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Sujith Kumar Anand

Product Design Leader — a design leader who still ships

Ten years turning complex fintech into products people trust. I lead the team, deliver as an IC, and ship front-end with AI. Rooted in HCI research; grounded in engineering.

Experience

FYERS2024 — Present
Senior Design Manager, Product Design
  • Lead product design across six verticals for one of India's large retail brokerages.
  • Own the FYERS Design System (FDSG 2.0 → 2.1, web + mobile); cut design effort by roughly a third and established a single source of truth.
  • Drove the shift from a split UX/UI relay to end-to-end Product Designers, improving ownership and adoption.
  • Directed design for the Options Scalper Terminal, deepening engagement among high-frequency traders.
  • Shipped Wealth Tracker end to end in the front-end, working with AI (Claude).
Nexter Finance2022 — 24
Design Lead · web3 / DeFi
  • Set design direction from the ground up for a decentralized-finance product.
Oddz Finance2021 — 22
Design Lead · DeFi
  • Led design of complex trading and options flows for non-expert users.
Datami2018 — 21
Lead Product Designer → Product Designer
  • Airtel TV Africa — designed the streaming app end to end for the African market.
  • Reach Mobile — designed the web journeys.
Two Roads TechOct 2017 — Mar 18
Product Designer
  • Consumer and enterprise product design across web and mobile.
Qplum2017
Product Designer
  • Owned all web journeys for an AI-based portfolio-investment platform for US investors.
Onetech VenturesOct 2016 — Apr 17
UX Specialist · Bangalore
  • Web applications end to end — requirements gathering, interviews, design walkthroughs, empathy and scenario maps, wireframes, UI and prototypes.
IBM Studios, BöblingenFeb — Jun 2016
UX Design & Research Intern
  • IBM BPM Process Portal — two projects from paper sketches and wireframes through interviews and design walkthroughs with business partners and internal users.
emocial Ltd · freelance2015 — 16
UX Design · London
  • Responsive web applications — personas, information architecture, task flows, wireframes and prototypes; plus a freelance engagement for a London non-profit.
Microsoft2014 — 15
UX Research · United Kingdom
  • Field research on care technology with UCL & Kent County Council — interviews, diary studies, usability testing.

Education

MSc, Human-Computer Interaction & Design
EIT Digital — KTH Stockholm, then UCL London · 2013 — 15
MSc, Advanced Computer Science
Newcastle University · 2011 — 12
BE, Information Science & Engineering
BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore · 2006 — 10

Certification

NISM Series 7
Certified · Series 8 in progress

What I do

Design leadershipTeam scalingDesign systems Product designFigmaFlutter Front-endAI-assisted buildResearch

Writing

Design + front-end with AI
medium.com/@suj009
Scaling a design system
Killing the UX/UI split

Languages

English (full professional) · Kannada · Telugu · Tamil (professional) · Hindi