Gaurank Patil

Senior Product Designer with 9+ years of experience driving end-to-end UX/UI design for B2B enterprise SaaS platforms across Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), financial automation and quote-to-cash. Specializing in end-to-end product design simplifying complex workflows through user research, interaction design, information architecture, accessibility and scalable design systems. Leverage AI-assisted design workflows and hands-on front-end experience to accelerate research synthesis, rapid prototyping and usability validation, partnering closely with Product, Engineering and QA.

Senior Product Designer at Mitratech (2025-03 – 2026-11)

• Led end-to-end product design across Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platforms including Universal Intake, Ethics Hotline, Compliance Training and Third-Party Risk Management from discovery and workflow definition through prototyping and delivery.
• Refined core enterprise workflows, responsive interfaces, interaction behavior, addressing usability issues, accessibility needs and alignment with enterprise branding while improving task completion efficiency and reducing user friction.
• Conducted 20+ research sessions spanning usability testing and user interviews supplemented by competitive analysis, journey mapping and heuristic evaluations. Translated findings into navigation, workflow and interaction improvements.
• Partnered with Product, Engineering and QA to create personas, user flows and high-fidelity prototypes aligning teams on workflow behavior and delivery requirements.
• Prepared implementation-ready design handoffs by documenting responsive behavior, interaction states, validation rules and edge cases, partnered with Engineering and QA during implementation reviews to resolve feasibility issues and keep delivered workflows aligned with the design.
• Reduced average design iteration cycles by 30% by introducing AI-assisted workflows using Figma Make, UX Pilot and GPT-based tools for research synthesis, faster prototyping and design reviews.
• Built GPT-powered tools for VPAT/ACR drafting and UX audits saving approximately 30 hours of manual accessibility reporting per product cycle and flagging potential usability and accessibility issues.
• Owned accessibility initiatives addressing WCAG, ADA and Section 508 requirements through keyboard-navigation checks, screen-reader validation and testing using Axe DevTools and BarrierBreak while reducing manual reporting by 40% (approximately 30 hours per product cycle).
• Strengthened design-system governance across products increasing component reuse by documenting reusable Elevate UI components, variants, states, interaction patterns, typography, color and accessible layouts improving consistency while reducing duplicate design and development effort.
• Delivered 10+ knowledge-sharing sessions on emerging UX practices, AI-assisted design workflows and AI tools explaining practical applications across research, prototyping, accessibility audits and documentation.

UX/UI Designer at Freelance (2024-08 – 2025-02)

• Translated client requirements into UX/UI enhancements for enterprise web applications refining interface designs and improving user workflows.

UX Designer at Expedite Commerce (2022-05 – 2024-07)

• Designed end-to-end quote-to-cash experiences across CPQ, billing, contracts and subscriptions translating complex business requirements into user journeys and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Partnered with Product and Engineering to create prototypes in Figma and UXPin to review workflow behavior and maintain consistent UI components and interaction patterns across product modules.
• Evaluated navigation and task flows through usability testing and design validation, addressing and successfully resolving user confusion and driving iterative improvements.

Lead UX/UI Designer & Developer at Nexstep Infotech (Expenzing) (2019-05 – 2022-04)

• Led UX/UI design for enterprise expense management and financial automation products, defining user workflows and creating wireframes, prototypes and detailed interfaces.
• Implemented responsive interfaces from approved designs using HTML5, Bootstrap, CSS and JavaScript, collaborating with Product and Engineering on the existing application.

Freelance Web Designer & Developer at GreenBay Essentials (2017-05 – 2019-01)

Java Developer at CaprusIT (EmpowerMx) (2015-11 – 2017-02)

Trainee Engineer at ITSource Technologies Ltd (Wipro) (2012-09 – 2013-07)

Masters in Computer Science – New York Institute of Technology (2013-09 – 2015-07)

Bachelors in Computer Science – Tilak Maharashtra University (2010-09 – 2012-07)