Vinod Venkatesh Gowda

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Head of Design at Glade Bio · Brand and marketing design · web design, brand design

Glade Bio
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
9+ years experience
BITS Pilani
English, Hindi, Tamil
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Overview

I lead brand and marketing design at Glade Bio in Chennai. Brought the brand flows to WCAG 2.2 AA. Most at home with web design and brand design. Bird-watcher and amateur naturalist.

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  • Questions about brand and marketing design
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Skills
typographyweb designillustrationbrand design

Experience

  1. Head of Design
    Sep 2025 - Present
    Glade Bio · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Shipped the brand redesign that lifted task completion 13%.
    • Cut support tickets about brand by 38% with clearer copy and states.
    • Brought the brand flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.
  2. Staff Product Designer
    Apr 2024 - Sep 2025
    SAP · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Shipped the brand redesign that lifted task completion 32%.
  3. Director of Design
    Oct 2021 - Apr 2024
    Samsung R&D · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Cut support tickets about brand by 34% with clearer copy and states.
  4. Senior Product Designer
    Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
    Cisco · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Shipped the brand redesign that lifted task completion 29%.
    • Brought the brand flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.
  5. Senior Product Designer
    Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
    Paytm · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Built a component library 59 engineers ship with every day.
    • Cut support tickets about brand by 27% with clearer copy and states.

Projects

Brand and marketing design benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing brand design and web design on real workloads.

Conference talk: lessons from brand
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling brand and marketing design.

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Education

  1. BITS Pilani
    B.E., Visual Communication
    2005 - 2009

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