Preet Arjun Singh

Head of Design

Toronto, Ontario, Canada14 yrs 5 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Head of Product Design at EQ Bank.
Founder of Canada's largest product design community.
Advisory Board Member driving innovation at OCAD U CO.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Design Leadership expert with a strong focus on user experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DesignUser ExperienceAdvisory LeadershipCommunity ManagementDesign LeadershipBrand DevelopmentSales StrategyProduct StrategyEntrepreneurship

Other Skills

User-centered designTeam collaborationCreative problem-solvingOrganizational changeCommunity buildingDesign strategyProblem-solvingBrandingMarketing designClient estimationDesign scopingPlatform strategyUX designClient collaborationRebranding

About

Currently serving as Head of Product Design at EQ Bank, contributing over a year of expertise to shaping a user-centered, No BS banking experience for Canadians. Collaborating with a talented and mission-driven design team, the focus is on delivering impactful solutions that align with the company's vision. Proficiencies include brand development and marketing strategy, supporting the evolution of EQ Bank's offerings. Actively engaged as an Advisory Board Member at OCAD U CO since 2023, leveraging creative problem-solving methodologies to drive innovation and organizational change. As the Founder of DesignX Community since 2017, facilitates connections and collaboration among designers, fostering growth and innovation through entrepreneurship and design.

Experience

14 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Eq bank | equitable bank

Head of Product Design

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Designing a No BS banking experience for Canadians w/ some really talented, mission driven designers

User-centered designTeam collaborationProduct designProduct DesignUser Experience

Ocad u co

Advisory Board Member

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

OCAD U CO is the innovation services and training studio of OCAD University and we're on a mission to help industry leaders and their teams use creative problem solving to drive innovation and change.

Creative problem-solvingOrganizational changeAdvisory Leadership

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Head of Design

Nov 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

Working on all things design & strategy that a stellar, early stage platform solving world's inauthentic data problem would need.

Design strategyProblem-solvingDesign Leadership

Informal systems

Design + Brand

Aug 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote · Remote

Largest core contributor team on Cosmos Network: The smartest (& most humble) set of folks in a single team, I've ever worked with.
While the team was deep into rethinking local economies + currencies and rethinking blockchain technology architectures and infra needed to support it - my job focused on how to humanize the work we did through our brand, our marketing and comms design and larger ecosystem efforts.

The people people group

Partner

Jan 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

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2 roles

Sales Strategy (Design)

Jul 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr · Toronto, Canada Area

Externally: Helping clients estimate design & research efforts before they invest in $$ builds
Internally: Figuring out how we scope design efforts more accurately, bring back learnings from scope + budget creep and build a framework around it all

BrandingMarketing designBrand Development

UX + Design Strategy

Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 · 0 mo

Continue to do all things design though mostly on UX and Product strategy, mostly on CZI Meta's Research platform & govtech service design things.

Product designPlatform strategyProduct Strategy

Designx community

Founder

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 4 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

Community buildingEntrepreneurshipCommunity Management

Rocket homes

Design + Product Strategy

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · Toronto, Canada Area

Product design foundation + strategy for all of the Rocket Homes v1 platform

Client estimationDesign scopingSales Strategy

Gale partners

Product Design

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · Toronto, Canada Area

Doing all things UX and design for clients of varied scale - mostly with Garage jeans. Designing internal team swag was always fun.

UX designProduct strategyUser Experience

Well.ca

Lead Designer

Sep 2013 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

First FT job in Canada turned out to be one of the most exciting ones, including the opportunity to rebrand Well.ca, redesign the whole e-commerce website, design a production workflow for all marketing assets and work with a lot of smart folks in a close-knit team!

UX designClient collaborationUser Experience

Karma republic

Founder, Designer, Events Manager, Merchandiser, Web Developer & more

Aug 2009 – Nov 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos

Talk about being early! Founded one of it's first Indian t-shirt startups using design as a tool for social impact and change.
Being quite early in terms of e-commerce adoption coupled with inability to solve the production challenges blossomed itself into a beautiful 7000+ community of change-makers and a failed $ business.

RebrandingE-commerce designBrand Development