# Vibha Salgamay > I help high earners compound wealth through hands off senior living investments, designed for the human experience. Proven execution, backed by 200+ insiders | B2B Product Designer & Co-Founder @ Relik Capital Group. Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vibha Kia ora 👋🏾 a Māori greeting I heard while solo traveling through New Zealand. It means “life, health, and vitality.” That saying has never left me. Because that’s what I’ve always been seeking and what I help others create. Not just income. But intention. Not just wealth. But options. Not just success. But a life that actually supports the people who support you. I work with first-gen professionals who are earning more than their parents ever did but still feel behind when it comes to building wealth, freedom, and stability. Maybe you grew up focused on survival. Maybe no one handed you a playbook for building passive income, real estate returns, or early retirement. Maybe you’re starting later because you spent your 20s figuring it out, and now, you want to build with purpose. For your family. For your future. For a life you can actually live. That’s my story too. In my 20s, I made an intentional choice to pause. I saved, budgeted, and stepped off the ladder to spend a year solo traveling creating space to redefine what security meant to me. That experience gave me clarity. But eventually, I wanted more than freedom. I wanted to build. To design a life that included family, legacy, and real financial options. As a Product Designer, I’m trained to simplify complex systems. As co-founder of Relik Capital Group, I help first-gen tech professionals invest in senior living real estate a model that’s: ✔ Hands-off ✔ Tax-advantaged ✔ Values-aligned ✔ Built for the long game No flipping. No landlord drama. Just quiet, compounding returns that grow with you. This is for you if: → You didn’t grow up with access to wealth conversations → You want more than just a high income, you want freedom → You’re building for family, for flexibility, and for a future that feels good to live in You’re not late. You’re right on time. Let’s design what comes next with clarity, strategy, and heart. 📩 DM me to schedule a call. ## Work Experience ### Managing Partner @ Relik Capital Group Jan 2024 – Present •I’m on a mission to help first-generation high earners turn their passion into passive wealth through real estate. Here’s how I got here: • The Struggle of Being First-Gen: Growing up without a financial roadmap, I found myself stuck in the cycle of working hard and saving but not building the wealth I wanted. Like many first-gen professionals, I felt limited by traditional investment options. • Discovering Real Estate: When I found real estate, especially syndications, it clicked. It became the vehicle to diversify my income and put me on a path to build the financial freedom I had been searching for. • Co-Founder of Relik Capital Group: I co-founded Relik to help others do the same. We focus on multifamily and senior living investments, creating value through strategic management and providing solid returns for investors. • My Role: As co-founder, I handle deal flow, due diligence, investor relations, and business operations—always focused on helping first-gen professionals achieve financial independence through passive real estate investments. Let’s unlock financial freedom. Schedule your free consult below. ### Senior Product Designer @ Avenue Code Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area • As a dedicated full-time member of the embedded team at an utility enterprise client, PG&E, I'm leading crucial research initiatives to identify the core issues behind business requests, streamline workflows, and ensure compliance as we transition towards digitizing paper processes. Additionally, I'm committed to fostering stronger collaboration among our development, design, and product teams to enhance alignment and drive strategic planning efforts forward. ### Career Coach @ Career Coach for Designers Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area • As an outcome-focused coach, I am dedicated to empowering individuals to articulate their goals and shape their own narratives for success. My philosophy revolves around guiding clients to envision their desired outcomes and take actionable steps towards achieving them. ### Product Designer @ Helium 10 Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 • Leading design for verticals across new ventures, consumer pricing and strategy, and legacy tools at Helium 10 (a Pacvue company). • Collaborating closely with 4 scrum teams to increase engagement or revenue per account by managing end to end design from discovery to design review/development testing • Initiating user interviews to discover user pain points and shape the roadmap by educating stakeholders across Product, Business, Engineering on findings • Spearheading design thinking workshop to identify customer challenges • Creating designs by outlining vision and strategy: visualizing product requirements in wireframes, developing content or information architecture, creating user flows, contributing UI patterns to design library, prototyping interactions for user feedback, experimenting with A/B testing • Increasing awareness of team communication and collaboration by maintaining team’s Confluence or planning meetings with Product Managers and Engineering • Created experiences within the following Helium 10 tools: Cerebro, Magnet, BlackBox, Listing Analyzer, Chrome Extension, Consumer Pricing, Members Pricing & Billing ### UX Design Mentor @ Avocademy (YC W22) Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 • Understand client requirements for 10+ individual projects to mentor students’ design process • Led 30+ students in groups of 5+ by providing design feedback over two month timelines ### Product Designer @ Wells Fargo Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area • Work cross functionally with the product managers and stakeholders to understand customer needs, problems, and pain points for the Small Business customer journey to create a net new deposits application for the bank • Collaborate with two designers to develop an end-to-end prototype and successfully deliver artifacts for project sections from ideation to production for various breakpoints • Present wireframes and UI designs for alignment with various lines of business by speaking to process, explorations, and conclusions • Active Task Force member, organizing and facilitating activities for Community of Practice Product Designer at Wells Fargo ### UX Consultant @ italme.co Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Collaborate with 3 designers to redesign a website to increase awareness and conversion • Wrote interview questions for business and users and completed heuristic evaluation ### Product Support Specialist - Customer Experience @ Culture Amp Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Replicate, troubleshoot, and problem-solve inquiries related to the platform to understand and evaluate system problems and failures that customers are facing • Document the customer experience and understand the roadmap for upcoming build cycles in collaboration with the extended product teams to effectively plan for future enhancements ### Operations and Experience Lead - Customer Experience @ REI Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area •Designed 80% of visual storyboards to drive user engagement for in-store classes, which increased overall attendance by 20% over Q1 and Q2 •Led managed vendor relationships across six internal and external teams with two direct reports by coordinating event logistics and designing marketing communications •Trained and mentored 60% of new hires on departmental procedures ### UX/UI Designer @ UC Berkeley Extension Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Collaborated with 4 teams over 6 months to deliver projects aimed at improving user experiences across digital interfaces using agile methodologies 
 • Consulted stakeholders to assess business goals to develop KPIs to meet business and user needs • Conducted user research using quantitate and qualitative methods: competitive analysis, analytics, market research, and user centered methodologies • Designed, tested via user interviews, user journey maps, personas, and storyboards • Assessed user behavior by conducting heuristic studies and research for user testing, A/B testing, and usability testing to gauge usability • Developed and executed on event partnership strategy by consulting stakeholders, user goals, and business objectives • Designed the information architecture (IA) for digital experiences by making data driven decisions to develop brand strategy. Iterated based on feedback from user testing • Created IA’s for various user flows and iterated from low fidelity wireframes to high fidelity prototypes • Used front-end development knowledge to design and build responsive interfaces ### Facilities Operations Manager - Employee Experience @ Sequoia Consulting Group Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area - Developed infrastructure for guest and internal experience for a new office - Managed day to day and long term vendor relationships ### Event Marketing Manager - Customer Experience @ Sequoia Consulting Group Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area - Developed close relationships with internal stakeholders to curate a consistent brand experience. - Managed internal and external events in the Bay Area, LA, and NYC by managing marketing campaign needs, curating relevant content, and maintaining events budget. - Executed invites and campaigns via Marketo, support marketing automation programs, create landing pages leveraging basic knowledge of HTML/CSS. - Familiarity with Salesforce CRM and systems integration for reporting, database management, and tracking. - Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign for creating design and client facing marketing visuals. ### Marketing Coordinator @ Sequoia Consulting Group Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area - Coordinated strategies for the following initiatives: rebranding, implementing marketing initiatives, campaigns and strategies to promote products and brand name to potential and current customers. - Created demand generation and process implementation by identifying prospect clients and tracking through Salesforce CRM. Familiarity with managing web leads through Marketo. ### Marketing and Communications Intern @ Purdue Research Foundation Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | West Lafayette, IN - Lead writer for Purdue student based startups, identified companies, wrote press releases, and determined strategic timeline for publishing content. - As a photographer, took still photos for marketing materials and assisted in video production. - Measured social media reach and influence. ### Media Chair @ TEDxPurdueU Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Purdue University - Generating creative content for marketing TEDxPurdueU in line with Purdue and TED brand identity. - Managing media media sub-committee of twelve members to create and implement design based projects including print or digital media, stage design, and developing creative content. - The talks presented at the main event, Daring Greatly, can be viewed here: http://tedxpurdueu.com/speakers/ ### Inroads Intern Accreditation, Regulation and Licensing @ Kaiser Permanente Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 - Integrated MIDAS+ Report to increase efficiency while reporting data by mapping elements on MIDAS+ to elements on the Joint Commission report. - Created an interactive training tool for AR&L department allowing individuals to gain basic understanding of generating MIDAS+ reports. - Interacted with Kaiser Permanente professionals and patients, ensured the privacy of patient data by ensuring HIPPA compliance. - Developed a communications strategy and feature article pitch to Communications department on Inside KP to raise internal awareness for Joint commission Certification for all 21 KPNC facilities. - Co-Executive Director of F.A.C.E. Newsletter, managed the production of a twelve page internship newsletter by leading an executive team and providing training on the use of Adobe InDesign. ### Research Assistant @ Purdue University Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Purdue University - Acquired CITI Human Research Curriculum and Responsible Conduct of Research Curriculum Completion Report in human subjects research . - Conducting qualitative analysis of audiotapes collected during genetic counseling sessions by categorizing utterances into risk identity constructs and counselee (patient)-centered behavior. ### Photographer @ Purdue Exponent Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | West Lafayette, Indiana - Collaborated with various staff members to cover local events on campus and the West Lafayette community. ### Inroads Intern Accreditation, Regulation & Licensing @ Kaiser Permanente Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 - Standardized patient information brochures to lower costs, increase efficiency, and upload documents to KP Health Connect Library allowing for easy access of documents by professionals. - Helped increase internal and external awareness for KP Northern CA’s Stroke Prevention program by showcasing activities on the website and establishing relationships with local Stroke Coordinators by attending Stroke Awareness events. - Gathered data to establish a baseline for local events pertaining to stroke to pinpoint which facilities had a successful stroke program and which facilities needed further resources. Ensured patient privacy by following HIPPA compliance. - Connected with Public Relations department to establish a relationship between the Infection Prevention department, the Regional Stroke Awareness manager, and local Stroke Coordinators to determine effective strategies to increase Stroke Awareness. - Executive design team member for F.A.C.E. Newsletter, managed design team. In charge of the design, template, layout for the publication. ### Inroads Intern at Environmental Health and Safety @ Kaiser Permanente Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 - Improved efficiency by updating Hazardous Waste Inventory by migrating information onto California Electronic Recording System on the EPA website. - Increased compliance and safety ratings by allowing managers to view current data of Hazardous Material. - Decreased costs of permit by obtaining current information of chemicals by validating the data and ensuring that numbers are accurate. - Conducted a meeting analyzing a review of the process and presented it to the director of Facilities Services, the head managers of Environmental Health and Occupational Health, and other members of the Facility Service team. - Assistant editor for F.A.C.E., Kaiser Permanente's student run internship newsletter. ### A-Learn and Silicon Valley Education Foundation Research Intern @ Silicon Valley Education Foundation Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | San Jose, CA - Facilitated an environment in which students in eighth grade could learn Algebra and participate in college enrichment programs through educational games and activities. - Gathered data about student’s pre/post test scores and administered surveys as a Santa Clara University professor’s research assistant and monitored student’s motivational behavior toward Algebra by helping collect data to establish a baseline to connect to the student’s progress. - Lead photographer, created a slideshow used to show corporate sponsors. ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Sociology Purdue University ### UX/UI Certification in Human Computer Interaction UC Berkeley Extension ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vibhasalgamay - Website: https://www.relikcapitalgroup.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/vibha JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vibha/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23