Bobin Thomas

Lead Product Designer · Design systems and AI patterns for enterprise

I design enterprise systems that operators trust, turning operational complexity into decisions teams can act on.

14 years in fintech, ERP, and AI-native products. I lead design on high-stakes workflows where governance, adoption, and human oversight matter as much as the interface.

Open toLead / Staff / Principal Product Designer
BasedBengaluru or remote
About

Fourteen years shaping enterprise software people rely on every day.

Most of the hard problems here aren't visual. They're judgment calls, and the constraints are real. When the people who own the outcome can't agree on what matters most, someone has to name the trade-off out loud. That's where most of my time goes.

The operators I work with know their domain far better than I do. That changes what the AI has to look like: they need to see how it got to an answer, not just take it. And the systems should outlast the project that paid for them.

How I think about design →

How I lead.

Influence · not hierarchy

Clarity in ambiguity

I frame messy problems so teams know what we are solving and what we are not.

Business and user, together

I connect operator needs with revenue, compliance, and delivery reality.

Difficult conversations

I surface trade-offs early. Speed against trust. Automation against oversight.

Trust by design

Especially in AI. Explainability, human oversight, and patterns people can inspect.

Featured work.

Three projects · complexity · leadership
Scaling systems eCommerce ERP Design system Oct 2024 to now

Custom eCommerce ERP. 250+ component system and 8 AI use cases in production.

Lead product design for a 30,000-SKU foodservice and packaging operation. Owned UX strategy, the design system, and the shared AI pattern across procurement, search, analytics, and custom workflows.

250+
Components
in production
8
AI use cases
live
30K SKUs
Foodservice
eCommerce ops
01 / HikeOn ERP Read case study →
HikeOn · 2024 to now
Vendor compliance · Shipped
Vendor certificate validation workflow in the ERP
Operational complexity Vendor compliance AI · shipped HikeOn ERP

85% of supplier certificates auto-validated on upload.

AI that reads, checks, and flags every supplier document so compliance stops living in spreadsheets.

85%
Auto-validated
on upload
AI cell
Shared pattern
across the ERP
Live
In production
workflows
02 / Vendor certificate management Read use case →
Trust · high-stakes decisions Procurement Responsible AI In validation

Supervised AI for high-stakes procurement. Human stays accountable.

Designed a trust-first RFQ experience where managers get parallel-scale support without losing ownership of the decision.

Send gate
Human approval
on every send
Evidence
Sources and
explainability
In validation
Prototype with
sourcing managers
03 / AI Swarm RFQ Read case study →
RFQ · In validation
Supervised RFQ experience with vendor comparison and approval gate

More work.

2017 to 2026

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