Vinayak Sharma

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 2 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led product development for major D2C brands.
  • Achieved significant automation in billing and support.
  • Strong track record in product strategy and operations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech product strategist with strong operational expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyB2b SaasProduct OperationsOperations Management

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAnalyticsBusiness CommunicationsBusiness StrategyConsumer FinancingE-CommerceGo-to-Market StrategyManagementMarketingMentoringMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft WordMobile ApplicationsMySQLProblem Solving

About

Presently leading key charters at Shiprocket’s core B2B shipping SaaS business , I’m a seasoned product & strategy professional with over 4 years of experience. Before Shiprocket, I was the first APM hire at Blitz, where I developed multiple core digital products which helped large Indian D2C brands leverage quick commerce capabilities. I’ve also worked as an analyst in consumer credit/investment banking. As 2021 graduate from BITS-Pilani with experience in diverse industries like finance, consumer credit & logistics, I have a strong track record of building products consumers love and deliver business results. You can reach out to me here on LinkedIn or my email at itsvinayak.sharma.99@gmail.com

Experience

Shiprocket

Product Manager - 1

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Building, Breaking and Learning all things Product

Self-employed

Freelance Product Consultant

Mar 2024Sep 2024 · 6 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · On-site

  • Working with multiple clients across diverse sectors like pharmaceutical sales, retail and recycling, helping them pivot to digital-first workflows & strategies.

Blitz

Associate Product Manager

Jun 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Built the company’s first dedicated customer support product suite, spanning across 3 platforms. Drove 100% digitization of all brand and buyer issues using a ticket-based mechanism. Automated
  • 80% ticket replies.
  • Engineered Cash-On-Delivery order verification services, reducing fake orders by 20% and contributing an additional monthly revenue of INR30,000.
  • Oversaw the automation of the entire billing and invoicing systems of the company. Built 0-to-1 visibility on COD cash flow and expense reporting for clients.
  • Led the development of new onboarding and integration flows, significantly reducing brand activation TAT from 20 days to 14 hours.
  • Spearheaded the implementation of automated reports generation, resulting in a weekly time savings of over 100 manhours.
  • Solely managed tech support for a client base exceeding 80 enterprises, ensuring seamless operations and customer satisfaction.
  • Directed hiring pipelines for various roles across tech support, data analytics, and product teams, mentoring over 7 new hires.
MentoringMobile ApplicationsSprint PlanningStakeholder ManagementWireframingB2B Saas+7

Slice

Business Analyst

Jul 2021Apr 2022 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • ∙ Oversaw the expansion of operational colleges for the student credit card vertical, doubling
  • the number of operational colleges. Worked on prototype models using qualitative and quantitative
  • indicators about an institution to predict the credit-worthiness of students from a specific
  • college.
  • ∙ Built monitoring dashboards to assess performance of various operational and risk automations.
  • Used these insights to suggest improvements to presently existing automation models.
  • ∙ Built regression models that predict the number of API requests with up-to 99% accuracy,
  • which were then used to forecast demands and negotiate prices with technology vendors.
  • ∙ Introduced statistical optimization and monitoring into manual KYC operations. Statistically
  • optimized daily task limits that led to a 20% rise in process efficiency.
Operations ManagementBusiness CommunicationsAnalyticsConsumer Financing

Morningstar

Intern - New Product Development

Jan 2021Jul 2021 · 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • ∙ As an intern in the New Product Development team, I participate in the full product development cycle including Project planning and research, data analysis, building an investment
  • thesis, extensive back testing and presentations.
  • ∙ Conducted rigorous cross sectional and time series analysis on Carbon Emissions data-set
  • of over 7000 companies(representing 75% of total Morningstar indexes invest-able universe).Built Z-Score based outlier tests to find aberrations and inconsistencies across various
  • cross sections.Presented sector, emissions scope and datasource-wise insights to the senior
  • management of the company.
  • ∙ Undertook investigative research on principles of Circular Economy and it’s implementation to
  • build thematic indexes.
Business Communications

Enabl solutions

Co-Founder

Feb 2020Dec 2020 · 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana

  • ∙ Started a service-based company from scratch, primarily helping students find internships and
  • freelance projects from various early-stage startups.
  • ∙ Our business model yielded in profits of over 15,000 with virtually 0 investment, incubation or even an office space. Catering to over 10 client companies and helping students get total internships worth 150,000 within 2 months.
  • ∙ Built the entire business online, in the middle of the CoVID - 19 pandemic. Had a high NPS score of 8.4.
Business Communications

National textile corporation limited., a govt.india undertaking

Process & Marketing Intern

May 2019Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

  • ∙ Got exposure to the everyday functioning of the textile plant and it’s processes,analysed qual-
  • ity management and control processes.
  • ∙ Created a strategy on implementation of online B2C sales by analyzing various available plat- forms on terms of UI/UX ,ease of onboarding and acceptability in a govt. controlled PSU set- ting. The outcomes were used by the social media marketing team to explore implementation of online sales channels.
  • ∙ Gathered information and experiences from over 10 cloth traders in the city to understand the supply chain and their experience with online sales platforms. Listed the bottlenecks that they faced and incorporated them in my report.

Department of professional events, bits-pilani, hyderabad campus

Head Of Department

Apr 2019Apr 2020 · 1 yr · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • ∙ Lead end-to-end execution of large scale events involving the top names of Bollywood and entertainment industry like Vishal Shekhar, Amit Trivedi, Ashish Shakya etc. Managed artist on-and-backstage requirements & artist budgets of over INR 3 million.
  • ∙ Researched artists on basis of various parameters like linguistic preferences of the potential audience, preferences of the audience in terms of genres, marketability of the artist brand etc. by employing quantitative and qualitative methods. Worked on pitching & managing talent vendors.
  • ∙ Strategized on amplification of event publicity and outreach, converted the publicity into ticket sales by managing various sales channels.

Elixir pharma

Process & Consultancy Intern

Jun 2018Jul 2018 · 1 mo · Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India

  • ∙ Developed elementary knowledge of plant manufacturing operations, Research and Devel- opment methodologies and Quality Control operations. Analyzed the protocols set up by WHO:GMP for manufacturing practices and analysed their implications and motivations
  • ∙ Created suggestions on implementing industry 4.0 principles in the plant by introducing auto- mated parameter checking in-situ process.
  • ∙ Leveraged the knowledge gained to improve my SGPA from 5.1 to 7.65 within 4 semesters, which lead to my CGPA increasing from 5.64 to 7.02.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - BE

Jan 2017Jan 2021

Delhi Public School - Bopal, Ahmedabad

High School

Jan 2015Jan 2017

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