# Yash Raut > Product Designer | M.S. HCI | 5 years of experience | Design Strategy, Design Systems, Accessibility Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yashraut I’m an end-to-end Product Designer who turns messy, high-stakes problems into clean, intuitive experiences that scale. With 5 years of experience across FinTech, Automotive, Healthcare, Ed-tech, and SaaS, I’ve shipped systems and features that cut acquisition costs, reduced support volume, and kept users coming back. I thrive in fast-moving teams—designing across iOS, Android, and web—and bring deep craft to everything from 0-1 UX to polished visual design. I bring structure to ambiguity and partner closely with engineering to move fast and ship smart. Driven by high ownership, I've worked at both early-stage startups and enterprises and can adapt my design process accordingly. Success, for me, is about crafting products that people can’t imagine living without. Products that not only solve real problems but also evolve with the users. I create designs that make users feel understood while delivering real results for the business. ## Work Experience ### Product Designer II @ Headspace Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Design & UX Research Instructor @ University of Michigan - School of Information Jan 2024 – Present • Instructed students through the complete research process, from stakeholder identification to qualitative data analysis. • Mentored students through their design journey, providing hands-on guidance in user research, prototyping, and accessibility considerations. ### Design and Accessibility Graduate Assistant @ University of Michigan - School of Information Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States • Conducted weekly design workshops for 150 students to simplify technical concepts into practical solutions. • Simplified complex design thinking principles, enabling students to create accessible and responsive websites. • Championed inclusive design practices, ensuring accessibility considerations were embedded throughout the curriculum. ### Product Designer @ Greenstand Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | United States - Accelerated product development and reduced design-to-development handoff times by streamlining workflows, fostering better communication between designers and developers, ensuring faster and higher-quality deliverables. - Scaled and maintained a 150+ component design system, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and usability across GreenStand’s products, while enabling faster iterations for all teams. - Streamlined onboarding for new designers by creating clear documentation, guidelines, and workflows, enabling high-turnover teams to integrate and contribute effectively and quickly. - Fostered a strong design culture by sharing best practices, facilitating discussions on usability and accessibility, and ensuring design stayed central to organizational decisions. ### UX Design Consultant @ General Motors Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Warren, Michigan, United States - Spearheaded the design and prototyping of a cross-channel (In-vehicle to Mobile App) experience for General Motors, focusing on the integration of a Track Mode feature for performance cars - Led background research and collaborated with cross-functional teams, including engineers, designers, and product managers to inform feature design. - Designed and refined 25+ high-fidelity prototypes, incorporating user insights to optimize driver experience. - Implemented NHTSA guidelines to ensure consistent, compliant, and accessible in-vehicle digital experiences. - Conducted multiple user testing sessions to improve usability and increase overall driver satisfaction. ### Product Designer @ Rocket Companies Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Detroit, Michigan, United States • Achieved a 32% reduction in service requests by ideating, and prototyping an intuitive account merging experience. • Increased client engagement by 13%, utilizing design thinking and high-fidelity mockups for web and mobile. • Improved accessibility practices across 8+ design teams by creating guides and tools for inclusive design. ### UX Consultant @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | United States - Conducted User Interviews, Survey Deployment and Analysis, Affinity Mapping, Usability tests to optimize the team's ticket-handling process on ServiceNow with respect to queuing, prioritization, escalations, and internal hand-offs. - Recommended improvements to the engagement model with partners and internal teams. - Identify self-service opportunities to reduce ticket volume by conducting user research. ### Product Designer @ Indexnine Technologies Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Pune, Maharashtra, India - Pioneered end-to-end UX design, iterating on designs based on user feedback and stakeholder inputs, leveraging User Research methodologies, Rapid Prototyping, and Usability Testing to validate design decisions, culminating in a 1.8x uplift in user engagement. - Oversaw design handoff to engineers, ensuring designs were implemented accurately according to specifications in the Design System and aligned with the overall brand guidelines. - Overhauled the desktop experience across 4 portals by redesigning and maintaining consistent design standards, in an agile environment, ensuring compliance with Web Accessibility Standards (WCAG2.1) for an enterprise investment platform that generates $5+ million in revenue. ### Product Designer @ Freelancer Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Pune, Maharashtra, India • Led end-to-end user research and stakeholder interviews to define project scope, ensuring alignment across engineering, product, and marketing. • Collaborated with developers to refine information architecture and navigation flows, improving feature discoverability and reducing drop-off rates. • Created low-fidelity wireframes to quickly validate ideas, then transitioned to high-fidelity mockups using Figma, expediting time-to-market for new product features. • Deployed iterative user surveys and in-depth usability testing, uncovering critical friction points and informing data-driven design decisions. • Coordinated closely with client teams to translate product requirements into user stories and workflows, creating clear roadmaps for timely feature rollouts. ## Education ### Master's degree in Information Science/Studies University of Michigan ### Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Pune Institute of Computer Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rautyash - Portfolio: https://www.yashraut.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/yashraut JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yashraut/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13