anand dawson — CEO

14+ years of diverse, hands-on experience — AI and UX Strategy | Designing and Building end-to-end AI Native Products | Building high-performing design teams | Enterprise SaaS and Consumer UX Strategy for leading enterprises/startups (backed by $10M–$400M in funding / adopted by 30 million+ users / 40,000+ businesses) Building end-to-end AI native products using tools such as Lovable, Claude Code, and Replit — AI "Chief-of-Staff" Assistant | AI Wealth Management Platform | AI Conversational Agent Platform | Interactive Reflex-based Game | Personalized AI Travel Planning tool. Part of an AI Product Leadership Cohort, mentored by two global AI product leaders — Henry Shi (Anthropic), Technical Chief of Staff and Rohan Verma (OpenAI Codex), earlier the first Product Manager at Cursor — first-principle AI practitioners, who own product decisions at the frontier of AI. Collaborating with executive leadership and product/ engineering/ business teams, to distill complex ideas into elegant and intuitive experiences. Led and scaled 8–25+ member Product and UX Design teams; accelerated delivery through adoption of AI-powered ideation, prototyping, and scenario simulation workflows. Key projects include AI-native Products across verticals | Gupshup Conversational AI Platform (40K+ brands, 10 billion+ messages/month, $300 million+ ARR), used by Unilever, HDFC, Swiggy etc, Shine (30 million+ users), Embibe, Hilton, Airtel, Cisco, and Moët Hennessy. Founded UnmissableAI.com — a site curating the latest AI breakthroughs, compelling insights, and emerging trends. Author of “It’s The Prompt,Stupid” (available on Amazon), a practical handbook on how to write clear, effective AI prompts for writing, research/planning — with real world examples. Constantly learning as well as helping businesses navigate the AI transformation — by defining AI-driven UX strategies, AI design workflows and multimodal interactions, that feel intuitive, and deeply human. Mentoring and consulting with startups and enterprises — helping leverage UX as a strategic differentiator — offering long-term strategic guidance, as well as focused engagements — MVPs / AI-Native product design frameworks / Concepts / Competitive Benchmarking / New module/feature development / Onboarding / Usability enhancements. Also, mentoring at startup accelerators, such as IIT Kharagpur (Empresario) and BITS Pilani (Conquest) .

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on AI-driven user experience design.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 21 yrs 2 mos

Skills

Ai User Experience Strategy
Designing And Building Ai Products
User Experience

Career Highlights

14+ years of experience in AI and UX strategy.
Led design teams for high-impact AI-native products.
Mentored startups on leveraging UX for strategic advantage.

Work Experience

Consulting

Design Leader – AI and UX Strategy | AI Product Builder (11 mos)

Gupshup

Director – User Experience (UX) (3 yrs 11 mos)

Embibe

Head – User Experience (UX) (11 mos)

Shine.com

Head – User Experience (UX) & Design (5 yrs 6 mos)

UX Consulting

Principal Consultant – User Experience (UX) & Interaction Design (10 mos)

Sinch India

Head – UX at ACL Mobile (acquired by Sinch) – started as UX Designer (9 yrs 1 mo)

Education

at AI Product Leadership Cohort by global AI product leaders - Henry Shi (Anthropic), Rohan Verma (OpenAI Codex), earlier first PM at Cursor

at Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi

at Loyola College, Madras

anand dawson

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

14+ years of experience in AI and UX strategy.
Led design teams for high-impact AI-native products.
Mentored startups on leveraging UX for strategic advantage.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on AI-driven user experience design.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai User Experience StrategyDesigning And Building Ai ProductsUser Experience

Other Skills

Building and Scaling Design TeamsGenerative AIAIUser Experience DesignProduct ManagementConversational AIMobile ApplicationsGame DesignAI Agent UX workflowsData AnalyticsDesign StrategyInformation Architecture0-1 Thinking and BuildingMobile DevicesUsability

About

Experience

21 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs

Average Tenure

11 mos

Current Experience

Consulting

Design Leader – AI and UX Strategy | AI Product Builder

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Designing and building end-to-end AI native products, using the latest AI tools such as Lovable, Claude Code and Replit —
// Project Second Brain — Your AI “Chief of Staff”
Designed and built an AI-native task intelligence platform that automatically captures decisions, commitments, and follow-ups across email, calendar, Slack etc, to generate a prioritized daily brief.
// Project Convoba — AI-powered Conversational Agent Platform
An AI-powered conversational agent platform that helps businesses automate customer engagement at scale. It lets you create, train, and deploy intelligent agents across channels — your always-on AI workforce — handling outreach, bookings, and support.
// Project WealthNexa — AI-driven Wealth Management Platform
A mobile-first, AI-driven wealth management platform, purpose-built for youth who want to grow their money without the complexity of traditional finance. It combines investing, tax optimization, goal planning, and spending insights into a single, elegant app
// Project Gotcha! — Real-Time Reaction Game (Mobile)
Designed and built a high-intensity reaction game around focus, precision, and pressure. Conceptualized a scarcity-driven gameplay mechanic, creating high-stakes engagement and differentiating the experience.
// Project Trip Planner — Trip Management Hub
Travel planning is often fragmented and overwhelming, with travelers juggling multiple platforms. Conceptualized a unified, AI-powered solution that generates a detailed, one-click, customizable itinerary tailored to individual preferences (family needs, accessibility, budget etc).
Mentoring and consulting with startups and enterprises — helping leverage UX and design as a strategic differentiator — offering both long-term strategic guidance, as well as focused engagements for a range of design challenges — MVPs / AI-native product design frameworks / Integrating AI / Competitive Benchmarking / New module/feature development / Onboarding / Usability enhancements.

Designing and Building AI ProductsAI User Experience StrategyBuilding and Scaling Design TeamsGenerative AIUser Experience

Gupshup

Director – User Experience (UX)

Jun 2021 – May 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Excited to have shaped generative AI user experiences and AI Agent UX workflows, in close collaboration with cross-functional teams, for Gupshup’s Conversational AI Cloud & AI Agent Builder platform — that enable leading businesses & brands across the globe, to seamlessly build, customize, and deploy conversational AI workflows and AI Agents, enhancing the entire customer journey across marketing, commerce, and support.
Gupshup's Conversational AI Cloud platform enables over 40,000 businesses (Nivea, Reserva, Swiggy, Khan Academy, HDFC, AkzoNobel, Flipkart, Myntra, HSBC, Ola etc), to send over 10 billion messages every month, to nearly a billion users.
Gupshup is a global leader in the Conversational AI space – and has raised over $400 million in funding.

User ExperienceGenerative AIAI Agent UX workflows

Embibe

Head – User Experience (UX)

Feb 2020 – Jan 2021 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Evolving the cross-platform user experience strategy and framework for Embibe’s next-generation, core consumer product (mobile, web, OTT), that uses data analytics to deliver personalized learning outcomes.
Embibe is one of India’s leading AI-powered learning platforms and startups – and has raised around $200 million in funding.

User ExperienceData Analytics

Shine.com

Head – User Experience (UX) & Design

Jul 2014 – Jan 2020 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Delhi

Driving the cross-platform user experience and design strategy for Shine, one of the largest job networks globally, with over 30 million users, and new/pilot initiatives. Previously, defined the UX strategy for some of HT Media's key other online consumer brands, accessed by millions of users every month – in the education and entertainment spaces as well.

User ExperienceDesign Strategy

Ux consulting

Principal Consultant – User Experience (UX) & Interaction Design

Aug 2013 – Jun 2014 · 10 mos

Defined the user experience and information architecture, for mobile applications / websites, analytics tools, task management solutions, primarily in the travel, ecommerce and healthcare spaces.

User ExperienceInformation Architecture

Sinch india

Head – UX at ACL Mobile (acquired by Sinch) – started as UX Designer

Jun 2004 – Jul 2013 · 9 yrs 1 mo

Drove the user experience and design strategy for a diverse range of products at ACL Mobile, a pioneering startup of mobile social networking and messaging solutions.
ACL went on to be acquired by Sinch, the global cloud communications platform
Part of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three years in succession, ACL was one of the first Indian startups that was backed by Naspers, the leading global venture capital firm. Naspers later also invested in leading startups such as Flipkart and Swiggy.

User ExperienceDesign Strategy