Product Design Lead and Agile Product Owner shaping a global electronics brand’s Shop app across 40 countries, from first tap to checkout.

Portrait of Pradeep Pandian by the sea Chennai, India
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Role
Product Design Lead, UI/UX
Experience
16+ years
01About

Design that ships, at scale.

An AI/ML-focused Product Owner, UI/UX and digital transformation expert with 16+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams across Ed-Tech, Oil & Energy, Fintech, E-commerce and IT Services.

I am a proactive, detail-driven Senior Lead UI/UX Product Designer with end-to-end experience delivering web and mobile app products in e-commerce, oil and energy and other verticals.

As a certified Agile Product Owner (CSPO, A-CSPO, CSP-PO), I have a track record of delivering enterprise-grade solutions using AI/ML, cloud and IoT technologies.

My craft spans research, wireframing, prototyping and user testing, through to design systems and design-to-dev workflows that keep global teams shipping consistently.

Currently
Product Design Lead, Intelliswift
Based in
Chennai, India
Certifications
CSPOA-CSPOCSP-PO
Languages
English, Tamil
Availability
Immediate joiner · Full-time
16+

Years leading product and UX work

40

Countries served by the Shop app

18

Countries in 3 weeks for the Checkout 2.0 rollout

15%

Lift in app conversion through journey optimisation

30%

Less support chat volume via self-service journeys

Beyond the brief
  • Product Concept DesignerCorporate Hackathon, 2024
  • Lead TrainerLeadership Pegasus, 2023
  • Concept DirectorProud of Women, 2022
  • Event OrganizerD2C Cultural, 2022
02Selected work

Commerce journeys for a global brand.

More on Behance

03Experience

Five roles, one craft.

Dec 2024 — PresentCurrent

Product Design Lead, UI/UX

IntelliswiftClient: Samsung
  • Drives product and UI strategy and execution for the cross-platform (iOS/Android) Samsung Shop e-commerce app across 40 countries, built on Flutter and Node.js.
  • Connects web and mobile experiences with SAP Hybris, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and analytics stacks: Adobe Analytics, AppsFlyer, Firebase and Insider.
  • Incubated a custom AI-powered content automation platform that uses a proprietary RAG pipeline to automate brand guideline compliance.
  • Spearheaded the end-to-end legacy migration of Samsung India’s e-commerce platform from GPV2 to SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris), upgrading cart, checkout, payments and order fulfilment across web and mobile.
Oct 2018 — Nov 2024

Lead Engineer, UI/UX Product Design

Samsung India Electronics (SIEL)
  • Led the Checkout 2.0 innovation program, redesigning the purchasing funnel and managing a rapid global rollout across 18 countries in 3 weeks.
  • Boosted app conversion by 15% and sales funnel performance by 18% through event-level data tracking, user journey optimisation and A/B testing.
  • Reduced customer support chat volume by 30% and improved content accuracy by 25% by automating self-service help journeys.
  • Established standardised global UX templates, reusable component libraries and design-to-dev workflows (Jira, Confluence, Zeplin, Figma) for customised UI rollouts across global subsidiaries.
  • Led the end-to-end Samsung e-commerce web, mobile web and Shop app platforms across India, the UK and global markets.
  • Led UX/UI for an internal CMS tool used by Samsung staff, and enhanced an internal tool that streamlines store operations for staff at the Samsung BKC store.
Sep 2017 — Mar 2018

Sr. UXM Associate Lead

Tech MahindraClient: Schlumberger
  • Designed a custom Sitecore project for NExT training (nexttraining.net).
  • Designed web applications, from PSD to HTML with responsive Bootstrap, and customised SharePoint sites.
Dec 2009 — May 2017

Sr. UI Front-end Designer, Associate Lead

Mahindra SatyamClient: Chevron · PAD BASS application
  • Designed web applications and provided client support and enhancements.
  • Delivered PSD-to-HTML builds with responsive Bootstrap, plus SharePoint front-end and product enhancements.
May 2007 — Aug 2009

Designer, Product Web Associate

Axis V Creative Pvt LtdClient: Sharekhan · Ed-Tech application
  • Designed UI for web applications: cross-browser, complex interfaces with data binding, search, filters and validation (sharekhan.com).
Education
2001 — 2006 · First Class

M.Sc. Computer (Software Engineering)

AVC Institution of Engineering Technology, Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu. Internship project: ERP for Bharat Gears Limited (BGL).

May — Oct 2014

UI/UX Management training

UX Mint

04Capabilities

From research to release.

A

Product & UX

UI/UX design managementProduct ownershipUser researchWireframingPrototypingDesign systemsCross-functional collaborationAgile / ScrumStakeholder managementRequirements managementSaaSTeam leadership
B

AI & data

Digital transformationAI/MLData scienceDeep learningTime-series forecastingNLPComputer vision / OCRData analyticsBI

Tools

TensorFlowscikit-learnfbprophetGoogle Cloud Vision APIPower BITableauQlikViewGoogle AnalyticsAppsFlyerInsider
C

Tech & architecture

Cloud: AWS EC2, S3, LambdaAzureGCPSAP integrationERP / CRMIoTSystem integration

Platforms

SAP HybrisAdobe AEMSalesforceCustom ERP

Databases

MS SQLMySQLMongoDBPostgreSQL
D

Tools & languages

Design & delivery

FigmaSketchAdobe XDInVisionZeplinJiraConfluence

Build

FlutterReact NativeHTMLCSSNode.jsREST APIs
05Contact

Let’s build what’s next.

Have a project, a collaboration or a role in mind? Send a short enquiry and I’ll pick it up on WhatsApp.

Status
Immediate joiner · Full-time
06UI & UX Creations

The site, sketched.

Storyboard Sketches
UI/UX Walkthrough

Contact

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