Santosh S monogram

Career / January 2006 to today

Craft, complexity and commercial impact.

20+ years across data, enterprise technology and product design. 7+ years leading people and practice.

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2025—NOW

Indexnine

Director of Business and Design

AI-first product engineering. Closed approximately ₹6 Cr through inbound India and US leads; combined commercial, product, engagement and design leadership.

Experience / Full career history

17 Oct 2025–present

Indexnine

Director of Business and Design

AI-first product engineering. Closed approximately ₹6 Cr through inbound India and US leads; combined commercial, product, engagement and design leadership.

  • ↳ ₹6 Cr inbound business closed
  • ↳ Cross-functional delivery leadership
  • ↳ Real assets platform ownership · threat design sprint

Commercial reflection: approximately ₹4 Cr of additional opportunities did not close. Lost opportunities are separate from revenue won.

Feb 2025–present (as listed on original résumé)

Mavenix AI

Product & Design Lead

Led agentic BI product concept, five core modules, product requirements and collaboration on data and access architecture.

  • ↳ Agentic BI product strategy
  • ↳ Five core modules defined

Apr 2022–May 2025

bp

Experience Design Lead

Scaled the India design team from 4 to 48 in two years. Led Biofuels portfolio UX and helped acquire three enterprise customers through design demos.

  • ↳ 4→48 India design organisation
  • ↳ 3 enterprise customers through demos

Mar 2021–Apr 2022

Fosfor by LTI

Head of Product Design

Built the design team from 0 to 7, established the suite UX framework and led an MLOps redesign reducing deployment time by 30%.

  • ↳ 0→7 design team
  • ↳ 30% faster model deployment

Nov 2020–Mar 2021

Xoriant · Telenav

Senior Lead UX Designer

Led four designers on a location-based analytics platform supporting navigation content and OEM monetisation.

  • ↳ Four designers led
  • ↳ OEM and internal analytics

Aug 2016–Jun 2020

MarketsandMarkets

Associate Director – Technology

Led market-intelligence platform redesign and mobile experience. Enterprise customer base grew from fewer than 10 to more than 150.

  • ↳ <10→150+ enterprise customers

Jan 2015–Aug 2016

CRG Solutions

Principal Consultant

Designed 50+ Tableau dashboards, contributed to emPerform product design and secured $100,000+ in deals.

  • ↳ 50+ dashboards
  • ↳ Commercial and product contribution

Feb 2013–Sep 2014

Volkswagen Group India

Senior Manager

Automated reporting from five days to 15 minutes, saving approximately 2,000 hours annually; contributed to cost savings of €50M+.

  • ↳ 5 days→15 minutes
  • ↳ 2,000 hours saved annually

Jun 2012–Feb 2013

Metro AG

Team Lead

Product-placement analysis contributed to a reported 14% quarter-over-quarter organic revenue increase at a specific store.

  • ↳ Data-led operational improvement

Jan 2006–Apr 2012

Capgemini

Consultant

Worked across New York, Utrecht and Pune. Process improvements recovered more than $4M in revenue gap.

  • ↳ $4M+ revenue-gap recovery
  • ↳ Global delivery experience

Earlier role dates follow the original résumé, including the listed overlap between Mavenix and bp. Indexnine details reflect the latest career update.

Education & development

IIM Calcutta

Executive Programme in Communication Strategies

Practice areas

Product & UX strategy · AI-first experiences · Systems thinking · Design systems · Team scaling · DesignOps · Enterprise workflows · Data visualisation · Client partnership · Cross-functional delivery

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