# Aravind Jembu Rajkumar > Design at Google Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/aravindjemburajkumar ## Work Experience ### User Experience Designer @ Google Jan 2021 – Present ### Product Designer @ Maven Machines Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 - Led the design efforts for Maven's flagship products — Maven Dispatch and Inbound. - Shipped and iterated 20+ features across 4 different products used by 10,000 users every day. - Pitched UX solutions for complex problem statements to clients by generating detailed interactive prototypes. - Improved driver UX by slashing the number of clicks by 75% via automatic progression besides manual intervention. - Drafted product documentation for stakeholders to define requirements and to identify future opportunities. - Facilitated initiatives with PMs and Engineers to prioritize features and reduce UX debt. - Conducted field research to elicit qualitative feedback from 9 users from 3 distinct user groups — Planners, Dispatchers, and Drivers to improve existing products and features. ### UX Designer @ Adobe Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 - Collaborated with 3 research scientists to understand the capabilities of the AI Machine learning models and translated them to design an accessibility assistant called ALLY that produces accessible PDFs. - Conceptualized, designed, and tested design solutions that matched user needs backed by my 2 academic papers. - Defined UX metrics to quantitatively measure the effectiveness of the design solutions. - Presented my work on ALLY to various stakeholders including Accessibility experts and Senior Product Managers to build momentum and stakeholder buy-in. - Contributed to a research submission on the effectiveness of the ALLY prototype for late 2021. ### Product Designer @ Stardog Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 - Lead the product discovery effort with 6 designers and researchers by interviewing 15 SMEs and Data Scientists to elicit contextual insights on data mapping and modeling phases of the knowledge graph creation process. - Translated research insights from user studies into meaningful action and presented 6 product concepts. - Designed wireframes and prototypes and moderated 12 usability studies to capture edge cases. ### Research Assistant @ University of Maryland Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | College Park, Maryland -I conduct qualitative and quantitative studies as a part of my on-going research projects at the TRACE R&D Center. My research emphasis is centered on accessibility and inclusive design. -Researched on the various technologies and software that helps to markup annotations on a PDF document that helps assistive technologies like screen readers to read a PDF document. -Screened and recruited participants who are researchers and practitioners in STEM fields to understand the needs to make accessible PDF documents. Performed usability testing on PAVE, a PDF markup tool, analyzed the results and published my work at the Hawaii International Conference for System Science (HICSS 2020). - Published a paper on gaps in currently available markup tools and the future of markup tools at 10th Cambridge Workshop for Universal Access and Assistive Technologies (CWUAAT) - Contributed to the design and usability study on assessing the effectiveness of a simplified Microsoft Word ribbons to make it accessible to all. - Curated the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure's (GPII) Unified Listing website - a platform that brings together all Assistive Technologies (AT), their accessories from across the world and other Information Communication Technologies (ICT). ### UX Designer @ PayPal Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Creating insightful dashboards with novel data visualization techniques across all platforms (Mobile, tablet, and web) for PayPal's Big data division. - Successfully designed and shipped 2 important applications - Data Operations Intelligence (DOI) and Media Intelligence (MI) at PayPal's iOS store. - Pitched and designed productive use cases for a chatbot within DOI and MI with proposed business metrics. - Worked on an Agile methodology framework and collaborated with Project Owners, Project Managers, Software Developers, and Data Scientists to deliver impactful insights. - Created a daily dashboard for C-level executives to inform them of the Daily KPIs which are very critical in monitoring the health of the organization. - Created a unifying Design Language across all Enterprise tools and Software in the Enterprise Data Service (EDS) group at PayPal. - Designed print media for the EDS group like Posters, magazines and email newsletters for internal events and festivals. - Worked with Data Scientists and Marketing department to visualize the media coverage of PayPal across various local and international news agencies in the world. ### UX Designer @ Cognizant Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 -Converted a Proof of Concept for a pizza delivering company into a project worth $200K - Responsible for converting abstract business requirements to clickable low/high fidelity prototypes which are iterative in nature. - Performed Heuristic evaluation for Abbvie's product dashboard and recommended suggestions to overcome instances that violated the Nielson Norman's evaluation criteria for better usability and usability. - Created Proof of Concepts (PoCs) for tenders across multiple domains, mainly Healthcare and Finance. - Exposure to a range of domains such as Health Care, Banking and Finance, and Manufacturing and Logistics. Clients include HealthNet, Pizza Hut, PayPal, AbbVie, Navistar, etc. ### Catalog Associate @ Amazon Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - I ran a time-motion analysis study to re-determine the optimal Service Level Agreement(SLA) for my team. - I was responsible for helping my counterparts from US fulfillment centers in assisting them with sorting out the lost/unidentifiable/ownerless items. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Human Computer Interaction University of Maryland ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Anna University Chennai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aravindjr --- Source: https://flows.cv/aravindjemburajkumar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/aravindjemburajkumar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29