Hyderabad, India
📞 9xxxx69659
✉️ dheerajkaushikwork@gmail.com
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I work at the intersection of product, platform, and organizational design, primarily in early-stage, SaaS-style environments. My focus has been on helping teams navigate messy, fast-moving problem spaces by designing how products, programs, and platforms actually operate when systems need to be built from first principles rather than inherited structures.
I specialize in translating product strategy and innovation intent into executable systems, including operating models, execution architectures, and governance guardrails, that reduce ambiguity, avoid founder bottlenecks, and enable parallel execution with clear ownership. This has included designing SaaS-style services, program architectures, user journeys, and platform workflows across learning, career, and workforce-focused products. Along the way, I’ve simplified complex systems into reusable frameworks, documentation, and playbooks, and validated them through live deployments with real constraints, refining them based on execution feedback. My background spans product-facing work, systems design, and close collaboration with design, business, and delivery teams.
(Platform Products → Execution Systems → Governance)
Caarya, Jul 2024 – Present
Platform & SaaS Systems: Led platform and SaaS-style system design for learning, career, and execution programs, including services, tools, onboarding flows, progression logic, and delivery pipelines. Platforms supported both program enablement and product-led use cases.
Execution Architecture: Designed modular execution systems, including pods, execution units, and participation flows, enabling parallel execution across human and agentic actors without centralized control.
Operating Model Design: Owned organizational and operating model design covering role structures, contribution units, workflows, and governance guardrails to reduce coordination overhead and founder dependency.
System Validation: Stress-tested platform, organizational, and execution systems through live institutional and partner deployments under real-world constraints such as timelines, cohorts, and multi-stakeholder environments.
System Simplification & AI Agentic Systems: Simplified complex frameworks into system primitives, documentation, and playbooks that enabled independent operation; integrated AI-enabled agentic components into workflows for generation, coordination, and evaluation within defined system constraints.
Adoption & Enablement: Designed UX flows, narratives, decks, and landing pages to support adoption, shared understanding, and effective execution across product, design, business, and delivery teams.
(Product Strategy → Program Design → Service Logic)
Caarya, Jan 2023 – Jun 2024
Product Foundations: Contributed to shaping the foundational structure of the product by defining core primitives, assumptions, and system boundaries that informed how programs, services, and the platform were built.
Program Architecture: Designed modular program architectures and participation flows to translate strategic intent into runnable programs before large-scale deployment.
Strategy to System Translation: Translated early-stage vision into executable systems and programs by designing the structural conditions required for coherence and execution readiness.
Service & Platform Logic: Architected early service logic and program infrastructure for learning and career programs prior to full platform stabilization.
Program UX & Positioning: Contributed to program-facing UX logic, positioning, and shared understanding to enable adoption and smooth execution across teams.
(Product Discovery → Capability Modeling → System Foundations)
Caarya, Sep 2020 – Dec 2022
Product Research: Conducted early-stage product research to identify structural gaps in learning, career, and execution systems, focusing on role clarity, capability alignment, and value creation.
Role–Skill Modeling: Decomposed real-world work into roles, responsibilities, and transferable skill clusters to build foundational capability models.
System Primitives: Defined early product logic, core concepts, and system primitives that later shaped programs, assessments, and platform design.
Strategy → Structure: Explored system-level conditions required for innovation and execution to occur reliably before scale.
Frameworks & Documentation: Externalized research insights into reusable frameworks and internal documentation to reduce dependency on tacit knowledge.
Fountane, Sep 2019 – Sep 2020
ASRlytics, Nov 2017 – Dec 2018
Volksy Technologies, Jan 2017 – Sep 2017
Master of Science (MSc) – Psychology (ODL)
Jain University | India
2025 – 2027 (Currently Pursuing)
Post Graduate Certificate Program (PGCP) – Design & Innovation
Manipal Innovation & Design (MIND) | India
2021
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) – Civil Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani – Hyderabad Campus
2012 – 2016