India

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Motion Design

Design Thinking

Bachelor's degree

Gaurav Gupta

Sr. Product Designer

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Presentation skills

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Figma

Sketch

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

- Managed all design pods from end to end.

- Helped everyone in getting on same page about user behaviour by creating a clear detailed user persona by conducting multiple session with our CEO.

- Closely worked with CEO and Product Director to identify and validate different opportunities coming to us and helped them by giving it right place in product roadmap keeping business and users goals in mind.

- Driven product and design ideation, planning and prioritization of our diverse range of products and features.

- Conducted user research, create detailed user journeys and took appropriate design decisions backed by user-behavior and data. Defined design strategies by analyzing data models and derive best practices within the team.

- Worked closely with cross-disciplinary teams including Product, Engineering, Marketing, Data Science and various Business teams to deliver delightful customer experiences.

- Strategized, developed, and extended the visual design systems and pattern libraries by coming up with new and innovative solutions which suit the brand.

- Led creative and holistic thinking across our diverse products and conduct design reviews and status meetings as needed.

- Provide thought leadership on usability and user-centered design principles. Evangelize design within and outside the organization.

- Actively take part in hiring and take part in recruiting the best talent required for the team
- Mentor and inspire other designer. Help the team in raising the bar, resolving blockers, prioritizing and breaking down complex projects into simpler tasks.

- Brainstormed and created new directions that can take in our quest to make Ecommerce easy and accessible to all.

- Envisaged & ran strategic, design-only initiatives. For eg. fostering the design community, experiment with design practices, etc.

Handling SmartOps and Reporting to help user in getting unified experience.

- Led “Pricing” vertical to empower the life of millions of suppliers by innovating the conventional method of pricing management.
- Mentored designers in building problem-first mindset and deep diving in user journey while working on a problem.
- Succeeded in achieving North start metrics by increasing Platform price drop from 0.24% to 1.35%, and for second pricing, it increased by huge 2.02%
- Collaborated with Engineering, Research, and Product stakeholders to decide the product strategy and roadmap.
- Facilitated complete design process including usability testing, user research for problem discovery,  product solutioning, prioritizing scope etc.

- Led Podcast vertical, conducted UR to understand behaviour and identified problems in journey and accordingly worked on solutions.
- Worked on Punch design system to keep all designs element centralised.
- Worked on Building Gaana TV app guidelines for Engg team.
- Micro-interaction designing for Music player and Gaana Live.

- Worked within a scaled agile team to designs experiences for both web and mobile designs by analysing their business and user goals.
- Hosted workshop for other designer on Design thinking process and human pscyhology.

Gaurav Gupta🇮🇳