Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Harish has led a multidisciplinary user experience team of 60+ Product Designers, Communication Designers, Design Managers and Design Directors across multiple product verticals.
• Harish has recruited/ scaled this UX org that has built and managed multi-product portfolio across Payment gateway, Payment Apps, Razorpay X & Razorpay Capital, Growth and more..
• Our core focus was to build fintech infra that's easy to setup, use and maintain for Indian businesses of all sizes, as they came online during pandemic. We have shipped and scaled the product portfolios while shipping the best in class experiences that are palatable to new internet users.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area & Bengaluru, India

• As a Director and Head at BlueJeans, Harish helped in communicating a compelling long-term design strategy and vision. He constantly works on his partnership with the product, engineering, and research to ensure projects are well-defined, high impact, and successfully executed.
• He owns the design process from problem definition to design implementation. His passion is in guiding products towards solutions that are unquestionably simple, intuitive, and just work for Bluejeans users and customers like Facebook, Disney, Nike, LinkedIn, and Microsoft and many more.
• He manages a team of Product Designers, Product Design Leads, Research, and Content Strategy functions. He is passionate about growing the design team by attracting and retaining new talent.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs

• Led experience design strategy for the entire business of accommodations & transport verticals. Primary responsibility is to identify the intersection of business needs, user needs, and technical opportunities in order to build seamless product experiences.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Business Development, Engineering and Marketing in user story definition focused on user goals and tasks.
• Manage and collaborate closely with a team of product designers in helping them become amazing craftspeople. He would often times roll up his sleeves and get his hands dirty with visual design and etching the finest interaction details.
• Prototype intended solutions at various levels of fidelity. Meet and collaborate with users and development partners to validate designs and make iterative improvements.
• Contribute to the development of design requirements; articulate and translate those needs into elegant interface designs.
• Guide creative/art direction to establish design patterns and extensions for responsive websites/apps.
• MakeMyTrip ships fast. By looking at our apps you know what quality looks like and he often helps his team ship at that quality with minimal effects on velocity considering the best practices, and technology constraints.
• He has built various systems & methods with HR to effectively identify, evaluate and hire designers.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• At Autodesk, he crafted the user experience for Autodesk® 360 & Fusion 360, These are cloud-based destinations that provides free online data storage and a powerful, secure set of tools that improve the way you design, visualize and simulate your 3D products.
• As a Principal Experience Designer, He partnered with development teams and business leaders to drive successful implementation of great experiences in our software and services.
• Conducted user research activities to gather requirements. This includes interviews, ethnographic
• observation & contextual inquiry. Creating personas based on research.
• Transfer understanding of user needs and propose enhancements to web experiences. While working with Digital Marketing managers, Site Managers and Product Management, distill this information about user needs into a set of capabilities that will benefit the user in the most effective way.
• Apply judgment while working on products of moderate size & complexity by creating user flow
• diagrams, storyboards, wireframes, Hi-fidelity prototypes.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs

• Worked closely with Product Management and the UI Engineering team to design features that have a delightful and intuitive user experience. Act as the user-advocate during the development process, subjecting designs to usability testing and offering implementation suggestions from a user-centered perspective.
• Primary responsibility is to own and maintain style-guides for web, iOS, and Android (icons, colors, spacing, fonts for buttons, drop-downs, modal views, tables, etc.) to be used by UX, development, and QA teams.
• Design mockups to communicate UI behaviors and animations, including the production of screen layouts, user interface elements, and icons.
• Produce storyboards, design specifications, and assets for development on web and mobile platforms using HTML,CSS & Jquery.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr