# Kshitij Gupta

> Product Designer and Leader | AI Strategy | Ex- Workday, Microsoft & Dell | MS HCI, BS Design

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kshitijgupta1

I’m a full-stack Product Designer and Leader with 16+ years of experience creating intuitive, user-centered experiences for both enterprise software and consumer-facing products. I specialize in turning complex workflows into simple, elegant solutions whether it's for financial planning tools or everyday productivity apps.

## Work Experience
### Principal Product Designer @ Pulley
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building a 0->1 AI-native product.

### UX Manager @ Workday
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Santa Clara, California, United States
Led a globally distributed team of designers and researchers for the Planning pillar, shaping UX strategy to align business and user needs. Embedded research and accessibility into the design process, improving usability, inclusivity, and compliance across the product suite. Established the UX vision and roadmap, ensuring strategic alignment and innovation. Guided the evolution of planning design system, aligning it with business priorities and adopting Workday’s Look & Feel to drive consistency.

Key projects: Financial Planning (Sheets, Reports & Dashboards), Intelligent Planning (Planning Assistant, Predictive Forecasting & Anomaly Detection), Workforce Planning, and new Adaptive Office and Google plugins.

### Sr. Product Designer @ Workday
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Designed and improved key features of Workday Planning, including Dashboards 2.0 and Bottom-up Headcount Planning. Led interaction design efforts, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive UX flows and prototypes from complex requirements.

### Sr. User Experience Designer @ Dell EMC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Worked as lead interaction designer on several storage and data protection products. Responsibilities include defining design strategy, gathering user requirements, creating user flows, producing wireframes, prototyping and documenting user interface specifications. 

Key projects: Data Protection Cloud (Storage Management and Disaster Recovery)

### User Experience Designer @ Microsoft Corporation
Jan 2008 – Jan 2014 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Designed user experiences for multiple cloud services and management products at Microsoft’s Cloud Division, leading UX from ideation to implementation. Collaborated with globally distributed teams in agile development cycles. Contributed to Windows and System Center planning by identifying UX trends, creating user scenarios, and developing storyboards. 

Key Projects: Remote Desktop Android App Microsoft Azure (Big Compute) Windows 8 (PowerShell ISE, Defender) Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Manager)

### Associate Instructor @ Indiana University Bloomington
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
As an associate instructor facilitated a discussion section for the course Social Informatics. The course introduces theoretical approaches to how technology is used from psychological and socio-technical perspectives.

### Interface Specialist @ Center for Advanced Research - PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | San Jose, California, United States
Worked on interactive visualizations to support analysis of transactional data. Conceptualized an adapted treemap visualization to help investigators build and refine hypothesis from subledger data. Programmed in Java to build a high-fidelity prototype which was tested on multiple users.

### Research Intern @ ENST Bretagne, France
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | Brest, Brittany, France
Worked on information architecture of a travel agency website while using the Semantic Web framework. Designed the user model for the website and worked on the set of rules to improve user interaction in the Adaptive Web based Information System (AWIS).


## Education
### MS in Human Computer Interaction Design
Indiana University Bloomington

### BS in Design
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kshgupta
- Portfolio: https://www.kshitijguptaportfolio.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13