Recent Contributions

As a manager of Design and User Experience (DX) team, I have taken various initiatives that helped us to organize and grow as a team.

Process Improvement

Created the design method best suited for the firm Established design review for pixel perfect outcome Building remote UT infrastructure Organizer of hiring drive for market and campus Role distinction and openings management Designed training modules to onboard designers

Firmwide Activity

Created BA to track and analyze design efforts Integrating analytics to test design hypothesis Organizer of an weekly design event(internal) Bringing our work to the external design community Promote design culture inside the firm Leading the design internship programme

Interaction Design

Lead designer for 2 high-impact business units Conceptualizing and designing one automation product from scratch Designed trading suite for the Energy desk Designed products to oversee firm-wide Risk Designed products to analyse data in systematic trading Involved in designing UI infrastructure

Here’s what I’ve been responsible for:

Highlights from 9+ Years of Work

Managing a design team of UX/Interaction and Visual Designers from tier-1 design schools in India.
Planning yearly/quarterly roadmap and progress reviews for the design team.
Weekly project planning, prioritisation and effective task delegation.
Working with cross-functional teams/BUs and stakeholders to develop project plans and build communication channels for designers.
Maintaining diversity and inclusive work culture. Building trust and encouraging teammates to deal with failures.
Career counselling, performance review, and handling difficult conversations.
Fostering innovation, building a cutting-edge UI library for investment banking, and adapting new technological areas.
Leads the recruitment process for the DX group (India) with my manager.
Managing interns and evaluating their projects to roll out PPOs
Delivering the design requirements for Energy (a trading business unit) and Risk (a firmwide risk management team) in my independent contributor capacity.
Served as an interim head of the India design team for three quarters in 2022.

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2000+

Happy Users

500+

Interviews and UT

50+

Project Completed

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