Manish Kumar
Executive Summary
Product Design Manager with 9+ years of experience blending user-centred design with product strategy across B2B SaaS, fintech, agritech, and AI platforms. Expert at running deep product discovery and user research to translate complex business metrics into intuitive user behaviour. Proven track record of managing cross-functional alignment with founders and engineers, establishing high-velocity design systems, and using AI production workflows (Cursor, Claude, v0) to ship validated products faster.
Product Leadership Highlights
- Product Discovery & Strategy: Transformed fuzzy business requirements from founders into defined, prioritised user stories and wireframes to de-risk development sprints.
- AI-Enabled Workflows: Integrated modern tools like Claude, Cursor, and v0 into the design stack, cutting down research synthesis and asset generation time by half.
- Cross-functional Validation: Set up continuous usability testing and user interview frameworks to provide immediate validation data directly to core engineering and product teams.
Core Expertise
Product Management & Strategy
Product Discovery, Feature Prioritisation, Requirement Gathering, User Story Mapping, PRD Support, Stakeholder Alignment, Agile Sprints.
Product Design & UX
UX Strategy, Design Systems, User Research, User Interviews, Journey Mapping, Wireframing, Rapid Prototyping, Usability Testing.
AI-Enabled Development
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, v0, Midjourney — AI Prototyping, Design-to-Code Workflows, AI Research Synthesis.
Technical Interface Stack
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React, Bootstrap, Git, REST APIs, Webflow, Shopify Management.
Work Experience
- Product Strategy: Designed core SaaS layouts based on direct founder workshops, turning complex multi-tier roadmap data into intuitive app paths.
- AI-Enabled Pipelines: Introduced AI design-to-code pipelines using Claude, v0, and Cursor, lowering layout handoff misalignment loops with the engineering team.
- Growth Experimentation: Ran targeted onboarding experiments and landing page adjustments, identifying conversion drops to improve initial user activation metrics.
- Field Research: Led field research and direct interviews with rural users to map out real-world behaviour, removing usability bottlenecks from the core app interface.
- Product Delivery: Translated raw crop-cycle metrics into clear interactive mockups, giving product managers and developers actionable assets for sprint planning.
- Team Leadership: Mentored a 3-designer team by introducing structured critique frameworks and reusable component asset blocks to protect production quality.
- Design Systems: Built a component-driven enterprise design system, eliminating styling mismatch errors across complex compliance dashboards.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Synthesised dense security compliance regulations into structured data flows during stakeholder workshops, simplifying user execution steps.
- Technical Ownership: Designed and wrote responsive layout modules for the MyBridge platform, fixing visual breaks across desktop and mobile browsers.
- Infrastructure Management: Verified code implementation in production via cPanel/WHM to guarantee final layouts matched design spec sheets precisely.
- Agile Sprint Ownership: Shipped customer platform updates under fast-paced Agile sprint constraints, preventing scope creep from delaying critical release timelines.
- Scalability Frameworks: Created a unified atomic asset library, cutting recurring interface layout assembly hours for internal teammates.
Featured Projects
HFN Saarthi
Turned field research on rural users into a simplified mobile workflow that stripped out dense agricultural data friction.
Case Study ↗RecoBee AI Platform
Mapped UX strategy and designed conversion-focused activation screens using fast AI-assisted prototyping loops.
Case Study ↗Alterreco Mobile
Designed a mobile-first user journey optimised to retain high engagement and smoothen feature adoption curves.
Case Study ↗Schools Saarthi
Designed unified navigation systems connecting student, teacher, and admin portals into one streamlined layout system.
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