Sajin Philip

Design Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 5 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 14+ years of design leadership experience.
  • Expert in shaping UX and CX across diverse industries.
  • Strong focus on mentorship and collaboration in design.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Design Leader with expertise in UX, CX, and product design across multiple industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Design LeadershipDesign StrategyService DesignUser-centered DesignProduct DesignUser ResearchLeadership

Other Skills

Design ThinkingTeam ManagementStakeholder Collaboration & FacilitationAccessibility & Inclusive DesignDesign Systems & Scalable ProcessesDesign ResearchPrototypingUser Experience Design (UED)Design SystemsInteraction DesignUser FlowsUser Interface DesignAnalytical SkillsUser Experience (UX)Optimizely

About

Sajin — currently Associate Director of Design at Material+, leading multi-disciplinary design teams and shaping the UX and CX vision across product verticals. With 14+ years of experience, specializing in design leadership, strategy, and execution — guiding teams to create products and services that solve real-world problems while elevating design as a core strategic driver. Experienced across industries, cultures, and disciplines — from digital health and finance to emerging tech platforms — bringing a holistic, systems-thinking mindset that balances user needs, business goals, and technology. Career highlights include defining product visions, designing end-to-end experiences, building scalable design systems, and driving initiatives across product design, service design, and brand experience. Strong focus on mentorship, collaboration, and embedding design thinking into organizations. Belief: Honest, well-crafted experiences create lasting, joyful customer relationships. Skills & Expertise •Design Leadership & Strategy: Leading multi-disciplinary teams, embedding design thinking, sprints, agile & scrum •UX & Research: Heuristic evaluation, quantitative & qualitative research, journey mapping, ethnographic studies, usability testing •Product & Service Design: Wireframes, prototypes, design systems, information architecture, rapid prototyping •Analytics & Optimization: A/B testing, surveys, market research, Hotjar, Google Analytics, Optimizely Tools: Most of the latest AI tools, Figma, Sketch, Balsamiq, Axure, InVision, Miro, ProtoPie, Zeplin, Principle, Photoshop, UXPressia, Google Optimize, Atlassian, and more Portfolio: https://www.sajinphilip.com/

Experience

Material

Associate Director Design

Apr 2025Sep 2025 · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

  • As Associate Director of Design at Material+, I provide design leadership while guiding a talented team to deliver impactful user experiences. I play a key role in shaping the company’s UX and CX vision across all product verticals, elevating design into a core strategic lever that influences both business outcomes and customer satisfaction.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Design Leadership – Leading and mentoring the design team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and craft excellence.
  • Strategic Decision-Making – Partnering with leadership to influence design strategy and ensure design is integrated into product and business decisions.
  • Experience Vision – Defining and building a cohesive UX and CX vision that cuts across products, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and delight.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration – Working closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to align on goals and deliver impactful solutions.
  • Impact:
  • Elevated design to a strategic function within the organization.
  • Built scalable design practices that support growth across multiple product lines.
  • Established a forward-looking UX/CX vision that strengthens both user trust and brand differentiation.
Design LeadershipDesign StrategyDesign ThinkingService DesignTeam ManagementProduct Design+4

Dr. reddy's laboratories

Strategic Design Lead CX, UX

Jan 2024Apr 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • At DRL, my role spanned Design Strategy, Service Design, Product Design, Design Research, and Design Leadership — with a focus on shaping the future of digital health interventions. I worked at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and design, ensuring that every initiative not only met regulatory and clinical standards but also created meaningful experiences for patients, clinicians, and stakeholders.
  • Key Contributions:
  • Design Strategy – Partnered with cross-functional teams to align digital health products with business goals, regulatory frameworks, and patient needs.
  • Service Design – Mapped patient and clinician journeys, identifying pain points and opportunities to improve adoption and compliance.
  • Product Design – Translated clinical insights into intuitive digital solutions that enhanced usability and accessibility.
  • Design Research – Led studies combining user research, unmet need analysis, and real-world evidence (RWE) to validate product-market fit.
  • Design Leadership – Mentored teams, facilitated workshops, and championed design thinking practices within a highly regulated healthcare environment.
  • Impact:
  • Strengthened the value proposition of DRL’s digital health products through evidence-backed design.
  • Elevated patient and clinician experience by integrating service design and user research into clinical studies.
  • Established design as a strategic driver in digital health innovation at DRL.
Design StrategyLeadershipService DesignProduct DesignDesign ResearchDesign Thinking

Betterplace

Product Design Lead

May 2023Aug 2023 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Primary products: Onboarding & Configuration
  • Manage a group of designers
  • Built a brand-new SaaS platform from the ground up
  • Worked on various HRMS tools
User-centered DesignUser ResearchPrototypingUser Experience Design (UED)Design SystemsInteraction Design+5

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Feb 2023May 2023 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • I took advantage of these three months to feel young again! I traveled extensively and spent quality time with my family.

Mobile premier league (mpl)

Senior Product Designer

Jun 2022Jan 2023 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Primary Products: MPL Rummy, MPL CallBreak, Striker - Fanstasy Game app
  • Contributed to two important products called "MPL Rummy" and "MPL Callbreak"
  • As an Individual Contributor (IC), I designed a solution that had a good influence on the business
  • Led two major products
  • Successfully contributed create a Fanstay cricket game that goes from Zero-to-One
User ResearchPrototypingDesign SystemsInteraction DesignProduct DesignLeadership+1

Altaire insights technologies pvt ltd

2 roles

Principal User Experience Designer + Design leader

Promoted

Jan 2022Jun 2022 · 5 mos

  • I built fresh new design teams from 0 to 10
  • Responsible for all the product/design-related activities in the organization.
  • Plan, Execute and Deliver all the design-related activities (Discover, Define, Develop & Deliver)
  • I led and completed the design and build of a mobile app for one of the top automakers in the world. The redesigned App increase app-based revenue.
  • Primary client : Nissan Connect (India, KSA, Egypt, Turkey & UAE) & Svast Medical Tourism.
  • Worked on a B2C product which is a car connectivity product for a leading Fortune 500 automotive company, catering to various regions such as India, UAE, Turkey, Egypt, and KSA.
  • I mostly do the same work as before :)
LeadershipAnalytical Skills

User Experience Specialist + Team Lead

Sep 2019Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Built a team from 0 to 8 members team.
  • Responsible for all the product/design-related activities in the organization.
  • Plan, Execute and Deliver all the design-related activities (Discover, Define, Develop & Deliver)
  • I led and completed the design and build of a mobile app for one of the top automakers in the world. The redesigned App increase app-based revenue.
  • A complete user experience (CX, UX) was reimagined for one of Asia's largest amusement parks.
  • Work with all the stages of the products and services.
  • Leading, Mentoring, and growing together with 8 members team.
  • From business strategy to a successful product
  • Communicate and discuss with Other team leads, Managers, Developers, Stakeholders, Clients, and the End-customers
User-centered DesignUser Experience (UX)User ResearchOptimizelyPrototypingMiro Collaboration Platform+14

Experion technologies

2 roles

User Experience Specialist

Apr 2019Sep 2019 · 5 mos

  • Led a Design team of 14 and 8 in the two different products.
  • Working with clients to understand product requirements and business goals.
  • Translating product concepts and business visions by researching, conceiving, sketching, wireframing, prototyping and analyzing user experiences for digital products
  • Taking a user-centered design approach, test, iterate and deliver optimised solutions for a wide range of devices and interfaces
  • Making design strategy and UX decisions to core functionalities, features and interactions of a product
  • Analysing the digital products, identify design problems and provide suitable UX suggestions and recommendations
  • Collaborate with team members, conduct design review sessions and work closely with other teams for the success of the project
LeadershipAnalytical Skills

User Experience Lead

May 2017Apr 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Led a Design team of 14 and 8 in the two different products.
  • Working with clients to understand product requirements and business goals.
  • Translating product concepts and business visions by researching, conceiving, sketching, wireframing, prototyping and analyzing user experiences for digital products
  • Taking a user-centered design approach, test, iterate and deliver optimised solutions for a wide range of devices and interfaces
  • Making design strategy and UX decisions to core functionalities, features and interactions of a product
  • Analysing the digital products, identify design problems and provide suitable UX suggestions and recommendations
  • Collaborate with team members, conduct design review sessions and work closely with other teams for the success of the project
  • Design Thinking
  • Heuristic Evaluation
  • User Centered Design
  • Requirement Analysis
  • User Research
  • User Journy
  • Site Map
  • Human Factor
  • Ethnographic Study
  • Persona Creation
  • Conceptual Models
  • Information Architecture
  • Wireframes
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • High & Low Fidelity Mockups
  • User Interface
  • Usability Testing
  • AB Testing
  • Survey
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Sketching
LeadershipAnalytical Skills

Reflections - ideas made real

2 roles

Lead Designer | UI & UX

Apr 2015Apr 2017 · 2 yrs

  • Recognized for his continued success, hard work and dedication to the organization, Sajin became Lead UX/UI Designer at Reflections Infos after 11 months of employment.
  • I built fresh new design teams from 0 to 8
  • End to End product designing and the market research of the product.
  • Creating the product from one line concept with the team.
  • Leaded the 8 member team.
  • Acted as a mentor more than a lead.
  • Closely work with customers.
  • Digital User Experience Design
  • Design and research new mobile experience for the end users
  • Responsive Webdesign, translating same visual identity to different screens size.
  • Translate customer insights and analytics into design direction
  • Digital product design across platforms and screen sizes
  • Attracting the best talent and managing UX/UI team
  • Creative services through whole brand spectrum
  • Partners with cross-functional teams to develop design solutions and drive innovation

Senior UI-UX Designer

May 2014Mar 2015 · 10 mos

  • Studying more awesome designing.. I'm still a learner :)
LeadershipAnalytical Skills

Devicedriven

UX Designer

Jul 2013May 2014 · 10 mos

  • Developed information architectures, wireframes, and user flows for multiple projects.
  • Presented wireframes and documentation to the board of directors.
  • Coordinated the development, implementation, and quality control of our web applications.
  • Developed sitemaps, wireframes, and rapid prototyping.
  • Worked with visual designers on converting wireframes and rapid prototypes into high-fidelity prototypes.
  • Worked with content management systems such as WordPress.
  • Created content promotion plans and implemented them using the available tools and budgets.
  • Developed test plans and coordinated usability testing to improve products and services.
  • Wrote functional requirements documents and UI (User Interface) specifications.
  • Provided recommendations based on the usability test results.
Leadership

Srishti innovative computer systems

UI/Web and Graphic Designer

Apr 2011Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • 2 years experience in Web and UI designing... new ideas different thinking, so i love my field and also i love creativity :-)
  • More focused on HTML/CSS/HTML5/Jquery and JavaScript
  • Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering
  • Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
  • Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
  • Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders
  • Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback(low level)
  • Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards

Education

Rutronix

Diploma — Multimedia

Nov 2009Nov 2010

GHSS Ottakkal

+2 — Biology Science

Jan 2007Jan 2009

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