Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · On-site

• The Design Table is a small group community gathering that brings together creative minds over delicious food and thoughtful conversation. These dinners will aim to create a space where designers at the same-ish level of lived design experience can connect, share ideas, and build meaningful relationships.

Apr 2024 – Mar 2025 · 11 mos · Sydney, New South Wales

• Moving to a new country | Focusing on health, well being, travel, personal development & growth and next play.
• Activities include:
• // Launching 'The Design Table' - a small group community gathering that brings together creative minds over delicious food and thoughtful conversation. These dinners will aim to create a space where designers at the same-ish level of lived design experience can connect, share ideas, and build meaningful relationships.
• // Kicking off a substack to write and share more about my experiences, learnings and observations from the world -- https://aniruddhakadam.substack.com/
• // Getting back to Crossfit, running, boxing and trying out new forms of physical training in & around Sydney.
• // Pursuing an International Bartending Certificate from European Bartending School
• // Getting involved in the local design community, by attending meetups & conferences, mentoring designers and speaking at local events / trainings

Dec 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

• Led a team of product designers on conversion measurement across Google Ads products. My team’s mission was to help advertisers experience a consistent setup & reporting experience across Google Ads, Google Analytics, Campaign Manager and more; while helping them get most bang for their buck for their advertising efforts.

Oct 2021 – Dec 2021 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• UX Manager on Shopify's Management team leading a team of product and content designers to help Shopify merchants manage growing scale efficiently.
• This is done by making Shopify's admin flexible, secure & effective to configure/manage merchant business and store.

Feb 2016 – Sep 2021 · 5 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Teams/roles at LinkedIn
• 👨🏾‍💻 » Feb 2016 - Jun 2016 : Designer on Internal Apps Design Team
• 🤩 » Jul 2016 - Aug 2018 : Lead/Manager on Internal Apps Design Team
• 😍 » Aug 2018 - Sep 2021 : Manager/Sr. Manager on LinkedIn Talent Solutions design team
• Aniruddha started at LinkedIn as an individual contributor and soon moved into the design management/lead track leading the Internal Apps Design (IAD) team by growing the super scrappy ninja team to build internal product at LinkedIn. Aniruddha introduced an embedded + consulting model to the team which build tools like TREX, ThirdEye, OnCall and other data, learning and site reliability tools.
• Starting in late 2018 on LTS, Aniruddha kicked off 🧳Jobs on Flagship, bringing the hiring experience on Flagship making it for SMBs easier to try, buy and succeed at hiring the best qualified candidates for the jobs they posted. Notable milestones on this journey were bringing Free & Freemium jobs on LinkedIn & Introducing Open to Hiring - while overall making LinkedIn jobs trustworthy 🤝
• On Enterprise side of the hiring marketplace, Aniruddha helped align pricing 💵 to customer value to drive long-term marketplace health ❤️‍🩹by introducing Pay for Performance for LinkedIn’s enterprise jobs (still WIP) - a focus area intended to leapfrog the industry with the first down funnel Jobs P4P model (an estimated $XXXM opportunity)
• and last but not the least, on Equity Hiring 🤍 , his team partnered in re-ramping Self-ID with an inclusive experience designed for everyone in an journey for creating equitable outcomes starts when we can measure unfair bias in our products, including work on the hirer side with Profile Anonymization in Recruiter.

Nov 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• » Lead full-stack designer on Airship's Mobile Wallet Product (https://www.airship.com/app-experience-platform/app-acquisition-and-re-engagement/mobile-wallet/)
• » First designer in the San Francisco office working with the larger design team in Portland, OR.

Jan 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site