Sachin Sahu

I'm a Senior Product Designer with 5+ years of hands-on experience across SaaS, B2B, enterprise software, and emerging AI platforms. I specialize in transforming complex technical products into intuitive, user-friendly experiences that drive business growth. I achieve the best design results by combining thorough user research, interaction design expertise, and cross-functional collaboration. Throughout my career, I've designed interfaces for diverse industries including enterprise software, AI platforms, cybersecurity, and SaaS products, leading design initiatives and mentoring team members. My background spans both technical analysis and design, giving me a unique ability to understand complex product requirements and translate them into seamless user experiences. I've contributed to numerous product development teams, managing design systems, conducting user research, and driving strategic design decisions that balance user needs with business objectives. Currently focused on leveraging design thinking and emerging technologies to create meaningful digital experiences that solve real problems for users and businesses alike.

Work History

Founding Product Designer

StepSecurityFull-time EmployeeRedesigning StepSecurity from the ground up. Owning the entire product experience — building a platform that makes CI/CD security fast, clear, and effortless for both developers and security teams.

Senior Product Designer

BalkanIDFull-time EmployeeFeb 2024 - Jun 2024 • 5 mosWore multiple hats as the solo designer at an early-stage identity security startup — owning everything from 0→1 product design to marketing site optimization. — Led design for core product features like IAM Risk Analyzer, RBAC Analyzer, Role Management, AI Copilot, Access Reviews, Action Center, and Notifications. — Designed the AI-powered Identity Security Copilot from the ground up — logo, branding, generative UX flows, chat history, table integrations — and designed + developed its landing page in Webflow, significantly boosting demo requests. — These initiatives directly supported sales efforts, contributing to multiple $20K–$50K+ annual retainer deals with enterprise customers. — Reimagined the product dashboard into two distinct views (Risk and Lifecycle) to improve clarity and help customers prioritize actions faster. — Created graph flows and flow maps to simplify complex relationships between users, roles, and connections — making risk analysis more intuitive for security teams. — Conducted a full UX audit of the marketing site, added new sections (RBAC, Proactive Identity Management), redesigned the About page, and published updates using Webflow. — Established design foundations — organized Figma files, set up Jira Design Kanban boards, ran regular design sprints, and initiated customer feedback loops. — Integrated Hotjar to capture usage and behavioral insights and to make data-informed design decisions across the product. — Worked closely with founders, PMs, and engineers to shape product direction, iterate fast, and deliver clean, thoughtful interfaces. From 0→1 features to improving existing UX — brought structure, clarity, and momentum to design at BalkanID while helping drive high-value enterprise deals.

Senior Product Designer

AccentureAug 2020 - Jan 2024 • 3 yrs 6 mosLead, manage, and plan UX design projects and audits, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs, while mentoring junior designers.Lead, manage, and plan UX design projects and audits, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs, while mentoring junior designers. I worked as part of the Avanade design team, which is a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft. - Crafted wireframes, visuals, and interactive prototypes, emphasizing security products and services. - Conducted regular UX audits, pinpointing experience gaps and vital security flaws, and recommended actionable improvements. - Led the user research and design of an app from scratch, revolutionizing data analysis leading to improvement in efficiency by 99% approx. - Helped the team launch of two new services. - Leveraged user feedback and business goals, achieving design refinements with substantial cost benefits, including a marked $84,000 gain. - Introduced an accessibility audit process for teams to assess the accessibility of their products. - Developed an accessibility maturity scoring framework to measure and improve accessibility of the products over time. - Collaborated closely with developers to ensure smooth product releases.

Lead Product Designer

Dayzero.aiPart-time EmployeeApr 2023 - Jul 2023 • 4 mosAs the lead designer, I was responsible for designing Dayzero v1 & and v2 from scratch, Dayzero.ai is a brief generating AI platform. We launched the v1 of the product in one month, and then quickly iterated to launch v2 based on the data and feedback received, which helped us bring 3000+ new signups and 4000+ briefs generated in just 3 weeks.

Education

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Bachelors , Information Technology (IT)Jun 2016 - Apr 2020

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