Bobin Thomas
Lead Product Designer
Fourteen years in fintech, ERP, and AI-native products. I lead design for high-stakes workflows like procurement, analytics, trading, and campus ops, where clarity, governance, and adoption matter as much as the interface.
The hardest problems aren't visual. They're judgment calls under constraint. When the people who own the outcome can't agree on what matters most, someone has to name the trade-off out loud: speed against trust, automation against oversight. That naming is where most of my time goes.
I design for operators who are experts, not beginners, and I ship AI they can inspect rather than just accept. The systems I build are meant to outlast the project that created them. I value calm over cleverness, and decisions that still hold up when someone asks "why this?"
I frame messy problems so teams know what we're solving, what we're not, and what good looks like before pixels.
I connect operator needs with revenue, compliance, and delivery reality — design that survives stakeholder review.
I facilitate trade-offs openly: speed vs. trust, automation vs. oversight, scope vs. adoption.
Enterprise users are experts. I reduce noise and surface what matters — I don't hide complexity they need.
I've hired, reviewed, and grown designers — and built systems that help teams ship consistently without me in every file.
Especially in AI: explainability, human oversight, and patterns people can inspect — not black-box magic.
Lead design for a supervised procurement workflow: managers review AI-assisted supplier analysis, compliance findings, and draft RFQs before send. Human approval, explainability, and accountability, not black-box automation.
Shipped AI use case inside a live ERP: reads supplier certificates, validates against category requirements, flags gaps and expiries, so compliance stops living in email threads and spreadsheets.
Lead product design for Restaurantware's ERP: UX strategy, stakeholder alignment, and a 250+ component design system in production. Shipped 8+ AI use cases into live workflows across procurement, search, and analytics, one platform, multiple modules, one source of truth.
Brings structure to ambiguous problems without oversimplifying what operators actually need.
Product & engineering · Enterprise ERP
Direct in reviews, patient in mentorship. Raises the bar without making people feel small.
Design leadership · Distributed teams
Open to Lead and Head of Design roles in fintech, enterprise SaaS, and AI-native product. Bengaluru-based, remote-ready.