Takshak Parmar

Senior Manager, Cloud Computing & AI, Kellton

Leading AI-first product development with P&L ownership: product vision and multi-quarter strategy secured with C-level and board stakeholders, a scaled engineering team run from discovery through delivery, and adoption metrics (NPS, CSAT) built into the product lifecycle.

Hands-on design throughout. The title reflects org structure, not a change of craft. On Anchor I ran the research, designed all four surfaces, defined where the AI model was and wasn’t allowed to act, and cut cost per pursuit from $310 to $92 through model-routing decisions made in design.

UX Designer, Lead, Amazon

Lead designer for four greenfield talent products serving 1M+ employees across 1,842 sites, replacing 40 disconnected systems. Cut internal transfers from 48 days to under 24 hours. $10M+ annual run-rate savings and 700+ manager hours back each month.

Led design and strategy for Amazon's financial integration platform (Fulcrum, ICSE, Abacus), digitizing 650+ intercompany relationships. 90%+ first-quarter adoption, $20M saved YOY. Shipped 100% WCAG 2.1 AA products via element-level audits; partnered with applied science on talent-metrics models.

Senior UX Consultant, Virtusa, at PNC Bank

Led UX for the redesign of PNC's retail lending line across web and mobile. Rebuilt the mortgage application as a progressive, logic-driven flow; built the atomic design system unifying the product line. Home Lending shipped to production through 16+ cross-functional sprints.

UX Researcher / Designer, Indiana University

Led research and iterative design across social-gerontology projects; lead data collector and analyst on an NIH-funded sleep study for older adults, and co-authored a peer-reviewed publication in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.