Ashutosh Kumar

About Ashutosh Kumar

I craft product strategies that merge business objectives, user needs, and technical viability. With XFN partnership, I uncover real opportunities then drive designs that are useful, usable, and elegant as category leading products.My experience spans adtech, fintech, e-com, and consumer growth, where I\'ve both revitalized platforms and launched 0-1 experiences. Beyond product design, I\'m committed to developing high-performing design teams, growing designers, and elevating design excellence.Core expertise: Clarifying complexity, Identifying product opportunities, translating data into strategic foresight, leading design strategy, driving high-quality craft, consumer and B2B domain, patents.

Experience

1. Group Design Manager

   Adobe

   May 2025 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Leading design at Adobe GenStudio, building enterprise-grade, AI-first experiences that enable modern marketers to create brand-safe content and ads at scale.Solving complex challenges across content creation, cross-channel activation, and insight-led optimization and scaling hero content to deliver best-in-class ROI.Coaching teams to nurture AI-era design craft while modernizing design practices to deliver high-quality AI first product experiences, customer value that unlocks business outcomes.

Education

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  EGMP

  2012 — 2013

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  M.Des

  1999 — 2001

• Queens College

  Schooling

• Govt. College of Architecture, Lucknow

  B.Arch.

  1994 — 1999

Skills

• Internet Product Development
• Design Patents
• UX Patents
• User Experience Management
• User Interface Design
• User-Centered Design
• Visual Communication
• Patents
• Usability Engineering
• Usability Testing
• User Experience Design
• User Experience
• Mobile Devices
• Information Architecture
• Visual Design
• User Management
• Heuristic Evaluation
• Contextual Inquiry
• Interaction Design
• Mobile Applications
• Usability