I live somewhere at the intersection of storytelling, art, design and technology - in that order. Have found that mix in building products. I see my future in building products that help humans become more human.

2023 — NowAtlanHead of User Research - Engineering, Product & Design

2023 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

The big question I tackle each day: How do we drive empathy at Scale and build an insane amount of care for users in the culture?

Building the User Research vertical & preparing to scale.

I head research, sensemaking and signal amplifier for all user research at Atlan.

I drive strategic projects for all future-facing exploratory work and drive adoption for all the work that is shipped through insights.

Built internal PMF of Research <> Product, Research <> CS, Research <> GTM

Built a central repo for all research interviews and findings

Built a culture of making research signals a part of everyday life at Atlan - from weekly assets created to communicate user feelings, to creating a wall of love, to owning user love asset for quarterly townhall and board meetings. My goal here is to build org-wide empathy towards humans of data

Running multiple programs to capture signals from the users across various mediums

Created new programs to run strategic discovery of signals from our end users

All the signals attributed to making product decisions and created new narratives that help us understand data teams

I created and owned several internal projects to go back and communicate what happens with user signals back to the users. This has helped us build tremendous user trust.

Driving multiple internal functions to publish more and be more closely in touch with end-users to build incredible user trust, even before we ship new features and enhancements.

2021 — NowAtlanFounder's office - Product & Design

2021 — Now

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Responsible for uncovering Human Insight + Product discovery and more @Atlan.

Working at the intersection of empathy, insights, product, engineering and more; with the goal of helping Humans of Data do their best work :)

First 12 months at Atlan:

Built end-to-end onboarding journey for all new Atlanians. This help a new person in Product and Engineering to be fully onboarded in 4 weeks or less, while building a strong place for themselves in the team and also building confidence for themselves at work.

Built internal knowledge assets to simplify the data ecosystem

Created multiple projects to support and build a culture - Townhalls, creating video assets etc.

Built assets to support hiring pipeline - content for hiring and referrals

2020 — 2021Lowe's Companies, Inc.Senior Innovation Program Manager, Lowe's Innovation Labs- India

2020 — 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Continuing work at Intersection of Intersections - Prototyping, Innovation, POCs, Storytelling, Design, Emerging Technologies with exponential capabilities, and more.

2017 — 2021

Technology Explorer

2017 — 2021

Bengaluru Area, India

I have been designing and building experiences, prototypes and products using a mix of new age Technologies including (but not limited to) :

1. Voice Interface Design and Development for general population, enterprise and bridging communication gap between generations (Founder -Kaavadia http://www.kaavadia.com/)

2. Neural Networks for creative expression.

3. New age materials for conductivity and electronics prototyping

4. Exponential Technology Education for CXOs and Investors.

Due to the nature of the projects, will be unable to share more at this point, but hopefully you will see these experiments/products around you very soon.

2018 — 2020HappLabsLead - Strategy & Product

2018 — 2020

Running the point for:

Product (Surge Send ), Design, Community, Marketing, Growth, Strategy, Vendor Management and more.

Some of my work here includes:

1. Bringing first iterations of the market, customer research, branding, identifying core partners and establishing KPIs

2. Managing product interactions in Singapore, New York, San Franciso, North Bay, Philadelphia and Boston through in-person events.

3. Product launch and managing release cycles.

4. Getting to product-market fit (almost there)

5. Choosing the right channels for growth

6. Product iterations and optimizations - includes design and engineering

7. Launching and experimenting new business models with Pay Per Transfer

8. Running the point for Product Engineer, Design, Marketing, Hiring and managing the team

9. Setting up entities in Singapore and San Franciso

10. Constantly juggling multiple other projects as an IC, team member, and leader.

Education

2010 — 2014

Bangalore Institute Of Technology,Bangalore

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

2010 — 2014

Lakshmipat Singhania School, Kankroli, Rajsamand, Rajasthan, India

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)