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Kunal Bhat

Foremost a designer, I'm a technically inclined builder who thrives across the entire product lifecycle—from early insights to delivery and measurement.

With nearly two decades of experience across design, product management, and engineering, I'm an end-to-end contributor who leads through collaboration.I'm most at home in 0-1 product definition, prototyping, user research, and shipping work informed by clear data and validated through measurable impact.

Kunal at Aura

2024 – Present

At Aura, I design experiences in our iOS, Android, and frame surfaces, building for growth experimentation and leading product research to uncover our next big strategic opportunities.

  • Photo Sharing
  • Hardware
  • Consumer
  • Growth

2023 – 2024

Through Magic+Might – a design and innovation consultancy – I dove deep into the autonomous ride-hail space working with Waymo to understand rider sentiment and design future experiences.

  • Autonomous Ride-hail
  • UXR
  • UXD

2021 – 2023

At Galactic, a seed-staged startup (backed by Redpoint, Bloomberg Beta and Betaworks, among others) I took on an engineering role and explored crypto by building products that bridged the traditional finance world with web3.

  • Crypto
  • Defi
  • Web3
  • Engineering

2015 – 2021

I spent 6 years at PayPal as a PM, building merchant experiences spanning from rearchitecting Braintree's merchant dashboard to going deep into the Identity domain. I launched Braintree's Enterprise SSO, broke ground on a merchant data platform, and led the Identity component of PayPal's cross-organizational platform unification efforts.

  • Enterprise
  • Payments
  • Identity
  • Data Platforms
Kunal at Braintree
Kunal at Modest

2014 – 2015

I joined PayPal via it's acquisition of Modest, where I led design and built a contextual commerce platform to help small and medium businesses launch buying experiences quickly on iOS and Android apps, web, and email.

  • Contextual Commerce
  • Mobile
  • SMB
  • Product Design

2009 – 2014

While at gravitytank I imagined future experiences for companies like Skype (I got to travel to Tokyo for research), Coinstar, and Samsung. I then moved on to design and help build the first major iterations of Dscout's mobile user research platform.

  • User Research
  • Innovation
  • Consumer Electronics
  • Mobile
Kunal at gravitytank

Outside of work, I enjoy tennis, chess, and doing my daily puzzles.

What I'm listening to

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Good Reason by Gracie Abrams
Good Reason
Gracie Abrams
We All Sing with the Same Voice by Abby Cadabby, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Ernie, Sesame Street’s Tango, Bert, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Two-Headed Monster, Sesame Street
We All Sing with the Same Voice
Abby Cadabby, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Ernie, Sesame Street’s Tango, Bert, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Two-Headed Monster, Sesame Street
Rubber Duckie by Ernie, Sesame Street
Rubber Duckie
Ernie, Sesame Street
Happy Dance by Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Snuffleupagus, Sesame Street
Happy Dance
Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Snuffleupagus, Sesame Street
Welcome to the Farm by Elmo, Rosita, Sesame Street
Welcome to the Farm
Elmo, Rosita, Sesame Street
Elmo's Song by Elmo, Big Bird, Snuffleupagus, Sesame Street
Elmo's Song
Elmo, Big Bird, Snuffleupagus, Sesame Street