Tathagata Sarkar Product & Systems Design

About

Hi, I am Tathagata, a product designer building the systems behind work that has to scale.

I design the rendering systems behind adidas Europe’s campaign output at Brandtech: feed-driven and rule-based, built to hold art direction intact across 22 markets while teams work independently. Communication design on a computer science base, which is mostly why I end up building the system rather than only the layout.

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A desk under a wall of framed prints, with plants and a monitor
The desk
A flower seller at a roadside stall, buckets of marigolds and chrysanthemums
Flower market
Sitting on a wall in front of the Taj Mahal at Agra
Agra
Two people kayaking through mangroves
Mangroves
Illustration of Tathagata Sarkar

Selected clients: adidas, HDFC Bank, Standard Chartered, Amazon Fashion, Amazon Fresh, Disney+ Hotstar, Tide, Polycab, Eureka Forbes / Aquaguard, Reliance Smart Bazaar.

22

EU markets served

300+

Creatives per campaign

1,000+

SKUs in the design feed

6 yrs

Design experience

01 Experience Product systems and design leadership

Aug 2025 - Present

Senior Integrated Designer, Creative Systems

Brandtech+ / The Brandtech Group · adidas Europe · Mumbai

Feed-driven creative systems across 22 EU markets and 300+ assets a campaign.

Detail
  • Designed feed-driven dynamic ad frameworks in Celtra CE integrating 1,000+ adidas product SKUs, mapping product attributes (colour, brand category) to dynamic background hex codes, copy variants and CTA logic.
  • Partnered with Celtra developers to translate creative logic into rule-based rendering systems; tested edge cases on live feed data and refined fallback logic for consistent multi-market output.
  • Built an AI-assisted asset normalisation workflow (background removal, Pencil Pro) to standardise product imagery pre-render, cutting manual prep time and lifting visual consistency.
  • Contributed to Smartly.io template governance: conditional toggles and structured dynamic fields that balance localisation freedom with brand control.
  • Own creative quality and campaign readiness against brand standards, platform specs and performance goals; support A/B testing and live optimisation, and mentor junior designers.

Sep 2024 - Jul 2025

Integrated Designer

Brandtech+ / The Brandtech Group · adidas Europe · Mumbai

Dynamic templates in Celtra CE and Smartly.io for feed-based deployment.

Detail
  • Built and optimised dynamic templates in Celtra CE and Smartly.io for feed-based campaign deployment across EU markets.
  • Delivered high-volume performance creative to tight cycles, contributing structured template logic and automation-ready frameworks; collaborated across time zones to streamline production workflows.

Jan 2023 - Aug 2024

Senior Visualizer

FCB Kinnect · Mumbai

Digital campaigns for Amazon, Tide, Disney+ Hotstar and Standard Chartered.

Detail
  • Led digital campaign execution for Amazon Fashion, Amazon Fresh, Tide, Disney+ Hotstar and Standard Chartered as part of award-winning creative teams in a Cannes-recognised environment.
  • Designed scalable visual systems adapted across digital touchpoints, and managed high-volume asset production under tight timelines.
  • Held brand governance standards for regulated banking and finance clients, working daily with strategy, copy, account and media teams.

Jan 2020 - Dec 2022

Senior Graphic Designer

Pixilet Solutions · Kolkata

Identity and brand collateral for retainer clients across India.

02 Capabilities What I design

Systems & rule design

Feed-driven DCO Rule-based rendering Fallback & edge cases Template architecture Feed governance AI-assisted asset prep

Product & interaction

Problem framing Journey design Status models Empty & error states Prototyping MVP scoping

Visual craft

Campaign art direction Layout & typography Design systems Brand identity Localisation

Ways of working

Multi-market ops Design QA Workflow design Dev & media partnership Mentoring
03 Tech stack Systems, design and code

Product & systems

Celtra CE (templating, rule-based rendering) · Smartly.io (feed governance, conditional logic) · Feed-based rendering systems

Design

Figma (components, variables, libraries) · Photoshop · Illustrator · InDesign · After Effects

AI, where it holds

Pencil Pro · Background removal · Asset normalisation before render

Platforms

Meta · Google · Paid social & display · Web and CRM assets

Also

HTML/CSS literacy, enough to specify a build and judge what comes back, which is also how I know what a component handoff will cost.

04 Education Design on an engineering base

Postgraduate

Advertising Design & Digital Communication · École Intuit Lab, Mumbai

Undergraduate

B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering · Techno India University, Kolkata

05 Elsewhere Mumbai, India (UTC+5:30)

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+91 95473 59628