# Niharika Naidu > Staff Product Designer at Proofpoint Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/niharikanaidu Staff UX designer with an engineering background, focused on designing for complex, data-dense enterprise and security products. Partners closely with cross‑functional teams to turn ambiguous problems into clear, effective user centered experiences. Known for interaction design, design thinking, empathetic and calm leadership on fast‑paced teams. ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Proofpoint Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States Leading UX strategy and execution for the next evolution of Threat Protection Workbench, a flagship platform defining the future of enterprise email security. • Own end-to-end UX for a data‑dense, responsive cybersecurity workbench at the core of Proofpoint’s threat protection portfolio, balancing analyst efficiency, clarity, and scale. • Drive the full design lifecycle—from opportunity framing, UX strategy, and qualitative research through interaction design, prototyping, validation, and production delivery. • Partner cross‑functionally with engineering, product, marketing, and executive leaders to influence the roadmap, align on vision, and translate complex security workflows into cohesive product experiences. • Deliver user‑centered solutions that improve detection workflows and decision confidence while advancing key business goals such as adoption, retention, and expansion. • Serve as lead designer on a fast‑paced, high‑impact team, mentoring designers through critiques, pairing sessions, and design reviews to raise the overall quality bar. ### Senior Product Designer @ Proofpoint Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States • Led UX for the TAP Dashboard product, owning end-to-end feature definition, design, and delivery. • Prototyped critical flows at high velocity to validate concepts with users and de-risk roadmap decisions. • Designed Proofpoint’s first AI-powered experience, extending the design system with new interaction patterns. • Crafted a new executive reporting experiences with clear data visualizations and narrative insights, enabling faster, more confident security decisions. • Evolved a shared design system across products, enforcing consistency, usability, and reuse at portfolio scale. ### Senior UX Designer @ NICE Actimize Xceed Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California Evidence Lake – Anti-Money Laundering Web Platform • Led the end-to-end interaction and visual design for the KYC customer onboarding experience, clarifying complex AML requirements into intuitive, compliant workflows. • Redefined high-traffic online forms to improve information hierarchy and findability, driving higher completion rates and measurable gains in customer satisfaction. Fraud Detection Platform • Elevated the multi-channel Fraud Detection platform experience through targeted UX improvements that reduced friction for analysts and boosted overall customer satisfaction. • Created and iterated on high-fidelity prototypes to validate next-generation fraud detection concepts with leadership, turning ambiguous ideas into actionable product roadmaps. • Established a reusable UI framework spanning core products, enabling consistent experiences and faster delivery across the Xceed product suite. ### User Experience Designer @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Redmond, Washington • Designed and shipped a multi-platform Transportation Hub experience (iOS, Android, and Windows) that enabled Microsoft employees to seamlessly navigate campus transportation options and reduce friction in daily commute to work. • Owned the end-to-end UX lifecycle—from generative research and co-creation workshops to interaction design, low/high-fidelity wireframes, and moderated usability studies—ensuring solutions were grounded in real employee workflows. • Prototyped key flows in high fidelity to validate functionality early with stakeholders, accelerating decision-making and reducing redesign cycles in later development phases. • Partnered closely with design managers, PMs, engineers, and user researchers to align on problem framing, requirements, and success metrics, delivering coherent experiences across desktop and mobile touchpoint. ### Program Manager @ Microsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Redmond, Washington • Co-led the design and definition of a multi-platform Employee Experiences app that centralized everyday tasks for Microsoft employees, including dining discovery, benefits lookup, internal job postings, and HR/facilities support. ### Software Development Engineer in Test @ Microsoft Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Redmond, Washington • Designed and executed automated test plans, cases, and scripts to uncover and document critical data integration defects across multiple Sales CRM systems, improving data reliability for downstream analytics and reporting stakeholders. • Performed end-to-end front‑end regression and GUI validation using Telerik Test Studio’s record‑and‑playback capabilities to verify content, interaction behavior, and edge cases, helping ensure high-quality, production-ready web experiences. ### Analyst @ Guitar Center Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science University of Southern California ### Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science B. M. S. College of Engineering ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/niharikasn --- Source: https://flows.cv/niharikanaidu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/niharikanaidu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13