# Rahul D.

> Gen AI Product Design Leader

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rahuld1

I’m a product design leader focused on delivering 0-1 Generative AI products, crafting user-centric AI experiences that drive real business impact—for social network users, ads monetization, and developer experiences in open-source projects.

I’m passionate about uncovering AI-driven opportunities, solving complex design challenges, and inspiring teams to push the boundaries of technology. Always curious and forward-thinking, I thrive on turning cutting-edge AI into meaningful, scalable solutions. Let’s connect! 🚀

Skills:

🧠 Human-AI Collaboration
Researching user journeys and workflows, shaping human-AI interactions, designing feedback loops, and experiments to gather insights and training data to calibrate models based on the real user needs. Thrive in tackling messy, undefined problem spaces that require cross-disciplinary collaboration.

🧩  Bridging Design & Technology
Leveraging systems thinking and technical knowledge to craft system instructions and using diverse prototyping methods, including simulating AI model responses, to inform and refine design requirements and strategies.

🎯 Design Strategy & Execution
Leading discovery, rapid prototyping, and design sprints to translate ambitious ideas into polished experiences. Bringing clarity to decision-making, crafting hypotheses and validation plans, and navigating thoughtfully through ambiguity.

✨ Design Craft & Influence
Hands-on design from exploration to execution—crafting end-to-end experiences while inspiring teams with thoughtful storytelling, clear creative direction, articulating bold visions, and establishing principles, patterns and guidelines for experience implementation.

🧭 UX Leadership
Driving 0→1 product vision, defining workflows, and scaling design systems for AI-first products. Partner with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to unlock innovation. Scaling and mentoring high-performing design teams.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Crusoe
Jan 2025 – Present

### Staff Product Designer, Gen AI @ TikTok
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Principal Designer, AI and Developer Experience @ Akuity - The GitOps Platform for Kubernetes
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Staff Product Designer, Gen AI Monetization @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Design Strategist, QuickBooks- Accounting Automation @ Intuit
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022

### Director, Design and User Experience @ Applatix, Inc. (acquired by Intuit)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### UX Design Lead @ Lending Club
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

### UX Design Lead @ Fidelity National Information Services- FIS Mobile
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Principal Interaction Designer @ Oracle Corporation- Oracle Financial Services
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013

### User Experience Designer @ Mimosa Systems, an Iron Mountain Company
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

### Sr. User Interface Designer @ Symphony Services
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008

### Human Factors Engineer @ Symantec
Jan 2003 – Jan 2006


## Education
### Experience design for wearable and smart devices
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension

### Bachelor of Applied Arts
Abhinav Art School

### User research and analysis
Human Factors International

### Human-computer interaction
Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rahuldhide

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Last updated: 2026-03-30