# Abhishek Gupta > Product and Design Leader Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/abhishekgupta2 I'm a hands-on Product and Design Leader building gen AI products that leverage LLMs to solve critical user and business challenges. I lead the product and design team at Vetted (acquired by Yahoo) where I built the best in class agentic shopping research app. I've a proven track record of: • Translating complex technology into award-winning user experiences • Fostering high learning and shipping velocity • Building collaborative cross-functional teams spanning product, design, marketing, and research • Enhancing ‘user exposure hours’ for the leadership team • Instituting user-centered research, rapid prototyping, and concept testing practices • Kickstarting multi-disciplinary teams, identifying the right problem-solving approaches, building strong relationships, and collaboratively building user needs-driven roadmaps • Creating a mission-driven, high-motivation, high-accountability, high-trust, self-learning culture • Getting everyone firing on all cylinders in the right direction while having fun ## Work Experience ### Director @ Yahoo Jan 2025 – Present ### Chief Product Officer @ Vetted Jan 2017 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Own the product roadmap and product design. Have owned product and strategy across every iteration of Vetted, leading cross-functional teams to prototype, test, and learn at high velocity. Focus on hands-on validation with prototypes and shipping valuable product features that delight users while de-risking investment. ### Advisor @ Zlott Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 Zlott analyzes open source metrics of 20M developers and matches recruiters with the top developers based on their skill level, quality of work experience, and switching probability. ### Director, UX Design @ Lumos Labs Jan 2010 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area • Mentored and managed UX Design and UX Research teams • Built a culture that empowers a strong design team to proactively solve problems for our users, our business, and our design teams • Helped create the product vision, product strategy, user journey maps, and product roadmaps by working with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing leaders • Established user-centered research, prototyping, and testing practices • Established design, and product team cultural norms, best practices, and guiding principles • Kickstarted multi-disciplinary teams and helped them establish team norms, identify the right problem-solving approaches, build strong relationships, and collaboratively build user needs driven backlogs Over 6+ years, I helped improve • Subscriptions by 13x • No. of users by 40x (2M to 80+M) • Subscription conversion rate by 5x Recognition: • International Design for Experience Award - Consumer Product category: https://uxmag.com/articles/announcing-winners-in-the-international-design-for-experience-awards • "Best of 2013" by Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lumosity-mobile/id577232024?mt=8 • "Best Apps of 2014" by Google: http://time.com/3611709/best-android-google-play-apps-2014/ • One of the "Best 50 iPhone Apps, 2013" by Time: http://techland.time.com/2013/09/20/50-best-iphone-apps-2013-edition/slide/lumosity-mobile/ Lumos Labs' mission is to advance the understanding of human cognition. It's the creator of Lumosity, an award-winning brain training program with 50+ delightful cognitive games, that's used by 85+ Million people in 182 countries. Lumosity collaborates with the global scientific community (100+ researchers) and helps them research new areas in human cognition. ### Advisor @ Wildcard Inc Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | New York Advised Wildcard on product strategy and product design. Collaborated with the CEO to understand the problem space and helped explore the solution space. Wildcard is an “App Store Best of 2015” featured app that delivers an exceptional editorially-curated news and entertainment experience while dramatically reducing content loading time for users. • Awarded Apple’s Best Apps of 2015 https://medium.com/@trywildcard/wildcard-awarded-apple-s-best-apps-of-2015-7db4492ea474 • Wildcard takes #19 in Apple's Best of 2015 http://www.zdnet.com/article/best-iphone-ipad-apps-of-2015-heres-apples-pick-of-the-top-25/ Wildcard Apps: • Web: https://trywildcard.com/ • iOS: http://wcd.io/qMYguA ### Senior User Interface Designer @ knowmore Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Greater New York City Area Helped design our first product—a social network built around people's existing news consumption habits. The product enabled users to consume content shared by their close friends, extended social network and their favorite news sources. Worked closely with the founder (David Tisch) on the UX of the product. ### Lead UX Designer, Openstudy @ OpenStudy.com Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 Worked on UX design and visual design for the product while collaborating with a small team of engineers. OpenStudy is a social learning network where students ask questions, give help, and connect with other students studying the same things. OpenStudy is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA). Most recently it was funded by the Gates/Hewlett Foundation and backed by a VC firm, LearnCapital. ### Research Intern (User Experience Design) @ Microsoft Research Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 Worked at the Text Mining, Search and Navigation group to create 'games with a purpose'. ### Engineer (User Centered Design Group) @ Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 Engineer in the User Centered Design Group. Helped design tools to optimize workflows for Engineering teams. ## Education ### MS in Digital Media (Information Design and Technology) Georgia Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information and Communication Technology Dhirubhai Ambani University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/uxabhishek - Portfolio: http://www.google.com/patents/US8285706 --- Source: https://flows.cv/abhishekgupta2 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/abhishekgupta2/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13