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Abhishek Saxena
Design Guy, 12+ yrs of Product, UX & Advertising, 35+ Awards, 2 GTM Startups. Senior Designer @ Microsoft
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🙋🏻♂️ About me
I started in the era before UX had rules — when digital was still figuring itself out, flash websites were a career, and the only metric that mattered was whether people came back.
That wired me differently. I think in systems. I measure in outcomes. I've led design at a telecom giant, shipped AI features for 400M+ Excel users, and built two products from zero — one of which hit 50K downloads with no marketing budget.
I'm a design generalist. That's not a hedge — it's a deliberate choice. The best design decisions I've made came from knowing just enough about business strategy, product thinking, data, and engineering to ask the right questions before picking up Figma.
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🎢 Journey So Far
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Senior Product Designer @ Microsoft
2020-2023
Chief Hustler @ ThinkPlanty.com
2022-2023
Design Manager @ GoodWorker
2019-2020
Principal Experience Designer @ Airtel
2018-2019
UX Manager @ Cheil, Samsung
2016-2018
Founder @ Watchlyst App
2015-2018
UX Manager @ Avizva, USA
2015-2016
Design Director @ Toaster/Google
2011-2015
UX Manager @ Dentsu, Webchutney
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🧑🏼🚀 How can I help?
I work best when the problem is hard, the stakes are real, and someone needs to bridge the gap between what users need and what the business is trying to build.
Whether that's defining a design system from scratch, leading a team through a zero-to-one product, redesigning a broken experience for 100M users, or embedding AI into a workflow that people actually use — I've done it. More than once. At different scales.
If you need hands-on craft, I can do that. If you need someone to run a design function, set strategy, hire, and report to leadership — I can do that too. That range is the point.
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👨🏻💻️ Recent Work
Watchlyst App - Aggregating what’s worth watching
From inception to execution- An online boutique green gifting brand making plant adoption fun. Modern and compact garden solutions for first time plant parents and the ones with green thumb.
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Airtel Thanks 2.0: Redesigning Airtel Thanks Program
From inception to execution- An online boutique green gifting brand making plant adoption fun. Modern and compact garden solutions for first time plant parents and the ones with green thumb.
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Planty™ - The Brand, Product and Strategy
From inception to execution- An online boutique green gifting brand making plant adoption fun. Modern and compact garden solutions for first time plant parents and the ones with green thumb.
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Microsoft: AI powered insights on chart insert
Chart Insights via Copilot is a new Excel feature that automatically generates intelligent, contextual insights the moment a chart is inserted. These insights—like trends, anomalies, and comparisons—appear in a lightweight panel next to the chart and update manually when data changes.
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Microsoft: Copilot Excel Wiki Agent
Built this Copilot EXCEL Wiki agent is an AI-powered assistant designed for Excel designers to streamline workflows, centralise knowledge, and provide actionable answers on design craft, process, accessibility, and handoffs. Reduces manual searching, ensures up-to-date guidance, and sets the foundation for future automation.
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Hey there, I’m Abhishek Saxena, a product designer enabling growth led design for 12+ years
Based in India, open to the world. I'm a product designer and design leader with 12+ years shipping AI features, consumer apps, and enterprise systems — from Microsoft Excel to Airtel's 100M users. I don't just design interfaces. I build design practices, lead teams, and move metrics that matter. Open to design leadership roles.
Quick Snapshot:
Senior Product Designer @ Microsoft
Ex Principal Experience Designer @ Airtel
Ex Design Director UX @ Cheil, Samsung
💁🏻 Latest Update
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Are you looking for a product designer who can fix UX, bring diverse industry experience, embrace end-to-end thinking, establish design systems, bridge user empathy with metrics, enable product scaling, infuse innovation and collaboration, and make a lasting impact? Look no further. Get in touch.
Have an exciting project?
Let’s work together.
Know more
Abhishek Saxena
Design Guy, 12+ yrs of Product, UX & Advertising, 35+ Awards, 2 GTM Startups. Senior Designer @ Microsoft
View profile
🙋🏻♂️ About me
I started in the era before UX had rules — when digital was still figuring itself out, flash websites were a career, and the only metric that mattered was whether people came back.
That wired me differently. I think in systems. I measure in outcomes. I've led design at a telecom giant, shipped AI features for 400M+ Excel users, and built two products from zero — one of which hit 50K downloads with no marketing budget.
I'm a design generalist. That's not a hedge — it's a deliberate choice. The best design decisions I've made came from knowing just enough about business strategy, product thinking, data, and engineering to ask the right questions before picking up Figma.
Know more
🎢 Journey So Far
Know more
Creative
Director
Design
Manager
Principal
Designer
‘10
‘11
‘12
‘13
‘14
‘15
‘16
‘17
‘18
‘19
‘20
‘21
‘22
‘23
‘24
‘24
‘26
Currently
Senior Product Designer @ Microsoft
2020-2023
Chief Hustler @ ThinkPlanty.com
2022-2023
Design Manager @ GoodWorker
2019-2020
Principal Experience Designer @ Airtel
2018-2019
UX Manager @ Cheil, Samsung
2016-2018
Founder @ Watchlyst App
2015-2018
UX Manager @ Avizva, USA
2015-2016
Design Director @ Toaster/Google
2011-2015
UX Manager @ Dentsu, Webchuntey
🧑🏼🚀 How can I help?
I work best when the problem is hard, the stakes are real, and someone needs to bridge the gap between what users need and what the business is trying to build.
Whether that's defining a design system from scratch, leading a team through a zero-to-one product, redesigning a broken experience for 100M users, or embedding AI into a workflow that people actually use — I've done it. More than once. At different scales.
If you need hands-on craft, I can do that. If you need someone to run a design function, set strategy, hire, and report to leadership — I can do that too. That range is the point.
Know more
👨🏻💻️ Recent Work
Microsoft: Copilot Excel Wiki Agent
Built this Copilot EXCEL Wiki agent is an AI-powered assistant designed for Excel designers to streamline workflows, centralize knowledge, and provide actionable answers on design craft, process, accessibility, and handoffs. Reduces manual searching, ensures up-to-date guidance, and sets the foundation for future automation.
Know more
Planty™ - The Brand, Product and Strategy
From inception to execution- An online boutique green gifting brand making plant adoption fun. Modern and compact garden solutions for first time plant parents and the ones with green thumb.
Know more
Microsoft: AI powered insights on chart insert
Chart Insights via Copilot is a new Excel feature that automatically generates intelligent, contextual insights the moment a chart is inserted. These insights—like trends, anomalies, and comparisons—appear in a lightweight panel next to the chart and update manually when data changes.
Know more
Watchlyst App - Aggregating what’s worth watching
The first startup: solving the paradox of choice in entertainment. An aggregator and recommendation engine for TV, OTT, events, and radio — if it's worth watching, it's on Watchlyst. 50K downloads, zero paid marketing, $40K from Facebook Accelerator.
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Airtel Thanks 2.0: Redesigning Airtel Thanks Program
India's second-largest telecom app, redesigned. Launched Airtel Thanks 2.0 to 100M+ users with zero critical incidents. Increased MAU engagement by 6% through a dedicated growth design function built from the ground up.
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Hey there, I’m Abhishek Saxena, a product designer enabling growth led design for 12+ years
Based in India, open to the world. I'm a product designer and design leader with 12+ years shipping AI features, consumer apps, and enterprise systems — from Microsoft Excel to Airtel's 100M users. I don't just design interfaces. I build design practices, lead teams, and move metrics that matter. Open to design leadership roles.
Quick Snapshot:
Senior Product Designer @ Microsoft
Ex Principal Experience Designer @ Airtel
Ex Design Director UX @ Cheil, Samsung
💁🏻 Latest Update
Click here