Sandeep Karmarkar

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of experience in design leadership.
Proven track record in building and scaling design teams.
Strong advocate for community building and mentorship.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned design leader in the SaaS industry with a focus on user experience and design management.

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Skills

Other Skills

Design ManagementCoaching and mentoringDesign operationsUser-Centered DesignDashboard DesigningData visualizationInfographicsPersuasive designGamificationAugmented RealityPaintingPhotography

About

- A seasoned, passionate, and empathetic design leader with high EQ having over 2+ decades of experience converting complex requirements into simple and usable experiences - 8 years of design leadership experience leading diverse product design teams - An innovator, problem solver, selfless collaborator, and Intrapreneur with a strong focus to increase eﬃciency and ROI - Solid Proven track record to hire and scale design function across organizations like Google and Nutanix - Strongly believes in giving back to the community and mentorship across all stages of career Specialties: Design Management, Coaching and mentoring, Design operations, User-Centered Design, Institutionalize UX, Dashboard Designing, Data visualization, Infographics, Rapid Prototyping, Simplicity Interests Community building, Persuasive design, Gamification, Augmented Reality, Painting, Photography

Experience

25 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs

Current Experience

Uber

Group Product Design Manager

May 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Leading the rider design team under mobility responsible for multiple verticals and growth portfolio.

Google

UX Design Leadership

May 2021 – May 2023 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built design practice for Google cloud security with 7-member talented team in Bangalore with multiple specializations – Interaction design, user research and Data Visualizations
Led design internship and new grad hiring (2022) from design leadership standpoint for the entire Google India. Partnered with HR teams to come up with one day offers in design for the first time.

Nutanix

2 roles

Director of Design

Promoted

Aug 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Built design practice with 19-member strong team for Nutanix in Bangalore with multiple specializations Interaction design, Visual design, Data Visualizations and Illustrations
Played core part of the Internal Compliance Committee (ICC) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee
Established Nutanix brand in the Indian Design community by conducting sessions like Nutanix Flux, Nutanix Design competition, How to Craft a Design Portfolio and talks at DesignUp18 and Designup19 conference

Senior Manager Design

Jan 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Responsible for designer hiring, onboarding, scaling up, mentoring and retaining talented designers
Laid down powerful talent pipeline to hire designers from premier institutes NIDs, IIT-G, IDC and Shristi

Reddot

Head of Product & Business Development

Jul 2015 – Oct 2015 · 3 mos · Bangalore

Head of products (wearable SOS product design, mobile app and enterprise dashboard) with a goal to design an ecosystem around personal safety. RedDot introduced social angle by presenting safety by numbers. The wearable SOS device allowed trusted CareGivers track (location) and help their contacts in case of emergency.

Cisco

2 roles

Technical Leader

Promoted

May 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

Institutionalized UX culture by making strategic partnerships with Engineering, Product management, support and QA across the organization
Evangelized UX by delivering “How to Think like a Designer?” workshop for non-designers where mentored 200+ product team members on design thinking, UX best practices and simplicity
Owned Advanced Services Tools portfolio (10+ tools)

Senior Interaction Designer

Feb 2010 – Apr 2014 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Innovated an “Enterprise resource manager mobile app” (locates, manages and consumes) based on Augmented Reality technology
Lead design benchmarking effort using industry standard surveys (SUS and TAM)
Managed UX portfolio for Smart and Connected Communities (S+CC) group comprising web solutions, Kiosks and hand-held devices for Education and Building Management (BMS) verticals
Led and designed complex executive dashboards with data visualization for many web apps
Researched, designed and led student’s online home tutoring marketplace for Sungdo smart city, South Korea

Oracle corporation

Senior Interaction Design Lead

Jun 2007 – Feb 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Owned and Led UX portfolio for PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM), Enterprise Portal and PeopleTools (web apps and iPhone apps)
Supervised and led rebranding exercise for PeopleTools 8.50 and PeopleSoft applications portfolio
Designed new interaction pattern with multiple web 2.0 components ﬁxing usability issues to drive higher user eﬀectiveness

Symphony services

Interaction Design Lead

Jan 2006 – May 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

Consulted with Autodesk and Trilogy for windows / consumer web applications, advised application teams on UX guidelines and UI layouts

Convergys

Content Development Lead

Aug 2000 – Jan 2006 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Led multiple designers, developers and vendors for designing highly interactive online courseware content for fortune 500 companies
Responsibilities included Creative Direction, Visual and Interaction design, Communication Design, Heuristic evaluation and mentoring fellow designers to leverage design standards in the organization.