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Harshit Sharma

Head of Design

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in designing high-stakes financial UX.
  • Proven track record in workflow innovation and design leadership.
  • Strong strategic influence across cross-functional teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Healthcare UX Designer with a strong focus on strategic design orchestration.

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Skills

Core Skills

Interaction DesignDesign Strategy

Other Skills

End User ResearchAI PrototypingFigma (Software)Responsive Web DesignInclusive LeadershipDigital AccessibilityInformation Architecture (High-Complexity Data)Systemic ThinkingUser Research & Domain SynthesisDesign SystemLeadershipProblem SolvingCross-team CollaborationSystems ThinkingUX Strategy

About

For the past 6+ years, I have specialized in shaping enterprise products that sit at the core of financial middle-office and back-office operations. My work focuses on high-complexity, high-accountability workflows where usability directly impacts operational efficiency, decision quality, and global risk management. I operate as a strategic thought partner at the intersection of design, business logic, and technology. By partnering closely with finance operations, compliance, and engineering leaders, I bring structure to ambiguous problem spaces and convert domain-heavy requirements into clear, scalable interaction models. What I Bring to the Table • Systemic Architecture: Breaking down multi-step, fragmented workflows into unified, intuitive UX patterns. • Strategic Influence: Leading problem definition and design direction across cross-functional teams without formal authority. • Workflow Innovation: Integrating AI-powered tools into design workflows to accelerate prototyping, decision-making, and stakeholder alignment. • Design Foundations: Establishing reusable patterns and interaction models that enable distributed teams to ship high-quality work repeatedly. My goal is to lead design efforts in environments where clarity, speed, and reliability are paramount—and where thoughtful UX can meaningfully improve how global financial operations work behind the scenes.

Experience

6 yrs 7 mos
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Current Experience

D. e. shaw india private limited

Lead Interaction Designer

Jul 2020Present · 5 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

  • Corporate Actions Platform: Spearheaded the design of a unified interface to manage high-stakes corporate elections (dividends, rights issues). Replaced fragmented email/spreadsheet workflows with a system focused on risk mitigation, role-based orchestration, and cross-role transparency.
  • Fund Reporting Operations: Redesigned the back-office reporting ecosystem, replacing opaque & scattered manual processes with a transparent, trackable workflow. Introduced granular task performance and automated bottleneck detection for management and operations teams.
  • Investor Overview Tool: Created a strategic platform for Relationship Managers (RMs) to access real-time client performance and fee structures. Centralised disparate data into a single source of truth, facilitating proactive, data-driven manager-investor dialogue.
  • Design Leadership: Mentored peers and engineering partners on design-thinking best practices. Optimised internal design workflows by integrating AI-assisted prototyping tools to reduce iteration cycles.
End User ResearchAI PrototypingInteraction DesignDesign Strategy

1mg

User Experience Designer

Nov 2019Jul 2020 · 8 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

  • Telemedicine Scalability: Led the rapid design and launch of the Video Call feature for the Doctor Consultation product in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Asynchronous Communication: Refined chat experiences for patient-doctor communication, focusing on clarity and trust in high-pressure medical contexts.
End User ResearchFigma (Software)Interaction DesignDesign Strategy

Infosys

User Experience Lead

Aug 2019Oct 2019 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Community-Driven Design: Prototyped a travel safety application specifically designed for the solo women travelers community, focusing on end-user research and safety-first interaction patterns.
End User ResearchFigma (Software)Interaction DesignDesign Strategy

Networkcapital.co

Product Design Intern

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · South Delhi, Delhi, India · Remote

Happy horizons trust

UX Research and Branding

May 2017Jul 2017 · 2 mos · South Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Bachelors in Design — Human Computer Interaction

Jul 2015May 2019

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