Ankur Kushwaha
Open to opportunitiesDesign Manager · Product Design Leader · Full-Stack Builder
Toronto, ON
About
Outcome-driven Product Design Leader with 11+ years across AI-first platforms, SaaS, and consumer products. Leads design for high-stakes monetization and growth initiatives, scales design systems, and aligns design vision with product strategy to deliver measurable business outcomes for millions of users. A full-stack builder (FSB) who ships production-fidelity frontends with Claude & Cursor, and a design leader who has led, hired, and mentored teams of 8+.
Skills
- Agile
- Attention to detail
- Business analysis
- Communication
- CSS
- Data analysis
- English
- Figma
- Git
- GitHub
- Google Workspace
- HTML
- Jira
- Leadership
- Microsoft Office
- Organization
- Problem solving
- Product management
- Teamwork
- UI design
- UX design
Experience
Lead Product Designer
HighLevel
Mar 2026 to Present
Remote
AI-first SaaS (Agency OS) Lead product design across Agency OS, shaping AI-first experiences that help agencies grow, monetize, and operate their businesses more effectively. • Own end-to-end design for strategic initiatives across Agency Revenue, Pricing & Billing, SaaS Enablement, Prospecting, HIPAA, and Sub-Accounts, balancing customer needs with business outcomes. • Partner with Product, Growth & Engineering to define monetization strategy across subscriptions, upgrades, feature packaging, and activation journeys that drive ARR growth and retention. • Simplify complex multi-tenant agency workflows through information architecture and scalable UX patterns, reducing friction across the platform. • Build production-fidelity frontends with Claude & Cursor using AI-assisted development, accelerating concept validation and cross-functional collaboration. • Drive experimentation through rapid prototyping and A/B testing, using customer data to improve conversion, activation, and engagement, and to evolve the design system into reusable components.
Lead Product Designer
Sprinklr
Sep 2024 to Feb 2026
Gurugram
Enterprise SaaS, Sprinklr Insights Led design for Sprinklr Insights Suite, used by global enterprises including Microsoft, P&G, Samsung, Netflix, and 50%+ of the Fortune 100. • Designed GenAI-powered insights workflows that reduced manual feedback analysis by 35% and accelerated executive decision-making. • Translated complex workflows into intuitive journeys, increasing new-feature adoption by 15% during early rollout. • Drove cross-functional alignment via retrospectives, workshops, and Kanban practices, reducing turnaround time by 20%.
Design Manager
Builder.ai
Sep 2022 to Sep 2024
Gurugram
AI No-Code Platform Led design for Builder.ai’s AI no-code enterprise platform, owning strategy, team delivery, and stakeholder alignment. • Managed a cross-functional design team of 8 designers, setting the design vision and quality bar that helped secure a $7.5M beta deal and validated enterprise PMF. • Drove alignment with Product and Engineering leadership on agentic AI (LLM + RAG) workflows, directing the design that automated customer journeys and boosted adoption by 68%. • Established design processes and review rituals (critiques, handoff standards, and prioritization), raising team craft and consistency while lifting customer lifetime value ~15% via an AI-powered recommendation engine.
Senior Product Designer
BlueStacks
Dec 2019 to Aug 2022
Gurugram
Consumer Platform • Owned the web experience for 500M+ users; redesigned core flows to improve conversion by 22%. • Partnered with marketing & growth to localize web experiences, improving retention in high-growth regions. • Built web design guidelines ensuring consistency across BlueStacks 4 and BlueStacks X launches.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Oodles Technologies
Feb 2018 to Dec 2019
Gurugram
SaaS Products & Web Apps • Designed B2B SaaS web and mobile applications, improving usability scores ~30%. • Collaborated with engineering and product teams to streamline workflows, cutting handoff time ~20%. • Built foundation in Figma prototyping, user flows, and agile delivery.
UI Designer
Periscope (now Quad)
Jan 2017 to Jan 2018
Gurugram / Faridabad
Retail & e-commerce UI across digital campaigns.
Visual & Industrial Design
The Man Company / Yebhi.com
Jan 2013 to Jan 2017
Gurugram / Faridabad
Packaging systems, high-volume e-commerce assets, and brand web layouts.
Education
Delhi University
B.A. Humanities, Humanities
2013 to 2016
Arena Multimedia
3D | VFX | Graphic | Web Design
2008 to 2011
Licences & certifications
How to Design Experiences for AI
Interaction Design Foundation
Design Thinking
Interaction Design Foundation
Human-Computer Interaction
Interaction Design Foundation
User Research: Methods & Best Practices
Interaction Design Foundation
AI for Designers
Interaction Design Foundation
