# Sanvithi Saya

Profile: https://flows.cv/sanvithi

Product designer with 6 years of experience across diverse domains. Adapted to complexity, untangled legacy systems, and shipped enterprise tools. Masters in HCI from California College of the Arts. Based in San Francisco.

## Work Experience
### Lead Product Designer @ CellWorks Life
Dec 2022 – Jun 2024 | Bengaluru, India
Owned the 0→1 design of 'Explora', the company's core web-based integrated development environment used by 150+ scientists and engineers for cancer research and AI model training. Co-led the product strategy by unifying 12+ legacy systems that reduced task time by 12.5% (~1 hour/day), saving $1.2 million in productivity over 1.5 years. Shipped 6 new features and established a design system with 120+ components as part of the initial product launch by collaborating with stakeholders and developers.

### Lead Product Designer @ Enlighted (Siemens Building Technologies)
Jan 2022 – Nov 2022 | Bengaluru, India
Redesigned the core workflows of 'Manage', a lighting management and commissioning system, reducing field task time by 60% (5 days → 2 days) and driving $1,200+ in labor savings per field engineer per cycle. Overhauled the user interface design of a 15+ year old legacy system by collaborating with developers in agile forms.

### Lead Visual Designer @ Homexchange India
Jan 2023 – May 2023 | Bengaluru, India
Defined the visual language and built a scalable design system for desktop and mobile CRM modules, reducing design-to-development time by 30% and ensuring brand consistency across platforms. Mentored 2 junior product designers through early exploration phases, accelerating their design proficiency and output quality within 3 months.

### Product Designer @ Wishwa Seva
Jun 2020 – Dec 2020 | Bengaluru, India
Architected structured review workflows for campaign evaluation, driving 35% faster approvals, saving ~10 staff hours per week through improved process clarity. Designed a data-visualization dashboard surfacing fundraising KPIs, improving visibility for leadership and driving 40% faster strategic decision-making.

### Product Designer @ Repositax
Jun 2019 – May 2020 | Bengaluru, India
Revamped the template-creation workflow for tax preparers, reducing manual entry time by 65% and tripling processing efficiency, improving overall client-throughput and accuracy.


## Education
### MDes, Interaction Design
California College of the Arts
Aug 2024 – Aug 2025 | San Francisco

### BVoc, Digital Media & Animation
St. Joseph's University
Jul 2016 – May 2019 | Bengaluru, India


## Projects
### Coco: AI-Powered Self-Reflection Tool
Conceptualized a 0→1 AI reflection tool using LLM journaling, sentiment analysis, and therapeutic scaffolding to boost emotional continuity between sessions. Embedded AI ethics into product flows for transparency and user control.

### Mira.ai: AI-Powered Nutrition Management for Pregnant Mothers
Built a 0→1 AI nutrition assistant, simplifying complex health data into product flows across mobile and wearable platforms with 100% tester confidence. Threaded user context and constraints (medicines, symptoms, trimester), raising relevance and cutting time-to-decision in moderated studies.


## Contact & Social
- Website: https://sanvithi.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sanvithisaya
- Email: mailto:sanvithi.saya@gmail.com

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Last updated: 2026-02-26