Rahul Karnekar

About Rahul Karnekar

Toptal vetted (top 3%) Senior Product Designer with 8+ years specializing in complex B2B SaaS, FinTech, and enterprise platforms. I help companies turn fragmented workflows into cohesive product systems — the kind with multiple user roles, approval chains, data-heavy dashboards, and business logic that breaks if the UX isn\'t right.As founding designer for a construction SaaS (3 years), I rearchitected 15 disconnected modules into a system that gave the founder confidence to secure funding and guide a 3-year development roadmap. Built the design system from scratch, designed AI-powered features (bid analytics, automated BOQ extraction), and maintained design 3-4 months ahead of engineering.Previously contributed to the redesign of India\'s leading crypto exchange (5M+ users) — co-led the design system with light/dark themes and optimized KYC onboarding, reducing completion time by 2 minutes.What I do:→ Product Design for complex SaaS — dashboards, approval flows, admin panels, multi-role interfaces→ UX Audits — identified 63 critical issues in a 3-day audit, preventing 40-60% projected drop-off for a pre-launch platform→ Design Systems — foundational infrastructure that saves dev teams months of redundant work→ AI Feature Interfaces — interaction layers for document extraction, analytics, and pattern detection I own features end-to-end: strategy, information architecture, interaction design, component systems, and dev-ready handoff.Open to consulting, contract, and embedded product design r••••••••@rahulkarnekar.com

Experience

1. Senior Product Designer

   Toptal

   Jan 2026 — Present · NY, US

   Collaborating with enterprise clients on complex B2B SaaS platforms as part of Toptal\'s vetted network (top 3% of designers globally). Engaged as an embedded product designer, owning end-to-end design for workflow systems, data-heavy dashboards, and multi-role enterprise tools.

Education

• Arena Animation

  Graphics and Web Development

  2016 — 2017