Resume

Experiences

PayU Credit

Bengaluru, India

Sr Director of Design

Oct 2023 - Oct 2025

Welcoming my newborn daughter and full-time parenting till now

Leading user research and product design function for Lazypay, Paysense, and other B2B PayU Credit properties. Redesigned Lazypay to result in 30% increase in repayment rates. Reduced non-KYC users from base to 0 with comms and design with only a 5% loss in user-base against projected 15%. Launched Insurance marketplace to a GMV of 15Cr. Crafted a support chatbot to deflect 28% of support requests. All with a small but empowered team of 6 for over 3 business units.


Nova Benefits

Bengaluru, India

Director of Design

Oct 2021 - Oct 2023

Leading both product design and brand design teams to work with product and growth resulting in doubling of gross written premium (GWP), enhanced brand recall, and winning a web design award for the new Nova Benefits brand.


OLA

Bengaluru, India

Head of Design

Aug 2021 - Oct 2021

Lead the product design function at OLA for 5 of 6 business verticals: mobility, vehicle commerce, financial services, OLA Dash, and OLA Foods. Launched & scaled OLA Foods and OLA Dash to 24Cr & 13Cr GMV respectively through app merchandising design.


Haptik

Mumbai, India

Head of Design

Aug 2019 - Aug 2021

Lead two design teams, product design and conversation design, for a total of 10 reporting designers. Lead building the enterprise platform scale design system that enhanced several product KPIs. Grew the practise of conversation design from a nascent three person team to a seven with a strong industry presence.


Fivity Coffee Co.

Bengaluru, India

Founder/CEO

Aug 2017 - Aug 2019

As an NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore, incubated startup we developed an innovative new material for coffee filtration along with Ahlstrom Munksjo. Developed a patent pending manufacturing process that freezes ground coffee degradation and extends shelf life exponentially, in collaboration with IISc Bangalore. Acq by Sleepy Owl Coffee.


Healthline.com

San Francisco, USA

Lead Mobile UX Designer

Aug 2015 - Aug 2017

Designed the horizontally scalable turn-key app platform called Buddy Apps made with React Native (MS Buddy, Breast Cancer App, IBD App). Lead and developed the user-research practice with VP of Product. Lead the web design system initiatives at Healthline.com's redesign. Launched and grew through UX optimisations of MS Buddy app from 1K user to 250K+ daily active users (DAU).


Verizon Palo Alto Labs

Palo Alto, USA

UX Designer

Feb 2014 - Aug 2015

Lead the design of Instant Access product resulting in acquisition of paying clients like Bank of America. Designed and delivered Autograph, Verizon's single-sign-on service now used by over 5 million customers. Designed and pitched Mobile Perks, a mobile data incentivising tool, on-behalf of the Verizon Labs team securing funding for its development. Established a practice of user-research in the team that now works along the agile product development process. Developed and ironed a design handover process with engineering and product team to streamline design delivery process.

Education

Indiana University Bloomington, USA

Masters in Info Sci/HCI • 2013 - 2015

KIIT University, India

Bachelors in Information Technology • 2008-2012