Ruta Raju
Vice President of Product Design & Research at Eightfold
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Vice President of Product Design & Research
2024 - Current
Eightfold AI provides a complete AI platform for talent management to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Raised $396,750,000.00 from Foundation Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, IVP, SoftBank Vision Fund, General Catalyst and Capital One Ventures.
Global Head of User Experience Design & Research
2019 - 2024
PagerDuty is an operations performance platform that helps monitor IT infrastructure, detect issues, and resolve incidents.
Raised $523,600,000.00 from Wellington Management, Andreessen Horowitz, T. Rowe Price, Accel and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Vice President Wellbeing Products & UX
2015 - 2019
Managed various responsibilities, overseeing the User Experience (UX), User Research, and Mobile Product teams. My primary role involved uniting cross-functional teams to shape the product vision and strategy in the crawl, walk, and run phases. This approach ensured that our design and development processes were iterative and focused on creating user value centered around crucial metrics. Cultivated a resilient team with robust UX practices & methodologies, enabling the team to function confidently in the face of ambiguity. Led mobile growth and adoption, which resulted in 10x growth and an app store rating of 4.5 stars. Collaborated with Anthem Inc. to white-label the Castlight app to Engage. We onboarded an impressive 1.5 million users, marking a significant milestone in our joint venture.
Founder
2015 - 2016
Founded Geopops, a unique app designed for college students that enables them to leave hidden messages in specific geo-locations for their friends. As a hands-on founder, I took on various roles to Build-Measure-Learn. Passionately pitched the vision at diverse forums, successfully securing seed funding and assembling a skilled founding team.
Design Leadership (Mint.com Mobile Apps)
2012 - 2015
As the design leader, I prioritized the holistic user experience for the Mint mobile app and Mint Bills. By strategically planning projects, cultivating partnerships, and nurturing talent, I ensured a seamless UX journey. Additionally, I facilitated collaborations with Apple for TouchID and Apple Watch Mint App showcase at WWDC.
Intuit Turbo is an app to get financial reports and financial advice.
Director Product Design, Cloud Products
2010 - 2012
Led cross-functional teams of designers and developers to create innovative "proof of concepts" through a hybrid approach combining Design Thinking and Lean Startup methodologies. Successfully shipped products such as Consumer 360 (CRM Dashboard), Travel OnDemand, and Employee Onboarding apps.
SAP IoT Start up Accelerator is a global co-innovation program for B2B startups innovating in the world of the Internet of Things.
Director User Experience Design, Front Doors Group
2008 - 2010
Lead a team of interaction & visual designers on core pillar products like Yahoo.com, MyYahoo, and Toolbar.
Sr. Manager User Experience Design, Yahoo! India
2005 - 2008
I was the founder of the Yahoo India UX & Research team, successfully scaling it to over 35 members. I played a leading role in designing and launching key India products such as cricket, movies, jobs, front page, among others. Furthermore, I was instrumental in setting up one of the first usability labs in Yahoo! India, marking a significant contribution to the company's innovation efforts.
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
UI Practice Head
2002 - 2005
Lead UX Designer
1999 - 2002