# Nikhil Popat

> Product Design at Plaid

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikhilpopat

I am a Product Designer based in San Francisco, CA. I've built consumer and enterprise products and enjoy collaborating with product management, engineering, and support to create awesome products.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Plaid
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California
Product Design Lead for the Payments Risk team.

### Lead Product Designer @ Granular
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California
Led redesign of the Granular Insights mobile app (iOS & Android). Oversaw a team of 3 designers & coordinated design across 4 mobile teams. The redesign allowed Granular to deprecate a legacy app and consolidate a fragmented user base.

### Senior Product Designer @ Granular
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco

### Product Designer @ Radius Intelligence
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Radius allows customers (like American Express, Square, & Sam’s Club) to harness the most accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date B2B data available anywhere. 

(Radius was acquired by Kabbage in 2019)

### UX Designer @ Workiva
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Helped finance professionals easily collaborate on large, complex reports. Delivering consumer-grade UX to a traditionally underserved market.

• Created wireframes, mockups, interactive prototypes, animations and UI specs
• Interviewed users to define key user scenarios and design solutions that achieve user goals 
• Conducted usability tests to validate and improve upon designs
• Presented work in bi-weekly design reviews
• Regularly presented, explained, and advocated design decisions to high-level stakeholders

### UX Research Lead (CMU Capstone Project) @ Panasonic R&D
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Led user-centered research within an interdisciplinary team of CMU HCI Master's students.

• Created usability testing sessions, research activities, & workshops catered towards children
• Translated findings from user research into design guidelines and insights
• Delivered a high-fidelity prototype to the Panasonic R&D Company of America.

### Marketing Intern @ Groovv Offers (formerly Fanminder)
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
• Led the creation of the Fanminder Help Desk and Community Forums, including benchmarking competitive support practices, researching third party support applications, and specifying integration of the application into the Fanminder product.


## Education
### Masters of Science in Human-Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Political Science
Ursinus College
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikhilpopat
- Portfolio: http://www.nikhilpopat.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-25