Dec 2024 – Jun 2025 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Leadership and Team Management
• Lead a team of designers to create and refine products, focusing on user experience and interface design.
• Provide direction, guidance, and mentorship to designers to foster a collaborative environment.
• Manage team dynamics, including hiring, training, and career development of designers.
• Product Design and Development
• Oversee the entire design process from concept to final implementation, ensuring design consistency and quality.
• Coordinate product design and development, aligning with company goals and user needs.
• Conduct usability testing and iterate based on feedback to improve product design.
• Market Research and Analysis
• Conduct thorough research to understand customer needs and preferences.
• Identify opportunities for new products and evaluate existing designs.
• Use insights to inform design decisions and drive product improvements.
• Collaboration and Communication
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, marketing, and sales.
• Ensure open communication with stakeholders to align product design with business objectives.
• Setting Design Standards and Vision
• Establish and communicate a clear product vision and goals.
• Set design standards aligned with company goals and target market needs.
• Problem Solving and Innovation
• Discover and define problems to be solved by the product.
• Develop innovative solutions that meet market demands and enhance user experience.

Sep 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• User Research: Conducting thorough user research to understand the needs, goals, and pain points of target users within the context of IoT-based projects.
• User Experience Design: Developing intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for IoT applications, ensuring seamless interactions between users and IoT devices or systems.
• Information Architecture: Creating effective information hierarchies and organizing complex data sets to enhance user understanding and decision-making in IoT environments.
• Interaction Design: Designing and prototyping interactive experiences that facilitate user interactions with IoT devices, sensors, and data visualization.
• Usability Testing: Planning and executing usability tests to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of user interfaces and iterating designs based on user feedback.
• Collaborative Approach: Working closely with cross-functional teams, including engineers, developers, product managers, and stakeholders, to ensure alignment between design and technical implementation.
• Strategy Development: Contributing to the development of strategic plans and roadmaps for IoT-based projects, considering market trends, user needs, and business objectives.
• IoT Ecosystem Analysis: Assessing and analyzing the IoT ecosystem, including device connectivity, data collection, analytics, and security, to inform design decisions and improve overall user experience.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engaging with stakeholders, clients, and end-users to gather requirements, understand business objectives, and communicate design concepts effectively.
• Industry Research: Staying up-to-date with emerging trends, technologies, and best practices in IoT and UX design to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge.

Mar 2022 – Sep 2022 · 6 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Lead Creative Director

Jun 2021 – Mar 2022 · 9 mos

Aug 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Roles and responsibilities -
• Worked on “Future of banking services after a decade” (Pilot project@ TCS Interactive)
• Worked on an application for electricity consumption tracking
• Led UX and visual design for the world's one of the largest online collaborative platform
• Worked efficiently and delivered more than 30 projects in different sectors which include Banking, Healthcare, retails, education services etc.
• Oversee all design projects, from conception to delivery
• Design original pieces, including illustrations and infographics
• Review junior designers’ work to ensure high quality
• Refine images, fonts and layouts using graphic design, software
• Apply typography techniques
• Generate ideas to portray concepts and advertise products/services
• Increase user-friendliness in digital products
• Maintain brand consistency throughout all our marketing projects
• Liaise with marketing and design teams to ensure deadlines are met
• Stay up-to-date with industry developments and tools
• Gather and evaluate client requirements in collaboration with project managers and solution architects.
• Define the scope of engagement through internal discussions with the team.
• Create user personas through research and available data.
• Envision design ideas using process flows, information architecture and whiteboards.
• Define the right interaction model and evaluate its feasibility in collaboration with solution architects.
• Regular reviews with project managers and UX heads to enhance the design quality at every step.
• Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders and get sign off on the design by the client.
• Create graphical elements required for Hi-fidelity mockups.
• Create the Hi-fidelity prototypes of the wireframes.
• Walk the client through the final prototypes explaining all the features and USPs.
• Gather and evaluate client requirements in collaboration with project managers and solution architects.

Jan 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Manage all student progress and prepare required strategies to complete all programs and ensure compliance with all Institute regulations. Prepare all resumes and conduct interviews with all students and provide assistance to all graduates and review all procedures of the placement department.

Jul 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs

May 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr · Kolkata Area, India

• Architecture & Interior Design Faculty
• Roles and responsibilities-
• Develop a structure to ensure recruitment and retention of
• quality staff, including training, support and succession
• planning for future leaders.
• To resolve problems affecting the delivery of courses within
• own educational programme, and in accordance with College
• regulations.
• To ensure compliance of university or any other affiliating body
• for the program and to monitor that other necessary statutory
• Rules and Regulations are followed.
• To provide academic leadership to those working within
• programme areas, as of course leader or equivalent, co-ordinating
• the work of others to ensure that courses are delivered
• effectively, and/or organising the work of a team by agreeing
• objectives and work plans.
• In other words, to engage with the broader scholarly and
• professional communities.
• Actively contribute to the organization's strategic plan
• assessing short and long-term needs.
• To coordinate the department
• To teach about 20-25 hours of course/per week
• To follow the students in their education and progress
• To participate to juries of evaluation
• To organize courses according to specific goals; sequence the
• courses; build a dynamic during classes and between classes.
• To follow up individual and global of the students.
• To evaluate the work and the skills of the students.
• To develop the qualities and skills of students.
• The candidate will be required to develop, maintain the
• websites of the organization.
• Help with other academic/administration related activities
• during non-teaching hours.

May 2012 – Jul 2017 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Kolkata Area, India

• Roles and responsibilities -
• Oversee all design projects, from conception to delivery
• Design original pieces, including illustrations and infographics
• Review junior designers’ work to ensure high quality
• Refine images, fonts and layouts using graphic design
• software
• Apply typography techniques
• Generate ideas to portray concepts and advertise
• products/services
• Increase user-friendliness in digital products
• Maintain brand consistency throughout all our marketing
• projects
• Liaise with marketing and design teams to ensure deadlines
• are met
• Stay up-to-date with industry developments and tools

Jan 2012 – May 2012 · 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• designing furnitures and detail designing of those