Karan Kapoor

Product Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India6 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led design impacting 2M+ users
Championing AI adoption in design
Conducted 100+ design workshops

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Designer specializing in HR Tech and AI-driven experiences.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DesignProduct ManagementUser Experience (ux)Virtual Worlds

Other Skills

AI IntegrationPrototyping3D DesignData AnalysisUX ResearchGuest LecturingWireframingInformation ArchitectureFigmaAdobe LightroomAdobe IllustratorAdobe PhotoshopAdobe XDNotion

About

I lead design and roadmap strategy for Employee Engagement and Rewards, impacting 2M+ users through Agentic workflows and AI-driven experiences. With 6+ years of experience—from founding startups to scaling enterprise HR tech. I bridge the gap between user research, business strategy, and GTM execution. Beyond the screen, I’ve spent 5 years leading Friends of Figma Delhi and conducting design workshops at IIM-A, IIT-M, and UX India. Currently championing AI adoption to redefine how design teams build the future of work.

Experience

6 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

11 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Keka hr

Senior Product Designer

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad · On-site

Operating as product owner for rewards module, independently creating quarterly roadmap based on customer research and business priorities.
Leading design for engage pod (pulse, surveys, rewards) for 2M+ employees; partnering with engineering, PM, and GTM teams to build customer-driven roadmaps that increase ARR, retention, acquisition, and reduce churn.
Designing an AI-powered HR Business Partner (HRBP) copilot aimed at enhancing employee engagement across the complete employee lifecycle.
Redesigned peer wish feature, increasing engagement 5x (5k → 15k users, 31k → 116k impressions).
Championing AI adoption via workshops and tool integration (Claude, Figma Make, NotebookLM) to enhance team productivity.

Product DesignProduct Management

Immertive

Virtual Reality Designer

Jul 2023 – Feb 2024 · 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Designed a VR pharmacy for hospitals and institutions to train students enrolled in Bridge Program in Community Health in remote areas for 1 million+ students.

Virtual Worlds3D Design

Looppanel

Founding Product Designer

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr

As a first design hire I partnered with founders on product strategy; conducted user research to reduce time-to-insights by 5x through rapid prototyping and testing with users.
Designed core product workflows like zoom notetaker, project highlights and summaries, to help researchers extract insights faster; validated all features through detailed prototypes before engineering handoff.
Led GTM efforts through direct customer outreach, blog content, and community engagement across Slack, LinkedIn, and Facebook groups.

Product Design

Obvious

Product Designer

May 2021 – Sep 2021 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Designed features like leave tracking, auto approval, and geography-dependent leave calendar for Pause, a B2B leave management tool used by 50+ clients globally ; achieved #3 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
Redesigned 3+ modules for Grab-Singapore Merchant Dashboard used by 1M+ merchants.

Product Design

Aphelia innovations

Product Design Lead

Mar 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · New Delhi, Delhi, India · Remote

Led design and launch of 5+ products and MVPs in healthtech and developer experience sectors.
Collaborated with dev and PM teams to create product roadmaps.
Grew the design team to 4 and introduced frameworks to streamline project pipelines.

Product Design

Guesthouser

User Experience Designer (Company Shut Down)

Jun 2019 – Feb 2020 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Redesigned the booking and housekeeping apps used by ~100k people.
Created and launched a Design System for internal tools and user facing apps

User Experience (UX)

Chapter vitamins

Android Developer

Jun 2018 – May 2019 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

Developed engagement modules for employee training apps for clients like bajaj, tcs, wipro etc.
Worked closely with product managers and devs to ship new features like gamification and interactive quizzes.