# Nishant Satanekar > Product Design @ Crusoe AI | AI, SaaS, B2B enterprise product design | Logistics, Retail, Insurance, FinTech | Figma, MIRO, Adobe Creative Suite Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nishantsatanekar I'm a design leader with experience in building and scaling research and design practices. My experience spans across senior management, user research, interaction design, visual design, and product management, mobile & web applications, and Fortune 500 companies and startups. I recently led a senior research and design team at Woolworths Group (largest retail business in Australia/New Zealand). I'm currently leading design to build sustainable AI cloud at Crusoe AI. Expertise Highlights: • 14+ years experience in design, with focus on B2B enterprise software products and value-added services • Owned end-to-end design strategy and execution for a $50M budget, 0 to 1 project to build a logistics marketplace with over 1400+ enterprise customers • Managed and mentored senior research and design team members across geographies • Built and optimized design systems, pattern libraries and research repositories • Defined 5-Year Technology Strategy and discovered use-cases of AI in logistics worth $75M+ ROI Tools Proficiency: • UX/UI Design and Prototyping: Figma, Sketch, Framer, Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator), Axure • Research & Analytics: Dovetail, UserZoom, UserTesting, Google Analytics, Pendo • Collaboration: MIRO, JIRA, Confluence, Trello, Google Workspace ## Work Experience ### Product Design Leadership @ Crusoe Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA Crusoe is a late-stage startup and industry’s first vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider utilizing clean energy sources. Responsibilities: - Design AI cloud infrastructure capabilities across compute, network, storage and orchestration for small digital native businesses, enterprise customers and internal teams including SREs and CS - Design unified interfaces across UI, API and CLI for cloud engineers to visualize, configure, optimize and manage spend on cloud infrastructure - Design managed inference experiences through an AI studio on top of IAAS capabilities - Manage a team of great product designers ### Staff Product Designer @ Crusoe Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Manager, Research and Design @ Woolworths Group Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Woolworths Group (dubbed "WalMart of Australia") is the largest retail supermarket chain across Australia and New Zealand, with 200K+ employees, $40B+ revenue and 1400+ stores. Responsibilities: - Own end-to-end creative vision, strategy and execution for a major $50M budget, 0 to 1 initiative to build a next-generation supply chain platform - Manage senior product research and design team members Accomplishments: - Managed multiple work streams across 8 engineering teams, to release capabilities across functions - Established a design system, improving design-development productivity by 40% - Directed user research projects resulting $1M+ in development and opportunity costs - Introduced decision-making frameworks and HCD playbook that is adopted by over 100 designers - Partnered with senior leadership to define a 5-Year Technology Strategy and uncover $75M ROI opportunities through research and design ### Lead Product Designer @ ADP Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ADP is a global provider of payroll services and HCM applications Responsibilities: - Lead a team of designers spanning across Australia, New Zealand, India and China - Design 5+ independent HR and Payroll B2B products for 1M+ users across APAC region - Support executive leadership with explorations of emerging technologies like AWS, AI/ML, VUI, etc. Accomplishments: - Delivered HR/Payroll B2B products, reducing revenue leakage by 15% and raising NPS by 13 points - Led implementation of global UX strategy in APAC including aligning KPIs, design systems, standards and guidelines - Established research practice by creating company-wide personas, customer panel, product analytics and feedback channels ### Senior Product Designer @ VSP Global Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Sacramento, California, United States VSP Global is the largest vision insurance company in US and a provider of practice management softwares (admin and SaMD) for vision clinics. Responsibilities: - Lead research and design across SMB and enterprise suite of products across clinicians and patient experiences - Create omni-channel experiences across practice management software, EHR, insurance integration, custom website builds and partner integrations Accomplishments: - Delivered a new SaaS platform to migrate 3000+ customer accounts, exceeding 85% retention target - Designed new point-of-sale (POS), order management and claims processing workflows, increasing engagement and reducing losses - Represented UX at cross-country trade shows, scaled the design team, and evangelized UX at C-level ### Product Designer @ Grainger Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 W. W. Grainger is a Fortune 300 industrial supply distribution company. Responsibilities: - Design offline and online customer experiences for high-traffic e-commerce website with 10M+ views/month Accomplishments: - Designed experiences across all parts of the site - registration, homepage, search/browse, checkout, account and fulfillment - Simplified registration and login flows through banner ads and account personalization - Improved browse to cart conversions by streamlining stock and availability information - Improved processes across 60-member design team by standardizing deliverables and establishing research repositories ### Product Designer @ Wolfram Research Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Champaign, Illinois Wolfram Research provides development platform for computing and simulations and a search engine called WolframAlpha. Responsibilities: - Act as Product Owner and Designer by owning end-to-end product development process from feature planning through design Accomplishments: - Revamped company’s online presence by redesigning wolfram.com and designing 15+ micro-sites - Led end-to-end process to launch "Wolfram Community" which now has 35K+ members and 1M+ discussion posts - Designed paid support program website, reducing support calls and introducing new revenue stream - Recruited UX and BA team members and introduced process improvements to improve design and development productivity ### Product Designer @ Neudesic Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Founding Product Designer @ DocuSign Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Seattle, Washington, United States Responsibilities: - Founding designer for document e-signing and sending - Support product team with requirements gathering and documentation Accomplishments: - Launched DocuSign 2010 Winter Release with improved design for core experiences - Designed 'DocuSign Ink' iOS app, which ranked as the second most downloaded productivity app in 2011 ## Education ### Masters of Science in Information Management University of Washington ### Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology University of Mumbai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishsat - Website: https://www.nishsat.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/nishantsatanekar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nishantsatanekar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07