# Sahithya Baskaran > Experience Design Leader at Zillow Location: San Bruno, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sahithya I lead teams in designing game-changing experiences that reinvent how people move and work. With 15+ years of experience across interaction design, product strategy, and systems thinking, I’ve built a career on helping people through stressful moments so they can spend more time doing what they love. Specialties & Focus • Design strategy & vision-setting • Systems thinking at scale • Cross-functional influence & collaboration • Growing and leading high-performing design teams ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Design Manager @ Zillow Jan 2025 – Present ### Experience Design Manager @ Zillow Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Design leadership at Zillow ProX. Currently building and leading the Agent advertising and closing platforms design team. My team leads design on consumer and agent facing products within Zillow helping consumers connect with the right local expert based on their needs and helping agent teams close on time every time. ### Principal Product Designer @ Zillow Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States Led product strategy and design vision for 0-1 transaction and document management platforms, streamlining real estate transactions, enhancing operational efficiency and compliance for industry partners while helping multiple business lines across Zillow scale. ### Senior User Experience Designer @ Zillow Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Led design of a leading contract-to-close real estate platform to help real estate professionals manage and streamline the process of buying, selling, and renting properties. ### Senior User Experience Designer @ Oracle Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Redwood Shores, California Led design for cutting edge self service applications for employees and managers in software that enterprises use to run their business. Led the massive mobile first redesign effort of Manager Self Service applications with improved insight driven information architecture. Collaborated with cross-functional teams in an agile environment to deliver product visions across platforms. Developed core pattern libraries and responsive design guidelines, Mentored and coached peers/junior designers. Moderated feedback sessions, presented future vision UX Demos at conferences and customer visits. ### User Experience Designer @ Oracle Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Redwood Shores, California Partnered closely with Product leadership and executives to define the vision and roadmap for Oracle Social Learning Cloud - a peer to peer knowledge sharing and learning management system for enterprise. Led the redesign efforts for Employee Self Service Benefits, Workforce compensation, Compensation modeling, Payments and other complex HR workflows. ### Graduate Research Assistant - MOOCs @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Atlanta, Georgia ### Core Mobile Apps Product Manager Intern @ eBay Inc Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Portland, Oregon Area Developed onboarding patterns and in-app contextual help to enhance feature discovery for new and returning users in eBay mobile apps. Leveraged personalization data, user reviews, and research studies to identify opportunities, creating user stories, wireframes, and prototypes to communicate recommendations to product and design leadership. ### Software Developer @ SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Bangalore, India Implemented legal changes for corporations including Shell, Procter & Gamble, and Nestlé, ensuring compliance and successful year-end reporting while facilitating accurate and timely employee payments. ### Microsoft Student Partner @ Microsoft Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 ## Education ### Master of Science (MS) in Human Computer Interaction Georgia Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Science PES University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bsahithya - Portfolio: http://sahithya.in/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/sahithya JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sahithya/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13