Summary
Product designer with 15+ years of experience specializing in AI, business automation, and data-driven products. Expert in 0→1 product design, UX strategy, and translating complex technical concepts into intuitive user experiences. Proven track record in launching AI products rapidly, defining product-market fit, and building scalable UX practices.
Experience
Cognite
Oct 2023 – Nov 2025
Principal Product Designer, Atlas AI
- Led 0→1 design for an industrial AI product portfolio with 2 offerings — a default AI assistant & an AI agent building platform for non-technical industrial SMEs. Took the idea to beta in 3 months, and GA in under 1 year.
- Defined product vision to inform execution strategy across 3 horizons. Outlined a UX-led process for product development, enabling active collaboration across PM, engineering & design on both strategy and tactical delivery. Directly shaped product-market fit, with 30+ customer deals before GA, overachieving planned business targets.
- Established baseline usability assessment & managed UX debt over subsequent releases, enabling continuous value delivery through fast release cycles.
IBM
Jan 2021 – Oct 2023
UX Architect, Data & AI
- Defined a UX vision for smart business planning & monitoring with AI capabilities. Directly led to a strategic roadmap for 6 products.
- Co-authored the first AI design guide for AI-UX practitioners at IBM. Laid the foundation for AI design practice for 3,000+ designers at IBM.
IBM
Oct 2018 – Jan 2021
Senior Designer, Watson Discovery Portfolio
- Owned design delivery of a new product from concept to launch, leading a team of 9 designers, 10 PMs & 120+ developers across 4 time zones. Won awards for design innovation & design-led cultural transformation.
- Led design to productize 6 cutting-edge AI research assets, enabling business users to train custom NLP models. Acclaimed for AI innovation by Gartner, Forrester, and AIconics.
- Instrumented UX quality and drove prioritization of high-risk issues. Increased user satisfaction 4× in 2 releases.
IBM
Jan 2014 – Oct 2018
UX Design Lead, Watson Explorer
- Led design of NLP search & content mining workflows to extract insights from business data. Unified 5 products under a common experience.
- Established a bi-weekly user research cadence for a cross-disciplinary product team, embedding a culture of continual feedback.
IBM
Jun 2012 – Jan 2014
UX Designer, IBM Big Data Lab
- Designed experiences for data exploration & data visualization.
Patents, Awards & Recognition
Patent
U.S. Patent #10885281 — Natural Language Document Summarization Using Hyperbolic Embeddings
Award
Fast Company Innovation by Design Award · Watson Discovery, 2020
Award
Cultural Transformation by Design Award · Watson Discovery
IBM
Outstanding Technical Achievement Award · Intelligent Recommendations, 2019
IBM
Innovation Award · 2020
IBM
Team Excellence Award · 2019
IBM
Eminence & Excellence Award · 2014
Academic
National Merit Scholarship, India