LEVEL 01

Pv Vimal Nair

Senior Product Designer

I design useful products and build clear paths from complicated problems to real-world impact.

LEVEL 01

Intro / About me

Meet the designer

Product designer who builds. 9+ years shipping products from concept to launch across fintech, real estate, healthcare, and community platforms.

Experienced in conversion optimization, experimentation, and end-to-end product thinking. Beyond design, I build through AI - coding, prototyping, and shipping products end-to-end, from idea to deployment.

Experience
9+ years
Focus
Product + strategy
Build mode
Design + AI

More about me

  • Gaming has always been part of my life, and I still play whenever I get the time.
  • I played poker professionally for a while. Making it to the WSOP someday is still on my list.
  • I read more than 10 books every year. It is a habit I have managed to keep for a long time.
  • I enjoy trekking in the mountains, especially when I need to step away from the city for a bit.
  • At some point, I want to take a proper RV trip — pick a route, stay on the road, and see new places along the way.

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LEVEL 02

Experience

Follow the career path

Senior Product Designer

Moniepoint | UK
Nov 2025 - Present

Moniepoint is Africa's largest business banking platform, processing $200B+ annually. I lead design for overdraft credit products used by hundreds of thousands of small business owners.

  • Overdraft - Redesigned the loan request flow constrained by shared backend infrastructure. Reduced TAT from 38h to under 30h while maintaining credit quality (NPL <= 0.40%). Improved conversion by reducing drop-off by 24%.
  • Back Office - Designed a self-service contract management system replacing manual DB queries via Jira tickets. Enabled sales teams to modify loan terms directly (regularization dates, tenure, suspension). Reduced intervention tickets by about 40%.
  • Inventory Finance - Designed end-to-end invoice-based B2B lending flow: buyers submit supplier invoices, Moniepoint pays sellers directly. Shipped the full lifecycle from zero to one.
38h to under 30hDrop-off -24% / Tickets -40%

D2C Founder

Airveda Life | COCKSOCK | Ahmedabad
Jan 2024 - Nov 2025

Founded two D2C brands from scratch, owning the brand identity, product UX, and full Shopify build.

  • Designed, built, and launched two Shopify-powered brands (wellness + innerwear) - owning the full product lifecycle from brand identity, UX, packaging design, to conversion optimization.
  • Built the entire purchase funnel from scratch: product pages, checkout flow, upsell logic, post-purchase email sequences, and returns experience.
  • Leveraged AI tools for rapid prototyping, user research synthesis, ad creative generation, and content production.
  • Designed brand identities, packaging, and product photography direction end-to-end for both brands.
Two brands0 to 1 / Shopify build

Product Design Manager

Beem (USA) | Remote
September 2022 - December 2023

Led product design for Beem, a US AI-powered fintech super app used by 2M+ users. It offered instant cash advances, P2P payments, insurance, tax filing, and savings.

  • Designed an AI-powered conversational onboarding flow that replaced the standard multi-step form - lifting conversion from 32% to 70% by guiding users through a natural, step-by-step chat experience in place of a traditional fillable form.
  • Led end-to-end design for P2P payments, usage-based car insurance (driving behavior tracking to personalized discounts), and tax payment features.
  • Managed and mentored a team of 2 designers, and established design critiques.

Just wanted to take a min to acknowledge the great job you are doing! Keep it up and you'll be great product person one day, may be even a great CEO one day.

- Akshay (CEO)
32% to 70%2M+ users

Lead Product Designer

Rupeek Fintech | Bengaluru
December 2019 - September 2022

One of India's largest gold-loan fintechs. Led design through a hypergrowth phase.

  • Drove conversion from 4.5% to 24-31% through iterative redesign of the landing page and gold loan application flow.
  • Redesigned the full product experience, resulting in 10x growth in MAUs and loan volume over 18 months.
  • Built India's first fully online, zero-paper gold loan process - reducing approval time from 48+ hours to under 10 hours.
  • Ran a structured experimentation program - designed and shipped 30+ A/B tests on the gold loan application flow across 18 months.

Very few people can balance experimentation with long-term thinking. It's rare to find someone who can chase progress without losing sight of the bigger picture.

- Arun (Head of Design)
4.5% to 24-31%10x growth / 30+ tests

Head of Product Design

Mahindra Comviva | Bengaluru, IN
March 2019 - November 2019

Led product design for DBXP, a white-label banking SaaS that let banks across emerging markets plug into their data and use core platform capabilities.

  • Built the first design system for the platform, reducing design-to-dev handoff by 40%.
  • Designed admin and operations dashboards for bank staff - customer management, transaction monitoring, and reporting.
  • Led UX for customer-facing banking modules: account management, transaction flows, and KYC/onboarding.

It was a pleasure having you on our team. Your enthusiasm, curiosity, and out-of-the-box thinking are truly rare and valuable.

- Manu (Associate Director, Product Management)
Handoff -40%Design system

Earlier career

Foundation roles before 2019

Senior Product Designer

Appiness Interactive

Bengaluru, IN

Founder

Anifx Design Studio

Ahmedabad, IN

UI/UX Designer

Pickzy Interactive

Chennai, IN

LEVEL 03

Skills & Principles

A sequence of practice

Design & Product Principles

No

Design is future proof

Learn it at the stall

You don't learn the market from a deck. You learn it at the stall.

Revenue validates

Revenue is a validation that the company is building the right product.

Skills

Skills

Product & Strategy

Product Design Leadership, UX Strategy, Design Thinking, Experimentation & A/B Testing, Conversion Optimization, 0 to 1 Product, AI Assisted Coding

Skills

Design

Interaction Design, Visual Design, Prototyping (Figma, Framer), Design Systems, User Research, Usability Testing

Skills

Industries

B2B Fintech, Consumer Fintech, D2C, E-commerce, Health & Wellness

LEVEL 04

Education + awards

Explore the foundation

Education

01

Product Manager

Product School | 2022

Mentor - Alex Alwan, Director of Product at FOX
02

Entrepreneurship

London Business School | 2022

Mentor - Adam Davies & MO
03

UX Management Speciality

Nielsen Norman Group | 2021

Verification ID - ID: 1043411
04

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Achology | 2019

Mentor - David Ramsay
05

Google Design Sprint 2.0

AJ & Smart | 2019

Mentor - Dee Scarano
06

B.A. VFX & Animation

Mahatma Gandhi University | 2016

Scored 79.57% overall

Awards and achievements

01

Ideathon Winner

Rupeek Fintech | 2022

Created an offline marketing growth strategy that won a company-wide initiative with 35 submissions. Leadership recognized it for innovation, practicality, and potential to grow the business.

02

Team Award

Rupeek Fintech | 2021

Part of the team behind Rupeek's 10x growth in MAUs and loan volume over 18 months.

03

Extra Mile Award

Rupeek Fintech | 2021

Recognized for consistently delivering UX solutions that improved user experiences and helped solve complex design and organizational challenges.

04

Local Leader

Interaction Design Foundation | 2017 - 2020

Served as a Local Leader, supporting the Interaction Design Foundation community from 2017 to 2020.

05

Team Award

Rupeek Fintech | 2020

Worked on the Rupeek rebrand, helping carry the new brand across its consumer touchpoints.

06

3rd Rank, South Zone

South Zone | 2014

Placed third in the South Zone in 2014.