# Nipun Kumar > Principal Product Manager and Strategy (Ex-Founder | Ex-Samsung | Ex-Slalom) Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nipunkumar πŸ¦ΈπŸ½β€β™‚οΈ I am hands on product manager who can do user research turn them into design then turn those into product requirements and get products shipped in a 48 hour cycle. Using AI tools effectively makes me a 10X PM who can capture markets at break neck speeds leaving no space for competitors to catchup. Delivering customer delight every day is possible! πŸ”¬I get excited about working at the cutting edge, collaborating closely with engineers, researchers, designers, and customers to execute bold ideas. I worked at the world's most advanced consumer electronics R&D labs building "science fiction" prototypes translating multi-million dollar technology into real-world impact. I found my way in digital transformation consulting leading product development labs building custom enterprise and employee productivity tools. I learned about #healthcare #retail #tech #life-sciences #SaaS #insurance #finance industries inner working. I founded Chekable bringing LLMs to the patent law industry with a mission to democratize intellectual property. Chekable's agentic AI architecture boasts <0.05% hallucination. I love collaborating and solving problems! #productmanager #AI #0to1 #leadership #management #business #hiring #operations #customer-research #PMF ## Work Experience ### Legal-tech Founder, Product Management and Design @ Chekable Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Oakland, CA #legaltech #patentlaw #intellectualproperty I was wearing multiple hats with a core focus on product management. Chekable delivered an agentic AI platform for patent professionals. Platform provides services such as prior art searching, patent drafting, analysis, preparation and proofing in one interconnected platform with cooperative AI agents. - Secured 21 IP law firms in our beta program - Secured 3 year partnership with a prestigious professional association for patent practitioners - Signed up 60 IP law firms within first 5 months of launch and converted 12 - Raised $300k in venture capital (bootstrapped for 2 years) - Managed a lean product team working product operating model, running experiments, acting on product analytics, working with customers closely. - Completed the SOC 2 Type II process and implemented logically separated highly secure infrastructure. Conducted customer research, build lean canvas models, customer personas, identify ICP, identify GTM channels, build product requirements, manage agile development, look at sales data, marketing data and product data to determine strategic course of action. Other responsibilities include: UX design, testing AI agent performance, benchmarking text outputs, testing new LLMs, LLMops, prompt engineering, prompt management, prompt writing, instruction tuning, context window management, overcoming input-output tokens constraints, configuring evals, LLMs as judge (Evals), looking at tracings for troubleshooting deviation. Research on latest LLM tools and operations. ### VP Product Innovation @ Mastech InfoTrellis Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Tasked with building a world class product and innovation lab with a focus on customer experience, data and AI. These services are design to support Mastech clients' digital transformation and modernization initiatives. Build IP for Mastech: Go-to-market with semantic applications on next-gen IT infrastructure that improves organizational performance and enables hyper-personalization engines to build highly desirable customer experiences across all touch points. By using knowledge graphs and semantic relationships enable insights and expose analytics previously not possible using SQL structures. Helped repackage a anti-money laundering technology built on graph traversals and predictive behavioral algorithms for other use cases such as product 360, vendor 360, customer 360, political sentiment analysis and financial 360 solutions. ### Director Of Product and Strategy @ Trianz Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Built a product and innovation lab (Digital Studio) from ground up at Trianz. A human-centered approach to enterprise product development. I built a team of product managers, customer strategists, user researchers, and design thinkers. Product as a service: Delivered mobile and web apps for food and beverage, insurance, healthcare and logistics customers. End-to-end ownership from concept, implementation and managing the ongoing operations. Digital Studio also designed Trianz' four B2B SaaS products. ### Principal consultant: Product innovation @ Slalom Consulting Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco At Slalom our design team is helping clients experiment with emerging technologies, concepts, design thinking, design strategy and product development. We use most modern tools to create proof of concepts (MVP) along with Lean UX, Design Sprint (Google Ventures) frameworks to make any vision a reality. Tags: UX/UI/XD/Product Design/Design Strategy and Innovation ### Consultant: Product innovation and strategy (Digital transformation) @ Slalom Consulting Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco At Slalom our design team is creating rich and beautiful user experiences for clients across all industry sectors. Slalom brings designers, business and technology expertise together to help companies accelerate innovation, enhance the customer experience, and increase employee productivity. I have helped our clients at Genentech, VMware, McKesson, Constellation and Walmart.com create successful products that impact their customers, businesses and operations. ### Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Researcher @ Samsung Electronics Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | HQ, Corporate Design Center, Seocho, Seoul UX for New Form Factor Mobile Devices. Wearables, curved, flexible and foldable devices. ### Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Researcher @ Samsung Electronics Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | UX Center DMC R&D UX designer at Digital Media and Communication R&D center at Samsung HQ in S.Korea. Working on innovation and ideation of new user experiences for devices of the future. Designed numerous key patents in the field of user interface, graphic user interface and software design to make rich interactive environments. These designs will secure Samsung's future for the devices that will become a key part of B2C and B2B electronics industry in the near and far future. Actively developing prototypes, UX theory and research and experimental projects. - Flagship Device UX - UX for Flexible and Transparent Displays - UI for next generation smart phones - Research & Development of Vision based User Context aware Interaction solution for TV & Mobile devices - 3D UI/UX for stereoscopic and auto-stereoscopic displays on TVs, LFDs, mobile phones, tablets and PCs ### Instructor, Teacher @ Rhode Island School of Design Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Course at Digital+Media department called Space in New Media Installation ### Researcher and Architect @ Abhimanyu Dalal Architects Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 1) Worked on research and contents for a book on History of Interior Design in New Delhi. 2) Worked on architectural designs for houses, farm houses and bungalows of high profile clients. ### Consultant and Designer @ Atul Kumar and Associates Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 Freelance project given by AKA for a home office in New Delhi. ### Space/Interior/Retail Designer @ Idiom Design and Consulting Ltd. Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 Worked on a range of projects in one of the top retail design firms in India. Conceptualization, brain storming, working drawings, and dealing with vendors was all part of my job in executing office spaces, book and music stores and food court for a mall. ## Education ### MFA in Digital+Media Rhode Island School of Design ### Certified Scrum Master in Agile Scrum Alliance ### B. Interior Architecture in Architecture + Interior C.E.P.T University ### Senior School Certificate (AISSCE) in Physics, Chemistry, Math and Engg. Drawing Modern School ### UX Leadership NN/g UX Certification (Nielsen/Norman) ### MBA: Essential business skills for designers ### Design Leadership Training Cooper Professional Education ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nipun-kumar-product - Portfolio: https://calendar.app.google/6wMiM6xvLFdEjbhz5 --- Source: https://flows.cv/nipunkumar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nipunkumar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13