# Lakshmi M.

> Senior Design Manager at Carta

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

Product designer with a love of turning broken and complex problems into delightful experiences for users. I also have 10 years of background in Front End Development. 

Interested in building products that help people make a positive change in their lives.

## Work Experience
### Senior Design Manager @ Carta
Jan 2023 – Present

### Product Design Manager @ Lattice
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Managing the Grow and Manager Tools teams

### Product Design Lead @ Patreon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California
Product design lead for Payments and Risk, and International teams

### Product Design Lead @ Stride
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Managed the design team and grew the team from 1 to 3.
• Led design on Stride Tax. Defined the vision and redesign around Stride's pivot from a purely expense tracking app to a wholistic finance solution.
• Scaled design systems to across multiple platforms (web, iOS and Android)

### Product Designer @ Stride
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Partnered with product to identify pain points among Uber drivers. This led us to build a brand new product in four weeks that acquired 100k new users (10% market penetration).
• Improved the onboarding flow that led to an end-to-end conversion lift of 33%.

### Marketing and Product Designer @ Justlogin
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Singapore
• Overhauled landing page and sign up experience leading to a 95% increase in leads. 
• Improved the usability and navigation of the native iOS and Android apps to increase user engagement.
• In charge of brand and design efforts across email, training materials, social, slide decks, posters and promotional materials.

### Marketing Designer @ Smart Image
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
• Designed and built product landing pages
• Logo and graphic design, product photography, produced all marketing and promotional materials.


## Education
### BS in Psychology and Management
National University of Singapore

### Raffles Institution
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lakshmimanik
- Portfolio: http://lakshmi-mani.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-25