# Tanya Kuruvilla

> Product Designer | Designing AI-driven optimization systems | B2B enterprise | Systems thinker

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tanyakuruvilla

I’m a Product Designer who thrives on designing complex, scalable systems that drive adoption and streamline workflows. 

My expertise lies in:
⭐️ Leading 0→1 product initiatives from discovery to execution, mapping workflows, identifying user and business needs, and shaping both MVP and long-term vision.
⭐️ Creating solutions that support new customer adoption, improve workflows, and scale across global teams.
⭐️ Designing end-to-end workflows and platform capabilities that scale, balancing technical feasibility with future growth.
⭐️ Aligning cross-functional teams early, incorporating feedback to reduce rework and ensure scalable solutions.

My cross functional partners say this about me:
⚪️ "She takes ownership of ambiguous, system-level problems and brings real clarity around trust, automation, and long-term strategy"
⚪️ “She brings engineering into design early, preventing costly rework and creating technically robust, scalable solutions.”
⚪️ “She confidently explores multiple design directions, communicates clearly, and ensures solutions work for both users and business goals.”

I love connecting with designers, product thinkers, and engineers who care about systems-level design, AI-driven workflows, and building products that balance strategy, usability, and trust. Let’s connect!

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Moloco
Jan 2023 – Present | Menlo Park, CA

### Product Design mentor @ adplist.org
Jan 2021 – Present

### Product Designer II @ Flexport
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Chicago, IL
Role - End to end User Research and Design with cross functional partners 
Domain - Logistics and Supply Chain

Achievements -

- Enhanced reliability of ocean inventory by designing an inventory management SaaS tool with real-time visibility into shipments & bookings, thus enabling easier error handling for fulfillment operators

- Boosted productivity in placing bookings by redesigning the carrier booking workflow through extensive interviews, journey mapping, ideation and testing with booking operators  

- Improved efficiency in strategizing business for procurement operators by designing a new tool on the core platform to track all carriers’ performance in releasing promised container space

- Reduced interactions needed to capture, track and use special rate codes from carriers by designing a new tool on the core platform for the procurement and booking operators

- Initiated designing the vision of Flexport’s supply by studying interconnected standalone products such as Inventory, Schedules, and Container rate to ensure efficient supply related decision making

### User Experience Designer - Cyberinfrastructure Integration Research Center @ Indiana University Bloomington
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Streamlined the process of automatic microscope data transfer & download by interviewing scientists, identifying business goals and user pain points, and designing a web application (Bootstrap UI) with sound interaction design, information architecture, visual design & iterated upon after usability testing.

Advocated to secure ‘user management’ and 'group management' for the developer community by designing a security middleware called Custos as part of Apache Airavata open source platform with a focus on interaction and visual design patterns.

### User Experience Design Intern @ Mankins Research
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Spearheaded the outreach of an educational organization by designing
responsive website portals and style guides (React Material UI) to attract
donors & aspiring soldier students to enroll in educational summer camps.

Strategized multiple aspects of the customer experience in collaboration
with the CEO and the marketer by charting journey maps of all user groups and
mapping online & offline touchpoints to ensure glitch-free interactions.

### Senior User Experience Designer @ BNY Mellon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Chennai Area, India
Improved data analysis speed for dashboard users by including ‘clone
widgets’ feature for efficient widget comparison and refining interaction patterns
in widget catalogs through heuristic evaluation, interviews & usability testing.

Bolstered brand image of the flagship platform by enhancing the usability of
legacy digital products by understanding complex workflows, sketching user
flows, journey maps, mockups, designing wireframes and user-tested interactive
prototypes with sound interaction design in an agile environment.

Upgraded the Design Library for growing business needs by proposing new
design patterns and components for a comprehensive, robust Design System, by
communicating with Engineers and Product Managers

### User Experience Designer @ BNY Mellon
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Accelerated the patient-data entry rate by 200% and eliminated all backlogs
by revamping the data management system of a non-profit hospital, through
interviews, contextual inquiries & heuristic evaluation and designing a desktop
application that drastically reduced time taken to digitize patient record forms.

Integrated a critical loan processing application to the flagship platform, by
understanding the lifecycle of loans and replacing the Visual Basic screens
with robust interaction design patterns using Angular 5 Material components to
ensure compatibility with new platform standards.

Maximized investor satisfaction in an investment management website by
end-user comments and quantitative data analyses, redesigning the website with
the mobile-first approach, introducing a comprehensive home page and refining
interactions for alerts management.


## Education
### Masters in Human Computer Interaction
Indiana University Bloomington

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
R M K College of Engineering and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tanya-kuruvilla
- Portfolio: https://www.tanyakuruvilla.com

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