# Kadambari Sahu > 170+ Design & Leadership Awards | 0-1 Design Leader | SVP Design at ValueLabs | UX for AI Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kadambari Kadambari is an International multi-award-winning Designer and a Design Leader, working as SVP design at ValueLabs. She founded the User Experience Group at ValueLabs and is currently leading 70+ designers in Design Practice to create world-class and award-winning products and services to have a positive impact on businesses and society. Her forte lies in building, growing, coaching, and mentoring high-performance design teams from scratch. She creates design culture by infusing design thinking within organizations and businesses to create a holistic strategy and customer experience. Her practice in design allows her to work on intangible and tangible aspects of design breaking the boundaries between physical, digital, and service design and creating a seamless experience across media, devices, touch-points, cultures, and geographies. She has worked for clients across geographies spanning, North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. She has won many awards (170+) for her work and leadership. these includes Creative Executive of the year-Stevie IBA 2021, Good Design Award, Communication Arts, Red Dot awards, German Design Awards, and many others. She has been part of many national and international fellowships and grants such as BMW Doathon, VR storytelling guild, etc. She is an international speaker on design and has given talks at many design conferences such as Interaction 20, and Interaction 18 organized by IxDA, UXindia, and many others. She was a co-chair of the Interaction Awards 2022 by IxDA. She is the founder and host of the Design Inspire Platform. She is also the founder of Sniffing Out the Differences collective, which started with the grant received from the Prince Claus Fund and the British Council to explore storytelling through multi-sensory installation with a focus on smell interactions. It is currently a think tank that pursues rigorous research in the olfactory and allied fields focusing on experience design. She is an alumna of the National Institute of Design, India, where she did her Post-graduation in New Media Design, which has led her to examine the impact that technologies have on human interactions and culture. She has been curious about the role of design in everyday life and the ways in which human interactions can be mediated, shaped, enhanced, or augmented by technologies. ## Work Experience ### Senior Vice President-Design @ ValueLabs Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, CA Founded and grew the User Experience Group (UXG) at ValueLabs to a team of ~50 members and Design Practice to 75+ members including UX designers, design managers, researchers, and the operations team. Successfully built a new global brand Identity for ValueLabs with 5500+ Employees and 30+ locations Crafted design strategies and services for clients globally; Increased per-project valuation. ### Vice President Design @ ValueLabs Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Hyderabad Area, India ### Associate Vice President of Design & Principal Architect Interaction (Head of Design) @ ValueLabs Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Hyderabad Area, India ### Founder @ Sniffing out the differences collective Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ### Lead Interaction Designer @ WaveMaker Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Hyderabad Area, India Led UX design of Wavemaker. created a new brand identity for the product and led the product through a major UX overhaul. Also contributed in the research division at Imaginea Design labs focusing on VR, AR, and IoT; represented firm at World VR Forum. ### Design Manager @ Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Established an independent New Media Design Lab at TCS to tackle New Media Design as a new value growth mechanism. Educated, trained and mentored designers, developers, and leaders to build a strong foundation. Enhanced employee experience through building several apps and games. ### Co-Founder @ Akalpya Imaginations Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Cofounded Akalpya imaginations, a Design studio spanning its work from User experience design to new media design. ### Design Consultant @ CDL Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Delhi Worked on Interactive Installations Divine response and was a part of the core team for the design of the traveling exhibition. ## Education ### Post Graduate Diploma in New Media Design National Institute of Design ### Bachelors of Technology in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kadambari-sahu-58ba0b55 - Portfolio: https://www.kadleadership.com/ - Portfolio: https://www.sniffingoutthedifferences.com/ - Portfolio: https://www.valuelabs.com/services/digital/ux/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/kadambari JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kadambari/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13