G'day!
Hi, I’m Nishant, a product designer and leader based in San Francisco. Originally from India, I moved to the US to learn and apply design. I enjoyed a decade in the US before taking a detour to Australia to explore outbacks, beach barbecues, Cricket and Footy. I’m back in sunny California and looking forward to fresh starts!
For the past 5 years, I built and managed design teams at Woolworths Group and ADP in Australia, and successfully delivered enterprise products impacting millions of users. Before that, I have worked at VSP Global, Wolfram Research and DocuSign and gained valuable varied industry experiences. Most recently, I joined an exciting AI startup whose mission is to build sustainable AI solutions and infrastructure.
I'm passionate about Design and Build, and thrive in fast-moving, purposeful and innovative organizations. My guiding pillars are:
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Strive for quality outcomes
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Foster lean, high velocity teams
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Prioritize well-being above all
Outside of work, I dabble with new AI tools, keep up with my energetic 3-year old, play badminton and squash and meet new friends and designers at local meetups and bars!
Experience
2019 - 2021
ADP
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Lead design team for 4 Payroll/HCM products across Australia, New Zealand, India and China
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Support phased migration of 10M+ users in the region on new products and services
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Support regional leadership with research and design, to explore emerging technologies like AI, VUI and chatbot
2021 - 2024
Woolworths Group
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Lead a 5-year, $50M budget growth initiative to design a 0-to-1 logistics marketplace
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Recruit and manage senior research and design team, build design and research ops
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Support executive leadership with research and design, to discover applications of AI and automation in products and operations
2016 - 2018
VSP
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Lead design to create omni-channel experience across provider, insurance and patient journeys
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Conduct research and design for redesigned responsive web apps and support smooth migration
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Represent design and company countrywide at trade-shows, summits and customer workshops
2011 - 2013
Wolfram Research
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Lead redesign of 25+ websites including wolfram.com, computerbasedmath.org and stephenwolfram.com
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Lead design and guide development for community.wolfram.com from concept to launch
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Conducted in-depth requirement gathering, competitive analysis, user research and design
2010 - 2011
DocuSign
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Founding designer at DocuSign
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Lead design for core experiences including e-signing, document sending and DocuSign ID
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Designed DocuSign Ink app - the second most downloaded productivity app in 2011
2013 - 2016
W. W. Grainger
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Redesign pages and experiences on www.grainger.com with traffic of 10M/month
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Redesigned homepage, product detail, stock availability, fulfillment and account management
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Redesigned pages for intranet used daily by 20,000+ employees
2025 -
Crusoe AI
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Leading design research and execution for Crusoe AI cloud platform and Managed AI services, and defining future capabilities across Compute, Storage and Network
