Amarneethi R

Skills

Product Design

Complex workflows · Enterprise/B2B SaaS · Developer tools · API/product surfaces · Design systems · Information architecture · Interaction design · Usability testing · Rapid prototyping · Polished UI craftsmanship · End-to-end ownership

AI-Native Practice

Claude · Claude Code · Cursor · VSCode · Midjourney · Agentic workflows

Full-stack / Front-end

React · Tailwind · Next.js · Electron · Svelte

Research & Measurement

User interviews · Task analysis · A/B testing · Mixpanel · Funnel analysis · Defining UX success metrics · Post-release validation

Collaboration

Cross-functional partnership with PM, engineering, and research · Influencing without authority · Stakeholder alignment · Driving product strategy from user insight

Experience

1. Solidarisoft InnovationsFounder & AI-Native Builder

   2023 - Present
   • Piloting a proprietary AI prototyping tool that converts wireframes into working prototypes via a custom wireframe framework, delivering 3× faster time-to-working-prototype with 100% predictable outputs vs. open-ended AI generation. In active design partnerships with service companies, startups, individual builders, and founders to validate workflow fit and iterate the product.
   • Built an AI-native design system that is open source, tailored for AI consumption.
   • Built 7 distinct AI-powered design tools end-to-end (concept to code to release) to compress and standardize the AI-native design workflow, covering ideation and design system compliance.
   • Piloted a front-end AI tool that enables automated design-system compliance.
   • Hosted AI workflow workshops for 50+ designers, teaching them to build their own AI-native design workflows using Claude Code.
   • Self-taught front-end development to remove the design-engineering handoff bottleneck; now ship interactive prototypes in React, Next.js and Electron directly to users for testing.

2. Vested FinanceProduct Design Lead

   Jan 2023 - Apr 2023

   Remote · Consumer fintech

   • Lifted remittance conversion 19% by optimizing button placement on a consumer fintech product serving Indian retail investors trading US equities.
   • Designed and shipped Extended Hours Trading for desktop and mobile end-to-end, with full IA, interaction, and visual design under a tight timeline.

3. Hi-LabsFreelance Product Designer

   Oct 2022 - Jan 2023

   Healthcare data automation

   • Designed sales-pitch screens and improved usability for an enterprise automation tool serving US healthcare payers; applied foundational interaction principles to a complex, ambiguous workflow domain.

4. TangoRxManager, Product Design

   Dec 2021 - Oct 2022

   B2B Healthcare SaaS

   • Built and led a high-performing team of 5; defined the hiring rubric and an upskilling program from scratch.
   • Cut design-review time by 50%+ by streamlining a dual-track process for rapid prototyping and comprehensive UX solutioning.
   • Drove problem definition from business and user goals; introduced peer and self review for engineering handoff to reduce rework.
   • Owned product user-analytics and design-system initiatives; partnered cross-functionally with US operations to embed UX-led product development.

5. ProchantLead UX/UI Designer

   Sep 2020 - Nov 2021

   B2B Healthcare Analytics

   • Redesigned the real-time backlog reporting tool, eliminating ~80 hours/week of manual reporting effort across operations teams.
   • Spearheaded the UX/UI redesign of Prochant Analytics, which was productized and sold as a separate offering to existing clients.
   • Built a new design system for internal tools; collaborated closely with engineering to design within and around platform constraints.
   • Implemented a Mixpanel-driven design model: defined UX success metrics and used usage data to drive iterative product decisions on Prochant Connect.

6. Fidelity Investments, FCATLead UX/UI Designer

   May 2018 - Aug 2020

   In-house R&D unit

   • Sole designer for FCAT India, Fidelity's R&D unit shipping experimental B2B and B2C fintech products on emerging tech (blockchain, algorithmic trading); established UX best practices.
   • Key member of the team that raised $40M for revamping critical parts of the brokerage platform.
   • Product owner for Go-Algo, an algorithmic-trading sandbox letting retail investors experiment with strategies on historical market data.
   • Shipped: a blockchain liquidity solution for warrant securities; a research-analyst startup-data tagging tool; the FCAT showcase site; and multiple savings-app prototypes (Rainy Day, Beanstalk, Travel).

7. PayPalSenior UI/UX Designer

   Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
   • Designed checkout integration flows for North American enterprise merchant partnerships; complex, multi-stakeholder, regulated B2B workflows.
   • Designed co-branded online ads.

8. VenturePactLead Visual & UX Designer

   Apr 2016 - Mar 2017

   Founding designer on Outgrow.co

   • Founding designer on Outgrow.co; designed and launched product, brand, and marketing site end-to-end. The product is live and used widely today.
   • Owned UX and visual design for VenturePact's core platform.

9. CognizantHead of Animation & UI/UX Designer

   Feb 2010 - Dec 2012, Nov 2013 - Dec 2015
   • Led the Chennai studio's animation org; managed Art Directors, animators, and a script writer; delivered 30+ explainer videos and interactive prototypes for client pitches.
   • Creative technologist on client work: shipped adaptive 3D web (Flash), a Unity3D interactive mall walkthrough for a leading Abu Dhabi bank, and custom ActionScript filterable image galleries.
   • Owned cost, timeline, resource planning, art direction, and technology recommendations end-to-end.