Rajib Ghosh
Global Product Design Leader | Innovation Strategist | Visionary | Coach
Empowering individuals and teams to invent and realize extraordinary new possibilities.
As a visionary, I am driven by curiosity and a passion for imagining a better future. I see opportunities where others see challenges and connect ideas across different fields to create meaningful solutions. With over 25 years of experience in design, innovation, and strategy, I focus on improving lives while helping businesses grow. I believe in purpose-driven work, using empathy to design solutions that truly meet people’s needs. I stay optimistic in the face of uncertainty, adapt to change, and see obstacles as chances to grow. As a leader, I inspire teams to think creatively, take risks, and experiment with new ideas, fostering collaboration and innovation. I’m committed to learning, mentoring future leaders, and turning bold ideas into real, impactful change to create a better, more connected world.
Over the past 25 years, I’ve had the privilege of working across diverse organizations and collaborating with few exceptional human-beings. Through this journey, I’ve cultivated a unique blend of knowledge, skills, and mindset—not merely acquired through information but deeply shaped by experiential learning, practice, and even failure. While the learning never stops, these experiences now enable me to empower others in meaningful ways through the following services.
Strategic Innovation and Culture
Empowering organizations to stay competitive and unlock growth opportunities by solving challenges through a unique blend of human-centered and business methodologies.
Strategic and Creative Workshops
Driving outcomes through workshops that align teams, spark collaboration, and drive action using tools like co-creation and LEGO® Serious Play® to craft effective strategies.
Design Strategy and Execution
Driving business success by aligning design strategy with execution, integrating creative vision, user insights, and agility to deliver impactful solutions and enhance user experiences.
Coaching and Mentoring
Helping individuals and teams unlock their true potential through coaching and mentoring, fostering growth, enhancing capabilities, and driving impactful outcomes.
Case Studies
Work Experience
Design Leadership - Microsoft Edge
Microsoft (R&D) India Pvt Ltd
Jul 2022 - Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Directed design innovation, launching features that boosted growth through data insights, global collaboration, and cross-functional alignment.
Strategic Design Leadership and Team Building: Spearheaded a team of 12+ designers and researchers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and professional growth to achieve exceptional outcomes in browser design.
Innovative Product Development: Envisioned and launched four design-led product features, significantly increasing user adoption and browser market share through user-centric solutions and iterative experimentation.
Global Design Collaboration: Partnered with Microsoft's global design teams to ensure cohesive, cutting-edge user experiences aligned with brand vision and innovation strategies.
Data and Research Driven Growth Strategies: Utilized experimentation, data analysis, and insights to iteratively refine designs, driving measurable improvements in user engagement and satisfaction.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborated with Product and Engineering teams and Executive teams to define and achieve strategic OKRs, ensuring seamless integration of design goals with technical and business priorities.
Process Optimization: Established scalable processes and tools to balance agility and quality, enabling efficient design delivery and maintaining high standards of excellence.
User-Centric Research Advocacy: Directed the integration of robust user research methodologies, enhancing product quality and ensuring customer satisfaction through deep insights and user feedback.
Browser Market Share Growth: Successfully envisioned and shipped 4+ impactful design features, contributing to significant growth in user engagement and browser market share.
Design Leadership - Microsoft SharePoint & OneDrive
Microsoft (R&D) India Pvt Ltd
Dec 2017 - Jul 2022 · 4 yrs 8 mos
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Scaled and led design teams, delivering impactful, user-focused solutions through collaboration, innovation, and a culture of excellence.Built and lead a team of 14+ (amazing designers and researchers).
Leadership in Design Excellence: Directed and mentored a team of 15+ designers and researchers, driving impactful design solutions that significantly influenced business outcomes across multiple Microsoft products, including SharePoint, played a key role in designing and launching two new products, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft Viva, ensuring their successful market entry and customer need alignment.
Cross-Functional Collaboration for Innovation: Led the design efforts for a diverse portfolio, including Microsoft Lists, SharePoint, Cortex and Syntax, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver cutting-edge product experiences that align with business objectives.
Team Scaling and Impact Maximization: Successfully scaled the design team from 5 to 15+, increasing the team's impact and ensuring deep customer engagement from the conceptual phase through to post-release.
Craftsmanship and Quality Assurance: Maintained a relentless focus on high-quality craftsmanship, ensuring that all design deliverables met the highest standards of excellence while driving user satisfaction.
Transformational Leadership in Design Initiatives at Microsoft: Spearheaded Microsoft India’s first International Inter-Disciplinary Internship program, partnering with prestigious global institutions like RCA and CMU, while also launching the inaugural Design Day to engage and inspire the Indian design community.
Cultivation of an Inclusive, Growth-Focused Culture: Fostered an inclusive, empowering culture within the team, promoting values such as growth mindset, integrity, respect, and creativity to drive long-term success and collaboration. Created processes and mindsets across functions to operate with trust and efficiency and deliver high impact.
Driving Product Excellence at Microsoft: Got recognized for playing a pivotal role as a core founding team member at Microsoft India’s first cross-function Product Excellence (PEX) initiative and representing the design discipline. Collaborated and influenced top India leaders to drive impact and build a community around excellence in product building.
Fueled by purpose and driven with intentionality, design is a courageous and imaginative act to invent extraordinary new possibilities.
Courage
Design is courageous. To create exceptionally good design, we must dare to venture into the unknown, challenge conventions, and imagine possibilities that others have yet to experience.
Care
Design is caring. Good design is crafted with precision and attention to detail. It demands mastery of materials, tools, and processes. Good design passionately cares about its experiencer.
Context
Design is contextual. Context is the cornerstone of good design, shaping outcomes that are meaningful and relevant. Understanding the environment, needs, and nuances makes design intuitive and impactful.
Connection
Design is connecting. Good design connects its creator and experiencer as much as it connects deeply with the experiencer. This essential connection ensures purpose, fulfillment and meaning.
Clarity
Design creates clarity. Good design simplifies complexity with intention and precision, empowering people to connect with what truly matters, sparking inspiration, and creating impactful, lasting experiences.
Celerity
Design is timely. Good design comes from enabling swift iterations, agile thinking, and timely innovation, fueled by curiosity and collaboration, that transforms bold ideas into impactful and enduring realities.
Photography, Typography, Art and AI
I am deeply touched, moved, and inspired by art in any form. My personal exploration spans photography, experimental typography, and art, where I find immense joy in blurring the lines between these forms to create unique expressions. More recently, with the advent of Generative AI, I have ventured into the fascinating intersection of AI-driven creativity and human artistry. This collaboration aims to push boundaries and forge new paradigms in art.
Here are some of my works that reflect this ongoing journey of exploration and creation.
