Shubhangi Salinkar

Design Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in leading design teams for product growth.
Strong focus on user-centered design and trust.
Proven track record in enhancing user experiences.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Design expert in SaaS with a strong focus on user experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience DesignProduct StrategyUser-centered Design

Other Skills

Product VisionInteraction DesignUser Interface DesignVisual DesignUser ResearchProduct DevelopmentEnd to End DeliveryDesign for AIStoryboardingVisual StorytellingUX writingAgile MethodologiesUser JourneysWorkshop FacilitationUser Scenarios

About

I am passionate about working with design teams, helping designers belong, operate successfully, and push boundaries. I thrive at the intersection of people, culture, and product thinking. I function well in ambiguous and complex problem spaces. I believe in holding a high quality bar for user experience and blurring cross functional lines when required.

Experience

12 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

9 mos

Current Experience

Adobe

Design Manager, Growth

Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading a talented team of designers focused on Adobe Acrobat's growth and monetization initiatives. Collaboraing with design ops, UXR, data, and product teams to create helpful and premium upgrade experiences across various surfaces and SKUs.

User Experience DesignProduct VisionInteraction DesignUser Interface DesignUser-centered DesignProduct Strategy+3

3 roles

Product Design Manager

Mar 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

Leading the Trust design team in LinkedIn Bangalore, setting strategic direction for product development for sign-in and recovery experiences, content moderation and investigation tools. Working with cross-functional partners to deliver high-quality UX design.

User Experience DesignProduct VisionUser-centered DesignProduct StrategyVisual DesignUser Research

Product Design Lead

Promoted

Feb 2022 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Leading a team of designers working on platform design for LinkedIn's content moderation tools ecosystem. Once a post gets reported on LinkedIn feed, our team takes care of the systems that take over after. Understanding complex workflows to redesign the tools to ease usage of the information-dense interface. Improving reviewer accuracy, efficiency and morale, and reducing bad content like misinformation, hate speech on LinkedIn. Bringing automation into workflows with Generative AI-powered solutions.
Delivered end to end design for India Aadhaar verification flow - executing LinkedIn's vision of being the trusted platform for authentic professional identity.

User Experience DesignUser-centered DesignProduct StrategyVisual DesignUser ResearchEnd to End Delivery+1

Senior Product Designer

Feb 2020 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs

Design for LinkedIn's login flows across two major endpoints - LinkedIn App and Web. Defining design language for login and recovery flows to reduce user drop-offs and increase success rate. Ensuring that login experiences are trusted and secure.

User Experience DesignUser-centered DesignVisual DesignUser Research

Microsoft

2 roles

UX Designer 2

Mar 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Bringing Cortana into the personal productivity space. Designing human-centered experiences for AI. Design for AI-powered analytics for personal well-being and work-life balance. Also, design for workplace intelligence (now, Microsoft Viva).Vision stories and product UX.

User Experience DesignUser-centered DesignVisual Design

UX Designer

Jul 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

Designing end-to-end scenarios and experiences for all of Visio's Web and Device endpoints. MS Visio is Microsoft Office's powerful diagramming and data-driven visualization tool.

User Experience DesignUser-centered Design

Bombay natural history society ( bnhs )

Intern

Jul 2014 – Sep 2014 · 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Applied design methodologies, working with the Conservation Education Center at BNHS to increase natural awareness via print, and conduct nature trails among primary-school children.

Avalokitesvara trust

Communication Design Intern

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · India

Made a documentary film and taught Story-reading and Language at three types of schools across Ladakh: Government School, Private, and a Monastery School, and documenting the life there and the work done by the NGOs in them. A Film called 'Lobtuk', culminated my findings and my personal volunteering experience.
The film was primarily designed to encourage people to Volunteer in Ladakh.