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Maharaj M A

Lead Product Designer

About me

Twelve years in, I've built consumer products and enterprise systems at scale, mostly platforms other people create and build on. Lately I've been setting up AI workflows and teaching a design org to prototype in code.

Twelve years in, I've built consumer products and enterprise systems at scale, mostly platforms other people create and build on: Adobe XD, Outlook's extensibility model, LinkedIn communities, now Salesforce's planning stack. Lately I've been setting up AI workflows and teaching a design org to prototype in code.

Salesforce

Sales Cloud + Agentic Planning

I lead Sales Performance Management design: Capacity, Segment, Territory, and Quota becoming one planning experience that guides itself.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Sales Solution

The flagship app and Sales Solutions ran as two products. I proposed bringing them together, and led the work.

Additionally, worked on building sales insights on leads and accounts using Microsoft's GenAI.

LinkedIn Groups

I worked on reimagining the future of LinkedIn Groups and communities, with GenAI at the core.

India Verification

I spearheaded the first-ever India-focused project aimed at implementing verification and skill evaluation processes.

Microsoft

Outlook Extensibility

Redesigned Outlook's extensibility ecosystem across every platform. It shipped into Excel and PowerPoint as well.

Adobe

Adobe XD

Designed XD's Share and prototype workflow from version 1.0: the developer handoff, and prototype sharing for stakeholders.

Illustrator, Dreamweaver & Muse

I worked on modernizing the UI, updating the code snippet components, and solving for modern web & mobile requirements.

Patent

Feedback based task scheduling assistant (Microsoft)

Helping users plan task items on Outlook calendar.

Universal Isolation (Adobe)

Designed and handled the Add-ins environment for third-party apps to surface on all Outlook endpoints.

Work

Salesforce (2025–Now)
Lead Product Designer
LinkedIn (2022–2024)
Sr. Product Designer
Microsoft (2019–2022)
User Experience 2
Adobe (2016–2019)
Experience Designer
Greysprings (2014–2015)
Game UX Designer
Webdefy (2012–2013)
Co-Founder

AI in Practice

  • Built a prototyping kit adopted by 56 designers
  • Moved 90% of our design work from Figma to code
  • Built plug-and-play data tables for faster handoff
  • Pioneered AI adoption across the design org
  • Wrote the LLM and Cursor curriculum for designers
  • Designing agentic experiences in Agentforce

Key Expertise

  • Experience building platforms and ecosystems for others to build on
  • Have taken foundational products from 0 to 1
  • Have made data-dense planning tools usable at enterprise scale
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