of designers and front end engineers in a short span of time and scaled the design and front end operations up exponentially.

Myntra jabong

Technical Architect

Jan 2013 – Jun 2013 · 5 mos · Bangalore

Helping Myntra build the next generation of user experiences across platforms - Desktop & Mobile.
In this role, I was responsible for the entire client side user interface architecture across web and mobile offerings of Myntra.com. I played an active role in conceptualising all future looking offerings of Myntra.com, working closely with the leadership across engineering and product management.

Adobe

5 roles

Worldwide Developer Evangelist ( India, SEA and Europe )

Nov 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos

Responsible for evangelizing the Web and Open Standards & Developer relations for Europe, India and Southeast Asia regions. Worked creating several future looking pilot projects with upcoming web and open standards innovations.Spoke at several leading web and open standards conferences including a keynote at FutureInsights - Las Vegas.

Worldwide Developer Evangelist

Apr 2008 – Nov 2011 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Responsible for evangelizing Adobe Flash Platform and Developer tool offerings worldwide . Co-founded Adobe Flash Platform Summit - The largest Adobe developer conference in India.
Worked on multiple 1.0 projects and early ideas in the web and internet technologies realm.

Computer Scientist

Promoted

Apr 2007 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr

Developer in the Adobe Media Player team at Adobe, responsible for architecting & developing client side DRM features for the Adobe Media Player V 1.0