# Pavithra Olety > Product Design Leader | Passionate about Human-Centered AI, Security, Enterprise UX, Growth design, Design Systems | Building 0-1 & Scaling Product Experiences | Let’s Connect! Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/pavithraolety Product Design leader with 14+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise platforms across security, networking, supply chain, and observability. I lead design for complex, multi-product systems, bringing structure to ambiguity and simplifying workflows at scale so users can act with clarity and confidence. My work spans platform UX, design systems, and AI-driven experiences, including emerging agentic patterns. At Palo Alto Networks, I led design for platform-critical initiatives such as Licensing and Activation across 30+ product lines, improving onboarding and time to value. I also helped scale design systems supporting 30+ engineering teams by driving the design system architecture, defining key patterns, enabling consistency and velocity across the platform. I build and mentor high-performing design and research teams and partner closely with product and engineering to shape direction and deliver measurable outcomes. Focused on using design as a strategic lever to drive product clarity, adoption, and long-term platform scale. ## Work Experience ### Director of Product Design @ Veza Jan 2026 – Present ### Senior Principal UX Designer @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | California, United States πŸ›‘οΈ Building and influencing core Network Security Platform Experience πŸ›‘οΈ First Agentic AI Experience (AX) for Strata (Network Security) admins πŸ›‘οΈ Helping shape Design System ### Principal Product Designer @ Citrix Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Santa Clara County, California, United States Leading product design for Citrix platform observability and unified experience. ### Product Design Manager @ Citrix Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 β€’ Led a team of Product designers across multiple geo-locations to shape and execute long and short-term design strategy for Citrix Virtualization business focussed on DaaS Monitor, Observability, and all Analytics contributing to a ~$3.5B revenue. β€’ Collaborated with cross-functional teams and product and engineering leadership to guide Citrix design system 'jUIce' and promote a strong design culture. β€’ Advocated for users, improved user engagement, onboarding, and product adoption, and mentored design teams for Citrix Application Delivery and Security (CADS) and Application Delivery Management (ADM)/ NetScaler. ### Lead Product Designer @ Citrix Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara, California, United States - Focussed on improving the usability of Citrix Application Delivery management by simplifying and redesigning the main navigation and overall product Information Architecture. - Increased the user engagement of the product by being the voice of the admins, balancing business needs and shipped multiple experiences which includes customizable dashboards, easy to use configuration flows, tasks and actionable alerts and insights. - Lead and delivered experiences focussed on product adoption by improving the user-onboarding which helped achieve 1000+ active ADM service customers. Contributed towards 57% of new active ADM service customer adoption in 2021. - Lead design initiatives for ADM which helped customer retention from 80% in 2020 to 95% in 2021. - Design thinking, User research, user interviews, working with 3-in-box partners and supporting the design org. - One of the founding members and core maintainers of the Citrix design system (jUIce). - Nurturing design culture, team culture, team engagement and rallying for user experience. ### Senior Product Designer @ Citrix Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Santa Clara, California, United States Designing experiences for Citrix Networking products focusing on Application Delivery Management formerly known as Citrix netscalar and laying the foundation for Citrix Admin Design system. ### Lead UX Designer @ Paradata Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Design workflows for the supply chain SaaS product, Increased feature usage by applying design principles based on User research and feedback, Various feature redesign by usability testing, Conceptualizing ideas to design and all the way to implementation, Collaborate with exec stakeholders, users, product manager and engineers for understanding context and shipping product features based on user feedback, Writing user design user stories, Redefined design style guide ### User Experience Engineer and Designer 2 @ Akamai Technologies Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 - Designed 5 data-driven tools in the security, and content delivery space. - First design hire, played a significant role in establishing the design process, establishing style guide and hiring designers. - Ran experiments to test the usability of the product, conducted internal user interviews to inform design and product roadmap. ### User Interface Engineer @ Akamai Technologies Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Design workflows and experiences for complex data-driven products. Closely Work with key stakeholders - Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineers to make design decisions of the product. Develop HTML5/CSS3 prototypes ### UX Consultant @ NTT Data Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 User Research, Recommendations, Design and UI prototyping for Web and Mobile Apps. ### UI UX Engineer @ Eigenta Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 Interaction design: Design solutions to solve key scenarios of user and business goals for data management system. Rapid prototyping: Develop clickable prototypes to evaluate the effectiveness of design solutions against scenarios. Front end development: Develop pixel perfect XHTML/CSS markup and UI controls using JS libraries ### Mentor @ BASE Educational Services Pvt Ltd., Bangalore--Bangalore Academy of Specialised Education Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Bangalore, India ### Web Application Developer @ Prosems Web Solution Pvt Ltd Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Bangalore, India Designed E-commerce web applications using Photoshop, HTML, CSS and open source platforms ## Education ### Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering Visvesvaraya Technological University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pavithraolety --- Source: https://flows.cv/pavithraolety JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/pavithraolety/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13