# Satyan Chawla > Lead, UX Research & Strategy | Product Strategies, Product Research Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/satyan I derive insights from research to guide strategy and unlock innovation. For over 8 years, I have collaborated with teams across different product lifecycle stages. Leading with a synchronous data-driven and human-centered approach, I have informed product and business decisions and guided design strategy scaling from small technology startups to large manufacturing corporations. ## Work Experience ### Lead, UX Research & Strategy @ Lucid Motors Jan 2023 – Present | Newark, California, United States ### Senior UX Researcher / Strategist @ Lucid Motors Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Innovation Strategist @ SKA | Custom Robots and Machines Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States ### Marketing Assistant Intern @ Carnegie Mellon University - Integrated Innovation Institute Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Pittsburgh Area ### Product Researcher @ Honda R&D Americas, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Columbus, Ohio Area ### User Experience Research Specialist @ Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Mumbai Area, India Heading the User Experience of a new range of IoT enabled kitchen appliances being designed by the Innovation Cell as part of the digital initiative of Godrej Appliances. ### User Experience Designer @ Amber (getamber.com) Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 I joined Amber at a time when they just had a functional website operating in a segment that turned out to be their secondary business. I worked closely with the core team to set a vision for the business and thus a six month product pipeline. Worked on a beauty community platform by creating a product that allows users to create and share looks with friends and followers, also integrating Amber's in-house services to book them directly from a look with a future possibility of integrating e-commerce within the social platform. Worked on the UX of in-house beauty service scheduling app, created information architecture and wireframes for the app. Worked with the marketing and social media team for creating brand guidelines and marketing strategies. Worked with offline marketing team to set brand image with the users at tangible first impression touch points. Set up the in-house photography and film studio, did photo shoots with fashion and beauty bloggers, created a video series around Valentine's day in the studio. Created another video series in Mumbai to check general awareness of youngsters about beauty and wellness, thus also creating a social media buzz about Amber and its services. As a part of CSR initiative, created a documentary series around International Women's Day highlighting works of women entrepreneurs and social workers. ### Senior UX Designer @ IREF Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 The three months for which I worked with the IREF team I was able to lay foundation for three different products in the IREF ecosystem - FORUM: Worked with the growth team to restructure the forum for better browsing experience and seamless user flows, also integrated cross links with entity pages on Housing.com - NEWS: Created a new product from scratch to share news and happenings in the real estate segment, worked with the editorial team, understanding their requirements and scale of publishing articles thus devising a scheme to present relevant and fresh articles to new and returning users - KNOWLEDGE: As an extension of the News product but more organised and catalogued, Knowledge platform was made to be a one stop directory for users to understand the functioning of the real estate market - PAGES: Created a template to publish different kinds of entities such as real estate projects, builders, cities, localities, etc. to document full details of such entities and make them available to our users. Apart from these projects, also worked with product and branding team to give a facelift to the IREF brand and increase its integration with Housing.com ### Senior UX Designer @ Housing.com Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Worked with product managers and developers in agile teams to build features in existing product verticals and on new product lines. Created User flows and wireframes and worked with UI designers to sync up with the brand guidelines and upper level workflows across all platforms. Was responsible for all kinds of photography used in the products from coordinating with the brand and marketing team during the photoshoots, to editing the images to fit our visual styling. Worked with the rebranding team on designing the mobile website along the new brand guidelines ### UI/UX Designer @ Housing.com Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mumbai, Maharashtra Designed a modular template system for transactional emails sent to the users for all product verticals. Worked in the rent team on designing features, redesigning the primary interface of listing results and listing pages. Worked with the plot and land team designing the results page, and listings page. ### UX Intern @ Happiest Minds Technologies Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Primary project at Happiest Minds Technologies was to create information architecture and iterate catalogue structure for e-commerce mobile platforms. As a secondary role, provided graphics support and created UI for products being built for clients. ### UI/UX Intern @ Compassites Software Solutions Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Worked on branding for multiple inhouse products and miscellaneous graphic design support. Responsible for photographing and cataloguing range of office supply products for E-commerce portal. Wireframing, Web Development, Creative Designs, Photography, Branding ## Education ### Master of Integrated Innovation for Products and Services in Innovation Carnegie Mellon University - Integrated Innovation Institute Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 ### Bachelor of Design in Design Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/satyanchawla --- Source: https://flows.cv/satyan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/satyan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25