Raghvendra

Principal / Staff Product Designer · Remote / Hybrid

Product Design Leader + AI-Native Builder

I frame complex problems, design product systems, and build working experiences.

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Remote / Hybrid · Delhi NCR and India considered.

Selected impact

Evidence a hiring conversation can verify.

11
people led across UX design, research, content, motion and marketing at Rapipay; 9 of them hired by me
3
platforms shipped in 14 months: NYE Money on web, iOS, Android
−30%
design lead time at NYE, measured as Jira cycle time
0→1
founding designer at EQTY, a modular fintech operating system
2
enterprise systems as Staff UX Consultant at Nagarro: Verizon, Crowley Maritime
500+
designers taught and mentored · Associate Professor, IIAD

Selected work

Leadership, product systems, and enterprise impact.

Design org building in fintech, product direction at organisational scale, and complex workflow systems. Each project links to the published case study.

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  • Building the NYE design org: nine hires, one design language, three platforms

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    Design leadership

    Building the NYE design org: nine hires, one design language, three platforms

    Role
    Senior Manager UX · built and led the function
    Scope
    11 led · 9 hired (7 full-time, 2 contract) · design, research, content, motion, marketing · NYE Money on web, iOS and Android · NYE website · Design lead time −30% (Jira cycle time) · Feb 2022 – Apr 2023 · 14 months

    Challenge. Built the NYE design function from zero — nine hires, one design language, and a −30% design lead time — to ship on three platforms in fourteen months.

    Outcome. 11 led · 9 hired · NYE Money on web, iOS and Android · design lead time −30%.

    • Design leadership
    • DesignOps
    • Fintech
    Read case study →

    Project 01 of 03

  • Rapipay — financial access designed around trust

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    Enterprise leadership

    Rapipay — financial access designed around trust

    Role
    Senior Manager UX
    Scope
    UX leadership at organisational scale · Employment · Feb 2022 — Apr 2023

    Challenge. Senior Manager UX for NYE Money at Rapipay — leading the consumer experience at organisational scale.

    Coverage across wallet, UPI, partner banking, and investments.

    Outcome. NYE Money is live on web, iOS, and Android.

    Portfolio screens document the shared-grammar design approach; less duplicated design is intended only.

    • UX leadership
    • Fintech
    • Organisational alignment
    Read case study →

    Project 02 of 03

  • Crowley Maritime — product quality through system and alignment

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    Complex systems

    Crowley Maritime — product quality through system and alignment

    Role
    Staff Design Consultant
    Scope
    Advisory · delivered through Nagarro · Nagarro client engagement

    Challenge. A guided quote flow that replaced a dense legacy form — origin to cargo to contact.

    Aligned with rate-engine and customs constraints.

    Outcome. Portfolio documents the three-step quote design from the engagement.

    Design-system documentation contributed with partners; longevity unpublished.

    • Enterprise systems
    • Cross-functional alignment
    • Design governance
    Read case study →

    Project 03 of 03

Capability model

Lead · Design · Build · Teach

One operating model across career opportunities, product engagements, and teaching — not separate identities.

Lead

  • Product direction
  • Design leadership
  • Cross-functional alignment
  • Design systems

Design

  • Research
  • UX architecture
  • Interaction design
  • Complex workflows

Build

  • AI-assisted development
  • Functional prototypes
  • MVPs
  • Product experiments
  • Production interfaces

Teach

  • Workshops
  • Design education
  • AI for designers
  • Product thinking

Builder

I don't stop at prototypes. I build.

I use AI-assisted development to move from product thinking to working software. This helps me test ideas earlier, collaborate with engineering at higher fidelity, and ship independent products.

Workflow

  1. Frame
  2. Design
  3. Build
  4. Ship

Workflow evidence

ChatGPT · Figma · Cursor · GitHub · Vercel

Builder proof

From product thinking to working software.

Compact evidence that design decisions can become functional products — without turning the homepage into case studies.

  • Idea → Working AI Product

    GWK Ghostwriter

    Conceived
    A personal AI LinkedIn studio so founders and operators can draft in their own voice.
    Built
    Product framing, UX, and a working AI writing experience I designed and shipped.
    Shipped
    Live prototype and landing experience for the Ghostwriter product.
    Read case study →

  • Concept → AI Storytelling Experience

    Bolo Buddy

    Conceived
    Culturally rooted bedtime stories for children — audio-first, not an adult app scaled down.
    Built
    Concept, product design, and the storytelling experience as a founder-built product.
    Shipped
    Live product at bolobuddy.in.
    Read case study →

  • Design → Code → Production

    RaghvendraSingh.com

    Conceived
    A recruiter-first portfolio that also proves AI-native design-to-ship workflow.
    Built
    Visual system, information architecture, and the Next.js production site — designed and built as one workflow.
    Shipped
    Live at raghvendrasingh.com on Vercel.
    You’re looking at it →

Approach

Frame → Design → Build → Validate

How I operate as a senior product designer — decision-making, systems thinking, collaboration, and execution.

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What colleagues say

Raghvendra helped build a multi-disciplinary team comprising UX designers, UX researchers, animation designers, visual designers, and content researchers. He played an instrumental role in setting up a design system, which helped us replicate design decisions at scale. Raghvendra is passionate about setting up and following a UX process in his team. He has strong experience setting up UX vision and strategy and showing the business value of UX design.

Sumit Adlakha · Sr. Director of Engineering, Innovaccer · my manager at Rapipay, where we built the NYE Money team together

LinkedIn recommendation · May 2023 · managed Raghvendra directly

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Raghvendra Singh

About

Product Designer → Design Leader → AI-Native Builder.

I began in design craft, then moved into strategy, systems, leadership, and education—without leaving the work. Founder products keep me close to execution. Teaching more than 500 designers sharpened how I explain decisions and run critique. Today those threads sit in one practice: Lead · Design · Build · Teach.

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One professional identity with three engagement paths. Principal / Staff Product Designer · Remote / Hybrid — or product engagements and teaching grounded in active practice.

Principal / Staff Product Design

Remote / Hybrid opportunities where product direction, systems, and hands-on craft matter.

Product Engagements

0→1 Product Design · AI Product Design · MVP Building · Product UX · Design Systems

Teaching & Workshops

Colleges · Design institutions · Corporate teams · Industry programmes

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