Pranav Bijwe

Product Manager

Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India3 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led product development from 0 to 1 in Insurtech.
  • Achieved significant growth in quote generation.
  • Implemented self-service solutions reducing costs.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with strong expertise in Insurtech and SaaS.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementSoftware DevelopmentMachine Learning

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesBackend EngineeringCross-Functional Team LeadershipData AnalysisJavaScriptPython (Programming Language)R (Programming Language)

About

Energetic Product Manager with 3.5+ years of leading product development, with experience as a founding member of a Y Combinator (W21) backed Insurtech Startup and PM for a $35M+ ARR B2B SaaS company. Proven success in managing cross functional teams and setting key deliverables with timelines for new feature releases. I have a keen eye for analyzing data, obsession with metrics and empathy for users. I have seen 0 -> 1 product development, a company pivot, a successful startup acquisition, and scaled products in a mature org in its 1-> 10 journey.

Experience

Yellow.ai

Associate Product Manager (Reporting & Insights)

Aug 2023Nov 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Ensuredit

Product Manager (Broker Platform)

Apr 2023Aug 2023 · 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • ● Product Manager for Ensuredit's 'ICE' platform, led the development of the Health and Travel Insurance quote generation and purchase journeys from 0 -> 1, across Web, SMS and WhatsApp channels. This resulted in the quotes generated per month to go from ~200 to ~1950 (in absolute terms).
  • ● Responsible for building operations automations and new partner/broker onboarding journeys. Completely overhauled the manual onboarding process for prospecting brokers to a product-led journey. This feature resulted in 7 new brokers onboarded on 'ICE' within 20 days of go-live.
Product Management

Verak (now, part of insurancedekho)

2 roles

Associate Product Manager (Post-Sales)

Promoted

Jan 2022Apr 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

  • ● Product Manager for Verak’s Policy Renewals Platform, feature resulted in a Net Revenue
  • Retention of ~61% and a Net Logo Retention of ~74% for the first three months of our annual
  • renewals.
  • ● Responsible for Product and Engineering for Verak’s Self Serve Policy Purchase process. Led the
  • development of a product-led journey to allow the creation of Request for Quotations (RFQs)
  • and purchase of business insurance by customers themselves without tele-sales intervention.
  • 30% of all RFQs created are self-served and 5% of all sales are conducted without any tele-sales
  • assistance - this resulted in a reduction of Cost Per Closure (CPC) by ₹ 1K per RFQ and saved
  • sales-rep calling time.
  • ● Responsible for optimising lead qualification and sales closures through product-led journeys
  • across WhatsApp and Website. Directly resulted in an increase in PQLs (product qualified
  • leads) from ~5% to ~25% and Lead to Sale metric from ~3% to ~6.5% - resulting in a reduction of
  • performance marketing costs by 10%.
  • ● Led cross-functional teams with direct reports across engineering, design, marketing, user
  • research and sales, from product conception and wireframing, through launch and multiple
  • iterations on our WhatsApp and Website channels.
Product Management

Software Engineer

Jan 2021Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

  • ● Independently worked on Verak’s “Minimal Client Interface”, an automated WhatsApp chatbot, for
  • existing customers to access post-sales services such as filing paperless insurance claims, accessing
  • Verak’s customer support, requesting for changes in an existing policy (endorsement), among other
  • things.
  • ● Created Verak’s WhatsApp based purchase process responsible for ~80% business insurance TPV. Also
  • created a sales enablement interface for tele-sales reps to track a user’s journey in the WhatsApp
  • purchase process using live chat logs.
  • ● Product Lead and Backend Engineer on BimaPe’s Motor (Vehicle) Insurance wallet, a dashboard for
  • viewing key details of a Motor Insurance policy as extracted by the PDA.
  • ● Worked on BimaPe’s “Policy Deconstruction Algorithm (PDA)”, an intelligent approach using
  • Reinforcement Learning, for reducing long and verbose insurance policy documents (PDFs) to a single
  • readable phone screen, free from jargon. The model achieved a runtime accuracy of ~93% for 20,000+
  • policy PDFs uploaded by registered users.
  • ● Hired, onboarded and mentored 4 junior engineers onto BimaPe and Verak’s backend monolith.
Software Development

Indian institute of technology, bombay

Research Intern

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • http://openrap.io/
  • Contributed to the OpenRAP project which aims to develop a localised, scalable and modular content delivery network for educational content.

Education

Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jun 2025Jun 2027

Pune Institute of Computer Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Engineering

Jan 2015Jan 2019

Kishinchand Chellaram (KC) College, Mumbai

11th and 12th

Aug 2013May 2015

Campion School, Mumbai

10th — ICSE

Jan 2013Present

GrowthX®

Product & Growth Program

Aug 2023Present

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