01 — Who I am
Experienced Visual Designer. Emerging Product & UI Designer.
I am Sajeesh Subramanian, a visual design leader with over 20 years across large-format print, advertising and enterprise digital design — the last 15 of them inside global IT majors.
I moved from Graphic Designer to designing UI screens, marketing systems and editorial products for healthcare and SaaS clients. Today I pair that craft with UX research and product thinking.
- 20+
- Years in design
- 15+
- Years in enterprise IT
- 8+
- Global enterprise brands
- 4
- Design chapters
02 — My career journey
Decades of design journey
Four chapters, one through-line: making complex things clear.
Now
Experienced Visual Designer. Emerging Product & UI/UX Designer Transitioning by design
Applying research, service design and design systems to complex workflows in healthcare, SaaS and public services.
Case studies built research-first, from problem framing to validated flows.
Sep 2021 — Jun 2026
Lead Visual Designer Wipro
Led digital and print creative for Salesforce internal marketing, including a coffee-table magazine covering the Wipro–Salesforce journey: leadership, L&D, project pipeline, competency and product launches.
Owned an editorial flagship end to end and adopted new tools to widen the creative range.
Apr 2011 — Aug 2021
Senior Visual Designer/UI Designer Cognizant Technology Solutions
Built UI screens, sales pitch decks, newsletters, flyers and event creatives for global accounts including Siemens, Optum, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Aetna and Salesforce.
A decade partnering with business analysts and sales teams on healthcare and enterprise programmes.
Apr 2010 — Mar 2011
Graphic Designer Mayapuri Graphic Workstation
Agency-grade layout and concept work across multiple client accounts.
Stepped up from production craft to client-facing creative thinking.
Nov 2004 — Mar 2010
Graphic Designer Metro Imaging
Designed billboards, vinyl and signage for large-format production at city scale.
6.5 years mastering colour accuracy, skin tones, resolution and layout at any size.
2004
Design Intern Trinity Communications Newspaper advertising agency
Built and released daily press advertisements under publication deadlines.
Learned colour theory, typesetting and print-ready output on live campaigns.
2001 — 2004
BSc Visual Communication Chennai
Second batch of a brand-new Visual Communication programme — design fundamentals, typography and visual storytelling.
Graduated with a craft-first foundation in composition and colour.
03 — What I do
Capabilities
Visual Design
Editorial layout, brand collateral, print and large format at production quality.
UI/UX Design
Research, flows, wireframes and accessible high-fidelity interfaces.
Design Systems
Reusable components, type and colour tokens that scale across teams.
Branding & Digital
Identity, campaigns and social systems with one consistent voice.
Design Leadership
Mentoring, reviews and stakeholder alignment across functions.
Digital Marketing
Newsletters, decks, launch assets and event creative that convert attention.
04 — Industry & domain experience
Where I have worked
Healthcare & Insurance
- Projects
- Member platforms, provider communications, marketing and editorial assets.
- My contribution
- UI screens and campaign systems for complex, regulated journeys.
- Clients
- Optum, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Aetna
SaaS & Enterprise Tech
- Projects
- Practice branding, product launch creative and internal marketing programmes.
- My contribution
- Editorial design, decks and launch systems for global platform teams.
- Clients
- Salesforce, Siemens
IT Services & Consulting
- Projects
- Sales pitch decks, capability flyers, newsletters and event stall creative.
- My contribution
- Turned dense strategy into clear visual narratives for business teams.
- Clients
- Cognizant, Wipro
Advertising & Large Format
- Projects
- Billboards, vinyl, signage and press advertising.
- My contribution
- Production-grade design with exact colour and resolution control.
- Clients
- Metro Imaging, Mayapuri
05 — Selected impact
Numbers that shaped the work
20+
Years in design
Print, advertising, enterprise digital and product design.
15+
Years in global IT
Cognizant and Wipro, on flagship client accounts.
8+
Enterprise brands
Siemens, Optum, UHG, Cigna, Aetna, Salesforce and more.
1
Coffee-table magazine
Wipro–Salesforce journey, owned end to end.
5
Industry domains
Healthcare, SaaS, IT services, advertising, public services.
3
Design worlds
Print, digital and product — under one visual language.
06 — My design philosophy
How I work
- Research
- Understand
- Simplify
- Design
- Validate
- Deliver
I start by listening. Then I strip away everything that does not help the person in front of the screen, design the smallest clear path, test it with real users, and hand it over ready to build. Twenty years of print taught me that craft is non-negotiable; UX taught me that clarity beats decoration every time.
“Great design is invisible — it simply empowers the user.”
07 — Tools & expertise
What I design with
Advanced expertise
Working knowledge
08 — What I bring to a team
Value on day one
- Design leadership shaped by two decades of shipping under real deadlines.
- Enterprise fluency — I have worked inside global delivery teams and client governance.
- Visual storytelling that makes strategy land with executives in one glance.
- UX and product thinking grounded in research, not preference.
- Cross-functional collaboration with analysts, sales, marketing and engineering.
- Mentoring and review culture that lifts the quality of a whole team.
09 — Closing