SINDHU NARASIMHAN

I design products at the edge of trust

Currently Head of Design at Obin.AI. 6 Figure E-commerce business founder. Previously Amazon AI, Roku, Pioneer Square Labs

SINDHU NARASIMHAN

I design products at the edge of trust

Currently Head of Design at Obin.AI. 6 Figure E-commerce business founder. Previously Amazon AI, Roku, Pioneer Square Labs

01 HEAD OF DESIGN (OBIN AI) / FINANCIAL AGENTS

Designing financial agents.

Designing for high-stakes financial workflows where 95% accuracy is not enough.

OUTCOME

Enabled growing revenue by 500% in 5 months by supporting the most important strategic client relationships.

Lead design and product strategy for multi-million-dollar engagements in Insurance, Private Credit and Asset Management.

Hands-on player-coach (leaning player) design leader for strategic initiatives for a team for 3 designers.

OBIN / LIVE AGENT RUNRUNNING
GOAL / RELEASE WIRE
$2.48M
01 / PLANBreak task into policy checksRUN
02 / TOOLSSanctions · KYC · account historyQUEUE
03 / VERIFYConfidence 95% · below release policyQUEUE
04 / HITLHuman approval before funds moveQUEUE

06 — FOUNDER & CREATOR / ABRACADABRA BOOKS

Back to Books

OUTCOME

↗ Built an AI-powered physical-products business from concept to approximately $500K ARR and 10K units annually within 2.5 years as a solo founder — owning product, brand, growth, operations, and fulfillment.

↗ Created and launched the flagship $49 Nonfiction Box Set; earned a five-star Amazon seller rating.

01

Yellowstone

02

Yosemite

03

Grand Canyon

04

Everglades

01 HEAD OF DESIGN (OBIN AI) / FINANCIAL AGENTS

Designing financial agents.

Designing for high-stakes financial workflows where 95% accuracy is not enough.

OUTCOME

Enabled growing revenue by 500% in 5 months by supporting the most important strategic client relationships.

Lead design and product strategy for multi-million-dollar engagements in Insurance, Private Credit and Asset Management.

Hands-on player-coach (leaning player) design leader for strategic initiatives for a team for 3 designers.

OBIN / LIVE AGENT RUNRUNNING
GOAL / RELEASE WIRE
$2.48M
01 / PLANBreak task into policy checksRUN
02 / TOOLSSanctions · KYC · account historyQUEUE
03 / VERIFYConfidence 95% · below release policyQUEUE
04 / HITLHuman approval before funds moveQUEUE

06 — FOUNDER & CREATOR / ABRACADABRA BOOKS

Back to Books

OUTCOME

↗ Built an AI-powered physical-products business from concept to approximately $500K ARR and 10K units annually within 2.5 years as a solo founder — owning product, brand, growth, operations, and fulfillment.

↗ Created and launched the flagship $49 Nonfiction Box Set; earned a five-star Amazon seller rating.

01

Yellowstone

02

Yosemite

03

Grand Canyon

04

Everglades

02 STAFF DESIGNER - ROKU / T-COMMERCE

Commerce on the biggest screen.

Shoppable television experiences designed for a remote and a ten-foot interface.

OUTCOME

↗ As Staff Designer, drove launch of interactive ads and commerce through Walmart and Shopify partnerships.

↗ Built the multi-modal product experiences that drove ad services revenue from $500M to $1B ARR in one year.

RELATED PRESS / SHOPIFY × ROKU CHECKOUT ↗

ROKU / ACTION ADWALMART × SHOPIFY
NOW PLAYING / TRAIL NOTES
Built for
the long way.
SHOP THE JACKET
PRESS OK ON YOUR ROKU REMOTE
OK
AD
DISCOVER
ROKU PAY
ORDERED
TV → REMOTE → ROKU PAY → FULFILLMENT
OK
ROKU

03 AMAZON AI / AMAZON LEX / LEAD DESIGN TECHNOLOGIST

Turning conversation into contracts.

Cognitive interfaces for Enterprise AI in 2016!

OUTCOME

Led design-technology prototypes that made conversational AI tangible to enterprise customers and helped move a $1B strategic partnership from concept to delivery.

AMAZON LEX / BOT BUILDERPREVIEW · 2016
BOT
TravelBot
INTENT
BookTrip
UTTERANCE
Book a trip to {city}
SLOT 01
{city} · AMAZON.US_CITY
SLOT 02
{date} · AMAZON.DATE
FULFILLMENT
AWS Lambda
TEST BOT● LISTENING
TRANSCRIPT
“Book a trip to Seattle this Friday.”
LEX
I’m listening.
ASR
VOICE → TEXT
NLU
BOOK_TRIP
SLOTS
CITY + DATE
LAMBDA
FULFILLED

04 AMAZON KEY / PHYSICAL TRUST

Access beyond the front door.

Secure delivery experiences for homes and connected cars.

OUTCOME

↗ Prototyped the end-to-end experience across customers, couriers, smart locks, cameras and connected vehicles—helping launch Amazon Key’s in-home and in-car delivery.

AMAZON KEY / CONTROLLED ACCESSONE DELIVERY · ONE WINDOW
IN-HOMEVERIFIED
CLOUD CAM
SMART LOCK / SECURE
IN-CARCONNECTED CAR
ONSTAR / VOLVO ON CALL
TRUNK / SECURE
01 / VERIFY
02 / UNLOCK
03 / PLACE
04 / RELOCK
DRIVER + ADDRESS + DELIVERY WINDOW VERIFIED

02 STAFF DESIGNER - ROKU / T-COMMERCE

Commerce on the biggest screen.

Shoppable television experiences designed for a remote and a ten-foot interface.

OUTCOME

↗ As Staff Designer, drove launch of interactive ads and commerce through Walmart and Shopify partnerships.

↗ Built the multi-modal product experiences that drove ad services revenue from $500M to $1B ARR in one year.

RELATED PRESS / SHOPIFY × ROKU CHECKOUT ↗

ROKU / ACTION ADWALMART × SHOPIFY
NOW PLAYING / TRAIL NOTES
Built for
the long way.
SHOP THE JACKET
PRESS OK ON YOUR ROKU REMOTE
OK
AD
DISCOVER
ROKU PAY
ORDERED
TV → REMOTE → ROKU PAY → FULFILLMENT
OK
ROKU

03 AMAZON AI / AMAZON LEX / LEAD DESIGN TECHNOLOGIST

Turning conversation into contracts.

Cognitive interfaces for Enterprise AI in 2016!

OUTCOME

Led design-technology prototypes that made conversational AI tangible to enterprise customers and helped move a $1B strategic partnership from concept to delivery.

AMAZON LEX / BOT BUILDERPREVIEW · 2016
BOT
TravelBot
INTENT
BookTrip
UTTERANCE
Book a trip to {city}
SLOT 01
{city} · AMAZON.US_CITY
SLOT 02
{date} · AMAZON.DATE
FULFILLMENT
AWS Lambda
TEST BOT● LISTENING
TRANSCRIPT
“Book a trip to Seattle this Friday.”
LEX
I’m listening.
ASR
VOICE → TEXT
NLU
BOOK_TRIP
SLOTS
CITY + DATE
LAMBDA
FULFILLED

04 AMAZON KEY / PHYSICAL TRUST

Access beyond the front door.

Secure delivery experiences for homes and connected cars.

OUTCOME

↗ Prototyped the end-to-end experience across customers, couriers, smart locks, cameras and connected vehicles—helping launch Amazon Key’s in-home and in-car delivery.

AMAZON KEY / CONTROLLED ACCESSONE DELIVERY · ONE WINDOW
IN-HOMEVERIFIED
CLOUD CAM
SMART LOCK / SECURE
IN-CARCONNECTED CAR
ONSTAR / VOLVO ON CALL
TRUNK / SECURE
01 / VERIFY
02 / UNLOCK
03 / PLACE
04 / RELOCK
DRIVER + ADDRESS + DELIVERY WINDOW VERIFIED

Build the future.
Make it trustworthy.

Build the future.
Make it trustworthy.

Build the future.
Make it trustworthy.

sindu.ux@gmail.com

sindu.ux@gmail.com