Priyanka Pillai

Design Manager

New York, New York, United States5 yrs 4 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Experienced in leading design strategy for major clients.
Proficient in user experience research and design.
Strong background in educational roles and mentorship.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a UX and Design expert in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience (ux)Design StrategyResearch

Other Skills

Usability TestingUser ResearchProduct DesignService DesignDesignWorkshop facilitationWireframingPrototypingUX DesignUser recruitmentUX ResearchStrategic DesignInteraction DesignQualitative & Quantitative Research MethodologiesProduct Development

Experience

5 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

1 yr

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Mckinsey & company

2 roles

Associate Design Director

Promoted

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos · New York, United States · On-site

Senior Product Designer

Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · New York, United States · On-site

Harvard university graduate school of design

Graduate Teaching Fellow

Jan 2024 – May 2024 · 4 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · On-site

Teaching Fellow - STU 1232: Collaborative Design Engineering Studio II
Professors: Jonathan Grinham, Kipp Bradford, Karen Reuther, Mark Coughlin.

Harvard john a. paulson school of engineering and applied sciences

Graduate Teaching Fellow

Sep 2023 – Jan 2024 · 4 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · On-site

Teaching Fellow for CS79: Design of Useful and Usable Interactive Systems
Professor: Krzysztof Gajos

Mckinsey & company

Experience Design Intern

May 2023 – Jul 2023 · 2 mos · New York, United States

Worked across research, strategy, and design for a healthcare client.

User Experience (UX)Usability TestingUser ResearchDesign StrategyProduct DesignService Design

Ibm

2 roles

Senior Experience Designer and Researcher

Promoted

Sep 2021 – Aug 2022 · 11 mos

Main projects:
Power Hybrid Cloud (Research, Design, and Workshop facilitation)
Redesigned IBM’s HMC interface designed for AI, deep learning, machine learning, and cognitive
workloads. Ran a successful Design Partner Program and conducted generative research and testing through multiple channels. Responsibilities included producing all wireframes and prototypes, creating design roadmaps, performing heuristic reviews, and interlocking with the greater team (development, project management, and executive leadership) on requirements and priorities.
Workshop Coach and Facilitator: Led & facilitated Design Thinking workshops for pitches and projects, for clients & IBM leadership, as a certified IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator.

Experience Designer and Researcher

Dec 2019 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

- Cognitive Systems (Research and UX Design) - Worked with a team of researchers, developers, and product engineers to design OpenBMC and eBMC’s front-end GUIs, used by System Administrators to manage server farms. OpenBMC is codeveloped by IBM, Facebook, Intel, Google, Microsoft, and others, while eBMC is IBM’s enterprise software. Involved in research, design, prototyping, testing, user recruitment, and facilitating. Analysed user behaviour and created intuitive & seamless user experiences for multiple features.