# Malini B. Leveque > Experience Design, Research & Analytics Location: Palo Alto, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/malini Design Executive | AI-Driven UX | Enterprise Experience Innovation Leading at the intersection of AI, automation, and intelligent systems, I drive the transformation of enterprise user experience, ensuring technology amplifies human potential and enhances the way we work. At the helm of interdisciplinary teams spanning design, data science, and engineering, we are reimagining enterprise software—making it more intuitive, adaptive, and seamlessly integrated into daily workflows. Great design is anticipatory and data-informed—not just solving problems but eliminating them before they arise. I am passionate about inspiring teams to think beyond traditional boundaries, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and bold experimentation. By leveraging AI, behavioral insights, and automation, we create high-impact, frictionless experiences that reshape enterprise ecosystems. Through strategic design leadership, I empower teams to drive product innovation, user research, and experience transformation that delivers measurable business outcomes. Innovation isn’t just about what’s next—it’s about empowering teams to transform the way people work today. By championing human-centered principles, intelligent automation, and data-driven design, we ensure that technology eliminates complexity and enables people to focus on what truly matters. Let’s connect and shape the future of intelligent, human-centered design—where technology unlocks creativity, empowers people, and makes the impossible effortless. ## Work Experience ### VP, User Insights and Research at SAP @ SAP Jan 2021 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Advisory Board Member @ UserTesting Jan 2023 – Present Advisory Board Member ### Advisory Board Member @ UserZoom (now part of UserTesting) Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Advisory Board Member ### VP, Product Design @ Citrix Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buVyseO8WP8 ### Director, DevOps Product Design & Research @ CA Technologies (acquired by Broadcom Inc.) Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara, California, United States Collaborated with leadership and partners to plan and deliver visionary portfolio strategy and ML driven product experience focused on competitive differentiation. Grew and managed geographically distributed team of 35 designers through vision, inspiration, relationships, and motivation. – Transformed the product development culture, by evangelizing design thinking through inclusive workshops with key stakeholders and customers to rapidly defined, build, iterate and validate solutions. – Build team spirit and trust by driving effective collaborative communication via wiki, slack channels, sprints, company wide design brown bags, and meet ups. – Established best practices including common UX frameworks, component libraries, style sheets, acceptance criteria, and early VPATs, delivering consistent high-quality, digital-experience insights. https://mineral-ui.netlify.app/ ### User Experience Design Leader - UCS Director, Enterprise software @ Cisco Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, California, United States Championed design thought leadership, usability education and built interaction and visual design guides to drive a seamless experience across UCS – Unified Infrastructure Management and Automation software products. – Delivered product design definition and customer validated iterations, managed all design and usability activities for products end-to-end experience, and partnered with product management and engineering, ensuring alignment and consistency through product development. – Led the re-design of UCS from skeuomorphic flex-based product into modern HTML 5 application suite and new end-user Marketplace application to impact user adoption and usage. – Worked with researchers to formulated research plans and translate user-data into actionable insights to drive simple and elegant product solutions to complex technical challenges. Balanced qualitative and quantitative data to drive user-centered design decisions. ### Sr. User Experience Architect - Converged Systems, Enterprise group @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise Jan 2007 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, California, United States Initiated a design operations practice and partnered with engineering to developed the Grommet design framework for teams to deliver high quality consistent experience for the HPE product portfolio at velocity. – Led the integration of design and usability programs into Agile development process across 12 products in HPE. – Managed design and implementation of next generation visual look and feel and interaction standards for HP’s Cloud Service Applications. – Drove product direction and quality though field research, wants and needs analysis and usability tests with customers and users. Worked with product management to prioritize, design, and integrate results and use cases into Agile development cycle. https://grommet.github.io/ ### Principal - User Experience @ Opsware (acquired by Hewlett Packard) Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Senior Product Designer @ Autodesk Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 ### Principal User Interface Manager @ Oracle Jan 1996 – Jan 2005 | Redwood City, California, United States ## Education ### Virtual HBS Executive Education in Competing in the Age of AI Harvard Business School ### Certificate - Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Certificate - Executive Leadership Cornell University ### Certificate - High Performance Leadership Cornell University ### Masters of Fine Arts in New Media in Usability and User Centric Interaction design (UCD) Academy of Art University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mleveque --- Source: https://flows.cv/malini JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/malini/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13