# Anish Dasgupta

> Staff Product Designer at Klarity AI |
Formerly at Microsoft, Adobe

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/anishdasgupta

Hi! My name is Anish.

I’m a product designer based in San Francisco. Over the last 12 years, I’ve been designing digital products with companies like Microsoft, Adobe and Compass, and have a track record of leading successful design projects with high business impact. My experience includes: 

- Leading design on a 0-1 product at Microsoft, from strategy and design through shipping/iterations resulting in 600+ enterprise contracts within 9 months of launching
- Proactively identifying business opportunities at Compass, driving a self-initiated research project on agent finance management that led to the creation of a new product vertical
- Creating the foundational design of the Postman API app as their first product designer, that resulted in the company being able to scale to over 2m users, and go from being a free app to a paid app for teams and businesses
- Working in close collaboration with leadership to evolve systems and processes, in particular at Microsoft, where I was frequently involved in getting stakeholder buy-in from partners and executive leadership
- Partnering with product and engineering to deliver solutions for problems of large scope, complexity and ambiguity

In addition to my design work, I also play music semi-professionally (the violin and piano) and teach a music program for children. This year, apart from going back to grad school, I’m using the time off from work to focus on things that are important to me like spending time with my family, working in queer advocacy as a volunteer at the GLBT museum in San Francisco, and most recently, playing a racket sport called Pickleball! You can learn more about me on my website (anishdasgupta.com) or get in touch via email.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Klarity
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Lead Designer + Strategist @ GLBT Historical Society
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Lead Product Designer @ Compass
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
- Led design on the Finances vertical that saw customer adoption grow 60% over a period of 8 months
- Crafted a mobile-centric product roadmap through workshops, research, and design sprints, aligning with a global strategy
- Mentored other designers as a project lead

### Senior Product Designer II @ Compass
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote
- Identified opportunities within realtor finance management, devised a data-driven strategy, and leveraged it to help multiple product verticals navigate roadmap intersections and feature prioritization

### Product Design Lead, Unified Search @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
- Domain Lead on ‘search extensibility’, a 0-1 product that helped unify search across third party apps
- Conceptualized and designed features on the product that led to 600+ enterprise contracts within 9 months of its launch
- Pioneered product features like ‘assisted search’ and ‘intelligent filtering’ that increased customer adoption 
- Collaborated with international teams to create design systems that established coherence across product verticals
- Established a framework to design accessible UX workflows within the team 
- Worked with executive leadership to help alignment across stakeholder teams

### Senior Designer @ cure.fit (cult.fit)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Responsible for the design on multiple successful app releases that saw CureFit’s user base grow 3x in 2 years

### Independent Design Conulstant @ Anish Dasgupta
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019

### Lead Product Designer @ Senseforth.ai
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
- Led design and research on the conversational bot platform “a.ware” that is now patented and has won multiple awards. 
- Created a brand identity and brand strategy for the company

### Lead Designer @ Postman
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
- Solved complex design challenges in the developer ecosystem to create one of the most popular products in an API developer’s toolkit
- Involved in multiple product releases that helped grow the user-base from 800k to over 2 million

### UX Designer @ Adobe
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
- Part of the core team that pioneered an e-learning platform called Adobe KnowHow that grew to over 1 million users
- Established a design system for Adobe Captivate 8, that laid the foundation for future versions and teams to build upon


## Education
### MDes in Interaction Design
California College of the Arts

### Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design
National Institute of Design


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anishdasgupta
- Portfolio: https://anishdasgupta.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-30