Surja Sen Das Raj

Product Design Lead

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Knowledge and experience with driving user-centered design process while working
collaboratively with customers, along with cross teams including engineering, product management, user researcher, and strong experience in building design system for any product.

Strong knowledge of user experience methods, visual design, innovation, ideation, storytelling, prototyping, concept visualization, user testing, and presentation.

Organized, self-directed, efficient, and able to manage multiple projects on time.

Work Experience

GoDaddy

Product Design Lead

April 2022 - Present Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toptal

Freelance User Experience Designer

Serves as a User Experience Designer, which involves user-centric design processes, design with emotion, design with business thinking, coordinate with geographically dispersed stakeholders (i.e., including product managers, engineers, etc.) while continuing to work on an existing product or any brand-new product.

Leverages expertise in user and business centric web & mobile application design and development. Building extensive design system to scale the product.
Utilizes various design software including Figma and Adobe XD, Sketch, and Premier, while translating the various requirements into well-executed designs.
Develop personas, user research, storyboards, process flows, sitemaps, etc. Likewise, I illustrate design aesthetics and functionality to make sure the user’s experience and the business goal are achieving perfection.
Remains abreast of new technologies and best practices while remaining at the forefront of the UX design space.
January 2021 - March 2022 Ontario, Canada

OFSPACE DIGITAL AGENCY LLC.

Director of User Experience Design

Gathered and evaluated user requirements in collaboration with geographically dispersed teams and clients, while illustrating our ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps.

Managing the team of 16 people and handling multiple projects at a time.
Managed the team to design and develop Eleia’s app and website from scratch with elements functions that will help them scale their product over the next five years (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eleia/id1561804718).
Conducted extensive user research before creating the flow, wireframes, and visual design for the web and mobile apps for Chess, a large, Thailand-based Fintech company (chessmoney.co.th).

Managed the team and Improved the user experience and scaled the design for the next three years for Namu, a fintech company (app.namu1099.com).
Managed the development team, conducted user research and competitor analysis, created wireframes, and designed the UI for Parsec (parseccorp.com).
Designed an iOS application that entailed handling the user research, user flow, wireframing, and visual design for Enclaveapp, a dating app that is currently only available in Peru (enclaveapp.com).
October 2019 - Sylhet, Bangladesh

Zomato

Product Designer

Designed the mobile and web application for Zamato, which drove user engagement and increased subscribers rates for the platform’s gold members. I was the team lead of 3 designers.

Contributed to the design system for Zomato and designed a child product of Zomato called Hyperpure with a focus on user experience, which involved considerable user research to drive usability.
July 2018 - July 2019 India

Netbramha Studios

Principal Designer

Managed user experience and research for various large-scale web and mobile applications.

Supervised the daily workflow of the design & development team of 12 people, which involved extensive design work, user flows, wireframing, prototyping, and visual design, while ensuring all deliverables were executed on time, budget, and scope.

Developed a promising user interface and engaging user experience to design the fitness app and many more.

Built mobile applications and web experiences following best design processes for a top property broker and real estate company in India.
July 2017 - Present Bangalore, India

Gagagugu

Product Designer

Spearheaded and lead the UX and UI of the product GG poll, a polling system for general people, so they can debate in an easy-to-use format.

Oversaw and directed all user experience and market research in coordination with various external teams and collaborators, including a product manager, engineers, and QA.

Conducted research with the product manager and other teammates before creating the design system and UI for GG Connect, a social platform.
January 2016 - June 2017 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Uinugget

Head of Design

Mentored and coached my 7 teammates on how to approach the UX process and create business- and user-centric designs.

Managed & designed web applications and websites for the real estate giant, Agentrebate; audited the company’s existing website for Envoy, and directed the illustrations team to produce illustrations that aligned with the story being told.
February 2017 - March 2020 Sylhet, Bangladesh

Education

Metropolitan University, Sylhet

B.Sc(Hons.) in Computer Science & Engineering

January 2011 - November 2015 Sylhet, Bangladesh

Languages

English (Fluent),

Skills

Adobe XD, Android App Design, Cryptocurrency, Figma, FinTech, Food, IOS App Design, Mobile App Design, Product Design, Prototype, Real Estate, User Experience Design, User Interface Design, UX Design, Web App Design, Web Design, Website Design,

Design Mentor

ADP List
Profile Link: https://adplist.org/mentors/surja-sen-das-raj

Design Mentor

Ofspace Design Academy
Url: https://www.facebook.com/ofspace.academy