Zunaid Ahmed

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led user growth for 50M+ users at apna.
  • Co-founded award-winning English learning platform Knudge.me.
  • Achieved 10X organic growth at LogIQids.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Leader in EdTech and FinTech sectors with a strong focus on user growth.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product User GrowthGrowth ProductUser GrowthRetentionGamificationEntrepreneurshipGrowth Hacking

Other Skills

.NETAlgorithmsAndroid DevelopmentAngularJSBackbone.jsCC++Data StructuresHTMLJavaJavaScriptLeadershipMarTechMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDB

About

8 years of strong product experience leading product-led user growth charter for multiple consumer tech startups. Currently, leading user growth & retention at apna(a premier job & career platform that has helped more than 50M+ users to achieve their dreams). Co-founded one of the most loved English learning platforms called Knudge.me(5M+ users, peak MAU 500K, gross revenue $400K+, Best App Google Award-winning, exited IELTS vertical to Leap Scholar) Product mentor @PMSchool

Experience

Apna

2 roles

Associate Director- Product

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos

Lead Product Manager

Nov 2022Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • One of the largest job platforms that has helped more than 50M+ users to achieve their dreams.
  • I lead user growth & retention charter for the candidate side of the job marketplace.
PLGProduct User GrowthGrowth ProductSEO/ASOMarTech

Pm school

Product Mentor

Oct 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Logiqids

VP Product

Oct 2020Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • An edtech platform used by 800K+ kids to build strong fundamentals in logic, math, & science
  • Led multiple products (LogIQids, LQLive) and managed a team of 2 PM/APMs.
  • Unlocked LogIQids(a brain-training app for kids) organic user growth by 10X through referrals/in-app hooks, ASO, etc. Successfully leveraged gamification to drive the engagement on the platform(MAU increased 3X, stickiness quotient increased from 8% to 11.5%)
  • Ideated, launched, and scaled LQLive(a gamified live learning platform for logic, maths, & science) to 2000+ paid users and reached an ARR of $500K only within a span of 1 year.
  • Reinvented LQ Olympiad platform to reduce the cost and manual ops by 90% - more than 500K+ users take online proctored exam every year(largest mental aptitude Olympiad globally).
GamificationUser GrowthRetentionZero to One

येlo (0.5bn finhealth private limited)

Senior Product Manager

Aug 2019Jan 2020 · 5 mos

  • A Neo bank providing savings banking facilities, remittance, and micro-credit solutions to workers in the blue-collar segment with a monthly income of less than INR 30,000.
  • Gamified user behavior for remittances, credit, savings, etc to help them improve their financial health. The objective was to help people make better financial decisions and build online payment behavior.
  • Built MVP for the Employer Business Account which helped the employers to disperse on-the-go salaries, to reconcile, and to view insights.
  • Designed and led usability studies with more than 500+ participants who were primarily blue-collar workers from different industries. The key outcome was to incorporate voice-led assistance behavior.
Gamification

Knudge.me

CEO & Co-founder

Jan 2017Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • A mobile learning platform to help people improve their English skills through bite-sized lessons and gamification. 5 million+ users, peak MAU 500K, gross revenue $400K+, sold IELTS Prep Master to Leap Scholar.
  • Launched and scaled the platform to 5M+ users across the globe. More than 90% of the users have been acquired organically by unlocking the viral growth.
  • Led a team 20+(engineers, designers, and content creators) to build one of the most popular English learning apps across the globe with a lifetime average rating of more than 4.7.
  • Successfully led fundraising efforts for the company, raising $200K from investors including Kris Gopalakrishnan(co-founder Infosys, Padma Bhushan recipient), Bikky Khosla(founder TradeIndia.com), Axilor, & IAN.
  • Exited IELTS Prep vertical to Leap Scholar(Series B funded company). Currently, it is one of the largest IELTS preparation platforms used by more than 3M+ users.
  • Received Google Play Best Apps for 2017 Award(Hidden Gem) by Google as well earned an Editors’ Choice app badge on the Play Store.
GamificationGrowth HackingEntrepreneurshipLeadership

Zoomcar

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2016Dec 2016 · 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Zoomcar is a self-drive car rental company.
  • Scaled the communication(emails, notifications, SMS) infrastructure for the company with a performance output of 4X-5X.

Tinyowl

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2016May 2016 · 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • A food delivery tech start-up.
  • Built an automated menu-categorization system that helped to improve the Ops team throughput by 4X.
  • Integrated different payment methods into the main app to support card payment, net banking, virtual credits, etc.
  • Conceptualized and built a Payments Settlement platform for the Finance Team. The platform helped to reduce the manual effort multifold.

Software Developer

Oct 2014Jan 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Indus valley partners

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2013Sep 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Indus Valley Partners is a leading provider of technology solutions to the alternative investment industry.
  • Worked on P&L monitor- a real-time desktop application that monitors profit and loss in real-time of various securities depending upon real-time market positions.
  • Created a chat system for one-on-one as well as group chats for online users.
  • Set up the core engine for real-time notifications.

Zapr media labs

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2013Jun 2013 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Zapr is the world's largest offline media consumption repository. It bridges the gap between the offline and online worlds by enabling TV-to-Mobile audience engagement.
  • During my stint at Zapr, I worked on their propriety algorithm to index and match live TV content- making use of digital signal processing to perform audio fingerprinting to identify the content playing on TV or radio.

Education

Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad

Bachelor's degree — Information Technology

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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