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Ravi Shankar
Product Design Lead
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I'm Ravi Shankar
A Product Design Lead who ships complex products with cross-functional teams
A decade of shipping complex products alongside cross-functional teams.
Fintech, construction, enterprise learning, security, AI, the kind with messy handoffs, cross-team politics, and real humans at the end of it.
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No magic. Just a lot of thinking and iteration.
Talk to users, stakeholders, and systems until the real problem shows up.
Reduce noise. Remove assumptions. Make decisions easier.
Design for today without breaking tomorrow.
Not outsourcing. Integration. Here's what that looks like.
Join standups, read the Slack channels, shadow users. Understand before suggesting.
With: PM, Engineering LeadSurface the real problems. Align the team on what to solve first and why.
With: Stakeholders, ResearcherOwn the design workstream. Ship iteratively, review with engineers, stay in the code reviews.
With: Full squadDocument decisions, build the system, make it easy for the next designer to continue.
With: Design Systems, QAI look for people who go deep on user insight. Interviews, synthesis, usability testing.
I hire for craft. Micro-animations, transitions, the details that make a product feel right.
I find people who think in tokens, libraries, and long-term component architecture.
I've hired across these disciplines before. I know what good looks like, and how to find it.
"Ravi brought structure to our design process when we needed it most. He didn't just deliver screens, he helped the team think better."
"He turned a chaotic redesign into a clear, sprint-by-sprint plan. Our team actually looked forward to design reviews."
"Ravi didn't need a long ramp-up. Within a week he was shipping alongside us like he'd been on the team for months."
"He's one of those rare designers who cares about what happens after the handoff. Code reviews, QA, launch, all of it."
"We brought Ravi in to fix our design system. He ended up fixing how our teams communicate about design."
"What stood out was how quickly he integrated with engineering. He understood our constraints and designed within them, not around them."
"Most designers hand you a Figma link. Ravi sat in our retros, challenged our assumptions, and made us ship faster."
"He helped us go from 'we need a redesign' to 'here's the first release' in under six weeks. With a team of three."
"Ravi has a rare ability to hold the big picture and the pixel detail at the same time. Our stakeholders trusted him immediately."
If you need a design lead who works inside your team to make complex things ship, let's talk.
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