Vajahat's Resume
Summery
Product design lead with 8+ years shipping consumer and enterprise products across media, telecom, and services. Own the core design system spanning 44+ media brands at People Inc., cutting design-to-development cycles by 30%, and led a 0→1 media/advertising intelligence platform (D/Cipher, D/Cipher+) through to its client-facing release, Signal. Comfortable operating end-to-end — research, systems, high-fidelity execution — and partnering directly with engineering and product leadership in fast-moving, distributed teams spanning US and India time zones.
Available for Immediate Joining (1Week).
Core Skills
Design
Product & UX/UI Design · Design Systems · Rapid Prototyping · Design Thinking
Research
User Research & Testing · Information Architecture · Accessibility (WCAG)
Process
Agile / Cross-Functional Delivery · Async & Distributed Team Collaboration · Stakeholder Communication
Tools
Figma · Framer · Adobe Creative Cloud · Sketch · Jira · AI-assisted design tools
Experience
Product Design Lead
People Inc. - Aug 2023 – Present
• Own the core design system spanning 44+ People Inc. media brands — including People.com, Southern Living, MyRecipes, and Treehugger — setting the scalable, brand-agnostic components and standards used company-wide, reducing design-to-development handoff time by 30%.
• Led product design for D/Cipher and D/Cipher+, a media and advertising intelligence platform, from 0→1 — architecting the system to scale from internal tooling to global-brand use, culminating in the release of Signal, its client-facing application.
• Serve as the primary design partner to product managers and engineers, translating ambiguous requirements into shipped, cross-platform workflows.
UI Designer
Tech Mahindra - Dec 2021 – Jul 2023
• Designed UI systems for the WhatsApp SIM Platform and Telefónica Germany, simplifying customer onboarding and plan-management flows for a multi-market telecom audience.
• Built reusable UI component libraries in Figma, improving cross-team design consistency and accelerating delivery velocity.
UX Associate
ArroWebs - Aug 2017 – Aug 2021
• Delivered 30+ client projects end-to-end — user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes — across a range of industries.
• Built responsive, production-ready interfaces in HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap; designed landing pages that measurably improved client conversion rates.
Education
Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
Sir Padampat Singhania University · 2016
Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
Mohanlal Sukhadia University · 2013
Certifications
Google UX Design Certificate
Google at Coursera
Dynamic UX: Design & Usability
Interaction Design Foundation
Design Fundamentals with AI
Adobe at Coursera
Jira Advanced (2025)
Udemy
Contact
Phone
Location
Bengaluru, IN (Open for Relocation / Remote)