Shivam Dewan

Head of Design

Delhi, India10 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • Experienced in leading product design and strategy.
  • Mentored aspiring designers and delivered over 500 hours of instruction.
  • Co-founded multiple startups focusing on design and community building.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Designer with expertise in SaaS and community-driven design initiatives.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyUser Experience Design (ued)Product ManagementProduct Design

Other Skills

Adobe Creative SuiteArt DirectionBrandingCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CommunicationCritical ThinkingCustomer ExperienceDesign ResearchDesign ThinkingDigital MarketingEmail MarketingEntrepreneurshipHTML 5HTML5Information Architecture

About

Presently, an independent product designer by day, writing & making small bets on the Internet by the night. Design partner at Medme (YC 2021), Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab. Design mentor at Designlab. I served as a product manager & design lead at Nintee. Before that, I held the position of Associate Principal Consultant at Nagarro, collaborating with clients such as IndusInd Bank, Maruti, ZS Associates, Hero Electric, google and numerous others. I have been working with different teams having interdisciplinary skill sets to solve important design problems over the last few years. My contribution to a team project is mostly focussed on the domains of User Experience Research, Design Strategy, and Product Design. I also love to mentor aspiring designers/students as a way of giving back to the community šŸ™Œ My weekends are often spent working on my side projects or helping NGOs in some tech work, fundraising or simply volunteering :)

Experience

Birda

Fractional Head of design

Jan 2025 – Present Ā· 1 yr 3 mos Ā· London Area, United Kingdom Ā· Remote

Design originals club (launching soon)

product, design & business

Dec 2024 – Present Ā· 1 yr 4 mos

  • Re-thinking design hiring, design roles

Berkeley artificial intelligence research

Design partner

Apr 2024 – Aug 2024 Ā· 4 mos Ā· Remote

Product StrategyUser Experience Design (UED)Product Design

Self-employed

Independent product designer

Jan 2024 – Present Ā· 2 yrs 3 mos Ā· Remote

Product StrategyUser Experience Design (UED)Web DesignProduct ManagementProduct DesignProduct Development

Medme health (yc w21)

Design partner

Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 Ā· 11 mos Ā· Remote

  • Saas, B2b design
User Experience Design (UED)Product ManagementProduct Design

Creative sabbatical

Indie Maker

Oct 2023 – Feb 2024 Ā· 4 mos

  • Took a break from full-time job to tinker with digital products and writing:
  • Shipped a platform to learn visual design: https://learnvisual.design/
  • Started Newsletter called "A generalist": https://ageneralist.substack.com/
Product StrategyUser Experience Design (UED)Product Management

The product folks

Core Team, Instructor

Dec 2022 – Jan 2024 Ā· 1 yr 1 mo

  • Speaker, Instructor, and strategy. On a mission to empower product folks with a human-centric approach toward problem-solving
Product StrategyUser Experience Design (UED)Product Management

Nintee

Product + design lead

Jul 2022 – Aug 2023 Ā· 1 yr 1 mo Ā· Remote

  • Working with Paras Chopra (Founder & Chairman, Wingify) on behavioral changing tools to reduce human suffering.
Product StrategyUser Experience Design (UED)Product Management

Toptal

Senior Product Designer

May 2022 – Dec 2022 Ā· 7 mos Ā· Remote

  • On a break, not taking any freelance right now *****
  • Thoroughly vetted as one of the top designers in the world - of the more than 100,000 people who apply to join the Toptal network each year, fewer than 3% make the cut;
  • Available on-demand to help companies shape a product from business objectives through user research and discovery to working prototypes.
  • Clients include: Duolingo, Shopify, Bridgestone, and Calm.
Product StrategyUser Experience Design (UED)Product Management

Designlab

Design mentor

Mar 2022 – Mar 2024 Ā· 2 yrs

  • Checkout my profile and what my mentees say about me šŸ‘‡šŸ½
User Experience Design (UED)

Nagarro

Senior UX Designer

Sep 2019 – Jan 2022 Ā· 2 yrs 4 mos Ā· Gurugram, Haryana, India

User Experience Design (UED)Product ManagementProduct Design

Springboard

Educator, Design mentor

Jun 2019 – Nov 2020 Ā· 1 yr 5 mos Ā· San Francisco Bay Area

  • Mentoring aspiring designers across the globe via weekly 1:1 video call and helping them get industry-ready by working with them on their individual capstone project. Delivered over 300+ hours of instruction and one-on-one mentoring.
  • I cover all the following areas mentioned below:
  • UX research
  • UX design
  • Visual Design
  • Career Coaching
Product Design

Imaginxp - design thinking and ux design

UX Instructor

Jan 2019 – Feb 2021 Ā· 2 yrs 1 mo Ā· Greater Delhi Area

  • Corporate Training, Workshops, Training Individuals to get ready for industry-standard UX Design. Delivered over 200+ hours of in-classroom/in-person instruction.
Product StrategyUser Experience Design (UED)Product Design

Treemouse

UX Designer

Sep 2018 – Dec 2018 Ā· 3 mos Ā· Greater Delhi Area

Indian institute of technology, delhi

Design Consultant

May 2018 – Dec 2018 Ā· 7 mos Ā· Greater Delhi Area

  • Project: Disha – Creating Employment and Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Women in India
  • Lead Design member at the Social Innovation Lab at IIT-Delhi (Department of Design) on a combined project by UNDC and IKEA. The Project is about increasing the number of women entrepreneurs in the rural parts of the country. Along with the team conducted the research by visiting the villages and interviewing women. Then mapped out the possible solutions of which one was designing a whole new brand "Matti" for women to sell handmade products. Here, I made field visit to the site where I got to execute full UX methodology with real users, and learned importance of team work in the design team.
Product Design

Inc42 media

Product Designer

Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 Ā· 11 mos Ā· Greater Delhi Area

Product Design

Pecul - people and culture

Co-Founder and Product Designer

Nov 2016 – Oct 2017 Ā· 11 mos Ā· Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • During the time when I actively used to do freelancing, I started a community platform called "Pecul", where we use to hold different community events like book clubs, travel, story-telling session, design discussion. It became a great ground for people like me to network, meet new people with common interest and learn new stuff.
  • Along with that, I also created a "Zen community" and made a physical space, we call it "Zen Space", on my terrace.
  • Here I got hands-on experience with industrial design/ space design and how to sustain a community around the specific cult.

T d k \ the duo kids \ design

Co-founder & Product Designer, Branding, Design sprint

Feb 2016 – Dec 2018 Ā· 2 yrs 10 mos Ā· Greater Delhi Area

  • Gathering product/design requirements from the clients to coordinating with a team of project managers, visual designers, illustrators, and developers to deliver the final designs. Clients Include Hero electric, Antariksh Band, Mozocare, Desmania, many early-stage startups.
  • Apart from this, we have also run campaigns for non-profits to raise funds and awareness.
  • Here's the link :
  • https://www.bitgiving.com/Dogshelter
  • https://www.bitgiving.com/spreadthewarmth
Product Design

Xco - xchange over coffee

Co-Founder

Feb 2015 – Oct 2016 Ā· 1 yr 8 mos Ā· Greater Delhi Area

  • XCO was a book sharing/barter startup. Later, we pivoted and partnered with a cafe in north campus to attract more students there, it increased our book sharing by 120%.
  • Check out our coverage in the press (the Hindu, CNN news 18, the quint, Hindustan times) below šŸ‘‡

Edgetech air systems pvt. ltd.

Associate designer

Jul 2014 – Nov 2014 Ā· 4 mos Ā· Greater Delhi Area

Bhel

Research Intern

Apr 2013 – Jul 2013 Ā· 3 mos Ā· India

Education

Y Combinator

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

IxDF - The Interaction Design Foundation

UX design

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

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