Nikhil Mantri

Product Designer

Pune, Maharashtra, India15 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years in product design leadership
Expertise in user-centered design for enterprise software
Proven track record in mentoring design teams

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Designer specializing in UX for enterprise software and cybersecurity solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience DesignDesign StrategyDesign ThinkingInformation ArchitectureProduct Design

Other Skills

User-centered DesignUser ResearchUsability TestingWireframingInformation DesignConsumer ProductsFMCGIndustrial DesignSketchingDesign ManagementHeuristic EvaluationTask AnalysisRapid PrototypingVisual CommunicationPersona

About

I am a product designer with 15+ years of experience in designing and leading data-driven and user-centered business outcomes for complex enterprise software product(s). My experience spans across Cybersecurity, Storage for Data resiliency, and the Mainstream engineering domain, balancing roles both as a lead for amazing UX team(s) and as an individual contributor, for some of the industry-leading products. Currently, I work as a UX lead for IBM Defender, a storage and data resiliency product within the IBM Storage portfolio. Previously at Cisco, I worked as an UX lead for RA-VPN and SD-WAN team(s), within the Firewall Management and Security group. Earlier, I spent over a decade at Siemens, leading two complex enterprise products that delivered business and UX outcomes for industry-leading products.

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 11 mos

Current Experience

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Lead Product Designer at IBM Storage for Data Resiliency

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Current role: Lead product designer- IBM Storage Defender
Previous role: Lead product designer- RedHat Openshift Data Foundation(ODF)
Responsibilities:
1. Collaborate with Product management team(s) for insights on business requirements and outcomes.
2. Working sessions with Architects and Product manager(s) to understand technology possibilities, ensure scalability, and find that silver lining.
3. Guide research teams to provide inputs and insights on the research protocol for exploratory research. Attending customer interviews and stakeholder discussions.
4. Understand user outcomes and preparation of design document and user flows, journey maps.
5. Lead and guide UX team with the requirements, flows, and expected business and user outcomes.
6. Mentor junior designers for onboarding on features, design systems, and business data.
7. Creating low-fidelity wire-frames, detailing high-fidelity prototypes, working on basic Illustrations, where applicable.
8. Guide research team(s)for validations of design prototypes with customers and stakeholders.

User Experience DesignUser-centered DesignDesign StrategyUser ResearchUsability TestingWireframing

Cisco

Lead Product Designer

Mar 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Roles:
1. Lead Product Designer, RA-VPN, SD-WAN- Cisco Firewall Management Center (FMC)
2. Product Designer, Centralized policy management: Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO)
Responsibilities:
1. Collaboration with Product Manager(s) to conduct customer interviews, stakeholder workshop(s) for gathering user and business outcomes.
2. Working with Product Owner(s) for channelizing product requirements, evaluating technical possibilities.
3. Competition study and analysis, Design Sprint(s), UX Workshop(s) for understanding and solving the design problems.
4. Guiding UX team with the requirements, flows, and business expectations.
5. Mentoring junior designers to help with user outcomes, design systems, and business data.
6. Working on low-fidelity wireframes, detailing high-fidelity prototypes.
7. Partnered with Research teams to lead prototype validation with customers and stakeholders.

User Experience DesignDesign ThinkingUsability TestingWireframing

Siemens digital industries software

Lead User Experience Designer, Product Manager

Sep 2011 – Mar 2023 · 11 yrs 6 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Roles:
1. Technical Product Manager, UX: Solid Edge Mainstream
2. Lead Product Designer: Solid Edge
3. Product Designer: Solid Edge Embedded Client
1. Led our Desktop UX design team supported by development scrum teams to redesign our Enterprise Industry product(s), implementing UX methodologies simplifying complex user workflows.
2. Worked as UX Designer for Siemens software product(s) in both Waterfall and Agile development process.
3. Key work areas were Quantitative and Qualitative User Research through User Interviews, Surveys, Beta Program(s), Discussion and UX Consulting with Project Owners and Project Managers, discussion with Business Product managers to gather product and business requirements, creation of User Scenarios, Navigation Model and Information Architecture, building low and high-fidelity prototypes, Usability Testing by Contextual Inquiry and Lab Testing, Usability Evaluation through Heuristic Evaluation, usage of Tobii Pro (Eye Tracking) for validations using gaze plots, mouse- click study and heat maps and UI-QC Validations.
4. Also worked on creation of UI elements like dialogs, message boxes, ribbon in Visual Studio, Microsoft Blend and checking in to TFS. Helped localization teams across countries on getting the UI localized.
5. Created UX standards, guideline documents and conducted trainings that drive Mainstream team’s future product increments.

User Experience DesignUsability TestingInformation ArchitectureWireframing

Radeus technology solutions pvt. ltd. (now part of persistent systems)

Product Designer

Oct 2010 – Sep 2011 · 11 mos

1. Worked as Product and UX Designer in the in-house design team.
2. Designed and created all graphic assets including logos, imagery and template folios for our Share portals and creation of wire-frames and high fidelity mockup(s) of portal which was forwarded to then outsourced development team.

User Experience DesignWireframing

Lokusdesign

Product Designer

Jul 2008 – Oct 2008 · 3 mos

1. Joined as a Product Designer (fresher) and contributed to product and packaging design projects for leading FMCG major ITC Fiama.
2. Designed and delivered product and information design for client Suzlon Energy.

Product DesignInformation Design