Hitesh lakhyani

Design Manager

Gurgaon, Haryana, India13 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over 13 years of experience in product design.
  • Led design initiatives that improved operational efficiency.
  • Strong advocate for design culture and team empowerment.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Design Leader with expertise in Healthcare, Telecom, and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience DesignProduct Management

Other Skills

Design LeadershipDesign SprintsOKRsProduct Roadmap ExecutionIdeation WorkshopsWorkforce ManagementReal-time Information SystemsUser ResearchUser-Centric DesignAnimationPrototypingWireframingDesign StrategyDesign CultureAI × UX

About

I’m a Product Design Leader with 13+ years of building products across healthcare, telecom, SaaS, and e-commerce. Over the years, I’ve worked on everything from 0→1 new concepts to 1→10 product shaping to 10→1000 scale and optimisation, and I genuinely enjoy each stage for different reasons. What I love most is turning messy, complex systems into experiences that feel obvious and effortless. I’ve done this across teams at Tata 1mg, Airtel, Adobe, Compass, PwC, and Nearbuy, partnering closely with Product, Tech, and Ops to make sure design isn’t just pretty screens — but a real driver of clarity, speed, and business outcomes. My leadership style is simple: Design is a capability, not a department. If the product gets smarter, faster, and more human because design was in the room — that’s the win. I’m big on culture-building. I love helping designers build creative confidence, ask better questions, challenge assumptions, and trust their thinking. I care a lot about how teams work — not just what they produce. Good rituals, hiring discipline, thoughtful critique, and a safe space to think boldly matter just as much as any deliverable. Outside work, I run BYOB – Break Your Old Bias, where I bring designers and young professionals together to practice empathy, observation, and real problem-solving. I’ve also spoken at Microsoft, IITs, and various design communities about design thinking, decision-making, and hypothesis-led UX. If you’re building something that needs clarity, speed, and a strong design point of view, I’m always excited to connect and jam.

Experience

13 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
1 yr 6 mos
Average Tenure
4 mos
Current Experience

Smartsheet

Sr. Manager, Product Design

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Tata 1mg

Design leader

May 2023Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • As the Design Leader at Tata 1mg, I worked across multiple product surfaces — Point of Sale at Retail, Corporate Wellness, Care Plans, Supply Chain (warehouse and logistica) and the CX journey. My role was to bring clarity to complex workflows, drive alignment across Product/Tech/Ops, and help the team move with speed, confidence, and intent.
  • I also introduced Design Sprints, OKRs, and standardised hiring practices to strengthen the team’s creative confidence and build a culture where designers feel safe to challenge assumptions and think strategically.
  • Impact I’m proud of:
  • 1. Retail experience revamped with 50% faster billing, 40% fewer errors, and 85% pharmacist satisfaction — now scaled across 500+ stores
  • 2. Post-booking operations saw support costs drop from ₹1.24 Cr → ₹90 Lakh, with CSAT at 4.3
  • 3. Corporate Wellness bookings completed 70% faster, boosting conversions to 69%
  • 4. Care Plan acquisition up 18%, renewals up 26%
Design LeadershipDesign SprintsOKRsUser Experience DesignProduct Management

Compass

Design

Apr 2022Jan 2023 · 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • My responsibility spread across envisioning medium-long term vision and executing the product roadmap catering to customer needs with product leaders.
  • Led a team for designing Support and onboarding systems (SOS) from 0 to 1.
  • Collaborating and facilitating ideation workshops to explore ideas with designers, user researchers, product managers, engineers and content strategists.
Product Roadmap ExecutionIdeation WorkshopsUser Experience Design

Airtel

2 roles

Senior Lead Product Designer

Promoted

Dec 2020Apr 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Making field operations nimbler and more efficient with Airtel Work. Its workforce management application, design and developed from scratch by the internal team. Airtel Work app enables Airtel’s field staff and contractors to do their daily jobs much faster and more efficiently by leveraging real-time information.
  • Designing a fully omnichannel experience that allows administrators to control everything from creating a new workflow to designing new screens for mobile and web, Airtel Work gives the operator real-time visibility of its operations, while enabling managers to stay connected with their staff in the field and optimise the use of resources. It can be configured to automatically assign field service agents to tasks based on their proximity to customers and their skill-sets using various algorithms and rules, without any manual intervention.
  • Airtel has managed to bring down the number of customer calls to its call centre by 50%, a clear indicator of improved customer satisfaction. The app has also removed the need for Airtel to employ dispatchers (back-office support executives), whose job was to assign tickets to engineers based on available capacity. Airtel estimates that the Airtel Work platform has saved it US$181 million a year in staffing costs.
Workforce ManagementUser Experience DesignReal-time Information Systems

Lead Product Designer

Aug 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

Pwc

Lead Ethnographer

Feb 2019Aug 2019 · 6 mos

  • Designed tools and methods for in-depth user research to find unmet needs across stakeholders
  • Funnelling down to insights and opportunities that lead to user-centric design solutions
  • Designing and planning ideation workshops for projects with various stakeholders
User ResearchUser-Centric DesignUser Experience Design

Adobe

UX Motion Designer

Jan 2017Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Noida Area, India

  • Provide patterns, best practices and guidance on animation and transitions for different devices and platforms including the web, Android and iOS.
  • Collaborate with fellow UX designers as they incorporate motion into their work to enhance interactivity and delight users.
  • Develop design solutions to elegantly solve key scenarios to solve user and business goals.
  • Worked with UX experts, researchers and engineers to develop Adobe software. Included producing detailed wireframes, interface design and created interactive prototypes.
AnimationUser Experience Design

Nearbuy (formerly groupon india)

Design Manager

May 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Fabfurnish.com

UX and visual designer

Aug 2014Apr 2015 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

User Experience DesignPrototypingWireframing

Tata elxsi

VFX Compositor (on contract basis)

Feb 2014Jul 2014 · 5 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Worked on hollywood movies as Compositor

Freelancer

Design consultant & Freelance

Jun 2013Dec 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Worked as the sole UX and creative designer, applied value proposition
  • research to guide the products' development of UX artefacts including
  • information, architecture, prototyping, wireframing and user testing
  • methodologies.

Krayon pictures

Compositor (on contract basis)

May 2013Jun 2013 · 1 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Working on a Live Action Bollywood Movie LOOTERA as a Compositor.

Infinite frameworks studios

Sr. Compositor (on contract basis)

Mar 2013Apr 2013 · 1 mo · Batam

  • Here we worked on CG Project Octonauts as Compositor

Krayons india pvt ltd

FX artist (on contract basis)

May 2012Jan 2013 · 8 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Working on 'Code Lyoko' its a animated French series.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

Jan 2008Jan 2011

Frameboxx Animation & Visual Effects Pvt Ltd

visual effects specification — VFX and Composition

Jan 2010Jan 2012

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