ABOUT

Hi! I am Karim Dhammani 👋

Design and AITransformationLeader.

I lead design operations and AI enablement at BMW Group’s India hub. I bring 12+ years across design, technology and marketing in Canada and India, including 4+ years leading teams and design operations. I combine hands-on product design with the systems, processes and AI tools that help teams deliver better experiences.

Open to design leadership roles · Hyderabad, remote, or relocation to Dubai, the US, Canada or the EU.

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At the
moment

DesignOps Lead at BMW Group’s India hub, leading design operations and AI enablement across enterprise product teams.

APR 2025 — PRESENT

Building agentic systems for design-to-code automation — researching how AI agents can eliminate manual design handoff entirely.

CURRENT FOCUS

Writing about AI product strategy and design operations at the intersection of human creativity and machine intelligence.

BLOG & WRITING

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Background

APR 2025 –
PRESENT

DesignOps Lead

BMW TechWorks India (BMW Group)

  • Lead design operations and AI enablement for BMW Group’s India hub, managing and mentoring six designers and onboarding 50+ designers and developers.
  • Originated the design-system MCP server, taking it from concept to production in four months. Now mandated for frontend developers.
  • Founded AI4UX for 1,200+ designers across 300+ product teams, publishing 30+ reusable UX skills alongside an enablement portal and UXBuddy.
  • Established the UX Live Center for recurring consultations, critiques and workshops, and an annual UX maturity model across around 50 India-hub applications.
  • Led AI Academy from design through launch; appointed AI Champion for the India hub.
  • Won the Mission AiGentic Award: first place in BMW Group’s global agentic-AI competition (2026).
  • Recognised as Best Performer of the Quarter (Q4 2025) and with Best Team of the Quarter (Q2 2026).

MAY 2024 –
PRESENT

Freelance UX Designer, Web Designer & Developer

Independent consulting

  • Deliver UX, e-commerce design and front-end development for retail, hospitality and fashion clients, managing agency and creator partnerships from brief to delivery.
  • Built a generative AI product-imagery pipeline with human review and automated quality gates, reducing production time from three days to 15 minutes.
  • Led the same brand’s social-first content programme, using social listening, behavioral analytics and creative testing to track engagement, click-through and conversion.
  • Built an e-commerce site and WhatsApp Business funnel for a national fashion retail chain.
  • Developed a resort’s brand, digital strategy and loyalty programme, increasing sign-ups 70%.

FEB 2022 –
APR 2024

Senior UX Designer, Monetization & Design Operations

Kijiji (an eBay / Adevinta company)

  • Led monetization UX and DesignOps at one of Canada’s largest C2C marketplaces, increasing seller conversion 22% and ad revenue 18%.
  • Optimized seller ad checkout to 3x average order value and 38% higher seller ad spend.
  • Ran A/B tests using segmentation and personalization, increasing CTR and ROAS 20–30%.
  • Led Exclusive Discounts (Seller Message Outreach) from research through rollout, with a seller-prototype SUS score of 80.3.
  • Launched short-form listing video (+15% ad engagement) and led the Flutter app redesign (+20% session duration).
  • Shipped dark mode to 1M+ users (+12% engagement) on a 100+ component design system.
  • Championed WCAG 2.2 and English/French handoffs; design-operations improvements reduced handoff errors 25% and halved design debt.

MAR 2021 –
JAN 2022

Lead UX Designer

Marqet Solutions

  • Led UX and DesignOps delivery with direct people management, coordinating content, SEO, graphics, video and web development through agile sprint ceremonies.
  • Owned UX strategy for a multi-phase SaaS platform, redesigning enterprise client onboarding and core workflows informed by research.
  • Led the UX research function through A/B tests, usability studies and user interviews, influencing roadmap decisions and improving engineering handoffs and documentation.
  • Promoted from UX Designer in March 2021.

JUL 2019 –
JUN 2020

Creative Specialist

IGNITE at Humber College

  • Created motion, video, print, digital and social campaigns for 50+ events.
  • Improved workflows, reducing production time 30%.

DEC 2018 –
MAR 2021

UX Designer

Marqet Solutions

  • Designed and delivered UX for B2B and B2C applications and websites, aligning user needs with business goals.
  • Produced user flows, wireframes, mockups and interactive prototypes to communicate product vision to stakeholders.
  • Ran analytics-driven design improvements and accessibility audits against WCAG 2.1.

JUN 2017 –
NOV 2018

UI Designer

CopperBridge Media

  • Designed responsive websites and e-commerce experiences, including typography, RTL design and developer handoff.

APR 2016 –
JUN 2017

Visual Designer

Aerizone

  • Created brand identity and marketing collateral and supported design operations for Drone Bootcamp.

JUL 2015 –
MAR 2016

Marketing Executive

Lemon School of Entrepreneurship

  • Worked on startup branding, campaigns and design-thinking workshops.

SEP 2014 –
APR 2015

Content Writing Intern

BookMyShow

  • Worked on digital content, marketing strategy, social media and content-creation pipelines.

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Always learning

A few recent courses and credentials that reflect what I’ve been exploring beyond the day job.

Certificate for Design for Impact: A Guide to Product Experimentation, issued by Packt.

Design for Impact: A Guide to Product Experimentation

Packt

VERIFY
Certificate for Python for Data Science, AI & Development, issued by IBM.

Python for Data Science, AI & Development

IBM

VERIFY
Certificate for Product Management: Building AI-Powered Products, issued by SkillUp.

Product Management: Building AI-Powered Products

SkillUp

VERIFY
Certificate for The Complete Web Developer in 2022: Zero to Mastery, issued by Udemy.

The Complete Web Developer in 2022: Zero to Mastery

Udemy

VERIFY
Certificate for Google UX Design Professional Certificate, issued by Google.

Google UX Design Professional Certificate

Google

VERIFY
Certificate for Complete Web & Mobile Designer in 2021: UI/UX, Figma, +more, issued by Udemy.

Complete Web & Mobile Designer in 2021: UI/UX, Figma, +more

Udemy

VERIFY

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What else?

Thinking style

Systems thinker. I look for the point where design, technology and behaviour constrain each other.

Intellectual interests

Cognitive science, decision-making, and how complex systems end up shaped the way they are.

Away from screens

Long walks, around 4km a day. Where most of my ideas actually get worked out.

Hobbies

Building VowStory, an AI-native wedding-planning app — designed and built end to end, solo, with React Native, Expo, TypeScript and Supabase. Currently in TestFlight.

Countries visited

  • 🇮🇳India
  • 🇨🇦Canada
  • 🇺🇸United States
  • 🇩🇪Germany
  • 🇵🇹Portugal
  • 🇿🇦South Africa

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How I built
this site

Built with AI

Written spec-first with AI coding agents, then reviewed and corrected by hand.

Next.js and Tailwind

TypeScript throughout, with every page prerendered so it arrives as plain HTML.

Motion can be turned off

If your device is set to reduce motion, nothing on the site animates or slides.

Works without a mouse

Tab through any page and a clear outline always shows you where you are.

Screen-reader friendly

The menu and filters say whether they are open, and every link says where it leads.

Text you can actually read

The amber was darkened for light mode to reach 5.5:1 contrast, past the WCAG AA minimum.

Want to collaborate?
Let’s connect.

Open to new opportunities, interesting conversations, and coffee if you’re in Bangalore.