# Saloni Dandavate > AI Product Designer | Agentic Assistants Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/saloni Product designer with 7 years of experience creating AI-powered products, especially conversational assistants - working closely with ML and AI engineers to translate complex systems into clear, usable experiences. My approach is grounded in understanding how systems are built and how they work, which helps me balance technical potential with delightful interaction design. I’m passionate about designing paradigm-shifting technologies always rooted in transparency, usability, and value. ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer @ Moveworks Jan 2018 – Present Leading design for Moveworks’ agentic AI assistant to strengthen trust, usability, and adoption. Drove the transformation from an NLU-based product to a generative AI platform now serving 5M+ users, with initiatives spanning multi-plugin orchestration, reasoning transparency, unified citations, seamless hand-offs, and display frameworks. ### Interaction Design Resident @ Y Combinator Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Oakland, CA Worked with a team of designers, engineers and MIT researchers at Dynamicland to research, future caste, conceptualize, design, prototype, test and deliver educational tools with innovative interactions for children, with emerging technology that augments reality. Dynamicland is a research lab that is inventing a new computational medium where people work together with real objects in the real world, not alone with virtual objects on screens. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ California College of the Arts Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Assisted Professor Erin Malone in teaching, grading, and mentoring 2nd year undergraduate Interaction Design students for an advanced Systems course. The course introduced students to different ways of visualizing complex systems that enabled them to identify opportunities and design solutions. ### Graduate Student Researcher @ Ford Foundation Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Ahmedabad Area, India Conducted quantitative research, in-depth interviews, observation studies, co-creation workshops and usability studies in rural Maharashtra, India, to develop communication to help educate the people about the benefits of family planning. This was a part of my thesis project during my Master's at the National Institute of Design, which was funded by the Ford Foundation India. ### Interaction Design Intern @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mumbai Area, India Designed educational games for mobile, tablet and physical play, through rapid prototyping and user-testing, for low income students going to government schools in Madhya Pradesh, India. ### Product Design Intern @ International Design Summer School Program Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Shanghai City, China Participated and collaborated with international students from 6 different countries to ideate, innovate, conceptualize, prototype and deliver design solutions that encourage urban farming and gardening in Shanghai. ### Graphic Design Intern @ Law and Kenneth Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Mumbai Area, India Worked as a Graphic Design intern and and actively participated in client meetings, briefs, brainstorming, designing and developing of effective marketing campaigns for various brands and consumer products. ### Graphic Design Intern @ Ting Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Mumbai Area, India Worked as a graphic design and marketing intern and actively participated in media strategies and branding for various brands. ### Research Intern @ Centre for Environment Education Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Pune Area, India I worked as a communication and research intern at CEE. During my internship I conducted waste management workshops for awareness in slums, schools and corporates in different parts of Pune city. My internship also gave me the opportunity to conduct extensive field research for the possibility of the public bicycle system in Pune which are now active. ## Education ### Master's degree in Interaction Design California College of the Arts ### Master's degree in Animation Film Design National Institute of Design ### Bachelor's degree in Communication and Media Studies Symbiosis Institute Of Media And Communication, Pune ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/salonidandavate - Website: https://www.salonidandavate.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/saloni JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/saloni/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23