# Urmila K. > UX Design Management | Design Ops Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/urmila Seasoned UX Designer and design manager with a proven track record of driving design excellence, fostering a collaborative environment and creating exceptional user experiences. I excel at leading cross-functional teams, aligning design strategies with business objectives, and delivering innovative solutions. Passionate about leveraging human-centric design principles to build products that delight users and achieve business goals. ## Work Experience ### Senior UX Design Manager @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2024 – Present ### Head of Design @ Stealth startup Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Providing Product Design Strategy and Direction ### Senior UX Design Manager @ Lacework Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 - Lead a dynamic team of UX designers in delivering business and customer critical feature designs in the areas of security posture management, code security, vulnerability management and identity management. - Establish UX strategy aligned with business goals and OKRs, ensuring seamless user experiences across multiple workstreams and optimal user journeys. - Collaborate with UX leadership, UX research, Documentation, PM and Engineering leadership to refine product roadmaps and enhance the overall product usability. - Champion a culture of learning and continuous improvement, driving the adoption of best practices and design methodologies across the UX organization. ### Manager, User Experience Design @ VMware Carbon Black Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States - Led a talented multi-disciplinary UX design team in launching designs for detection and response, identity management, container security and design systems by providing strategic direction and mentorship to achieve UX goals and elevate team performance. - Defined design processes and methodologies to streamline workflow across functions, resulting in an increase in efficiency and delivery timelines. - Led the end-to-end design of Vulnerability Management, resulting in time saved for users from faster investigation and reduced cost incurred by breaches - Fostered a collaborative environment, promoting knowledge sharing and cross-disciplinary collaboration to drive innovation and creativity. ### Senior User Experience Designer @ VMware Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto -Defined the end-to-end product experience for AppDefense, a datacenter endpoint security product. Successfully launched to 250+ customers with to perform proactive and reactive security operations. - Collaborated with product managers, customer success, engineering, VMware's design system team to ensuring a seamless, visually appealing and user-centric product experience. -Led user research and usability testing initiatives by engaging with users in annual conferences and 1:1 interviews resulting in increased user satisfaction and 100% renewal rate. ### Senior User Experience Designer @ Moody's Analytics Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 Interpret business requirements and design the user interface interactions for Moody’s financial products. Deliver detailed wireframes, prototypes and visual specifications. Conduct user research by interviewing users, creating personas and user testing sessions. Contribute to and maintain UX pattern library. ### Usability Specialist @ Deque Systems, Inc Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Reston, Virginia Designed and developed the user interface for FireEyes, a web accessibility plugin for Mozilla Firefox. Conducted heuristic, competitive evaluations and user testing for Deque’s products, Worldspace and FireEyes, for usability and accessibility. Recommended redesign solutions. Developed a website for product testing and created help documentation for products. ### User Experience Consultant @ Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Silver Spring, Maryland Redesigned the WRAIR website and intranet by conducting heuristic, comparative evaluations and user interviews. Studied WRAIR scientists’ online research behavior and evaluated online research tools for efficiency. ## Education ### MSI in Human Computer Interaction University of Michigan - School of Information ### The Past in Present, and Future of Design Stanford University ### B.E in Computer Science B. M. S. College of Engineering ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/urmilakashyap --- Source: https://flows.cv/urmila JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/urmila/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13