Nihal Pimpale🇺🇸
Chief Design Officer at Moonraft Innovation Labs
About Nihal Pimpale
Chief Design Officer at Moonraft Innovation Labs
Based in California and fortunate to lead a design team of 150+ super-awesome innovators spread across US, India, UK and SA.
Throughout my career of 15+ years in design industry, I've expanded my boundaries from graphic to user experience to design strategy and now design leadership and worked in diverse verticals including Finance, Retail, and Healthcare.
My current role as a Chief Design Officer at Moonraft Innovation Labs/UST revolves around aligning strategic design-centric journeys and solutions to business metrics, devising novel service offerings, creating avant-garde point-of-views for future scenarios, collaborating with techno-creative teams across geographies, improvising creative processes for design teams, hiring, and mentoring.
Learnt Design Leadership for Business from Parsons School of Design. A Certified Chartered Designer and on jury panels at Design Schools in US and India. Apart from being passionate about design, I practice Gond art, I find love in cooking 👨🍳🥘 (still perfecting my skills on baking an artisan bread 🥖 ), reading history and poetry 📖and exploring the micro-universe, specifically tardigrades.
Expertise
Sessions with Nihal Pimpale
- Mentorship Session (30 min): Mentorship session
- Anything from interviews to leadership (15 min): Whether building your portfolio, switching careers, conquering job interviews, pathway to leadership, or an ear to hear you out. Let's solve your challenge together.
What mentees say
“My chat with Nihal was insightful and motivating. He was incredibly knowledgeable about what different types of companies look for in design and how I can present my leadership experience to address their needs. He also shared a couple of ideas to amplify my leadership presence and expand my network.”
“Nihal is a great listener - his communication helped me narrow down to troublesome areas in my current internship. He helped me understand the bigger picture of my career choices, while also explaining to me the ways I can shortlist a workplace that works for me. He is attentive & dedicated to helping young confused designers like me. :)”
“I had an amazing experience with Nihal during my portfolio review. His guidance provided me with instant direction and clarity when I felt stuck. Nihal's keen attention to detail and insights helped me significantly improve my portfolio. I left our session feeling motivated and inspired.”