Ruta Raju

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States20 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led the launch of the first AI Recruiter Agent.
Achieved 10x mobile growth at Castlight Health.
Founded and scaled the UX team at Yahoo India.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI design leader with extensive experience in user experience and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DesignUser Experience DesignProduct Management

Other Skills

Design ThinkingAI DesignLeadershipUser ExperienceUser ResearchMobile Product ManagementEntrepreneurshipMobile App DevelopmentProject ManagementLean StartupTeam LeadershipTeam BuildingStoryboardingInformation ArchitectureStart-ups

About

Ruta is a design leader driving innovation in AI and delivering transformative solutions at Eightfold.ai. With leadership roles at globally recognized organizations such as Yahoo, SAP, Intuit (Mint), Castlight Health, and PagerDuty, he brings extensive experience spanning consumer and SaaS products. Throughout his career, Ruta has led and inspired large, diverse teams, fostering collaboration, creativity, and excellence. While he excels at strategic leadership, he is equally committed to the craft of design, staying hands-on when required to ensure the highest level of quality and execution. This unique ability to balance visionary thinking with attention to detail enables him to guide teams to deliver exceptional results. He thrives at the intersection of design, technology, and AI, where industries are redefined through bold, innovative solutions. Passionate about mentorship and team development, Ruta cultivates high-performing environments where collaboration sparks groundbreaking ideas. Through his work, he continues to shape the future of the design and tech landscape, inspiring excellence at every level.

Experience

20 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 10 mos

Current Experience

Eightfold

Vice President of Product Design & Research

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Santa Clara County, California, United States

At Eightfold.ai, I lead the global Design, Research, and Content organization, building experiences that redefine how enterprises engage with AI across the talent lifecycle. My focus is on designing agentic, multimodal interactions — spanning web, mobile, chat, and voice — so that recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates can collaborate with AI in ways that feel natural, human, and trustworthy.
I spearheaded the launch of the industry’s first AI Recruiter Agent, reducing time-to-hire and team effort by 50%. We’ve introduced in-chat approvals, voice-enabled workflows, and AI delegation, showing how design can deliver measurable impact while making AI seamless and intuitive.
Beyond product innovation, I’m setting a design vision for the agentic world — where design systems evolve beyond screens into dynamic frameworks for human + AI collaboration. This includes driving governance practices that ensure AI is ethical, inclusive, and transparent, so adoption scales with trust.
For me, design is about more than usability — it’s about shaping how AI augments human capability at scale, creating experiences that are efficient, empathetic, multimodal, and responsibly governed.

Design ThinkingUser Experience DesignAI DesignProduct DesignLeadership

Pagerduty

Global Head of User Experience Design & Research

Jul 2019 – May 2024 · 4 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Castlight health

Vice President Wellbeing Products & UX

Jul 2015 – Jul 2019 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Managed various responsibilities, overseeing the User Experience (UX), User Research, and Mobile Product teams. My primary role involved uniting cross-functional teams to shape the product vision and strategy in the crawl, walk, and run phases. This approach ensured that our design and development processes were iterative and focused on creating user value centered around crucial metrics. Cultivated a resilient team with robust UX practices & methodologies, enabling the team to function confidently in the face of ambiguity. Led mobile growth and adoption, which resulted in 10x growth and an app store rating of 4.5 stars. Collaborated with Anthem Inc. to white-label the Castlight app to Engage. We onboarded an impressive 1.5 million users, marking a significant milestone in our joint venture.

User ExperienceUser ResearchMobile Product ManagementUser Experience DesignProduct Management

Geopops inc.

Founder

Feb 2015 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Founded Geopops, a unique app designed for college students that enables them to leave hidden messages in specific geo-locations for their friends. As a hands-on founder, I took on various roles to Build-Measure-Learn. Passionately pitched the vision at diverse forums, successfully securing seed funding and assembling a skilled founding team.

EntrepreneurshipMobile App DevelopmentProduct ManagementUser Experience Design

Intuit

Design Leadership (Mint.com Mobile Apps)

May 2012 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Menlo Park, CA

As the design leader, I prioritized the holistic user experience for the Mint mobile app and Mint Bills. By strategically planning projects, cultivating partnerships, and nurturing talent, I ensured a seamless UX journey. Additionally, I facilitated collaborations with Apple for TouchID and Apple Watch Mint App showcase at WWDC.

User Experience DesignProject ManagementProduct Management

Sap labs

Director Product Design, Cloud Products

Aug 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Palo Alto, CA

Led cross-functional teams of designers and developers to create innovative "proof of concepts" through a hybrid approach combining Design Thinking and Lean Startup methodologies. Successfully shipped products such as Consumer 360 (CRM Dashboard), Travel OnDemand, and Employee Onboarding apps.

Design ThinkingLean StartupProduct DesignUser Experience Design

Yahoo

2 roles

Director User Experience Design, Front Doors Group

Promoted

Apr 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Lead a team of interaction & visual designers on core pillar products like Yahoo.com, MyYahoo, and Toolbar.

User Experience DesignTeam LeadershipProduct Management

Sr. Manager User Experience Design, Yahoo! India

Jan 2005 – Apr 2008 · 3 yrs 3 mos

I was the founder of the Yahoo India UX & Research team, successfully scaling it to over 35 members. I played a leading role in designing and launching key India products such as cricket, movies, jobs, front page, among others. Furthermore, I was instrumental in setting up one of the first usability labs in Yahoo! India, marking a significant contribution to the company's innovation efforts.

User Experience DesignTeam BuildingProduct Management