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title: "Mihir Poddar - Founder & Operations Lead in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Mihir Poddar, User & Market Researcher | AI Data Quality at Outlier AI | Surveys, Interviews, Usability Testing | MSc UX Design, Kingston University London based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude, and notebooklm. Explore public work links including mihirpoddar.com."
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# Mihir Poddar on Tal

## Headline

User & Market Researcher \| AI Data Quality at Outlier AI \| Surveys, Interviews, Usability Testing \| MSc UX Design, Kingston University London

## About

I'm a researcher who likes to understand why people do what they do and turn that into decisions a business can act on\. For the last two years, I've worked with Outlier AI, evaluating AI\-generated responses against detailed quality rubrics and auditing other reviewers' work\. Before that, I completed an MSc in User Experience Design at Kingston University London, where I ran surveys, in\-depth interviews, focus groups, and end\-to\-end usability tests\. Since then, I've done UX research and design work with Fini and ARM Worldwide\. I also run a small physical\-goods business, Sapphire Exim, where competitor and market research got us to product\-market fit in about six months, and an automated reporting system I built cut manual reporting time by around 75%\. I'm looking for research analyst, market and consumer insights, UX research, and AI data quality roles\. Based in Bengaluru and open to relocating within India\. Skills: survey design · in\-depth interviews · focus groups · usability testing · qualitative coding · competitor analysis · Microsoft Excel · Figma · AI output evaluation

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

antigravity

claude

notebooklm

## Work experience

Founder & Operations Lead at Sapphire Exim, Sep 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, \- Used market and competitor research to find gaps in the paints market, reaching product\-market fit within 6 months\. \- Built a data\-collection and reporting system in AppSheet and Google Sheets and automated reporting and reminders with AI\-assisted Apps Script, cutting manual reporting time by about 75%\. \- Listed the full product range on Amazon through Seller Central, shooting all product photos myself, and ran a first Amazon Ads campaign\. \- Ran an automated WhatsApp Business retention campaign to existing clients that contributed to a 300% rise in repeat orders\. \- Reconciled Tally inventory records against physical stock checks, correcting every discrepancy\.

AI Trainer and Reviewer at Outlier AI, Sep 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Remote, \- Evaluate AI\-generated responses against project\-specific rubrics for accuracy, relevance, clarity, and user trust across text, speech\-to\-text, and video\-to\-text projects\. \- Rank and rewrite model responses for reinforcement learning from human feedback \(RLHF\)\. \- Run quality checks across 10\+ projects, reviewing 30\+ prompts per cycle and auditing other contributors' work for guideline compliance\. \- Write prompts and datasets for speech\-to\-text and video\-to\-text models\.

UX Designer at \#ARM Worldwide, Jul 2025 \- Sep 2025 · 2 mo, Gurugram, \- Analysed 7–10 competitor products per client brief to set design direction and presented 4–5 high\-fidelity options to client stakeholders within 4\-day cycles\. \- Built Figma prototypes with senior designers in 4\-day cycles, shortening client feedback loops\. \- Ran design QA and developer handoff, catching 8–10 implementation errors per sprint and tracking each to resolution across 5–6 iterations\.

UX Researcher at fini®, Apr 2025 \- Jul 2025 · 4 mos, remote, \- Led design audits and secondary research on a sports and fitness brand's iOS app in 5\-day sprints to identify user pain points ahead of its rebrand\. \- Turned the findings into a user acquisition strategy with product leadership, contributing to a 10% rise in user acquisition from social campaigns within 4 weeks\.

UX Researcher at Bhrama Framework, Sep 2024 \- Nov 2024 · 2 mo, London Area, United Kingdom, \- Wrote a three\-part literature review scoping an AI agent for social VR, covering cognitive load, methods for estimating a user's knowledge state, and non\-verbal communication in avatars\. \- Identified four open research gaps that set the project's scope and took part in design sprints with peer teams\.

## Education

Master's degree, User Experience Design, Kingston University

Bachelor of Business Administration \- BBA, Marketing, Jain \(Deemed\-to\-be University\)

## Public links

- mihirpoddar\.com: https://www\.mihirpoddar\.com/

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