Open to senior & leadership roles

From zero-to-one
products to design systems that scaled to 920 Million+ ARR.

Senior Product Designer with 5+ years of experience in designing apps for fintech, AI, gaming companies and beyond.

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Portrait of Paras Dalal, Senior Product Designer
India · RemoteAvailable
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Downloads

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Daily Active Users

0→1

Product Launches

0+ yrs

Experience

Fintech · Gaming · AI

Core Domains

Design Philosophy

Good design creates clarity.

I believe in systems-thinking over individual screens. A design is only as good as its weakest edge case. I focus on high-fidelity prototyping and user-centered research to validate core product assumptions early — before they become expensive engineering decisions.

My approach is cross-functional. I work closely with engineering, product, and leadership to ensure the visual promise of a design is matched by technical performance, retention, and measurable business impact.

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Systems thinking

Designs that scale beyond a single screen — patterns, primitives, and predictable behavior.

02

User-centered

Decisions grounded in research and real usage, not aesthetic preference.

03

Product strategy

Connecting design choices to business outcomes and growth loops.

04

Business impact

Measuring success in retention, activation, and revenue — not screenshots.

05

Rapid experimentation

Prototype, ship, learn. Bias toward shipping over polishing.

06

Cross-functional

Working in lockstep with engineering, PM, and leadership.

Experience

A timeline of teams I've helped build with.

  1. 2024 — Now

    Head of Design · Omli Kids

    Leading design for an AI conversational learning platform. Defining product direction, parent dashboards, and the underlying design system for adaptive learning journeys.

  2. 2023 — 2024

    Founding Designer · Returns

    Took a fintech product from zero to launch. Owned branding, product strategy, and end-to-end UX — establishing the visual system and core flows.

  3. 2020 — 2023

    Product Designer · Probo

    Led growth and trading experiences for one of India's largest opinion trading platforms. Contributed to scaling the product to 1M+ downloads and 150K+ DAU.

  4. 2019 — 2020

    Freelance & Consulting · Early-stage Startups

    Partnered with founders across fintech, gaming, and consumer products on early product strategy, design sprints, and 0→1 launches.

Capabilities

The stack behind the work.

Craft

Product ThinkingInteraction DesignVisual DesignInformation Architecture

Process

UX ResearchPrototypingDesign SystemsGrowth Design

Tools

FigmaFramerPrincipleNotion
Testimonials

Words from founders & PMs I've worked with.

"Paras brings a rare combination of visual craft and rigorous product thinking. He helped us pivot our core UX when we hit a scaling ceiling — and we never looked back."
OK

Founder

Omli Kids

"One of the few designers who actually owns outcomes. Treats growth experiments and visual polish with equal seriousness."
PR

Head of Product

Probo

"From the first sketch to the launch screen, Paras led the product story. The brand we have today is largely his work."
RT

Co-founder

Returns

Paras Dalal — portrait
About

A product designer with an entrepreneurial mindset.

I'm Paras — a senior product designer with 5+ years of experience across fintech, gaming, and AI. I've spent most of my career in early-stage environments, designing 0→1 products that need to earn trust and scale quickly.

I'm deeply interested in psychology and human behavior — what makes products feel intuitive, honest, and worth coming back to. Most of my work sits at the intersection of business strategy, product design, and storytelling.

Outside of work, I read, write, and obsess over how small interaction details shape the way people feel about a product.