Portfolio · 2026

Hi, I’m Kunal.

A senior product designer building systems people use without thinking about it — across telecom, banking, and AI.

20 years in. Looking for Director, Head of Design, Innovation, or R&D roles where the line between design and engineering is allowed to blur.

Designed for, with, and inside

VerizonICICI BankHero MotoCorpAirtelMahindraBCGIKEA

01 · How I work

What I spend my time on.

Three things, roughly equal weight.

Design and stakeholder management

Leading design organisations and the conversations around them — strategy, executive alignment, and the trade-offs that survive a roadmap reset.

AI tools

Claude, Emergent, Figma Make, v0, Cursor — across discovery, design, and research. The tools change every few months; the instinct doesn't.

End-to-end automation

Spotting the workflow that's quietly costing a business time, designing the blueprint around it, and shipping the platform that solves it — not a deck.

AI Ops

VEDA

An AI bot inside Microsoft Teams that auto-generates client health reports — replacing 3–5 hours of weekly PM work with under 30 seconds.

2025–26 · Sole product owner

Enterprise AI · Under NDA

Contact Centre 2030

A forward-looking agent workspace for a US-based telecom carrier — one human supervises 5–10 concurrent AI-mediated chats, with sentiment-triggered escalation. Client confidential.

2023–24 · Design Lead

Consumer Fintech

Hero Retail Finance

Unified consumer-fintech platform integrating two-wheeler financing across customer, dealer, and admin surfaces.

Design Manager · Hero MotoCorp

Consumer Mobile

Hero ICE — Connected Mobility

A consumer companion app for Hero MotoCorp's two-wheeler riders — service, loyalty, and connected-vehicle data. Designed to work for connected and non-connected bikes alike.

2022–23 · Design Manager · Hero MotoCorp

Agentic AI · Self-initiated

Knowledge Companion Agent

A multi-agent service blueprint for a regulated fintech's wealth-publication workflow. Four AI agents working in concert, with compliance as a first-class peer.

2026 · Self-initiated proposal

03 · About

Principal Product Designer. Twenty years of work, currently looking for what's next.

My particular strength is spotting the workflow that's quietly costing a business time, designing the blueprint around it, and shipping the platform that solves it — end-to-end, not a deck.

Most of the work has been on regulated systems — telecom, mobile payments, contact centres, retail finance — the kind of software people use without thinking about it.