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Jagrat Desai

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Hi! I’m Jagrat, a product builder who’s taken ideas from first principles to six-figure revenue and millions of users, blending 10 years of design depth with hands-on product ownership.

When I’m not shaping products, I’m making music 🎧, playing football ⚽️ or pretending to surf 🏄

Hi! I’m Jagrat, a product builder who’s taken ideas from first principles to six-figure revenue and millions of users, blending 10 years of design depth with hands-on product ownership.

When I’m not shaping products, I’m making music 🎧, playing football ⚽️ or pretending to surf 🏄

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Top 3 career highlights

Top 3 career highlights

Top 3 career highlights

Co-founded the design function at Haptik.ai

Helped make Haptik the 2nd highest rated app with over 5M downloads on Google Play in India. Later acquired by Jio - India's largest internet conglomerate.

Sole-designed HackerRank's fastest growing product - SkillUp

Created from scratch and onboarded enterprise customers like AT&T and Walmart in year one.

Designed IndusOS, a smartphone OS for first-time users in rural India

Shipped on millions of MicroMax devices bringing the underserved into the digital ecosystem with a native language OS.

Work

Work

Work

Experience

Experience

Experience

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HackerRank

Senior Product Designer

2023 - 2025

Built a new upskilling product called SkillUp from scratch. It was the fastest to achieve six-figure revenue. Customers included AT&T, Walmart & Liverpool while being under evaluation by American Airlines, Delta Airlines, BNP Paribas, McKinsey, Eli Lily, & more.

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HackerRank

Senior Product Designer

2023 - 2025

Built a new upskilling product called SkillUp from scratch. It was the fastest to achieve six-figure revenue. Customers included AT&T, Walmart & Liverpool while being under evaluation by American Airlines, Delta Airlines, BNP Paribas, McKinsey, Eli Lily, & more.

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HackerRank

Senior Product Designer (2023-2025)

Built a new upskilling product called SkillUp from scratch. It was the fastest to achieve six-figure revenue. Customers included AT&T, Walmart & Liverpool while being under evaluation by American Airlines, Delta Airlines, BNP Paribas, McKinsey, Eli Lily, & more.

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ConsciousLeap

Founding Product Manager & Designer

2021 - 2023

Built ConsciousLeap's first digital product - the Make You Happen app. Led user research and design thinking to pinpoint product needs, then created the Android & iOS apps end-to-end.

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ConsciousLeap

Founding Product Manager & Designer

2021 - 2023

Built ConsciousLeap's first digital product - the Make You Happen app. Led user research and design thinking to pinpoint product needs, then created the Android & iOS apps end-to-end.

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ConsciousLeap

Founding PM & Designer (2021-2023)

Built ConsciousLeap's first digital product - the Make You Happen app. Led user research and design thinking to pinpoint product needs, then created the Android & iOS apps end-to-end.

Career-break: Songwriting & Music Production

Took a career break to pursue a childhood goal of mine - making music. Following the philosophy of learning by by doing, I took Ryan Tedder's hands-on course and created 17 songs over 10 months.

10 months

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Haptik.ai (Acquired by Jio for $100M)

Senior Product Designer

2016 - 2020

Founded Haptik’s design function which included establishing the core UX through a conversation design playbook, designing the Haptik app which became India’s highest-rated Google Play app (5M+ downloads category) reaching 30 million users and building core capabilities (bot builder, analytics dashboards, more) of Haptik’s B2B suite, earning category-leader recognition from Gartner, G2, and Opus.

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Haptik.ai (Acquired by Jio for $100M)

Senior Product Designer

2016 - 2020

Founded Haptik’s design function which included establishing the core UX through a conversation design playbook, designing the Haptik app which became India’s highest-rated Google Play app (5M+ downloads category) reaching 30 million users and building core capabilities (bot builder, analytics dashboards, more) of Haptik’s B2B suite, earning category-leader recognition from Gartner, G2, and Opus.

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Haptik.ai (Acquired by Jio for $100M)

Senior Product Designer (2016-2020)

Founded Haptik’s design function which included establishing the core UX through a conversation design playbook, designing the Haptik app which became India’s highest-rated Google Play app (5M+ downloads category) reaching 30 million users and building core capabilities (bot builder, analytics dashboards, more) of Haptik’s B2B suite, earning category-leader recognition from Gartner, G2, and Opus.

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IndusOS (Acquired by PhonePe)

UX Designer

2015-2015

Directed a 4-member design team in creating a native-language mobile OS, onboarding millions of first time smartphone users and surpassing iOS’s 2016 market share in India.

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IndusOS (Acquired by PhonePe)

UX Designer

2015-2015

Directed a 4-member design team in creating a native-language mobile OS, onboarding millions of first time smartphone users and surpassing iOS’s 2016 market share in India.

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IndusOS (Acquired by PhonePe)

UX Designer (2015-2015)

Directed a 4-member design team in creating a native-language mobile OS, onboarding millions of first time smartphone users and surpassing iOS’s 2016 market share in India.

Education

Education

Education

Microsoft AI Product Manager

Professional Certificate

2025

Microsoft AI Product Manager

Professional Certificate

2025

Microsoft AI Product Manager

Professional Certificate (2025)

Parsons School of Design, New York

Design & Technology

2011-2015

Parsons School of Design, New York

Design & Technology

2011-2015

Parsons School of Design, New York

Design & Technology (2011-2015)

Beyond Product Building

Beyond Product Building

Beyond Product Building

Football

Surfing