Fatema Raja — Co-Founder
I’m a design leader and creative director helping founders build design-led brands and products. I recently co-founded and led creative direction at RUHVEDA, a fine fragrance brand rooted in Indian heritage and designed for a global audience. The brand treated fragrance as a cultural artefact, where scent, material, packaging, and narrative worked together to tell modern Indian stories through design. Today, I work with founders, brands, and leadership teams to build design-led brands and products from early positioning to scalable systems. My work focuses on translating taste into repeatable decisions across brand and product. Before this, I spent over a decade designing brands and digital products across India and Southeast Asia, helping scale high-growth companies like Gojek, Swiggy, and PhonePe. Those years shaped my system-first approach — bridging product, brand, and business through design that holds up at scale. I write and speak about design as a business advantage and cultural translation. Subscribe to my newsletter for weekly letters on Design, Brand and Culture (Link in Bio)
Stackforce AI infers this person is a design leader in the Consumer Goods and Fintech industries.
Location: Goa, India
Experience: 12 yrs 1 mo
Skills
- Design Leadership
- Brand Strategy
- Creative Direction
- Brand Identity
- User Experience Design
- Art Direction
- Brand Management
- Product Launch
- User Research
- User Experience
- Brand Design
- Visual Merchandising
- Product Roadmap
- Ui/ux Design
- Illustration
Career Highlights
- Co-founded RUHVEDA, a modern Indian perfume brand.
- Led design for high-growth companies like Gojek and Swiggy.
- Expert in translating brand strategy into impactful design.
Work Experience
Self-Employed
Design & Creative Direction (3 mos)
PhonePe
Brand & Design Advisor (6 mos)
Swiggy
Brand & Design—Advisor (5 mos)
RUHVEDA
Co-Founder & Creative Director (2 yrs 1 mo)
FamPay
Head of Design—Brand (1 yr 4 mos)
Payments Council of India
Design & Project Lead (8 mos)
Gojek
Group Design Head, Food & Entertainment (2 yrs 3 mos)
Brand Design, Gojek (1 yr)
Lead Designer, GO-FOOD & GO-RESTO (2 yrs 1 mo)
UI/UX Designer (4 mos)
Leftshift Technologies
UI/UX Designer (10 mos)
Calico Kids: Baby home furnishing
Co-Founder and CEO (Sold) (2 yrs 10 mos)
Design Concentrate
Dessertation Project - Textile & Graphic Designer (3 mos)
Graphic & Packaging Designer (3 mos)
Brand Aid Pvt. Ltd.
Internship - Brand Designer (1 mo)
4th Wheel Social Impact
Design Consultant (2 yrs 4 mos)
Education
Bachelors at MIT Institute of Design
at Mount Carmel Convent School