# Shawn Vasandani

> Product Design Manager & Lead Product Designer at Prudential | Driving clarity, craft, and scalable design in fintech

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shawn

I have nine years of design experience, working from the ground up to starting my own company and becoming a Senior Product Designer. I helped launch Uber on the west coast and taught UX.


Portfolio:   www.uxshawn.nyc

## Work Experience
### Product Design Manager & Lead Product Designer @ Prudential Financial
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
I lead and manage design across high-impact fintech products at Prudential, combining hands-on product design with people leadership. In this hybrid role, I’m responsible for strategy, execution, and delivery of experiences that support both advisors and clients, while also managing and mentoring a growing team of designers. I led the end-to-end design and successful MVP launch of Advisor Connect, evolving it from a pilot into a scaled enterprise platform. I also spearheaded the Advisor Link 2.0 redesign, aligning closely with engineering, product, UX writing, and design systems to ensure cohesion and impact. Across both mobile and desktop, I’ve helped improve design quality and consistency by bridging the gap between vision, technical constraints, and design standards. Alongside product work, I’ve played a key role in shaping team culture, hiring, and growing design talent. I’m a strong advocate for user-centered design and work to align cross-functional teams around roadmap priorities and experience vision. This role blends leadership, creative problem solving, and systems thinking, focused on delivering smart, scalable design in a highly regulated, fast-moving space.

### Lead Product Designer @ Prudential Financial
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Spearhead research initiatives, craft prototypes, and design concepts, and conduct usability testing. I collaborate closely with stakeholders, facilitate design thinking workshops, and deliver innovative designs, balancing hands-on creative work with managing a team of designers.

### Senior Product Designer @ Bleacher Report
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
Led and owned the complete design process from definition to launch, working on our mobile app experiences for live video and creator moments. Led design thinking sprints, fostering collaboration, generating new ideas, and creating alignment with stakeholders, developers, and designers.

### Senior Product Designer @ Bonobos
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
Led design of Bonobo’s first Point of Sale system to create a frictionless omnichannel shopping experience. I collaborated with cross-functional teams and developed the end-to-end design process from strategy to launch, including research, ideation, and testing.

### Product Designer @ Verizon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York, United States
Helped design Verizon’s Wireless new shopping flow, and activation experience by creating, and maintaining UX/UI design documentation including user flows, style and component guides, wireframes, annotated screens, and prototypes, resulting in 10% increased conversion.

### Product Designer @ COMPLEX (dba Complex Media, Inc.)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York, United States
Led design to increase engagement and support on Complex.com, built a chatbot to help identify sneakers, and created a first to market video platform resulting in a 21% increase in daily video views and time spent on the app.

### UX Designer @ F Sharp
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | New York, New York, United States
Led collaborative design sessions with clients (design thinking to find innovative solutions and agile development to move fast and reduce risk), understood users and helped stakeholders gain empathy, and created wireframes and high-fidelity mockups alongside developers.

### Sr. Operations Coordinator @ Uber, Inc
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
I was a member of the operations team that played a significant role in rapid user-growth by providing scalable operation solutions for Uber X, Black, and SUV. Streamlined driver and vehicle on-boarding process from in person to virtual. Grew from on-boarding 80 drivers a week to over 200 a day.

### Founder @ Sencha Scottie
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | New York, New York, United States


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shawnvasandani
- Website: http://www.uxshawn.nyc/

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Last updated: 2026-02-23