Aman V. — Co-Founder

Building top-tier design and creative teams to attack tough product and brand challenges. "Tech", Saas, Consumer Electronics, Automotive, CPG ... in that order. Filling vacuum for organisations that have emerged from siloed thinking, sporadic growth, scale, and knowledge and skill gaps. 🖥️💽💿🖱️🎞️🖼️🥾👟🥼🎚️🎛️🔭🔬🎥🚗🏎️🏍️ The vision is to build top products and brands. India to the Globe! Non Zero Sum Games www.nonzero.space Early Career : Started as a newbie industrial designer and spent quite a bit of my time initially in an even more narrow sub-section of that niche, vehicular architecture and automotive exterior modelling. I almost fell prey to speciation until I explored what "Design" actually meant from various lenses. What it meant in different industries and different functions within an organisation. The adage "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." was fairly apparent early on. The problem here was that most design colleges (mine as well) were training students from the lens of a craftsperson. Don Norman speaks about it a fair bit. We do need craftspeople, visual artists, modellers etc. but the world equally needs people who understand complex products, businesses, and systems like ERP systems, Traffic Control systems, Banking, Med Tech. etc. If I had the scruples I'd be a scientist, but then I found myself smack in the middle of these two types of design worlds and now I'm happy.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a design leader in the SaaS and consumer electronics industries.

Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India

Experience: 6 yrs 4 mos

Skills

Design Leadership
Growth Strategies
Service Design

Career Highlights

Expert in building design and creative teams.
Strong background in SaaS and consumer electronics.
Proven track record in design leadership and strategy.

Work Experience

PanOut | For Creative Agencies | PM Alternative | SaaS

Founder (6 mos)

Fractal Ink

Project Lead | Product Design | UX UI (5 mos)

Nykaa

Product Design Consultant | Brand | GTM (10 mos)

Whirlpool Corporation

Senior Design Ops & UX Consultant (2 yrs)

Mahindra Auto Global

UX Architect (10 mos)

Sats App

Design Consultant | Across Functions (Product, Communications, Brand) (1 yr 1 mo)

Non Zero

Managing Partner (6 yrs 4 mos)

Accenture Song

DesignAffairs China Interaction Design Intern (5 mos)

Khosla Labs

User Experience Designer Intern (3 mos)

NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited 網龍網絡控股有限公司

Design Research Intern (2 mos)

Education

Master's in Design Management at Rubika

High School at Modern School

Junior School at The Indian School

Aman V.

Co-Founder

New Delhi, Delhi, India6 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building design and creative teams.
Strong background in SaaS and consumer electronics.
Proven track record in design leadership and strategy.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a design leader in the SaaS and consumer electronics industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Design LeadershipGrowth StrategiesService Design

Other Skills

Design SystemsHuman Machine InterfaceSaaS DesignSaaS DevelopmentBudget ManagementExpert CommunicatorAllocationsSales OperationsSketchingDesign ThinkingConcept DevelopmentDesign StrategyIndustrial DesignProduct DesignGraphic Design

About

Experience

6 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Panout | for creative agencies | pm alternative | saas

Founder

Oct 2022 – Apr 2023 · 6 mos · India

PanOut is your second brain to help run your agency.
The Problem:
There are endless PM tools out there, but none are light enough to help studio managers and owners.
The tool is designed to give you a holistic picture of your business.
Merging three significant functions of the business: Finance, Operations, and Team.
✅ Status reports of live projects
✅ Light CRM, prospects in the sales pipeline, etc., to help resource management.
✅ Track team members' growth track and remuneration history.
✅ Track crucial numbers like the number of projects (retainers or project basis and their division), total leads, total proposals sent, operating margins of different projects etc.
✅ With the help of analytics and documentation, enable cash flow management and reminders for crucial financial events like receivables, payables, bills, taxation, TDS, GST, etc.
Zoom in & Zoom Out | Just enough granularity and broadness to help you make accurate decisions on the fly.
THE PROJECT HAS BEEN SHELVED

Fractal ink

Project Lead | Product Design | UX UI

Oct 2022 – Mar 2023 · 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

Design Leadership

Nykaa

Product Design Consultant | Brand | GTM

May 2022 – Mar 2023 · 10 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Whirlpool corporation

Senior Design Ops & UX Consultant

Oct 2021 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs · United States · Hybrid

UX Design & Design Ops across various verticals.
Working with project leads and various designers both internally and with vendors.

Design SystemsBudget ManagementExpert CommunicatorAllocationsDesign LeadershipService Design

Mahindra auto global

UX Architect

Aug 2021 – Jun 2022 · 10 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

HMI
Mobile
E-commerce

Sats app

Design Consultant | Across Functions (Product, Communications, Brand)

Jul 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · United States · Remote

Early stage startup. Fintech
Assisting the founding team in the initial gestation months!

Non zero

Managing Partner

Feb 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Non Zero
www.factors.design | HMI Design across industries | Scale
www.notforthefaint.space | Design for early stage | Velocity
www.reborngoods.co | Design for consumer | Brands & Comm
www.naturalform.space | Brands from Non Zero

Design SystemsGrowth StrategiesDesign LeadershipService DesignHuman Machine InterfaceSaaS Design+1

Accenture song

DesignAffairs China Interaction Design Intern

Jan 2016 – Jun 2016 · 5 mos · Shanghai, China · On-site

Intern at designaffairs GMBH (now Accenture Song) @ the Shanghai Office (Art District)
> Played my small part in various projects for automotive and consumer electronics clients.
> Observed the operations of a top-tier design firm from the insides.
> Honed my craft under my mentors across various design teams > Industrial Design, Interface Design, and Design Strategy.
> My mentor Alex Pollock steered me into the path of learning about the 'Business of Design'
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Khosla labs

User Experience Designer Intern

Jan 2015 – Apr 2015 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Khosla Labs is a technology innovation lab founded in 2012 by Vinod Khosla and Srikanth Nadhamuni.
It functions as a startup incubator and focuses on solving large-scale problems through technological innovation.
> As a newbie, I worked on various product design projects (mobile and web apps)
> I struggled to find some ground here since I came from a different world of design (automotive/industrial design)
> Without a mentor or a guide I was the only designer amongst the PhDs and IIT folks that made up most of the team. As I remember, it was fun & scary both.
> I realised that industrial design is excruciatingly slow and fairly simplistic in comparison and almost gave up university studies to switch lanes.
> my first taste of "startups"
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Netdragon websoft holdings limited 網龍網絡控股有限公司

Design Research Intern

Jan 2014 – Mar 2014 · 2 mos · Fujian, China · On-site

A Chinese Gaming company known for their MMORPG titles. https://www.netdragon.com/
> A Startrek-inspired colossal campus, with Olympic-sized facilities and massive slides connecting each floor. I couldn't believe how I ended up here. https://youtu.be/kaRYzv25z_Y
> Met with interns from across the globe.
> The Chinese market had it's own AAA titles and a huge internal market, which was a pleasant surprise.
> Worked with design and research teams for gaming and ed tech products.
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