# Shivanku Kumar > Product Design at WhatsApp Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shivanku Over 10 years of experience designing beautiful, polished, delightful products that build trust. Ability to uncover strategic opportunities by providing clear insights and impactful narratives through high-fidelity prototypes, low/high-fidelity comps, and compelling storytelling. Take an active role in shaping the vision and executing a comprehensive multi-phase product overhaul. Strong collaboration and communication skills to effectively work with business leaders, product managers, engineers, researchers, data scientists, and content designers in overseeing the user experience of a product from conception to launch. Collaborate with the design systems team to create robust, innovative patterns that uphold a high standard of craftsmanship. Engage with the broader design team to elevate our quality standards and foster mentorship opportunities. Experience with prototyping using front-end code (HTML/CSS/JS, Webflow) ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ WhatsApp Jan 2025 – Present ### Staff Product Designer @ SoFi Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed the home loan products such as mortgages, mortgage refinancing, and home equity loans. My role involved collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to create and deliver intuitive product experiences and shape the long-term product vision. I successfully launched several products and features that contributed to growing the Home Loans business. ### Senior Product Designer @ SoFi Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Interaction Designer @ Lighthouse Labs Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Shaping the future of cities, buildings, agriculture, and materials through human-centered design at Orbia. Creating digital interactions that span the entire customer journey, and bringing an interaction lens from early concept, to prototype, to launch and beyond. ### Design Technologist @ PayPal Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Design and prototype merchant experiences for PayPal's strategic partners ### Graduate Intern @ PayPal Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area I worked with the Customer Experience team under Professional Services. Our team's goal was to work with PayPal's strategic partners such as Google, Apple, Facebook etc and help/convince them to include PayPal in their offerings. As part of that goal our team created product prototypes to demonstrate the rich user experience that PayPal can enable for the users of these partner's products. My project was to explore peer-to-peer payments on Google's assistant platform. I created a demo "action on google" that shows how users can easily send money, request money and check their balance using Google Assistant enabled devices such as Google Home. The project was challenging in terms of technology as well as user experience. The technology used were JavaScript, node.js and api.ai. Creating optimal user experience in payments ecosystem using voice ui was fun and lead to some great discussions and insights. ### Design Consultant @ Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd) Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bangalore I worked with the supply team. Our goal was to improve the experience of Ola drivers. The driver app had not been revised a lot since it's inception when it had very limited feature set. As a result it offered suboptimal experience to the drivers. It had also become harder for the product teams to add/remove/test features. A complete redesign was required. I joined the team when some key flows for the redesign were being iterated upon. My key role was to help with finalizing these key flows . This involved designing several quick iterations and testing the best ones out in the field. I thoroughly enjoyed the process of talking to end users and refining the design. We wanted to create a very modular and flexible design to make it reasonably future proof. Once the key flows were frozen and development started, I created a design guideline deck to document key design decisions and components for future use. In terms of tools we used sketch, marvell app, principle(to document micro interactions) and look back (for user testing) ### UX Lead @ GoZoomo (Gozoomo.com) Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Leading the end-to-end product and service design for all GoZoomo offerings, Building a healthy design team, Creating and managing a user-focused, data-driven design process ### Sr. User Experience Designer @ Globant in India Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Led and managed projects across different stages of the design while playing the hybrid role of an interaction designer and mentor to interns. Facilitated a multi-disciplinary environment, bringing UI Design and development together to create great client product experiences. ### User Experience Designer @ Globant in India Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 Collaboration with Project Managers, UI Developers, Visualizers, SEs throughout the product development lifecycle for requirement gathering and subsequent design support. Research and User Models. Understanding user goals and task flows using personas and scenario creation and qualitative research methods. Information Architecture. Structuring product content based on high level navigation patterns and design principles. Interaction Design. Detailed product mockups outlining complete function and component level interactions. Management . Optimum team coordination and ensure timely delivery of projects. ### Intern @ Juniper Networks Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Developing design components for the network topology tool to enhance the User Experience of the feature. I was involved in initial brainstorming, concept development and prototyping of the design. ## Education ### Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Interactive Telecommunications New York University ### Bachelor of Design in Design Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kshivanku - Portfolio: https://www.shivanku.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/shivanku JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shivanku/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13