Experience

2024-Present

Lead Designer

Athena Advisory

Lead 0→1 design of key features including personalized investment portfolios and AI powered financial advisor, now managing $2B in retirement asset. Own end to end design for Athena’s compliance ready, white label B2B2C agentic AI wealth management platform, responsible for expanding partner reach to 300K+ participants.

2022-2024

UX Design Consultant

Contract

Nomad Health –– Spearheaded research, design, and strategy for first in-app messaging channel now used by over 400K clinicians.
MetLife –– Led design overhaul of Broker Portal to streamline workflows, reduce friction, and reinforce brand identity.

2017-2021

Founding Designer

Beam

Set product vision and led 0→1 design for Beam’s algorithm-driven cash-assistance platform, which secured a $6.4M Series A and established market position.
Scaled the app from pilot to production, delivered $350M+ in aid to 500K+ households and drove 100% partner renewals.
Established Uplift, Beam’s first design system
Formalized design-ops; managed roadmap & backlog and set a three-year vision that doubled design velocity and aligned product, engineering, and executive teams.

2016-2017

Senior Product Designer

LendTech

Led user research, prototyping, and design of customer dashboard, real-time messaging channel, and loan application module.

2015-2016

Data Visualization Designer

Cisco Systems

Designed Tableau dashboards and data visualizations to support decision-making across IoT product lines.

© 2025 Nina Krishnan

© 2025 Nina Krishnan

© 2025 Nina Krishnan