Rahul Darekar

Leading design of equity investing experiences at Paytm Money, from strategy through execution.

- Lead product design for Paytm Money's equity investing platform across Android, iOS, and Web, covering the complete trading experience from discovery to execution.
- Designed and launched Trade From Charts (71.3K monthly active users) and Options Scalper V2 (68.8K monthly active users), supporting more than 119K high-frequency trading orders every month.
- Owned the design of key trading experie

- Led the experience for Daily Mutual Fund SIP, achieving a 28% activation rate among KRA users, and redesigned the Mutual Fund Analytics Report, increasing activation to 35%.

- Co-founded a DeFi investment marketplace focused on simplifying Web3 investing.
- Defined the product vision, roadmap, and go-to-market strategy for Wallet Analytics and Spotlight, two products aimed at helping users discover and evaluate DeFi opportunities.
- Conducted customer research, validated product ideas, and built the founding team across design, engineering, and content.
- The company

- Led product design across Tata CLiQ Beauty, the internal Seller Portal, and shared design systems.
- Mentored a 16-member design team and established design processes across multiple product squads.
- Built two design systems from the ground up—Palette for Android and iOS, and a separate system for the Seller Portal—with documentation and governance guidelines.
- Introduced A/B testing into the

- Led product initiatives across onboarding, authentication, subscriptions, and payments for India's first US stock investing platform.
- Redesigned pricing and authentication experiences, reducing support tickets by 95% while doubling signup-to-visit conversion.
- Managed the React Native app refactor, coordinating releases, QA, analytics, and third-party integrations, including Mixpanel, MoEngag

- Designed learning and growth experiences across Android and Web, including Previous Year Papers, Tips & Tricks, and Scholarship Exams.
- Implemented Truecaller integration, increasing verified mobile-number capture by 40%.
- Redesigned the Doubts experience, resulting in an 18% improvement in engagement.

- Joined as the company's first product designer, owning product design across research, interaction design, visual design, testing, and QA.
- Designed multiple trading products across Web and mobile, including Spot, Insta, Margin, Lend, Futures, and Convert.
- Designed CoinDCX Go, the company's Lite trading app, which has since crossed 10 million Android downloads.
Built and maintained the design

- Designed Darek, an original typeface inspired by East Asian and Western architectural lettering.
- Created visual identities for startups including Amesten Capital, Makhor, Shreeman, and Maurya Computers.
- Built a no-code IPL fan platform using Webflow, Zapier, Memberstack, Airtable, and other low-code tools.