Krisna Sorathia

Krisna Sorathia

Product Designer in Minneapolis, He/Him

About

A product & design partner for inspired startups.

Currently leading design with the founding team at Knock.

Previously led product design and strategy within startups resulting in multiple exit events. Most fulfilled when working in small, cross-functional teams. 💗

Work Experience

2024 — Now
2021 — 2023
London → Orange County

👇🏽 Joined by way of acquisition.
💞 Lead Designer for combined product experience.
🏆 Exit in 2023.

When CreatorIQ acquired Tribe Dynamics, my team and I were tasked with integrating our two products together. After a period of deeper research, I led the design strategy for bringing CreatorIQ's messaging and creator on-boarding workflows into Tribe Dynamics.

From there I continued on to define a product strategy for merging the two products together, starting with Creator Discovery; bringing a semantic search experience to the industry's largest creator database.

I had the opportunity to present my strategy at a company-wide summit in Las Vegas, where I also orchestrated a cross-functional AI innovation workshop to identify opportunities to augment CreatorIQ's feature set with LLM enabled solutions; all of which framed our combined 2023 roadmap.

2015 — 2021
San Francisco → Minneapolis → London

🧙🏽‍♂️ Founding Product Designer.
🏅 Top Rated and Easiest to Use on G2.
🏆 Acquired by CreatorIQ in 2021.

I joined Tribe Dynamics as the 5th full-time hire and 1st product & design team member. Coming from a background in UX, I took the opportunity to frame our product strategy and processes around continuous user research.

Over my tenure, we launched, iterated on, and sunset a number of solutions for a budding influencer marketing product category; eventually settling on a product value proposition framed as Influencer Community Analytics.

By the time we were acquired, we had an average quarterly NPS of 50+, had continuously ranked within the top products within our category on G2, and had built a $10MM+ ARR business with less than $2.1MM raised.

2013 — 2015
San Luis Obispo

👶🏽 4th Product Designer in newly created UX department.
📱 Lead designer for flagship iOS scheduling solution.
🏆 IPO in 2015.

I started my design career at Mindbody as a summer intern, where I learned foundational skills in user-centered design with the help of a bi-monthly consultant named Jared Spool.

Progressing through a part-time junior role into a full-time position within a year's time, I was placed on the iOS B2B scrum team, where I designed against sprint schedules; counterpart to the Android design lead.

During my time, I also introduced atomic design principles to the growing UX org and successfully moved the design team from Adobe CC to a component-based system in Sketch.

Projects

2023
Discovery at CreatorIQ

Discover creators through a semantic search experience, presented in a content-centric view.

2022
Campaign Activity at Tribe Dynamics, a CreatorIQ Company

Track creator communication alongside social media mentions.

2021
Community at Tribe Dynamics

Organize and measure content from creator communities.

2020
Competitive Insights at Tribe Dynamics

Benchmark influencer marketing programs by brand, region, and product categories.

2019
Discover Feed at Tribe Dynamics

Discover content creators from a feed of organic brand mentions on social media.

2018
Community Groups at Tribe Dynamics

Identify creator marketing opportunities based on creators retained, lost, and gained over time.

2017
Material Theme Redesign at Tribe Dynamics

A full redesign while switching from a bootstrap front-end to a themed Material design system, built using Vue.js and Veutify.js.

2016
Competitive Dashboard at Tribe Dynamics

Benchmark influencer marketing programs based on monthly earned media performance.

2015
Brand Buzz at Tribe Dynamics

Track, manage, and measure high volumes of social media content from any of subset of creators.

2014
Schedule at Mindbody

Manage studio scheduling in a native iOS experience.

Side Projects

2020

A mobile-first experience designed to help creators pitch themselves to brands.

Designed as part of a side project with co-workers and eventually turned into a fully budgeted team and MVP.

Awards

2023

Tribe Dynamics consistently ranks within the top Easiest to Use influencer marketing platforms on G2.

2022

Endorsed by Tech Nation for the UK Global Talent Visa

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