Nikunj Verma - Cutshort

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 1 mo experience

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Key Highlights

Founder of AI-driven recruitment platform Cutshort.
Expert in product management and business strategy.
Proven track record in SaaS growth and marketing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS product leader with expertise in AI-driven recruitment solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementBusiness StrategyProduct Marketing

Other Skills

AIBlog MarketingCloud ComputingCompetitive AnalysisCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer DiscoveryGTM StrategyGo-to-market StrategyGrowth MarketingIntegrationLeadershipManagementPress ReleasesProduct DevelopmentProduct Strategy

About

A passionate leader and entrepreneur who loves to work at the intersection of Tech, Product and Marketing. Currently building Cutshort that uses AI to unlock 10x productivity for recruiters that are hiring in tech. The platform uses AI features and agents to do tasks such as search, outreach, screening with AI, this making the recruiters increase the value of their jobs. Hiring? Try it for free here: https://CutShort.io/ref/4zUxdg4r

Experience

Saasboomi

SaasBoomi SGx Mentor

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

SGx by SaasBOOMi is a 4 month intensive founder-led program that supports young SaaS startups from India build out a repeatable growth engine. A mentor and a wingmate is assigned to every startup and they help the startup build the engine through a well-defined framework that is proprietary to SGx.

Cutshort

Cofounder & CEO

May 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 10 mos · Pune Area, India

Engineers have Github Copilot.
Marketers have copy.ai
Recruiters?
They still spend 80% of their time finding profiles, reviewing applications and calling candidates. 😢
Now, they can leverage Cutshort's AI+human sourcing assistant while focusing on the strategic aspects of their roles.
Results are loud and clear:
Recruiters are becoming more strategic partners to their companies, setting themselves up for promotions and career growth 🚀
TA Heads are achieving 60% faster hires while reducing costs by 40%. No scaling worries either.
Engineering managers/CTOs are making quality hires after interviewing just 5-8 candidates instead of 30+.
Check it out here: https://cutshort.io/a/emps-nv-li

AIRecruitmentProduct DevelopmentBusiness StrategyProduct Management

Freelancer

Product Success Consultant

Mar 2014 – Apr 2014 · 1 mo · Pune Area, India

Helping SaaS businesses develop and implement strategies for maximum growth and business success. Expertise:
Positioning and Messaging
Pricing (Classic and Freemium)
Growth Marketing
Customer discovery and validation techniques

Growth MarketingCustomer DiscoveryBusiness StrategyProduct Management

Carbonite

Product Manager

Nov 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Boston

Carbonite acquired Zmanda in Nov' 2012.
Managed the rapidly growing Server Backup product line at Carbonite.
As a Certified Scrum Product Owner, was involved in all activities from customer discovery to customer validation to execution
Acted as a key member on the team that integrated Zmanda into Carbonite.

ScrumCustomer DiscoveryProduct ManagementBusiness Strategy

Zmanda

2 roles

Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager

Promoted

May 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

Some achievements:
Product owner for the fastest growing productl line. Contributed to a multifold increase in the customer base and revenues for this product line.
Played a key leadership role in formulating and executing both product and GTM strategy for launching a new product with Google Cloud Storage in 2012.
Designed and operationalized a successful partner program at Zmanda that ramped up fast to contribute significant proportion of the total revenues of the product.
Actively involved in doing inbound marketing activities like webinars, blogs, press releases, etc.

Product ManagementProduct MarketingGTM Strategy

Senior Engineer

Aug 2008 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos

Developed key product features such as Amazon EBS based backup of MySQL databases and Snapshot based backups of VMWare Esxi servers.
Also started an innovative, cloud computing based framework for automated testing of the complete lineup of Zmanda products.

Cloud ComputingSoftware Development