Kaveri Popat

Product Manager

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India7 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Design leader with 6+ years of experience.
  • Completed Advanced Product & Brand Management at IIM Visakhapatnam.
  • Expert in aligning design with product strategy.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Design and Product Management expert in the Interior Design industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementTeam ManagementProduct DesignInterior DesignDesign LeadershipProject ManagementDesign For Manufacturing

Other Skills

Product Lifecycle ManagementMarketing ManagementMechanical Product Designlifestyle product designPackaging DesignNew Product DevelopmentSpace DesignSpace ManagementSpace PlanningProduct ConceptLeadershipClient RelationsFigma (Software)User Interface DesignUser Experience Design (UED)

About

Design leader with 6+ years of experience scaling interior and spatial projects across multiple cities, managing parallel deliveries at scale. I focus on building systems that improve execution, align cross-functional teams, and make design a repeatable, scalable process. Increasingly drawn to the intersection of design, product thinking, and strategy. Recently completed Advanced Product & Brand Management at IIM Visakhapatnam (2nd Merit Rank). Open to design management, product-led, and strategy-aligned roles.

Experience

Kinavu living

Design and Product Manager

Mar 2026Present · 0 mo · Mumbai · On-site

Product ManagementTeam ManagementProduct Lifecycle ManagementMarketing Management

Gudgudee

2 roles

Senior Industrial Designer

Promoted

May 2024Mar 2026 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru

  • Leading interior and spatial design delivery at scale, with a growing focus on systems and operational clarity.
  • Driving structured rollout across 500+ centres with consistency in usability, safety, and brand alignment
  • Building workflow frameworks that reduce rework and improve team coordination
  • Aligning design, execution, and client stakeholders to resolve constraints early
  • Contributing to scalable rollout planning and growth-oriented discussions
  • Mentoring designers and improving review processes for clearer accountability
Product ManagementTeam ManagementDesign LeadershipNew Product DevelopmentSpace DesignSpace Management+2

Industrial Designer

May 2022May 2024 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru

  • Delivered interior and product design projects while strengthening cross-functional coordination and execution efficiency.
  • Developed layouts, technical detailing, and material specifications
  • Worked closely with fabrication and execution teams to ensure feasibility
  • Managed multiple concurrent projects with tight timelines
  • Translated user behaviour and site constraints into practical design solutions
  • Supported documentation and process improvements to streamline delivery
Interior DesignProject ManagementProduct ConceptLeadershipClient RelationsNew Product Development

:designlife

Consultant Industrial Designer

Mar 2022Apr 2022 · 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • As a design team member, I parallely got to work on technical Industrial Design projects, exploring the side of design + engineering. Designing with constraints and aesthetics, made me learn a new realm of design thinking here.
Design for Manufacturing

Timothy jacob jensen studios

2 roles

Associate Designer

Dec 2021May 2022 · 5 mos

  • I have been working on client projects mainly from Europe, taking lead of the projects from start to finish. Curating design inspirations, language, products and developments have been the some of the main fortes.

Associated Product Design Intern

Jun 2021Dec 2021 · 6 mos

  • I was a part of a multidisciplinary team working on various studio projects and client projects as well. I got to focus on the creating lighting family niche for an extensive period during my term.

Part-time

Independent Owner

Oct 2019Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · India · Remote

  • I have been freelancing with a variety of clients such as doctors, interior designers, exhibitors, etc providing services in industrial and furniture design. I have worked on a variety of projects and sectors from mass manufacturing in India to exporting in the Western Countries. I have widely worked on kitchen cabinets, furniture and consumer electronics projects.
Product DesignMechanical Product Designlifestyle product designPackaging DesignInterior Design

Decathlon france

Partnership Project

Mar 2019Jun 2019 · 3 mos · Lille, Hauts-de-France, France

  • Education collaboration as a team project. Led a team of 3 juniors for a project of designing Small Table Tennis for homes in the next 5 years. Collaborating with the clients, understanding and translating the company's requirements and leading a team were the main learnings here.
Project Management

Quolt enterprises

Product Design Intern

Jun 2018Dec 2018 · 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • My role subsided in taking briefs all the way from ideation to development. I took the design initiative of the product, further teaming up with the engineers to make the product to the manufacturing level.

Home centre india

Partnership Project

Sep 2017Jan 2018 · 4 mos

  • Education collaboration as a team project. Making room partitions for the Gulf Country market, extensively carried out research tounderstand their culture, and therefore finalise design directions and developments.

Education

Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam

Advanced Product and Brand Management

Aug 2024Apr 2025

Rubika

Bachelor's of European Design — Specializing in Products and Services

Jan 2018Jan 2019

DSK International School of Design

Industrial and Product Design

Jan 2015Jan 2018

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