Amani Shariff

Amani Shariff is an honorary fellow at Burnet Institute, passionate about using design, strategy, and innovation to create meaningful impact. She brings broad experience leading product and customer experience initiatives across health, technology, and financial services, helping teams turn complex ideas into human-centred, trusted and scalable solutions.

Amani’s career has spanned startups and large organisations alike. As a founding member of BCG X, she led cross-functional teams through the process of designing and building new ventures across Australia and Asia for large corporates. Since then, she has focused on guiding early-stage startups through defining product strategy, embedding customer insight, and creating the conditions for purposeful innovation and growth.

After years spent helping build ventures across diverse sectors, Amani is now focused on applying her experience in human-centred design and innovation toward work that supports positive social outcomes.

• 2024–2025: Fractional Head of Product and CX, halalstocks.co
• 2024: Design Consulting and Mentorship, Medow Health
• 2023–2024: Parental Leave
• 2022–2023: Strategic Design Lead, Chronicle
• 2021–2022: Parental Leave
• 2013–2021: Lead Strategic Designer, BCG X
• 2012: Marketing Officer, Oceanlinx
• 2010–2012: Partner, Truth Consulting
• 2009–2010: Junior Designer, Landor Associates

• 2008: SH! Awards Commendation
• 2007: D&AD Student Awards Commendation