Prashant Prasad

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Design Manager, Kingsway Consulting - jobs to be done · interviews · usability testing

Kingsway Consulting
Kolkata, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
XLRI Jamshedpur
English, Hindi, Bengali
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Overview

Design Manager at Kingsway Consulting, focused on user research. Built a component library 43 engineers ship with every day. Shipped the research redesign that lifted task completion 17%. Before that: Boston Consulting Group and Intuit. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Second opinions on usability testing decisions
  • Working sessions on jobs to be done
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Offshore staffing offers
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Skills
user researchusability testingjobs to be donesynthesisinterviews
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
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Need a design-minded co-founder: tutoring in MENA

The idea
Tutoring in MENA
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
12 years in user research
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Kolkata or remote

I bring 14 years of user research (currently Kingsway Consulting). Ideally you've run operations in LatAm. Have a working prototype and design partners.

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HiringHiring for a role
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Building out research at Kingsway Consulting: product designers wanted in Kolkata

Role
Product designer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
₹30-55 LPA
Team
Research, 9 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Good judgment about what not to build
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp ₹22-86 LPA. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Design Manager
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Kingsway Consulting · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Built a component library 32 engineers ship with every day.
    • Shipped the research redesign that lifted task completion 36%.
  2. Senior Product Designer
    Jun 2021 - Sep 2024
    Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Ran 130 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.
  3. Product Designer
    Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
    Intuit · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Shipped the research redesign that lifted task completion 28%.
  4. UX Researcher
    Sep 2016 - Jul 2018
    Meesho · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Ran 67 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.
    • Shipped the research redesign that lifted task completion 26%.
  5. UX Researcher
    May 2015 - Sep 2016
    Nvidia · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Ran 68 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.
    • Shipped the research redesign that lifted task completion 25%.

Projects

Side project: a budgeting app
2025

Built with synthesis and user research. 1361 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. XLRI Jamshedpur
    MBA, Business Administration
    2011 - 2013
  2. IIT Kanpur
    B.Tech, Visual Communication
    2007 - 2011

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