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Excellence meets compassion

VaibhavBhasin

Design Leadership·Earner Experience @ Uber

Now

Leading the design of platforms that move millions. Every shift, every trip, every earner.

Role

Build organisations that compound. Teams that outlast the brief.

Based

Bangalore · Amsterdam. Open to select conversations.

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01 — About

A bit about me.

Twelve years shipping consumer products at scale. I believe the craft is quiet.

I build design organisations. Gojek through its IPO. Upstox, bringing structure to a fast-scaling team. Now Uber, where design touches millions of earners on every shift.

I care about people and the products they use. Not just functional — products that connect, that feel like something, that people actually love.

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02 — Career

Career, so far.

Startups to IPOs to global scale. The craft never wavered.

Uber

Group Product Design Manager

Uber

2025 – PRESENT
1 yr 1 mo

Earner products for millions of drivers, fleet operators, and two-wheeler riders.

10M+
Monthly active earners
1.26B+
Global Moto trips
$8.6B+
Taxi & Auto gross bookings
3→12
Designers, IN + AMS

Design across the Earner ecosystem — Fleets, Moto, Hailables, AVs and Sustainability

Built and scaled a high-performing team, 3 → 12 designers across IN & AMS

Flagship features: Airport Curbside pickups, Uber StreetHail and Moto offer redesign

AI-driven workflows — 100% of team prototyping in code

Upstox

Head of Product Design

Upstox

2024 – 2025
6 months

Built the design foundation at one of India's fastest-growing retail brokerages.

3M+
Active traders
$150M+
Annual revenue
85%
Users from T2–T3 cities
4.5★
Play Store rating

Led 28+ designers and 4 senior managers across Investments, Trading, Insurance, Advisory

Transitioned UX + UI specialists into full-stack product designers

Set the foundation for the Portfolio Health Score and wealth advisory programs

Gojek

Group Head of Design

Gojek

2018 – 2024
7 years

Seven years growing a design org from feature team to public company.

29M+
Monthly active users
2M+
Daily trips
200K
Packages / day
4.6★
App Store rating

Led 35+ across product design, UX writing, creative and motion — including 6 senior managers

Set up teams across Southeast Asia for international launch

Best UX & Navigation award (Indonesia) 2023

Designed the company through its 2022 IPO

Locus & PepperTap

Founding Designer · UI/UX

Locus & PepperTap

2015 – 2018
3 years

0→1 at two startups before 'product design' was a job title in India.

$300M
Locus AI valuation
$160M+
PepperTap valuation
0→1
Founding designer

Designed the full product surface at Locus: maps, dispatch, driver ops, and the first enterprise dashboard.

Shipped the first UI/UX system at PepperTap, one of India's original grocery-delivery stories

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03 — Work

Selected work.

Craft at the scale of hundreds of millions, where every decision compounds.

Uber · 202501
Uber Tours
Locked

Uber Tours

Transforming Uber into a guided travel companion for every city.

Uber · 202502
Taxi Fare Experience

Taxi Fare Experience

Bringing fare transparency to every street taxi ride.

Uber · 202503
Uber StreetHail

Uber StreetHail

Bringing every street taxi onto Uber with a single scan-to-ride.

Uber · In development04
Uber FleetHub

Uber FleetHub

A unified operating system for Uber's global fleet supply.

Uber · 202505
Moto Offer XP

Moto Offer XP

Designing for the 2-wheeler, at 40 km/h.

Uber · 202506
Supply Hour Strategy

Supply Hour Strategy

Helping drivers make smarter decisions about when to drive.

Uber · 202507
Uber Charge
Locked

Uber Charge

Making EV charging effortless for every Uber driver.

Gojek · 202008
Gojek Home Masthead

Gojek Home Masthead

Turning banners into business. Personalization as a component.

Gojek · 202309
GoTransit

GoTransit

The world's first multimodal public-transport experience.

Gojek · 202110
SafeTrip+

SafeTrip+

Making insurance feel like a feature, not fine print.

Gojek · 202211
GoSend Redesign

GoSend Redesign

Indonesia's favourite logistics product, reimagined.

04 — Leadership

Leadership playbook.

Eight practices, from how we hire to how we crit, protect deep work, and grow the next generation of design leaders.

Uber Design Night

Uber Design Night

An annual event for Uber designers to show and share. Built to grow the community from the inside out.

Design Crits

Design Crits

Structured critique, run with intention. Small rooms, honest feedback, better work.

Product Retros

Product Retros

A shared ritual for product and design to close the loop: what shipped, what didn't, and why it matters.

Excellence Roadmap

Excellence Roadmap

A clear north star for the team. What excellence looks like, and how we get there together.

AI Adoption

AI Adoption

100% of the team prototyping in code and shipping internal tools. Not a trend, a new baseline.

Growth Plans

Growth Plans

Competency-based trackers with growth paths built around each person, not a template, not a checkbox.

Focus Thursdays

Focus Thursdays

A no-meeting day, every week. Protected time for the kind of deep work that actually moves things forward.

Leadership Hiring

Leadership Hiring

Hiring design leaders who can build teams, not just portfolios. A pipeline built deliberately.

05 — Mentorship

Giving back.

The one practice that compounds without a budget.

"I strongly believe mentorship should be free. Time is the most valuable thing we can give each other."

Community Champion · ADPList · Top Achiever, Indonesia

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06 — Talks & Podcasts

Talks & podcasts.

Said out loud, in rooms and on microphones.