Arun Jacob
Digital design studio
Product Design Leader
I help founders and product teams build things that ship, sell, and sustain.
I help founders and product teams build things that ship, sell, and sustain.
20+ years of building products and leading teams at companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Nike, and Freshworks — turned into frameworks, content, and counsel for people who build.
Product Design Leader
I help founders and product teams build things that ship, sell, and sustain.
20+ years of building products and leading teams at companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Nike, and Freshworks — turned into frameworks, content, and counsel for people who build.
The difference between products that thrive and products that struggle almost never comes down to talent or tools.
It comes down to clarity, alignment, and strategy. I've watched teams with world-class designers and engineers build the wrong thing — not because they lacked skill, but because they lacked shared understanding of what they were building and why.
I've also watched small, focused teams with half the resources outship everyone around them — because everyone in the room was pulling in the same direction.
You can be ambitious and empathetic at the same time. The best builders are both.
Years of experience
Years shaping products across startups & enterprises
Years of experience
Years shaping products across startups & enterprises
Projects launched
Digital projects delivered with strategy-first design
Projects launched
Digital projects delivered with strategy-first design
Committed leadership & mentorship
Teams coached, mentored, or led across functions
Committed leadership & mentorship
Teams coached, mentored, or led across functions
My expertise lies in bridging the gap between traditional business models and digital transformation, leveraging UX, AI, and automation to create scalable, user-centric solutions.
I have extensive experience across financial services, healthcare, technology, and industrial sectors (including crm, Saas, manufacturing, chemicals, and oil & gas).
The difference between products that thrive and products that struggle almost never comes down to talent or tools.
It comes down to clarity, alignment, and strategy. I've watched teams with world-class designers and engineers build the wrong thing — not because they lacked skill, but because they lacked shared understanding of what they were building and why.
I've also watched small, focused teams with half the resources outship everyone around them — because everyone in the room was pulling in the same direction.
You can be ambitious and empathetic at the same time. The best builders are both.
Years of experience
Years shaping products across startups & enterprises
Projects launched
Digital projects delivered with strategy-first design
Committed leadership & mentorship
Teams coached, mentored, or led across functions
My expertise lies in bridging the gap between traditional business models and digital transformation, leveraging UX, AI, and automation to create scalable, user-centric solutions.
I have extensive experience across financial services, healthcare, technology, and industrial sectors (including crm, Saas, manufacturing, chemicals, and oil & gas).
Idea → Scale → Sustain
Idea → Scale → Sustain
Full product lifecycle coverage
Full product lifecycle coverage
Arun Jacob
Arun Jacob
Arun Jacob
I work from strategic planning to tactical execution
I work from strategic planning to tactical execution
Choosing a product design partner isn't just about capabilities or portfolios. It's about trust, reliability, and alignment with your goals.
I work from strategic planning to tactical execution
Choosing a product design partner isn't just about capabilities or portfolios. It's about trust, reliability, and alignment with your goals.
2006-25©
I meticulously strategize, considering all potential approaches to ensure your design harmonizes aesthetics, experience, and usability within its intended ecosystem. My pursuit of perfection is relentless.
I work from strategic planning to tactical execution
2006-25©
I meticulously strategize, considering all potential approaches to ensure your design harmonizes aesthetics, experience, and usability within its intended ecosystem. My pursuit of perfection is relentless.
I work from strategic planning to tactical execution
2006-25©
I meticulously strategize, considering all potential approaches to ensure your design harmonizes aesthetics, experience, and usability within its intended ecosystem. My pursuit of perfection is relentless.
I work from strategic planning to tactical execution
Expertise
Expertise
Expertise
Strategist
Frameworks that cut through noise and align teams around what matters. I help leaders stop confusing goals with strategy, plans with tactics, and activity with progress. Clarity is the competitive advantage most teams overlook.
Strategist
Designer
Author
Advisor
Speaker
Strategist
Frameworks that cut through noise and align teams around what matters. I help leaders stop confusing goals with strategy, plans with tactics, and activity with progress. Clarity is the competitive advantage most teams overlook.
Strategist
Designer
Author
Advisor
Speaker
Strategist
Frameworks that cut through noise and align teams around what matters. I help leaders stop confusing goals with strategy, plans with tactics, and activity with progress. Clarity is the competitive advantage most teams overlook.
Strategist
Designer
Author
Advisor
Speaker
Arun is a pleasure to have on the team. Always kept the team dynamic inspiring, upbeat, and grounded in positivity. He is an interaction design and information architecture force whom also goes the extra mile with aiding developers at implementing mockups using his technical mastery.
John Angelo
Art Direction & Design, Google
Misaligned
Misaligned
Your team agrees on everything. And that's the problem.
Everyone nods in the meeting. Everyone walks out building something different. Sound familiar? MisAligned explores the gap between agreement and alignment — and why that gap is where most products quietly die.
Drawing from two decades inside enterprise and startup product teams, this book gives you frameworks for recognizing misalignment before it costs you, restructuring how your team communicates and decides, and building the kind of clarity that turns good teams into unstoppable ones.
Your team agrees on everything. And that's the problem.
Everyone nods in the meeting. Everyone walks out building something different. Sound familiar? MisAligned explores the gap between agreement and alignment — and why that gap is where most products quietly die.
Drawing from two decades inside enterprise and startup product teams, this book gives you frameworks for recognizing misalignment before it costs you, restructuring how your team communicates and decides, and building the kind of clarity that turns good teams into unstoppable ones.
What's inside
Team alignment
Team alignment
Team alignment
Decision frameworks
Decision frameworks
Decision frameworks
Cross-functional communication
Cross-functional communication
Cross-functional communication
Product strategy
Product strategy
Product strategy
Leadership clarity
Leadership clarity
Leadership clarity
