Design Leader with 20+ years of experience having specialisation in Team Leadership, Design Team Management, UX Methodologies, Design Operations, Design System, Design Strategy, Design Advisories & Consulting, Design Innovation, AI & Metaverse POVs, Product Strategy, Team Mentoring & Design Hiring. Served skills for fortune 500 hundred companies based in US, UK, Canada and Europe. Companies like Rogers, Odigo, Cochlear, Boeing, McDonalds, Dr. Snapple & Peppers, US Foods Services are name of few. Skill highlights: • Leading, operating and managing a group of senior design professionals (UX Strategist, Design System Manager, UX Designers, Visual Designers, Onboarding Designers) and unleashing their potential to cultivate high performing teams globally in product and design. • Setting up design process, methodologies & strategies to establish the best practices of user experience and visual design for a group or a large engagement to sustain the best quality. • Experience of enabling and mentoring the strategic and execution methods to build the Design System from the scratch to cater multiple applications in a product company. • Vast experience and knowledge in Creative Design consultancy, GUI expertise of enterprise application product for multi-channel like Desktop, Tablet and Mobile on various platforms. • Design evangelist and true advocate of UX design methodologies, focus on practicing the approach based on design thinking and strategic design. • Establishing the hiring strategies of design to define the SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) and ensuring the team growth. Taking interviews in final rounds as a Snr. design panellists. • Brought organic and inorganic business growth by actively leading and contributing in org. initiatives like design advisories, pre-sales proposal, RFPs, blog writing, team coaching, mentoring, knowledge sharing sessions & hiring. • Ability to handle various projects with successful delivery and mentored the team members with strong relationships applying authenticity and empathy. • Writing blogs to conceive the original creative and innovation ideas of design. Storyboarding for creative concepts. • Onsite customer facing experience to Canada and France.