Akshat Verma
Experienced Design Professional | Solving Problems with Design & Common Sense
- Role
- Senior Product Design Manager at Microsoft
- Location
- New Delhi, DL, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Akshat Verma
In today’s world of so many ‘UX leaders, I\'m just an experienced and proven design professional who’s still learning every day.My journey spans exploring voice user interfaces, building a hyperlocal news startup business that reached 50M MAU and at scale revenue, and now shaping products at Microsoft. The common thread? Solving problems with care and common sense.I care about the products I shape, the business outcomes I influence, and the culture I help create for my teams. To me, design is about leaving things — and people — better than I found them. Always open to conversations on design, culture, and technology.
Experience
Senior Product Design Manager
Sep 2022 — Present · Delhi, IN
Built and lead the UX team for Teams Segments in Delhi NCR, shaping the global Teams for Education experience for 90M+ students and educators. My focus: driving adoption, engagement, and revenue growth through strategic UX innovation.Beyond education, my team also contributes to Teams Consumer & SMB experiences across emerging and developed markets, while also crafting GroupMe’s UX—one of the world’s most-used college communication platforms.
Education
Vellore Institute of Technology
B-Tech, Electronics and Instrumentation (EIE)
2007 — 2011
Indian School of Business
Executive Program, Organizational Leadership and Product Strategy
2021 — 2021
National Institute of Design
Master's degree, New Media Design
2011 — 2013
Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram
CBSE 12th, Physics, Chem , Maths , Computer Science
2006 — 2007
Skills
- Service Design
- Paper Prototyping
- 3d Visualization
- User Scenarios
- User Research
- Digital Media
- Media Production
- Context-Aware Computing
- User Experience
- Photoshop
- Social Media Measurement
- Integrated Marketing
- New Media
- Usability Engineering
- Design Management
- User Experience Design
- Information Architecture
- Mobile Applications
- Design Strategy
- Photography
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Design Thinking
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
- Voice User Interface Design
- Information Design
- Task Analysis
- Narrative Journalism
- Rapid Prototyping
- Human Factors
- Public Relations
- Usability Testing
- Speech Recognition
- Social Media Monitoring
- Information Visualization
- Concept Development
- Wire Framing
- Storyboarding
- Research Design
- Concept Design
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