Charan Singh

Principal Product Designer

charanuxd@gmail.com·linkedin.com/in/charan3·Chandigarh, IN

Principal product designer with 10+ years in the craft, now focused on AI, healthcare and B2B SaaS, including a design management stint at a Google X spin-off and a 10-person creative team at Why Labs. Builds systems that scale: design libraries adopted org-wide, measurable churn and retention gains, and cross-functional teams aligned around shippable roadmaps.

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Experience

  1. Jun 2025 - Dec 2025

    Staff IC, Design Head (Contract)

    Linkeye · Bengaluru (Remote)

    • Rebuilt a legacy network-monitoring SaaS end-to-end into a modern, agentic-AI-first product in 6 months.
    • Designed the agentic-AI layer that surfaces network issues and automates root-cause analysis, cutting mean diagnosis time from ~2 days to under 15 minutes.
    • Redesign earned multiple recognitions and praise at global Gartner events.

  2. Aug 2024 - Present

    Design Consultant (Retainer)Current

    Careerflow.ai · US (Remote)

    • Lifted Week-1 retention +37% across Apr-Jun cohorts by resolving UX friction on key activation surfaces.
    • Owns core B2C feature pipelines; shipped 2 AI-backed features and stabilized long-term retention at a ~15-16% Week-8 loyal-cohort floor.

  3. Jul 2023 - May 2024

    Design Lead (Contract)

    Recovry.ai · US (Remote)

    • Led end-to-end design for a generative-AI healthcare product supporting post-op patient rehab, shrinking the patient-provider communication loop from ~48 hours to same-day.
    • Built a full design system, a patient mobile app, and provider web and native apps in 8 months, with a 3-level pain-severity signal driving recovery insights.

  4. Jun 2022 - Mar 2023

    Design Manager (Contract)

    Google X arm (Nextsense.io) · California, US (Remote)

    • Directed strategic design for a semi-secret Google X spin-off as part-time design manager.
    • Drove cross-team collaboration, shipping on-time deliverables backed by a scalable component library.

  5. Dec 2021 - May 2022

    Growth Design Lead

    Golden Circle App · Bengaluru, IN (Remote)

    • Directed end-to-end UX for a high-profile executive networking platform.
    • Drove data-driven iteration that cut bounce rate ~19% and lifted retention ~12% in 6 months.

  6. Aug 2021 - Nov 2021

    Product Design Lead

    Thinklink · Toronto, CA (Remote)

    • Defined visual language and core user flows for a B2B cybersecurity SaaS product.
    • Shaped roadmap strategy, scoping features for the dashboard and integrations editor.

  7. Sep 2020 - Jul 2021

    Senior Product Designer

    GoodStack Inc · California, US (Remote)

    • Led end-to-end design as the sole designer inside a product studio.
    • Owned UI/UX, visual design and prototyping across 4 shipped products in fintech and healthcare.

  8. Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

    Product Designer

    domino.ai · Bengaluru, IN

    • Built the design system and brand guidelines behind every product patch, prototype to high-fidelity spec.
    • Cut developer handoff time 30% with a unified, scalable component library.
    • Set brand standards adopted by marketing and communications.

  9. Feb 2017 - Jan 2019

    Selected Early Roles

    Why Labs · New Delhi, IN

    • Managed a 10+ person team of designers and developers.
    • Partnered with YC- and Sequoia-backed startups to shape design strategy toward product-market fit.

  10. 2014 - 2017

    Earlier roles

    onething.design, Fiftood & BetaGlide · IN

    • UX Designer at onething.design: led research and redesigned a telecom analytics B2B SaaS, contributing ~30% revenue growth through retention.
    • Co-founded Fiftood (cloud-kitchen growth, ops and sales); ran front-line UX research as an intern at BetaGlide.

Education

Anna University, India

Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering

Aug 2010 - Jul 2014

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