Akshata Chandra

Product Designer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates5 yrs 10 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Passionate about UX research and design.
Strong leadership and communication skills.
Creative thinker with a diverse background.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Product Designer with expertise in UX design for SaaS applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DesignLeadershipUser Experience Design

Other Skills

Usability TestingWeb DesignUser Experience (UX)User Experience Design (UED)User Interface DesignUser-centered DesignWireframingInteraction DesignUsabilityUser StoriesContent StrategyNetwork SecurityInformation SecurityObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Microsoft Visual Studio Code

About

Ever since Kindergarten, I have been into public speaking. I have always taken up leadership roles throughout my academic journey. Co-curriculars have been a vital part of my overall development. As a result, I have been exposed to a wide variety of people and how to work with them collaboratively. When I was in the third year of Engineering, I discovered the field of UX Design through a contest conducted in my college and I felt what better a career than this for a people person like me! Then started my self learning journey into UX and it continues till date. UX research and design being my passion, I always give my best to every project I undertake. I am a creative thinker trained in Adobe XD, Figma, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Python. A quick learner, always motivated to do better. A people person with strong interpersonal and communication skills, hence an excellent team player. Highly inquisitive and constantly doing what it takes to get better at problem solving. I have explored the fields of dance and theatre too! So stage is my second home :) I'm an avid book reader, I love mystery thrillers. I'm also an amateur writer. Let's talk! Feel free to hit me up! :)

Experience

5 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 1 mo

Average Tenure

2 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Careem

2 roles

Senior Product Designer

Promoted

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Product Designer 2

Jan 2024 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

At Careem, I'm currently working with the Food team and owning the Find & Discover squad under the same. Here are some noteworthy highlights from my time at Careem so far:
Successfully redesigned and launched Food Discover v0 and Food Search, driving the highest conversion increase for a single initiative in 2024.
Spearheaded the Food Subpages project, contributing creative components and mechanics that significantly enhanced discovery and conversion rates.
Developed detailed prototypes with Protopie for user testing, iterating based on research insights to refine the user experience.
Took ownership of establishing the Pixel Perfection process, and key design deliverables, ensuring pixel-perfect implementation and attention to detail across all initiatives.
Actively shaped long-term design strategy by collaborating with the product team on vision and backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals.
Promoted a design-driven culture, providing continuous feedback to improve processes and advocating for the design team’s needs at the leadership level.

Product DesignLeadership

Swiggy

3 roles

Senior Product Designer

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Dec 2023 · 8 mos

Product Designer

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr

Associate product designer

Jul 2021 – Apr 2022 · 9 mos

10kdesigners

Alumni mentor

Aug 2021 – Nov 2021 · 3 mos

10kdesigners

Designer in Residence

Feb 2021 – May 2021 · 3 mos

Mcafee

2 roles

Software Development Engineer

Aug 2020 – Apr 2021 · 8 mos

Product: Advanced Threat Defense
BU: Enterprise
Worked on UI development using ExtJS and PHP
Contributed to 5+ new features in the product UI
Resolved 10+ issues related to product UI
Also took ownership of Django deployment and maintenance of ATD's licensing server

Undergraduate Technical Intern

Feb 2020 – Aug 2020 · 6 mos

Product: Advanced Threat Defense
BU: Enterprise
Worked on UI development using ExtJS and PHP
Contributed to 4 new features in the product UI (as of June 2020)
Resolved 4 issues related to product UI (as of June 2020)
Also worked on automation in Selenium with Python

Toastmasters international

2 roles

Vice President Public Relations (McAfee RTT)

Jul 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr

Member

Jun 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Ameniti

Rhetorician (Soft skills trainer)

Jul 2020 – Dec 2020 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As part of this, I teach 'Understanding Understanding' to Pre-University students. It involves touching upon many psychological theories, experiments and learnings which help in understanding how the human brain functions and how you can leverage that to your advantage.