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Manager Product Design · T-Systems

Product design leadership for
regulated enterprise platforms.

I design software where a mistake is a compliance event, not a bug report. Fourteen years of it, in clinical trials, healthcare, and research publishing.

Right now I lead design for clinical trial platforms at T-Systems. I also build the AI tooling my team designs with.

Now Manager Product Design, T-Systems
Focus Regulated enterprise platforms
Base Pune, India
43k
Researchers supported
across platforms
70%
Reduction in user error rate
across critical workflows
6
Direct reports
current team
25+
Designers hired
and mentored
Screens from enterprise platforms designed by Ashish Kumar, including a clinical trial subject record and an analytics dashboard

Design leadership across

T-Systems Springer Nature Optum Deutsche Telekom Innova Solutions Capita Saama

Selected Work

Platforms, the systems under them, and the tools that build them.

5 case studies · 2 tools

Enterprise platforms I have led from concept to scale across healthcare, research, and publishing. Measured through usability testing, behavioural data, and what changed in production.

Flagship

The TrialComplete platform, in two chapters

One product, two stories. How I am changing the way the team delivers it now, and how it was designed from zero to scale.

Chapter 01The current way of working
FIGMA PDF MOCKUP ONE SHARED URL
Latest · 2026

Rebuilding How a Team Delivers

The current chapter of TrialComplete. I replaced design handoff with a single source of truth and a shared prototype engine, taking design turnaround from weeks to days.

Design Leadership AI Tooling Design Systems Ways of Working
Chapter 02How it was built
TrialComplete clinical trial management platform interface
The Origin Story

Designing a Clinical Trial Platform
from Zero to Scale

Nine years on one product. Sole designer on the greenfield build, then back as Manager Product Design at 60 contributors. 70% reduction in user error rate.

Design Leadership Healthcare Enterprise Clinical Trials Regulated Systems
Product UX

Products that changed behaviour at scale

AI Design Tooling

AI tools I built so the team could move faster

I build the tools my team designs with, including the AI powered ones. The design system is not a document here. It is compiled into software other people run.

Journey across Enterprise & Complex Systems

Sep 2011 – Jul 2016

Early Career

HCL · Capita · Saama

Built foundations across enterprise and web products, shaping core UX thinking.

Jul 2016 – Jul 2021

Lead UX Designer

Deutsche Telekom

Designed large scale enterprise systems in telecom and healthcare. Led and mentored a team of 8 designers.

Jul 2021 – Jul 2023

UX Lead

Innova Solutions

Led UX for the Optum Analytics Center, an enterprise healthcare platform for payer organisations.

Jul 2023 – Oct 2025

Senior UX Designer

Springer Nature

Led UX for SN Honours, a loyalty ecosystem used by 43K+ researchers globally, and built the error handling framework for identity journeys.

Oct 2025 – Present

Manager Product Design

T-Systems

Leading design for clinical trial platforms. Driving UX maturity, governance, and cross functional alignment.

Portrait of Ashish Kumar, Manager Product Design
Certified Usability Architect (CUA) badge from Human Factors International, 2026
Certified Usability Architect (CUA™) · Human Factors International

I design and lead enterprise product experiences that simplify complex systems at scale.

Over the past 14 years I have worked across clinical trials, clinical data systems, hospital information systems, research and publishing, and ecommerce, building platforms used by thousands of professionals globally.

I work at the intersection of product strategy, system thinking, and design execution. I partner closely with product and engineering leaders to turn complex requirements into systems people can actually operate.

I still build. The AI tooling my team prototypes with is software I wrote, which keeps me honest about what I ask engineers to deliver.

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Product Strategy & Leadership

UX Strategy & Governance Team Mentoring & Scaling Design Operations Product Discovery Design Governance

Design Craft

Interaction Architecture Information Architecture Design Systems AI Interface Design Prototyping in Code

Research & Validation

UX Research Usability Testing A/B & Hypothesis Testing WCAG AA Accessibility Regulated & GxP Design

Let's build
something meaningful.

Open to Senior Lead and Manager Product Design roles in regulated enterprise domains.