Iโ€™ve always been more interested in building than in staying inside a job description.

16+ years of design experience, 5+ in people leadership. Trained as a designer and researcher, still happiest elbow-deep in stickies and pixels, and just as comfortable in a data model or a codebase.

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Araa
2025 - Present
Opendoor

Principal Product Designer

  • Own the complete seller journey from acquisition through close, and the growth org's design needs
  • +30% offer-to-contract conversion via the Cash Now More Later offer page redesign
  • AI-native design system modernization
  • Define the design culture and hiring profile for the org, and mentor designers and PMs beyond my own reporting line
  • Sole US product designer, reporting directly to CEO Kaz Nejatian
2022 - 2025
LegalZoom

Principal Product Designer

  • Optimized top-of-funnel and business-formation flows for SMBs, achieving up to +5.4% LTV and +5% conversion through data-driven experimentation
  • Led cross-country team integration and shipped LZ eSignature, Forms Templates, Prenup, and Doc Assist AI
  • Managed a team of 4+ product designers, setting design direction and raising craft quality across the org
2018 - 2022
Revv.so (acquired by LegalZoom)

Head of Product Design & Founding Member

  • Founding design team member
  • Grew Revv from a CPQ tool to an all-in-one operations platform, scaling 0 to 10,000+ customers in 3 years
  • Managed a team of 4+ designers and 20+ cross-functional partners through to acquisition
2015 - 2018
Freshworks

Lead & Head of Design

  • Led design for Freshchat from early access to 8x revenue growth in 40 months
  • Built a 4-person team from ideation to launch
  • Redesigned onboarding and internal culture tools as Lead Product Designer, People Operations
2013 - 2015
Frilp (acquired by Freshworks)

Lead Design & Founding Member

  • Founding team member on a trusted-recommendations app
  • Owned design end to end for web and mobile, scaling to 100,000+ signups
  • Gamification, marketing, and financial planning
2008 - 2013
Cognizant

UX/UI Designer

  • Designed and launched Norton Ditto, a secure cloud backup product
  • Key modules for Norton Zone and Norton Anti-Virus
2003 - 2006
Bachelor's degree: Visual Communication
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
2006 - 2008
Master's degree: Visual Communication
Loyola College, University of Madras, Chennai

Ambiguity

I enjoy turning unclear customer and business problems into a direction teams can act on.

Impact

I care about whether the product changed customer behavior and moved the business, not just whether we shipped it.

People

I enjoy helping designers grow into stronger thinkers, collaborators, and owners of meaningful product problems.