# Manasi Mehta > Product Manager & Designer | AI + Human-Centered Design | MS Product @ CMU Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/manasimehta I’m a Product Manager and Product Designer focused on building AI-enabled tools that translate complex technical systems into intuitive, human-centered products. My work spans AI with human in the loop strategies, design technology, and sustainability. I build solutions that support real-world workflows. I work closely with design and engineering teams to shape product architecture, user journeys, and interaction models that make data-driven and AI-powered tools practical and easy to adopt. My experience includes exploring new product opportunities while improving and scaling existing platforms. I employ user research strategies, rapid prototyping, and testing to uncover insights, strengthen adoption, and create long-term product value across complex ecosystems. Always happy to connect! ## Work Experience ### Product Manager, AI Research @ Design Research Collective Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | United States • Defined 0 to 1 AI feature concepts for 3D modeling software by benchmarking visual reasoning models against expert performance on architectural engineering simulation datasets, contributing to a research publication. • Shaped the lab's next research agenda by conducting whitespace analysis across 100+ AI literature to identify untapped opportunities and prioritize future research directions. ### Product Manager Intern @ Reclamation Factory Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States The Reclamation Factory is building modular, automated, and community-scale plastics recycling equipment to create an accessible and transparent solution for circular plastic recycling. [ AI/ML + Robotics] • Reduced compliance reporting time by 70% by leading a 0-to-1 development of a B2B analytics dashboard shipping the MVP in 6 weeks through cross-functional collaboration with engineering, design, and marketing. • Secured 3 enterprise buyers by developing go-to-market messaging and product positioning by translating customer pain points into differentiated value propositions, driving early demand testing and adoption. ### Product Manager [Capstone] @ ATI Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States As part of CMU's Integrated Innovation Institute's Industry sponsored Capstone Project with ATI - • Defined the go-to-market, partnership, and pricing strategy for a green hydrogen solution by evaluating target customers, channel pathways, and commercialization levers across a 3-year market entry plan. • Reduced projected green hydrogen production costs by 85%, achieving cost parity with conventional alternatives, by developing a commercialization roadmap that projected breakeven in 27 months across a $320K, 3-year plan. ### Product Manager [Capstone] @ American Honda Motor Company, Inc. Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States As part of Tepper's Corporate Startup Lab's Industry Sponsored Capstone Project with HALO Honda- • Earned leadership approval by designing a multi-stakeholder research consortium strategy, aligning academic and industry incentives through IP, data-sharing protocols, and governance structures synthesized from over 50+ stakeholder interviews and ecosystem analysis. • Projected $78M in revenue by Year 15 across 50+ members by developing financial models and long-term growth plans, applying decision analysis matrices to evaluate sustainability, ROI, and membership tiering scenarios. ### Founding Product Manager @ Arbiter Life Sciences Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India • Increased customer acquisition by 20% by conducting user research and workflow mapping across B2B pharmaceutical retail segments to define roadmap priorities and UX improvements. • Reduced order fulfillment time by 15% and build cycle time by 30% by authoring PRDs and leading cross-functional collaboration with engineering and design to streamline catalog architecture and fulfillment workflows. • Reduced design-to-dev handoff time by 70% by identifying inconsistent UX patterns as a bottleneck and establishing the product's first Figma design system across catalog, ordering, and shipment tracking flows. ### Product Manager @ Midori Architects Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Chennai • Prioritized 1 MVP from 10+ sustainable housing prototypes for a $1.2B initiative by conducting stakeholder discovery with 30+ users and synthesizing 4 ICPs to balance user needs, business constraints, and design requirements. • Secured a $22M urban redevelopment project by synthesizing market, stakeholder, and regulatory insights into a winning executive proposal that enabled acquisition decision-making. • Maintained delivery timelines and budgets across 6 permitted construction projects by coordinating between engineers, contractors, subcontractors, and vendors through on-site conflict resolution and timely approvals. • Ensured construction quality and design integrity across 6 projects by bridging design and site teams conducting inspections, resolving design-to-field tradeoffs, and aligning structural, MEP, and civil engineers to requirements. ### Experience Designer @ Midori Architects Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India •Drove execution of sustainability-focused projects by implementing LEED, LBC and IGBC certification standards by preparing comprehensive documentation, resolving stakeholder conflicts, and improving cost efficiency. •Resolved high-priority site design and structural challenges in real-time by leveraging proactive stakeholder engagement, and data-driven decision-making, resulting in resolved project execution roadblocks for timely execution and increased process efficiency. ### Design Intern @ Design Lab For Experimenting Architecture Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India •Managed client-vendor relationships and supply chain operations, ensuring on-time delivery of critical components, mitigating risks, which streamlined project execution. •Developed and maintained technical documentation to standardize workflows, enhance team productivity, and ensure seamless knowledge transfer for construction and execution teams. ## Education ### Master in Integrated Innovation of Products and Services - Advanced Study in Product Innovation & Strategy Carnegie Mellon University ### Bachelor of Architecture - BArch in Architecture Mohamed Sathak A.J. Academy of Architecture ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/manasi-mehta2202 - Portfolio: https://manasimehta.framer.website/ - Portfolio: https://medium.com/@manasimehta2202 - GitHub: https://github.com/mana2202 - Portfolio: https://manasimehta.framer.website --- Source: https://flows.cv/manasimehta JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/manasimehta/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-16