Open to Senior & Principal Product Design roles

Billing · Payments · SaaS Automation · Trust-heavy systems

I turn complex business rules into product experiences people can actually use.

Product designer focused on systems where clarity matters because mistakes cost money, time, and customer trust.

I’m strongest where workflows are dense, edge cases matter, and teams need clarity to move from ambiguity to execution.

$4.5M revenue protected
5+ years in product design
3 industries
Manisha Varma Strategy-led · Workflow-first

What I help teams do

I help teams make better product decisions and ship complex work with clarity.

My work is strongest where workflows are dense, constraints are real, and teams need a designer who can simplify complexity without losing the logic underneath.

01

Reduce ambiguity

Turn unclear requirements, competing priorities, and messy constraints into clear product direction teams can align on.

02

Simplify complexity

Design workflows for billing, payments, and edge-case-heavy systems without breaking the business or technical logic behind them.

03

Drive execution

Work across product, engineering, and business teams to create clarity, align tradeoffs, and move work toward delivery.

Selected work

Complex systems, clearer decisions, stronger customer outcomes

Product design across billing, payments, accessibility, and SaaS workflows — focused on ambiguous problems where business rules, edge cases, and customer trust all collide.

Workflow automation case study preview
01 SaaS · Workflow automation

Automate Complex Workflows

Designed branching workflow patterns for a live SaaS product, making complex automation logic easier to configure, understand, and scale.

Role Sprint facilitation, concepts, prototyping
Outcome Complex rules made more learnable
SaaS Rules UX Workflow architecture
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Autopay flexibility case study preview
03 Mobile billing · CX design

AutoPay Flexibility

Gave mobile customers control over their AutoPay date while preserving billing guardrails, payment logic, and downstream communications.

Role CX strategy, rule design, recovery UX
Outcome 5 customer segments designed end-to-end
Payments Recovery flows Rules + states
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Secure text case study preview
04 Trust UX · Research-led

Secure Text

Made invisible security states visible, improving both comprehension and task success through iterative research, prototyping, and testing.

Role Discovery, research, prototype evaluation
Outcome Task success improved from 58% to 92%
Trust UX Product clarity Behavioral design
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OneButton PIN case study preview
05 Accessibility · Research
🏆 Best Paper · MobileHCI 2022

OneButton PIN

Reimagined PIN authentication for blind and low-vision users through a haptic interaction model evaluated across usability and attack resistance.

Role Study design, synthesis, prototyping
Methods Diary study, comparative security testing
Accessibility Interaction design Evaluation
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Open to Senior / Principal Product Design roles

I design complex systems that teams can actually ship.

If you’re working on billing, payments, SaaS platforms, or workflow-heavy products — I can help bring clarity to the problem and execution to the solution.

Mentorship

I mentor on ADPList — portfolio, interviews, and systems-thinking.

If you’re trying to level up your UX/Product design work, I focus on what actually moves the needle: strong problem framing, defensible decisions, cleaner stories, and work that survives real constraints.

📁 Portfolio teardown
🧠 Case study storytelling
🧩 Systems + edge cases
🎯 Interview prep