Prashant Bafna

Product Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India12 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Built and scaled multiple products to millions of users.
  • Led product teams and culture from scratch.
  • Expert in omnichannel SaaS solutions for retail.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert with a strong focus on B2B SaaS and E-commerce solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct DevelopmentProduct StrategyUser Experience (ux)

Other Skills

AnalyticsBusiness AnalyticsBusiness StrategyCompetitive AnalysisMachine LearningMarket ResearchMarketingProblem SolvingProduct DesignProduct MarketingProgrammingProject ManagementSoftware DevelopmentTeam Leadership

About

With a deep passion about all things Tech, converting Ideas into Products! Spent the last decade: - Building & Scaling multiple products from 0 -> 1 -> Millions. - Hiring, managing & scaling product teams & culture from scratch.

Experience

Microsoft

Product Management

Sep 2021Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Working on the core platform powering Microsoft Teams (320M+ monthly active users)
Product ManagementUser Experience (UX)Product DevelopmentTeam Leadership

Omuni (arvind internet)

2 roles

Head of Product / Associate Director

Promoted

Apr 2019Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Built & Led the Product team (PMs & PDs) to build an extensive Omnichannel SaaS platform "Omuni" for global retailers & brands across multiple categories and geographies.
  • Scaled the platform to Millions of orders across hundreds of enterprise retailers with tens of thousands of stores with a 4-5x YoY growth.
  • Omuni Products:
  • (a) Retail stores
  • omuni.one: in-store clienteling app for ordering, fulfillment, service, CRM, personalization, checkout (one interface for all things store!)
  • (b) Ecommerce
  • omuni.site: omnichannel enabled commerce websites
  • omuni.mobi: omnichannel enabled mobile engagement + commerce apps
  • (e.g.: NNNOW.com, Wildcraft.com)
  • (c) Headless commerce
  • omuni.cloud: Unified backend as a headless commerce solution to power omnichannel journeys across order, inventory, catalogue, content, logistics, pricing, etc.
  • (powering the likes of bata.in, veromoda.in, wforwoman.com, khadims.com)
  • (d) Marketplaces
  • omuni.xyz: 3P marketplace listing, order management & fulfilment - from each & every store!
  • Covered multiple components like Search, Checkout, Payments, CMS, Pricing, Recommendations, Customer recognition, Personalization, Order management, Inventory management, B2B multi-tenancy, Internationalization, Customer data platform, etc.
  • Some of Omuni customers - GAP, U.S. Polo, Levi’s, Sephora, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Bata, Vero Moda, Jack & Jones, W, Vijay Sales etc.
  • Domain: Retail, E-Commerce, B2B SaaS
Product ManagementProduct DesignAnalyticsProduct StrategyMarket Research

Senior Product Manager

Apr 2016Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Built, launched & scaled the NNNOW.com mobile apps from scratch to Millions of orders
  • (B2C Fashion E-commerce with full omnichannel capabilities for 30+ Arvind Fashion brands).
  • Setup the entire product analytics tracking for Apps & Web enabling the output mindset.
  • Subsequently took on the additional mandate of NNNOW.com web as well. Making drastic improvements in Checkout micro-funnel conversion, Site speed, SEO, Brand experiences, Overall eCommerce conversion, Payment success rates, RTO reduction, etc.
  • Built the in-store clienteling apps (omuni.one) from scratch & successfully drove adoption in tens of thousands of stores.
  • Drove multiple mega projects like Multi-tenancy, Internationalization for a successful pivot to B2B SaaS.
Product ManagementUser Experience (UX)AnalyticsProduct Development

Housing.com

Product Manager

Apr 2015Apr 2016 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

  • Domain: Real Estate, Classifieds
  • Worked on:
  • [1] Mobile Apps (iOS, Android) & Core Products and Services like Search, Chat, Personalisation, Notifications & User feedback
  • led to major improvements in different micro funnels of the consumer journey
  • [2] Ad Products (Performance – leads driven, Branding – impressions driven)
  • became the biggest revenue driver for the platform
Product ManagementUser Experience (UX)Project Management

Times internet limited

Product Manager

Jul 2013Mar 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Business: The Economic Times (Digital); Domain : Media, Finance
  • Worked on:
  • [1] Mobile Apps (Android, iOS, Windows)
  • The Economic Times
  • ET Markets
  • Led to massive jumps in the downloads & engagement metrics for both the apps
  • [2] Technical Analysis based Products
  • Gaming cum Learning web platform - ChartMantra
  • Advanced Interactive Technical Charts
  • Advanced Financial Markets Technical Screening & Visualisation tools
  • Drove significant increase in all consumer engagement metrics across all ET platforms
  • [3] Financial goal module (integrated with ET Portfolio - a wealth/investment management tool)
Product ManagementSoftware DevelopmentAnalytics

Google

Software Developer

May 2012Aug 2012 · 3 mos

  • Google Summer of Code in AbiWord (a free, open source and cross platform Word Processor)
  • 1. Built the complete support for import/export of Maths from/to odt & docx formats for AbiWord
  • 2. Implemented MathMLtoLaTeX, OMMLtoMathML & MathMLtoOMML converters (in C++)
  • 3. Improved the OpenDocument (odt), OpenXML (docx), Mathview & LaTeX plugins by fixing various critical bugs
  • 4. Fixed various Windows port specific issues, making the build completely error free to do the next development release
  • 5. Maintained the Widows port of AbiWord with full commit access
  • Impact:
  • 1. AbiWord can now read and edit the Math exported by MS Word and similarly MS Word can read and edit the Math exported from AbiWord.
  • 2. With this AbiWord now has full Math support for both odt and docx formats
  • More Info at:
  • 1. https://bafnap.blogspot.com/2012/07/gsoc-in-abiword-midterm-report.html
  • 2. https://bafnap.blogspot.com/2012/08/gsoc-in-abiword-final-report.html
Software DevelopmentProgramming

Cranfield university

Visiting Research Student / Intern

May 2011Jul 2011 · 2 mos · United Kingdom

  • Project: Comparison of Evaluation of Change in various Security & Non Security Institutions.
  • 1. Carried out detailed case studies of various Change programmes in different Security and Non Security Institutions like Defence Academy of the UK, Cranfield University, Wiltshire Police etc.
  • 2. Analyzed case documents, interviewed prominent members from Change Management teams such as AVM, Brigadier(s), Colonel(s) from the British Defence Forces, Head of School, CDS etc.
  • 3. Developed an M&E (Monitoring and Evaluation) framework and compared various institutions on this framework.
  • 4. Highlighted various issues and problems in the present day change management and suggested various steps for improvement.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Master of Science (MS) Integrated — Mathematics & Scientific Computing

Jan 2008Jan 2013

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