Shilpa has worked on my team at Sonos for the last five years. I can say with absolute confidence that she is one of the best user experience designers I have had the pleasure to work with. She has excelled every step of the way, no matter the area of focus or the stage in the creative process, with outstanding contributions in foundational research, vision, strategy, prototyping, detailed design and execution. She is collaborative, creative, pragmatic, ridiculously smart and a delight to work with.

Her ultimate superpower and deep passion lies in experience strategy. She has routinely worked with colleagues in my team, and others from across the company, on a series of high impact strategic studies. She has been invited to join working groups of senior executives and never once looked out of place. Indeed, the eloquent and productive manner in which has been able to navigate rooms full of strong opinions with objective insights and rational, creative perspectives has been a joy to see, and the final decisions were all the better for it.

— VP, UX Design & Research at Sonos

Shilpa is an exceptionally talented UX leader and strategist. She is curious, thoughtful, and deeply considers the user experience while approaching abstract topics and future innovation programs. In addition to possessing strong analytical, research and design skills, Shilpa is an exceptional researcher and motivating leader.

I have had the opportunity to collaborate closely with Shilpa during her tenure at Sonos. She led multiple experience strategy efforts with commitment, curiosity, and rigor. Shilpa's leadership, impactful communication and storytelling helped organize teams around strategic assignments in a disciplined, well-executed, and impactful manner. I would feel grateful to work with Shilpa in the future. She is an amazing partner and leader.

— Senior Manager, User Research at Sonos

As a PM / UX tag team, Shilpa and I went from an executive problem statement to prototype execution with our dev teams. Shilpa was incredible to work with through that process. She focuses on the research and trusts the data instead of building what we think is interesting. She delivered a creative solution in our concept development and drove clarity when presenting findings to leadership. All around, it’s inspiring to work alongside her.

— Product Manager at Sonos

I had the privilege of working with Shilpa on Sonos' strategic planning program, where we collaborated to define the company's vision and strategy for the next 5 to 10 years. This was a complex and high-stakes initiative, requiring us to answer fundamental questions—who we are, who we want to be, and what vetted opportunities we should pursue for the future.

Shilpa played a critical role in guiding VP leaders through workshops, helping to define and quantify these opportunities with remarkable clarity and precision. Her ability to synthesize diverse perspectives, structure complex ideas, and translate them into actionable insights was invaluable. She not only ensured that every recommendation was well-supported and strategically sound, but also delivered them with confidence and impact to the C-suite.

Beyond her strategic acumen, Shilpa is incredibly detail-oriented, structured, and results-driven. She balances big-picture thinking with meticulous execution, ensuring that strategy isn’t just an abstract concept but a roadmap to tangible success. Her ability to navigate ambiguity, align stakeholders, and drive meaningful outcomes makes her an exceptional asset to any team.

— VP, Strategic Planning at Sonos

When it comes to complex, unstructured problems that demand collaboration and creativity, Shilpa is exactly the person you want on the case.

She and I worked closely together during our time at Sonos, where she played an instrumental role in assessing and defining opportunities for multiple new products. She is masterful at taking in user research outputs, crafting ideation workshops that involve the whole team, and synthesizing it all into a compelling creative output in sync with company strategy. Shilpa is an absolute gem to work with – brilliant, incisive, and a great example of a designer at heart who has the big-picture abilities to influence organizations at the strategic level.

— User Researcher at Sonos

Shilpa combined passion, skill, and experience to skillfully design and develop features for our award-winning new software platform. Shilpa’s ability to look at the big picture and design with every detail in mind resulted in elegantly simple interfaces for complex behind-the-scenes operations. We could trust Shilpa to deliver high quality designs time and time again, no matter how difficult the task. Her outgoing and considerate personality makes you feel like old friends, even if you just met.

— Product Manager at Lutron

Shilpa is highly skilled in applying design thinking methods to any challenge, and her ability to quickly synthesize vast arrays of information into concise and compelling points of view was invaluable to our success as a team. Shilpa tirelessly advocates for answering the most essential questions – from understanding the real needs of real customers, to identifying the core problems to solve and why, to connecting design recommendations inextricably to business outcomes.

Across multiple projects, Shilpa led the planning and organization of multidisciplinary teams to great success, fostering a positive team culture and creative environment that included diverse perspectives across UX, Hardware Design, User Research, Product Management and Audio Engineering. Shilpa is an absolute pleasure to work with and makes every team environment she is a part of better, in terms of strategy, quality and depth of thinking, but also in camaraderie and openness.

— Creative Director, UX Strategy at Sonos

Shilpa is an exceptional design leader and mentor, and I feel incredibly fortunate to have been her mentee and worked alongside her at Sonos. What impressed me most about Shilpa was her ability to take my sprawling, complex design and career challenges and distill them into clear, actionable solutions. No matter how ambiguous or overwhelming a problem seemed, she had a remarkable way of cutting through the noise, identifying the core issues, and guiding me toward a practical path forward. Her strategic thinking and the clarity she brought to any situation made a lasting impact on my growth as a designer.

Beyond her deep expertise in design and mentorship, Shilpa is a natural leader and community builder. She took the initiative to create a mentorship-match program within our team—an effort that not only afforded individual contributors and managers alike the opportunity to grow their skills and careers but also fostered a stronger sense of connection among us. At a time when the company had limited opportunities for promotions, she created space for meaningful growth and development.

Shilpa is the kind of leader who strengthens teams— not just through her design expertise, but through the way she uplifts those around her.

— Mentee, UX Designer at Sonos