About — Manas Ramaraju
About me
Product person.
Designer at heart.

I'm drawn to complex product problems that need to feel simple, intuitive, and scalable. Five years of design training gave me a way of seeing. Three companies taught me how to lead. XNODE taught me how to ship AI products that actually work in the real world.

Currently building AI products at Cortx
The journey that got me here
Chapter 01
Building a business from zero
U Media
2018 – 2021
Chapter 02
Leading creative teams in edtech
GoCinQ
2021 – 2022
Chapter 03
Designing products and experiences
XNODE
2022 – 2023
Chapter 04
Shipping AI products at enterprise scale
XNODE
2024 – Present

Built and ran a 10-person bootstrapped agency offering branding, social media, web development, and performance marketing. Every client brief was a product problem in disguise — first real taste of 0-to-1 thinking, stakeholder management, and leading a team under real constraints.

Skills unlocked
Visual storytelling & brand systems
Client management & stakeholder alignment
Cross-functional team leadership
Performance marketing & GTM strategy
Foundation The design eye and the ability to lead a team from zero — both started here.
What I bring to the table
Product
AI Product Management Zero to One Product Strategy Enterprise SaaS Edge Case Thinking Stakeholder Alignment
Design
Visual Communication Interaction Design Design Systems User Research Applied Arts · BFA
Leadership
Cross-functional Teams GTM Strategy Agency Leadership Rapid Prototyping
🎨Figma
📋FigJam
🗂️Miro
📌Jira
🔷Azure DevOps
📁SharePoint
💻Framer
Notion
🤖Claude
🌐WordPress

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Building and scaling products—from 0 to 1, and from 1 to 10. Let’s create what’s next.