Experience

Six years,
three countries.

A working history in UX, UI, innovation, and venture strategy in a studio, a product company, and a consultancy.

Work history

  1. Bundl

    Sep 2025 to Dec 2025

    Antwerp, Belgium (Hybrid)

    Venture Architect Intern

    • Designed learning experience systems for a global luxury retail brand, multi-format Notion modules on nutrition, neuroaesthetics, and sleep to enhance in-store customer experience.
    • Led service design concepting for an AI-powered voice assistant; built interaction frameworks and moodboards that shaped product direction and supported C-suite presentations.
    • Synthesised research for an oil & energy client mapping new venture opportunities, driving a strategic innovation workshop on emerging business models.
  2. EY-GDS

    Mar 2022 to Nov 2024

    Pune, India (Hybrid)

    UX Designer

    • Ran heuristic evaluations across 8+ enterprise products, delivering prioritised UX roadmaps that reduced friction across critical user task flows.
    • Co-led service design for EY's NextWave Career Portal (UK), information architecture, journey maps, interview scripts, resulting in a validated design system adopted cross-functionally.
    • Owned usability strategy for a global audit tool (10,000+ users), iterating prototypes through 3+ rounds of stakeholder testing aligned to regulatory constraints.
    • Facilitated co-design workshops with PMs, engineers, and business leads within agile sprint cycles.
  3. ClearMind.plus

    Jan 2023 to Apr 2023

    Remote

    Lead Designer (Volunteer)

    • Led product strategy and UX for an AI-powered emotional journaling app, personas, MVP feature set, brand identity, from concept to validated prototype.
    • Designed a native-language voice input system and mood-adaptive feedback loops for an accessible, emotionally intelligent experience in underserved mental health contexts.
  4. Logile

    Oct 2020 to Feb 2022

    Remote, USA

    UI/UX Designer

    • Designed enterprise retail tools for food safety, workforce scheduling, and inventory, research-backed interfaces improving operational efficiency for frontline users.
    • Partnered cross-functionally to align UX flows with business goals through iterative discovery, testing, and review.
  5. Octopux Design

    Mar 2020 to Sep 2020

    Hybrid, Pune

    UX Designer

    • Conducted data-driven UX research and developed service blueprints, storyboards, and concept frameworks bridging user insight with viable business solutions.
  6. Pinkapple Design & DrumUp Media

    Aug 2018 to Sep 2019

    Bangalore & Pune

    Product Design Intern

    • Developed brand identity systems and social campaigns for lifestyle/retail clients; explored sustainable materials and circular design principles for early-stage product concepts.

Education

Jan 2025 to Feb 2026

Master of Service Design

POLI.design, Politecnico di Milano

Milan, Italy

Jul 2015 to Apr 2019

Bachelor of Product Design

Pune University

Pune, India

Dec 2021 to Jan 2022

UX Certification

Interaction Design Foundation (IDF)

Online

Skills & tools

The kit I reach for.

  • UX/UI Design
  • Journey Mapping
  • Service Blueprinting
  • Heuristic Evaluation
  • Venture Strategy
  • Business Model Design
  • Co-design Facilitation
  • Data-Driven Decision Making
  • Agile
  • Figma
  • Miro/Mural
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Notion
  • AI-Assisted Research & Synthesis

Languages

English · Marathi · Hindi · Italian (Beginner)