Open to Lead & Principal roles

I check whether the stated problem is the real problem.

A product designer embedded with client product teams — marketplace operations at Meesho, student support at Vedantu, cardiac digital therapeutics at Lupin.

Location
Jaipur, India
Experience
13 years
The positioning

The work I am proudest of is usually the work that changed direction. Two of the three case studies below are about a brief that was wrong. The third is about a brief that was right but silent on the thing that mattered most.

13+
Years in product design
11
Years at Auriga IT
03
Embedded client engagements
01
Funded initiative stopped and redirected
How I work

I am specific about where my evidence came from and how good it was.

I would rather show you evidence with its limits attached than a confident number you cannot check.

Read a case study
Sample size, named

In each case study you will find the sample size, who ran the research, and what I inherited versus what I generated.

Thin evidence, flagged

The Meesho retest was one participant who had already been asked the same question three times, and I say so.

Substitutes, declared

At Lupin I had no patient access at all, so I went to a cardiologist, and I am precise about what that substituted for and what it did not.

The career shape,
said plainly

Eleven years at Auriga IT, embedded with clients. Someone will check LinkedIn, and a discrepancy costs more than the clarification does.

01
Embedded with clients

Meesho, Vedantu and Lupin were client engagements, not employment. They are labelled that way everywhere on this site.

02
On the missing outcome data

As an embedded designer I am usually scoped to delivery. The measurement window opens after the engagement closes. Where I could chase numbers afterwards I have, and where I could not, I say so rather than presenting targets as results.

03
On the recent years

Since 2023 I have been on Auriga's own products — design systems work, Figma tooling, AI-assisted design workflows. Less of the deep product problem-solving I want to get back to. That is exactly why I am looking now.

Open to new roles

A Design Lead or Principal role where problem selection is part of the job.

LinkedIn profile

Execution is table stakes at this level. What I bring is a habit of interrogating the brief before I commit a team's cycles to it, and enough discipline about evidence to know when my interrogation is well-founded and when it is not.

Rakesh Gaur · Jaipur, India
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