# Saurabh Sharad Nimsarkar > Design Research Lead | Innovation & Strategic Foresight | IIT Bombay Alumnus Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/saurabhsharadnimsarkar https://nimsarkar.myportfolio.com/ Saurabh Nimsarkar is a Physical and Digital Experience Designer and Strategist working at the nexus of product design, speculative design, creative research, and transportation systems strategy and design. Core competencies: Speculative Design Strategic Foresight User Experience Design User Experience Research and Strategy Design Research Design Strategy Transportation Design Systems Thinking Urban Studies Industrial Design and Development Furniture Design Bio- I believe my career path as a designer echoes the famous documentary by Charles and Ray Eames - Power of Ten. Being a designer and engineer, I have meandered and traversed from the scale of Nanometer to the Miles of a city. I have nudged atoms and molecules as a materials engineer, manipulated 1's and 0's working as a data mining engineer, designed products at an innate human scale as a furniture designer, and worked for a famous car manufacturer, Hyperloop, EVTOLs and most recently been untying the complex knots of the city of Los Angeles working as a design researcher. As a recipient of 'Good Design - India Design Mark' for 5 products, I strive to imagine and create meaningful and provocative experiences through a holistic understanding of people's' needs with social, cultural and environmental, economical values and implications. My work in physical and digital experiences of the real and unreal world spans across the domain of speculative research, design fiction, transportation design, urban design, furniture and space design, retail, and health. ## Work Experience ### Staff UI/UX Designer @ Wisk Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States Staff / Lead Product & UI/UX Designer and Strategist exploring application and implication of autonomous urban air mobility futures for safer, quieter, sustainable, and equitable futures. Work includes - Design Lead for Passenger Accessibility and Experience: Creating equitable and inclusive end to end experiences for passengers. Product Design Lead for Remote Supervision System: Converting complex requirements to simple UI for Remote Multi Vehicle Supervisors and Fleet Managers. Lead and focal for Passenger Services IPT: Developing novel remote hospitality crew procedures and interfaces, end to end passenger experience and design for fully autonomous electric eVTOL. ### Senior Product Designer @ Wisk Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States ### Design Researcher and Strategist @ NEUMAYR DESIGN LLC Jan 2020 – Present | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Design and Research consultant for envisioning ecological and equitable urban futures through affordable housing by using novel construction methods, wall-panel design and bio-materials. Work includes - Design Strategy, Materials engineering and processes consultation, Industrial Design, Concept development and Strategy. ### Product Designer @ Overair Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Santa Ana, California, United States Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Designer and Strategist Responsibility includes: Industrial Design, Design Research and Strategy, Worldbuilding, Product Development, UX Research and Design, and Brand and Visual Development of electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft and its transportation systems. ### Design Researcher and Strategist - Mobility Innovation @ City of Los Angeles Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater Los Angeles Area Design Researcher and Strategist at Mobility Innovation, Mayor's Office of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti. Urban Air Mobility UAM researcher for Los Angeles city with the World Economic Forum. Facilitating and strategizing design workshops for Urban Movement Labs stakeholders. Drafting, evaluating RFIs for pilot programs. Leading Metrolink+UML partnership for post COVID efforts. ### Design and Research Co-op @ Kitty Hawk Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California ### Design Research Contributor @ Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area ### Design Manager - Industrial Design @ Godrej Interio Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Mumbai Area, India Godrej and Boyce Ltd is the biggest manufacturing conglomerate of India established in 1897. As a design manager, I handled and led design, research, prototyping, and development of new products (Hard and Soft) for office seating B2B segment. Designed seven+ products that are successfully launched in the Indian market with over a million units sold. Five products conferred G-Mark Good Design, India Design Mark 2018 for their excellence in function, form, quality, and usability. Seven products: Beat office chair, Mars Auditorium chair, Toggle Pouf, Prop Laptop table, Cradle, Drift, Loop. Work includes - • Leading customer-centric research for the vision phase of projects. • Seating ergonomics evaluation, usability, benchmarking of competitive products. • Formulation of design briefs, principles, and marketing briefs. • Cross-functional liaising of design activities with marketing, service, manufacturing, production, and sales teams. • Formulating design stories and design registration for newly launched products. • Project management using the theory of constraints TOC. • Creating yearly and five-yearly product portfolio strategy. • Working closely with the design engineering team for prototyping and engineering testing. • Leading design research workshops with the cross-team for product strategy and vision. • Ideating and concept generation. • Generating CAD renders for marketing evaluation and product launch in Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Keyshot • Support in product and engineering enhancement, new manufacturing methods. • Supporting textile designers for achieving the desired fit, feel, and finish. • Adhered to EU, ISO, Green guard guidelines of product specifications and compliance. ### Project Engineer @ Wipro Technologies Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Bangalore Former Software developer and data engineer for Union Bank of Switzerland bank account as a part of banking and finance vertical for Wipro technologies. Used SQL PL/SQL queries in Informatica, an Extraction, Transformation, and Loading tool to triangulate and investigate financial instruments and historical data sets. Used quantitative data set to sort, filter, merge, segment financial backend data of equity, bonds, derivates, options, futures, etc. Highlights - Software developer in the Fusion team of UBS Developed production environment Informatica mappings Onsite coordination with UBS team Banking and finance vertical training Oracle database management services developer resource Tools - SQL PL/SQL, Toad, C, C++, Java, Shell Scripting, Informatica ETL ## Education ### Master's degree M.Des. in IDC, Mobility and Vehicle Design Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay ### M.S. Master's degree in Transportation Systems and Design ArtCenter College of Design ### B.S. in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/saurabh-sharad-nimsarkar-4969a845 - Portfolio: https://nimsarkar.myportfolio.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/saurabhsharadnimsarkar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/saurabhsharadnimsarkar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25