# Omeed Chandra > Product Design and Strategy | Master's in Human Centered Design Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/omeedchandra I'm a well-rounded, self-driven product designer who especially excels at interaction design, product strategy, systems thinking, and mentorship. I thrive on creating business impact by helping people be more productive and fulfilled, and my multidisciplinary background, diverse experience, and human-centered approach make me both versatile and an ideal teammate. ## Work Experience ### Principal Product Designer @ Microsoft Jan 2024 – Present | Greater Seattle Area Designing Fabric, Microsoft’s next-generation data analytics platform for the era of AI. ### Staff Product Designer @ Cruise Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Greater Seattle Area Design lead (player-coach role) for the Testing and Analysis area. Led design and strategy for six web apps critical to developing, testing, and improving the customer experience of Cruise’s self-driving cars, supported by a team of three other designers. My work was key to helping Cruise scale its operations and prepare for commercialization, and I worked with executive stakeholders that included Cruise's CEO. ### Product Design Manager @ Dropbox Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington Led a distributed team of designers responsible for some of the most fundamental, high-traffic parts of Dropbox.com, including our file browser, content previewer, and upload experience. My team's work successfully lifted key metrics, improved accessibility, and produced substantial new revenue. ### Product Design Lead @ Dropbox Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington Design lead (player-coach role) for highly successful initiatives that enhanced Dropbox for millions of users, including a usability overhaul of our file browser and a complete redesign of our content previewer -- two of the highest-traffic parts of Dropbox.com. Achieved highly positive results including increased customer satisfaction, engagement, retention, and revenue, and earned the Spotlight Award for outstanding impact on the company. ### Senior UX Designer @ GoDaddy Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Kirkland, Washington Leading role in several cross-group design projects to improve the GoDaddy customer experience, including creating a vision for a new logged-in home page focused on the needs of small businesses. Responsibilities included interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and usability testing. ### Senior Product Designer @ Microsoft Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Redmond, WA Designed many high-value OneNote and Education experiences that delivered on key business goals and customer needs. This included serving as the lead interaction designer for a major redesign of OneNote that increased app store review scores and engagement, improved accessibility, and earned very positive customer feedback. ### Program Manager 2 @ Microsoft Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Redmond, WA Designed and launched a variety of new or improved OneNote features on multiple platforms. Responsibilities included product vision, competitive analysis, interaction design, user research, usability testing, project management, and collaborating with partner teams across the company. ### Software Development Engineer in Test 2 @ Microsoft Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 | Redmond, WA Improved the quality of Microsoft Publisher and OneNote by developing and executing test plans, writing automation code, and advocating for user needs. ### Contributing Writer @ Maximum PC magazine and PC Gamer magazine Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 | Brisbane, CA Evaluated products and wrote reviews, how-to articles, and feature stories for two of the most widely circulated technology magazines in the US. ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Human Centered Design & Engineering University of Washington ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science UC San Diego ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/omeed-chandra - Portfolio: http://www.omeedchandra.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/omeedchandra JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/omeedchandra/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30