Nishtha Dalal
Fractional Design Leadership at Pearl Street Labs
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolNishtha Dalal is a design leader with 11 years of experience scaling product and UX teams for consumer and SaaS brands including Shopify, Etsy, OkCupid, Meetup, and Mint. She specializes in 0→1 product design, strategy, and hiring, and has a track record of driving measurable business impact—most notably growing Etsy’s incremental GMS by $56M in two quarters. Based in the New York City area, she now advises founders as Fractional Design Leadership at Pearl Street Labs, helping startups translate early product hypotheses into repeatable design practices. Her background spans hands-on research, prototyping and front-end development, reflecting an ability to bridge user insights with shipping polished interfaces. Known for building teams from solo designers to full groups and for founding mission-driven products in education and personal finance, she brings an operator’s mindset to strategic design problems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Human Computer Interaction, Bachelor of Science - BS Human Computer Interaction at Drexel UniversityInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Mercedes Benz International School
English, Hindi, Spanish, German, MarathiGithub contributions (3)
nishthad/TwitterGoggles
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:42 commits in 1 month
nishthad/nishthad.github.io
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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