SANTOSH / PRODUCT, TEAM & BUSINESS BUILDER
Open to the right next chapterProduct builder.
Team builder.
Business builder.
A designer’s judgement at the heart.
I’m Santosh. For 20+ years I’ve built products, teams and business — guided by the human judgement and taste of a designer.
Years of design & product craft
Since January 2006
Years leading teams
People, practice & delivery
Design organisation scaled
At bp · within two years
Inbound business closed
India & US · at Indexnine
A career across complexity & scale
01 / Selected work
Different domains. One systems mindset.
Enterprise SaaS01 / AI-first product engineering
Real Assets Platform
From an inbound deal to a connected product system: commercial ownership, product strategy, design and cross-functional delivery across land acquisition and leasing.
One engagement. Four leadership roles.
Security02 / Cybersecurity · design sprint
Threat Assessment & Monitoring
A focused design-sprint contribution translating cybersecurity consulting expertise into an evidence-led monitoring experience.
Risk → evidence → action
Compliance03 / bp · regulatory compliance
Biofuel Supply Chain Compliance
Bringing document ingestion, traceability and audit confidence together across a complex biofuels portfolio.
3 enterprise customers from design demos
Agentic AI04 / Mavenix AI · agentic analytics
Agentic AI-Powered BI
Conversational insight and agentic workflows for executive data exploration, without losing analytical rigour.
From data exploration to product strategy
02 / Leadership
Good design scales through people and systems.
AI-first. Human-accountable.
Intelligent interfaces need more than a conversation layer. I design clear intent, visible evidence, and a path back to human judgement.
Agentic BI · threat assessment · AI-assisted intake
Systems before screens.
Map the actors, decisions, dependencies and exceptions first. Build a coherent product model that can support the next workflow, not just the next release.
51-node conversation flow · 79-page product spec
Teams with ownership.
Give people context, decision rights and a quality bar. Pair design with engineering, build critique into delivery, and grow leaders rather than approval queues.
bp: 4→48 · Fosfor: 0→7 designers
Outcomes over output.
Connect design to the commercial and operational problem. Close the loop from a promising idea to a signed engagement, a usable experience and a measurable outcome.
₹6 Cr inbound closed · 30% faster model deployment
03 / The career arc
Twenty years of craft.
A broader kind of leadership.
From data and enterprise platforms to design organisations and AI-first products. Today, I lead business and design at Indexnine.
Explore my careerFoundations in data & enterprise
Capgemini → Volkswagen → CRG
Product, platforms & design teams
MarketsandMarkets → Xoriant → Fosfor
Design leadership at scale
bp · 4→48 designers
Business + product + design
Indexnine · Director of Business and Design
04 / Toolkit
The tools I build with.
Figma
Product design & systems
Sketch
Interface design
Tableau
Data storytelling
Claude
AI thinking partner
Lovable
AI product building
Base44
Rapid AI prototyping
05 / Workshop
Storytelling with Data.
A hands-on workshop that helps students and professionals turn charts into decisions.
The next chapter
Let’s build what comes next.
Design vision. Strong teams. Products that earn trust.