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Ritvik Rajiv Kolhe

User Experience Designer

Address: Mannheim, Germany (Flexible to Relocate)   |   Email: workritvik@gmail.com    

Mobile Number: +4915510883600   |   Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/ritvik-kolhe/

Interests: Badminton, Cricket and Origami

Residence permit valid until 02/2027, eligible for conversion to work permit

Referees available upon request

User Experience Researcher with 3.5+ years of experience in enterprise UX, research and consulting, specializing in complex systems, AI-driven workflows, and product discovery. Experienced in translating research insights into scalable design strategies that balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Master Thesis Student /
 
01.2026 - PRESENT,  GERMANY,  EXPECTED COMPLETION: 06.2026     |     DEPARTMENT: BUSINESS SUITE UX,  PROJECT SERVICES

  • Master Thesis on Intelligent and Automated Billing Workflows in SAP Public Cloud ERP for Professional Services Automation

       Progress until now: 

  • Led end-to-end UX research across fragmented Project and Sales Billing domains, including literature reviews, user interviews, and contextual inquiry, synthesizing siloed insights into unified workflows that informed business process flows and product strategy

  • Developed a detailed user journey map and facilitated a cross-functional discovery workshop with Product Managers, Researchers, and Designers to prioritize pain points, co-create concepts aligned with SAP’s vision of proactive, intelligent systems and suggest UX research opportunities within Billing

UX Designer Working Student / 

06.2025 - 12.2025,  7 MONTHS,  GERMANY     |     DEPARTMENT: BUSINESS SUITE UX, PROJECT SERVICES

  • Worked on Fiori Guidelines Inconsistency Audit & identified design bugs for 20 Apps in S/4HANA Engineer-to-Order

  • Created an end-to-end ecosystem map of Enterprise Project Management applications across 39 S/4HANA and SAP BTP applications, enabling improvements in information architecture and cross-system coherence

  • Partnered with Product Manager and UX Designer on a Vision Demo on Intelligent Project Scheduling in SAP BTP for a Project Manager with SAP Joule (AI) using Figma

Achievement: Won 2nd prize among around 15 entries in Discovery Days conducted in the Business Suite Team

UX Designer /                       (a Tech Mahindra company)

05.2022 - 02.2024, 1 YEAR 9 MONTHS,  INDIA     |     DEPARTMENT: CREATIVE

  • Worked on UX research, data visualisation, web & app-design & strategy for 4 complex projects in Automotive, Archaeology, Recreation, and Luxury Shopping sectors 

  • Helped boost user engagement & conversion rates by 12-15% through improved UX strategies

  • Conducted user research, surveys, usability testing, information architecture, and wireframing using Figma, Google Suite, Microsoft Office, Miro, and JIRA

Achievement: Contributed to winning 6 high-value project pitches of €150,000+ each, by analyzing digital channel improvements, cost estimation and design deliverables

UX Intern /                        (a Tech Mahindra company)

02.2022 - 04.2022, 4 MONTHS,  INDIA     |     DEPARTMENT: CREATIVE

  • Assisted in UX research, competitive analysis, and wireframing for 5+ projects

  • Collaborated with senior designers to improve client pitches, UX strategy presentations  

  • Worked on UX documentation using tools like Google Suite and Microsoft Office

EDUCATION

M.Sc. User Experience Design / Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
10.2024 - PRESENT, GERMANY

  • Major courses: Research methods in HCI, Data Analysis, Multi-modal Interactive Systems, Natural User Interfaces, AR/VR Applications, Design Strategy & Management, Mobile UX Prototyping, Critical UX Reflections, Visual  and Interaction Design, Agile Project Management

  • Grade Point Average: 1.9

B. Des. Product Design / Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University

06.2018 - 06.2022, 4 YEARS, INDIA

  • Major courses: Design Research Projects, Design Innovation Projects, Design Management and Innovation, Behaviour Design, Design Entrepreneurship, Business and Service Design

  • Grade Point Average: 1.3, Rank 3

LANGUAGES

German: Very Good  |  English: Fluent  |  Hindi: Fluent  |  Marathi: Mother tongue

SKILLS

  • UX Design & Research: User-centered design, Design Systems, Usability Testing, Surveys & User Interviews, Data analysis

  • Prototyping & Digitalization: Wireframing, UX Prototyping, Proof-of-Concept Development, Digital Transformation

  • Design & Strategy: Information Architecture, Interaction Design, UX Strategy, Visual Design

  • Tools: Advanced: Figma, JIRA, Respondent, UserZoom, Mural, Miro, Adobe XD, MS Office, Google Suite, Rhino, Keyshot   |  

                     Intermediate: Unity, Photoshop, Illustrator

RECOGNITIONS

  • 2nd Prize |  Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt  |  Mensch und Computer: Ride Recall - An Aftermarket Retrofit System to Prevent Forgotten Items in Shared or Rented Vehicles

  • Special Performance Award  |  BORN Group: Top performer award for three successful project deliveries and 13 project pitches

  • Budding Star Award  |  BORN Group: Awarded for leadership, contribution and delivery of the first project as a fresher and presenting the design strategy to the client

  • Finalist  |  Taiwan International Student Design Challenge: Reached the final stage for the project 'ScrubTub', which aimed at improving the street food hygiene in India

Get in touch :)

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