Resume

Ankur Kushwaha

Design Manager · Product Design Leader · Full-Stack Builder

Product design leader with 12+ years in design, across AI-first platforms, SaaS and consumer products. I lead design for monetization and growth, build design systems, and ship production-fidelity frontends with Claude and Cursor. At Builder.ai I grew a design team from 1 to 8.

Impact

  • 1→8Grew the Builder.ai design team from just me. Hired 5, led 4 directly, nobody left in two years.
  • $7.5MEnterprise beta unlocked through my hands-on design of Builder Enterprise.
  • 68%Adoption of AI (LLM + RAG) experiences at Builder.ai.
  • 32%Fewer design review cycles, and 50% faster implementation, with the Block Design System.
  • CTOAward at Sprinklr for the Insights Use Case Hub, a product trusted by 50%+ of the Fortune 100.

Experience

  1. HighLevel

    Mar 2026 to present

    Lead Product Designer

    Remote · AI-first SaaS, Agency OS

    Leading product design across Agency OS, shaping AI-first experiences that help agencies grow, monetize and run their businesses.

    • Own end-to-end design across Agency Revenue, Pricing and Billing, SaaS Enablement, Prospecting, HIPAA and Sub-Accounts.
    • Partner with Product and Growth on monetization: subscriptions, upgrades, packaging and activation journeys that support ARR and retention.
    • Simplify complex multi-tenant agency workflows through information architecture and scalable UX patterns.
    • Build production-fidelity frontends with Claude and Cursor to validate ideas faster with the team.
    • Run rapid prototyping and A/B tests, and evolve the design system into reusable components.
  2. Sprinklr

    Sep 2024 to Mar 2026

    Lead Product Designer

    Enterprise SaaS · Sprinklr Insights

    Led design for the Sprinklr Insights suite, used by Microsoft, P&G, Samsung, Netflix and 50%+ of the Fortune 100.

    • Designed GenAI insight workflows that cut manual feedback analysis by 35% and sped up decisions for business leaders.
    • Turned complex workflows into clear journeys, lifting new-feature adoption by 15% in early rollout.
    • Ran retrospectives, workshops and Kanban practices with Product, cutting turnaround time by 20%.
    • Received the CTO Award for the Insights Use Case Hub.

    Case studiesAgentic AI co-pilot Insights Use Case Hub

  3. Builder.ai

    Sep 2022 to Sep 2024

    Design Manager

    AI no-code platform

    Led design for Builder.ai’s AI no-code platform, while staying hands-on as a designer.

    • Grew the design team from 1 to 8. Hired 5, with 4 direct reports and the rest mentored through influence. Nobody left in two years.
    • Stayed hands-on on Builder Enterprise, whose design helped secure a $7.5M beta deal.
    • Designed agentic AI (LLM + RAG) workflows with Product and Engineering, boosting adoption by 68%.
    • Set up weekly 1:1s, critiques, and design reviews with sign-off, and grew designers through ownership.
    • Built the Block Design System with a core group of 4 designers: 32% fewer review cycles, 50% faster implementation.

    Case studiesBuilding a design team Builder Enterprise Builder Studio Block Design System

  4. BlueStacks

    Dec 2019 to Sep 2022

    Senior Product Designer

    Consumer platform, 500M+ users

    Owned the BlueStacks web experience, visited by millions of gamers every month.

    • Redesigned core discovery and download flows, improving conversion by 22%.
    • Localized web experiences with marketing and growth teams across regions.
    • Built web design guidelines for the BlueStacks 4 and BlueStacks X launches.
  5. Oodles Technologies

    Feb 2018 to Dec 2019

    Senior UI/UX Designer

    B2B SaaS, web and mobile

    Designed SaaS and enterprise products for clients across many domains.

    • Improved usability scores by about 30% on B2B web and mobile apps.
    • Cut design handoff time by about 20% by working closely with engineering.
  6. Earlier

    2013 to 2018

    UI, industrial and graphic design

    Periscope, The Man Company, Yebhi.com

    Where the craft started: UI for retail and e-commerce campaigns, perfume bottles and packaging, and e-commerce visuals.

Skills, certifications and education

Design

  • UX strategy
  • Design systems
  • Interaction design
  • Information architecture
  • User research and testing
  • A/B testing
  • Data visualisation
  • AI workflows
  • Conversational UX

Leadership

  • Design strategy and vision
  • Mentoring
  • Hiring
  • Cross-functional alignment
  • Stakeholder management
  • Roadmapping
  • Prioritization
  • Monetization and activation UX

Tools and build

  • Figma
  • FigJam
  • Framer
  • Adobe CS
  • Claude
  • Cursor
  • HTML and CSS
  • Jira
  • Confluence

Certifications

Interaction Design Foundation

  • How to Design Experiences for AI
  • AI for Designers
  • Design Thinking
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • User Research: Methods and Best Practices

Education

  • Delhi University
    2013 to 2016 · B.A. Humanities
  • Arena Multimedia
    2008 to 2011 · 3D, VFX, graphic and web design

Recognition

  • Sprinklr CTO Award
    September 2025 · Insights Use Case Hub

What I choose

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