Review my Application (Product Designer)

Stage 1: Tech Nation Endorsement
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Global Talent Visa – Exceptional Talent Application Draft

Specialism: Product Design / FinTech / AI Products

Letters of Recommendation (LORs)

  1. CTO – Financial Institution, highlighting my contributions to the banks digital products leading to more customers acquisition.

  2. CEO – Current Product Company, highlighting my contributions to the growth of the company, my rapid promotion to lead position due to my skills.

  3. CEO (Tech Focused) – Previous Company.

Mandatory Criteria (MC)

MC 4 – Contributor to a substantial open source project

  • Evidence: Significant contribution to national digital banking protocol

  • Supporting Docs: Contribution acknowledgment, protocol whitepaper, Figma file, reference from national program lead and email invitation to the project.

MC 9 – High salary recognition

  • Evidence: Awarded high salary increase based on impactful performance more than average glassdoor estimates by x5.

  • Supporting Docs: Employment contracts, payslips, HR letter.

MC 10 – Panel participation & guest speaking

  • Evidence: Panelist and speaker at tech event

  • Supporting Docs: Event programs invitation mail, program screenshots.

Optional Criteria (OC)

OC 1 – Innovation in Product Design

  • Evidence 1: Head of product design for a core banking app powering enterprise finance companies with over $900M in transaction volume from launch till now.

    • Docs: Screenshots, product architecture diagrams, CPO or CEO reference letter.

  • Evidence 2: Consultant for AI product company – redesigned app & introduced features that contributed to Series A raise.

    • Docs: Engagement contract, redesign portfolio, funding announcement/news article.

  • Evidence 3 (Bonus): Founded now shutdown e-commerce platform – supported 100+ users across 4 states. And launched a social app currently at 2K installs on both iOS and Android.

    • Docs: User testimonials, platform screenshots, company registration docs and article publication.

OC 3 – Impact on the Sector

  • Evidence 1: Digital banking application that added 1M+ customers; enterprise banking app enabling $20M+ daily transactions.

    • Docs: Growth data, bank testimonial, app screenshots and reference letter from CTO.

  • Evidence 2: Digital loan app – 50K+ installs (Play Store), 10K+ installs (App Store).

    • Docs: App store listings, analytics screenshots nd reference letter from the past head of the loan digital organisation.

Questions for Review

  1. For the AI company (OC 1, Evidence 3), I only worked 4 months. Does the short engagement weaken the evidence?

  2. For the e-commerce company (OC 3, Evidence 3), I founded and ran it under a year before shutting down. Will this be a concern since it was not long-running?

  3. On “2 documents per evidence”: Does this mean each evidence item can have 2 supporting files (e.g., screenshots + reference letter), or each evidence should have multiple pieces of evidence (eg I say I am a speaker and show evidence for just one event or have to show for multiple events)