Jainulabudeen

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Jainulabudeen (Zain)

Senior Product Designer

Enterprise software · Design systems · AI

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summary

User experience designer with 5.5 years across enterprise operations software, sales and telecalling platforms, and marketplace products. I take complex, high-ambiguity systems and make them simple: direction grounded in user research and product analytics, consensus built across functions and up to the CTO, delivery through design systems I build from scratch. At Porter I also lead the design org's AI initiative, building its tools and training its designers.

experience

Porter

Dec 2024 to Present

Product Designer II, Partner ExperienceBengaluru, India

On-demand logistics marketplace. I design the partner-side platform its delivery driver workforce runs on.

  • Own the end-to-end revamp of Porter's partner application, the team's largest and most ambiguous problem. Grounded it in competitive benchmarking, field immersion as a real delivery partner, and research-team focus groups; set the design principles and app architecture for the next 5 to 10 years; presented the phased delivery plan to the CTO to secure engineering capacity.
  • Lead the design org's AI initiative, a director-approved, org-wide program: wrote the multi-phase curriculum and run its workshops and weekly sessions, training ~19 designers to take components from Figma to production code, learning in the open alongside them; extended the program into the research org and hold a standing review with the VP of Engineering.
  • Built the initiative's tooling: an automated heuristic and accessibility screen-audit tool, a design-token linter and generator that keeps design and code from drifting apart, and CopyCat, the partner-comms framework behind it. Led a team of five to build it out at the company-wide AI hackathon, owning the product logic and the working build; it won the productivity track and is in use by the team.
  • Own the order lifecycle and earnings experience: turned the partner's most data-dense surfaces (order state, fare breakdown, payouts, wallet) into flows a driver can read in seconds, grounded in focus groups with 16 partners across three vehicle classes and validated through usability testing.
  • Shaped Porter Prime 2.0, the partner loyalty program: authored the adopted concept out of AI-assisted ideation across 12 narratives. Shipped Sep 2025: ~80% fewer Prime support tickets, awareness up 17 points (2-wheeler) and 11 points (trucks), page engagement 76% to 85%.
  • Designed the SDO wallet and GST-compliance transaction flow on an emergency timeline, resolving a ₹1.67 crore (~$200K) bad-debt exposure.
  • Set the design system's component build priorities (director-assigned): surveyed every product designer on real component usage and ranked ~38 components into build tiers the team adopted.
  • Audited the design system's tokens, exposing silent design-to-code drift that had the app shipping colors the system no longer specified; authored the naming spec and migration plan, signed off by the design-system owner.

SquadStack

Feb 2023 to Dec 2024

Product DesignerBengaluru, India

Sales and telecalling operations platform: a dashboard enterprise clients run campaigns on, and the app its telecaller workforce works in.

  • Rebuilt supply onboarding 0 to 1 in a three-week war room while acquisition ran at a loss: cost per acquired telecaller ₹10,000 to ₹2,700 (down 73%), funnel drop-off 70% to 10%, profile creation 4.5 minutes to 55 seconds, with conversion held even after removing ₹850/head in signup bonuses.
  • Unblocked the operations pipeline clients waited on: supply requests filled in 4 hours instead of 3 days, business go-live 3 weeks to 1, interview-slot fill 60-70% to 100%, telecaller ease-of-use (CES) 3/7 to 6/7.
  • Built and governed the company's first design system, tokens and components through documentation and developer handoff; it is why the onboarding rebuild could ship in three weeks.
  • Designed enterprise workflow software: the Script Builder dashboard clients use to configure and run their calling campaigns. Mentored junior designers through a design-review practice I established.

DhanLAP

Jan 2021 to Feb 2023

Founding Product DesignerChennai, India

Fintech startup; first design hire.

  • Established everything design for the company: product architecture, design language, brand identity, and logo, from discovery to MVP in three months.
  • Designed the Loan Against Mutual Funds product and its loan-health dashboard, turning a regulated, verification-heavy financial process into a mobile flow first-time digital borrowers completed without help.
  • Wore every creative hat as the only designer: marketing ads, videos, posters, and animations alongside the product, then built the company's first pattern library, and have built a design system at every company since.

skills

Building with AI
Agentic coding (Claude, Cursor), custom AI tools, skills, and workflows; shipped personal products end to end, including a full personal knowledge system that runs my own work.
Leadership and influence
Influencing and building consensus across functions under ambiguity, executive and C-suite presentation, mentorship and curriculum design, leading process improvement in fast-paced, agile environments.
Research and analytics
Usability testing, focus groups, card sorting, competitive benchmarking, field immersion, product analytics, data-informed iteration.
Design
User-centered design, design thinking, interaction design, information design and user-facing data visualization, journey mapping, wireframing, high-fidelity prototyping, visual design, accessibility, web and mobile application design.
Design systems
Design tokens, component libraries, documentation, governance, automated validation.
Domains
Enterprise and workflow software, CRM and sales operations tooling, marketplace and gig platforms, fintech.
Tools
Figma (expert), FigJam, Miro, Framer.

education

B.Tech

SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, India

2014 to 2018

scope over time

The same work, plotted by who it changed rather than when it shipped.

202420252026Industry
Org

2025

Org-wide Gen-AI L&D program

Designed and runs the director-approved program upskilling designers on AI: weekly sessions, three phases.

2025

Won the AI hackathon's productivity track

Led a team of five: my comms framework and my Firebase Studio build, with the Figma plugin adapted from the same framework by teammates.

2025–26

Design × AI driver

Recognized as the design org's driver for AI-in-the-workflow adoption; owns the AI Interventions track.

2026

Design tokens governance

Auditing and re-governing the design system's token layer end to end.

Team

2024

SquadStack supply onboarding

0→1 onboarding funnel; CAC ₹10k → ₹2.7k while holding conversion.

2025

Prime 2.0: AI as design medium

12 AI-generated program narratives; the adopted Gemstone direction shipped September 2025.

2025

AI Playground Workshop

Full-day hands-on workshop; the ElevenLabs session I ran changed how the team makes video.

Self

The case studies are the long version. Read those, or email me.