Suresh Halarneker

Seasoned product design leader with 25 years of experience in end-to-end product design & development. Working with UX best practices, design management, AI, machine learning, and people management. He has helped small and large organizations establish design as a key factor for customer satisfaction and retention leading to business success using data-driven and design-thinking led creative solutions.

Very recently he worked as Senior Product Design Manager with IBM Labs Bangalore, where he managed the user experience for their global automation offerings for their $40 Billion multi-cloud platform offering. He coached a multi-disciplinary team of creative thinkers and doers, for the technology development arm for GTS worldwide which is spread across 20+ countries leading from India and has the mission of transforming clients to a new IT services model of Cognitive Hybrid Automated IT. Driving process efficiency in Experience in large engagements, designing high-end UIs that accomplish specific product and business objectives. Deeply involved in various phases of product lifecycle right from requirement gathering, research, problem identification, value creation, information architecture, analysis, effort estimation, wireframes, style guides, look-and-feel, final layouts, the design specification for development, quality assurance and measuring UX outcomes.

Previously he has worked at Amazon where I led a large UX team for their global advertising technology and affiliate marketing business that drove US$ 14B+ e-commerce sales worldwide with 200+ large brands and 185K+ active publishers globally including largest media websites to niche blogs and apps. Before joining Amazon, he managed product design teams at Adobe, Yahoo, IBM, AOL, TataSky, Star TV, and few others including his own startup. His experience spans across designing for devices like desktop, tablets, mobile, TV, and beyond and has worked across industries like enterprise applications, entertainment, infotainment, media, defence systems, advertising technology, finance, sports, and e-commerce.

  • Company:A Global Organization
  • Short Bio:Product Design Leader
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