# Geetha Priya Padmanaban > Product Design Strategist Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/geethapriyapadmanaban Hey there! I'm a Product Designer committed to leveraging design to solve human problems in the digital world. With a proven ability for commitment and creative thinking, I have successfully led projects in various verticals, including Entertainment, Healthcare IT, Cloud AI/ML, Education, Banking, IoT, Social Impact, and Agriculture. I excel in building effective relationships with diverse groups of clients, vendors, and colleagues, thriving in fast-paced, cross-functional, collaborative environments. I am always on the lookout to be a design champion, I stay up-to-date on trends, innovations, and inspirations, bringing my colorful background to the design table. Ingredients for my every design recipe: Adding Inclusive, equitable, and ethical designs, pouring in accessibility aspects, blending it with sustainability measures, and juicing it for users' delightful experiences. Love to learn & double love to share what I learn When I am not crafting at work I share my learnings on geepriya.designelf (Instagram handle) ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Nium Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Product Designer @ Nium Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Interaction Designer @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States • Designed intuitive interactions for Kubernetes-based AI and ML Ops workflows and improved usability score by 20% • Worked alongside Product Managers and led end-to-end designs for HPE Ezmeral app development kit to expand the current market users, boost revenue and improve customer satisfaction • Considered technical constraints and communicated complex workflow designs to cross-functional roles in a timely manner • Contributed 3 components to the HPE Design System, documented UX patterns, and maintained an internal component library ### Product Designer @ ShipSigma Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Indianapolis, IN • Designed customizable dashboard experience and widgets for monitoring the shipping activities of FedEx & UPS customers. • Optimized the customer journey of shipping cost negotiators to get a bird's-eye view on invoice summary • Established a preliminary style guide to maintain consistency across products. ### UX Designer & Research Assistant @ Indiana University Indianapolis Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Sponsored Projects (Supervisor: Prof. Lou Lenzi, F.I.D.S.A., Former Design Director at GE Appliances) — GE Home Connect: Led the market research & delivered a top-rated business innovation for an existing consumer product in luxury apartments. (Partnered with GE Appliances) — Farm Fit: Led the product and service design for the client to expand business opportunities in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) based Poultry Farms. (Partnered with Hansong Technologies for this design challenge) - United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Funded Projects (Supervisors: Dr. Saptarshi Purkayastha, Dr. Judy Gichoya & Dr. Sherri Bucher) — Researched and prototyped an AI-augmented workflow, resulting in diagnosis accuracy and reduced cognitive load for radiologists. Scoped stories and requirements, which developers implemented in Google Summer of Code ’20. This project is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Human Centered AI genre. — Created persona, interaction user flow, interactive prototypes, and style guides for ‘NeoRoo,’ a mobile app that aims to reduce neonatal mortality in low and middle income countries. Co-designed the initiative sponsored by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, University of Oxford and Washington, Johnson & Johnson, IU informatics, and many more. NIH Funded Project (Under the supervision of Dr. Andrew Miller) — Explored communicative pediatric cancer caregiving user interfaces for effective daily huddles through participatory design, and card sorting methods. Additionally, worked with Prof. Mark Larew for the 'Intro to Human Computer Interaction (I300)' course & Dr. Lynn Dombrowski for 'UX Design Ethics' (I590) as a Teaching Assistant. ### Software Engineer (UI/UX) @ Cerner Corporation Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India • Designed and developed responsive apps to enhance physicians' experience for charting vitals & documenting multi-patient behaviors • Iterated technical designs in a cross-functional team across 3 countries and finalized API designs ### Consultant (UI/UX) @ Intellect Design Arena Ltd Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India • Built a proof of concept using the internal design center initiative and promoted reusability by 60% • Included data visualization and privacy features to foster the omnichannel experience and ecosystem. • The work was launched and used across 4 banking platforms • Improved the retail banking user interface and shipped the app to a client in the Middle East • Internationalized the product to support 5 languages. • Transformed manual operations into a digital banking platform for 2 products. ## Education ### Certification in Leadership Principles Harvard Business School Online ### Masters in Human Computer Interaction Indiana University Indianapolis ### Masters in Software Engineering Vellore Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/geetha-priya-padmanaban - Portfolio: https://geepriya.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/geethapriyapadmanaban JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/geethapriyapadmanaban/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13