Rishikesh Kulkarni
Product Design Manager | Loopio | UXD | Product Design | Top Fellow @Nextleap | Product & Design Mentor
India
12+ years of work experience
Mar 20267 mosPresent
Remote
Own design direction for an AI-powered RFP automation platform, staying hands-on while managing a global design team. Recently integrated ShadCN and our local design system into Claude via MCP, producing AI-generated designs that ship back into Figma already Design System compliant. Designed and shipped Collaborative Authoring, real-time, multi-user content editing (up to 20 concurrent users editing, commenting, and suggesting simultaneously).
Oct 20241 yr 6 mosMar 2026
Oslo, Norway
Jan 20231 yr 11 mosNov 2024
Oslo, Norway
As a Product Manager at Simplifai, I lead cross-functional teams to define and execute the product vision for AI-driven solutions. My role involves end-to-end product lifecycle management, from gathering customer insights and market analysis to defining product roadmaps and ensuring successful launches. By working closely with engineering, sales, and customer success teams, I ensure that our products meet business goals and deliver exceptional value to users, driving innovation in automation technology.
Jan 20222 yrs 11 mosNov 2024
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
As a lead designer at Simplifai me and my team are building the next generation Intelligent Process Automation Platform. This platform helps businesses and organisations automate their manual processes and repetitive tasks and reduce the manual efforts require.
Through extensive Market and User Research our design team has created this easy to use Automation Platform.
Leading the Design Team at Simplifai has allowed me to
Conduct User Research and Usability Testing for different products
Mentor Junior Designers
Create, Maintain and Monitor the Simplifai Design System for our line of Products
Advocate UX Design across the organisation and
Craft highly engaging products which are used across the Banking and Insurance Industries.
Apr 202110 mosJan 2022
Designed HMI (Human-Machine Interface) and embedded systems experiences for a predictive maintenance platform, translating sensor data, inspection workflows, and anomaly-detection logic into constrained, on-device interfaces for EU government infrastructure projects. Built and led a team of 6 designers across 3 product modules; managed outside vendors and agencies as part of delivery. Standardized UX documentation and patterns as part of early design governance, and built reusable patterns for data-dense dashboards.
May 202011 mosMar 2021
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Founding designer for a relocation intelligence platform, owned end-to-end web and mobile experience from discovery through recommendation and decision stages, working with outside vendors and agencies. Designed data-driven mapping and recommendation systems in close collaboration with engineering and API teams. Built the company's first lightweight design system to keep complex, data-heavy interactions consistent across platforms.
Oct 20197 mosApr 2020
Jan 20199 mosSep 2019
As a UX Lead and UX mentor at DesignBoat, the key areas of operations in this role are:
1. Crafting the experience design for applications based product brands
2. User Research and Scenario Building
3. Storyboarding
4. User Flow and user journey creation
5. Building information architecture
UI Design:
1. Visual Design
2. Building pixel perfect mockups
3. Facilitating interactive prototyping
Specialising in iOS, Android and web design.
Dec 20125 y 1 moJan 2018
Pune
Rishikesh’s AI Stack
Education
M.Sc, Geoinformatics
SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Master's Degree, Geographic Information Science and Cartography
SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
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