Akash Varma Mantena

Product Designer with nearly 3 years of experience building end-to-end experiences for multi-stakeholder SaaS platforms. Experienced in translating complex workflows into scalable products through research, collaboration, and AI-assisted design.

Product Designer at IBC MEDIA (2024-02 – 2025-09)

• Led end-to-end product design and UX strategy for JCurve, a B2B2C platform serving 50+ colleges, 5K+ students, 100+ companies, managing a design team of 3 and aligning product roadmap with business goals.
• Produced high-fidelity prototypes for investor & enterprise demos; directly contributed to pilot adoption and enterprise conversations (including Amazon) that advanced sales pipelines.
• Leveraged AI-assisted workflows to rapidly design and ship the JCurve AI-agentic hackathon experience for 800+ students across 8 colleges.
• Designed QR-based on-site workflows, cutting operational effort by 80% and automating attendance for 600+ participants.
• Built scalable design system with component library and guidelines, accelerating design workflows by 40% and reducing development effort through consistent, pre-built UI patterns.

Product Designer at Nitro Network (2023-02 – 2023-12)

• Conducted user interviews with 40+ pilot customers across 3 continents, identifying pain points that informed the platform redesign from crypto-first to accessible IoT marketplace.
• Co-designed end-to-end web platform (60+ screens) and mobile app with a UI/UX designer, reducing device setup time by 45% through streamlined onboarding and unified navigation.
• Collaborated with leadership, engineering, and QA teams to define product use cases, validate designs through community feedback, and ensure accurate implementation.

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering – Vellore Institute of Technology AP (2019-07 – 2023-05)