Krishna Raj S

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Scaled UX teams for significant revenue growth.
Championed design systems for improved business performance.
Led healthcare and fintech initiatives with strategic impact.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic UX and product leader in Fintech and Healthcare sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ux StrategyProduct StrategyInformation ArchitectureCurriculum Design

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesDesign DocumentationUX EngineeringCompliance StrategyUser ExperienceConsultingEthical LeadershipGlobal Cross-Functional Team LeadershipProduct Operations & Metrics-Driven DesignSector Fluency & Pivot ReadinessCreative Problem-Solving & DIY ThinkingIndustrial DesignProduct OperationsExecutive ManagementBusiness-to-Business (B2B)

About

Enterprise-scale UX & Product Leader | Cross-industry strategist delivering clarity, measurable impact, and highly successful outcomes from day one of independent practice. 🤝 Scaled UX teams, delivered revenue growth through customer-centric strategy, and improved retention via seamless digital experience optimization. 📈 Championed design systems, accessibility, modern encryption and inclusive design, aligning product, design, and engineering into unified strategies that elevate business performance. ✨ Secure design is good design. Clear UX is trusted UX Recent Interim Wins 💊 💳 Led healthcare and fintech initiatives with strategic UX and product design 🏥 Built new design teams from the ground up 🚀 Secured delivery continuity for a major Indian software firm in a critical phase 🤝 Partnered in Singapore to reinforce global delivery and unify leadership efforts Current Focus Hands‑on leadership bridging critical gaps while preparing for the next executive role. Ready to travel worldwide to support teams, clients, and leadership mandates. ---------------------- Earlier Career Highlights (1999–2009) 🎓 Fractional Executive Advisor — Product Strategy & UX Design | Bangalore / Hyderabad 🚀 Senior UX Analyst & Interaction Design Lead — Wipro Technologies | Bangalore 🏭 Industrial & Medical Art Animator — Integrated E‑Learning Solutions | Bangalore 📰 Print Media Designer — ADS India Prepress Studio | Mysore 🎞 Photo Editor — Raman Color Labs | Mysore

Experience

16 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

7 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

Interim consultant

Fractional Executive Advisor — UX, Product Strategy & Digital Design Leadership Transformation

Aug 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

📈 Accelerated product delivery cycles by 20–30% through UX‑engineering alignment.
🎯 Reduced onboarding drop‑off by 25% and lifted NPS by +15 points in fintech and compliance platforms.
⚡ Helped startups achieve compliance readiness 2x faster than industry average.
🔐 I’m supported by a fractional, dedicated security team focused on modernizing encryption, strengthening trust, and aligning product vision with long‑term strategy—resulting in secure platforms that scaled to 10,000+ patient interactions while accelerating compliance readiness 2x faster than industry average.
🌍 Consulting across AI, fintech, compliance, and behavioral health, partnering with organizations that value ethical leadership, emotional intelligence, and long‑term product vision.
🛠 Solved recurring proof‑of‑concept misalignments by contextualizing solutions to client environments, ensuring seamless adoption and reliability.
🔄 Transformed fragmented workflows into streamlined processes, balancing compliance, user trust, and product experience.

Agile MethodologiesDesign DocumentationUX StrategyProduct Strategy

Planetria

Senior User Experience Design Director

Sep 2012 – Aug 2025 · 12 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · Hybrid

🤝 Scaled a UX org from a small core team into a mature, multi-disciplinary function
📈 Drove revenue impact through customer-centric product strategy & service innovation
📊 Improved retention via digital journey optimization and elevated remote collaboration
🤝 Established quarterly UX audits & design KPIs, creating a metrics-driven culture
🔧 Resolved systemic collaboration bottlenecks by introducing design‑engineering alignment frameworks, improving delivery speed and quality.

UX StrategyProduct Strategy

Icd-10 coders academy llc.,

Design Strategist/ Principal Information Architect

Nov 2009 – Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad, India and Orlando, FL · Hybrid

🤝 Built high-impact systems & ICD-10 learning experiences to elevate capability & streamline operations
📚 Published curriculum & digital learning products driving healthcare workforce readiness
🔐 Led secure integrations & monetization, ensuring seamless UX, efficiency & adoption
🔍 Diagnosed and corrected workflow inefficiencies, enabling faster adoption across healthcare training platforms

Information ArchitectureCurriculum Design