Jul 2022 – Dec 2022 · 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Worked as a Product Growth & Strategy consultant helping achieve better conversions, retention, AOV & customer acquisition. Building sustainable processes alongside.
• Domain: B2C eCommerce, Fashion & Jewellery

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• As Founder & Senior Partner at ParamGrowth Consulting, I provide 1-on-1 hands-on partnership to founders and business leaders, helping them navigate their 0-to-1 journey and de-risk new product vision through expert Product Management, Product-led strategies, and Data-driven insights.
• With 15 years in startup leadership (4 ventures founded/scaled) and 7+ years in product/growth management (16 products developed), I provide actionable strategies that propel businesses forward.
• Our Core Programs:
• 1. The Founder's Co-Pilot Program: A 12-week "done-with-you" sprint to validate, build, and launch a new startup from the ground up.
• 2. The B2B Digital Transformation Audit: A 4-week diagnostic sprint that delivers a "Digital Maturity Scorecard" and an actionable "Quick Win" project roadmap for digitizing operations.
• 3. The Product & GTM Blueprint: A 4-6 week sprint to fix leaky funnels, delivering a high-growth execution plan with new pricing & positioning solutions and a clear product roadmap.
• Key Client Projects & Achievements:
• 1. Shree NM Electricals Ltd. (Ongoing, PM Consultant): Spearheading their digitization initiative; leading strategy & development of a B2B eCommerce platform (web, mobile, WhatsApp Commerce) for their electrical items to transform sales processes and significantly expand market reach.
• 2. Silver Jewellery eCommerce: Revitalised UI/UX, achieving 2x improvements in customer conversions, retention, and AOV.
• 3. Food-tech Platform: Guided full lifecycle: from ideation, market validation, and product vision/roadmap to MVP launch, GTM, and Marketing Strategy.
• 4. Premium Tiffins Provider: Assisted in core business setup, including ideation, validation, positioning, pricing, branding, operations strategy, GTM, marketing, and channel development.
• 5. Driving Behaviour Monitoring SaaS: Provided expertise in product positioning, strategy, roadmap development, user stories/PRD, UI/UX guidance, and product ownership.

Feb 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Helped a food-tech startup to set up product strategy, features roadmap, processes and growth.

Jan 2021 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Excellon has a flagship product, DMS is used by 40K+ automobile dealers of major OEMs across India and abroad. I led a team of associate PMs and worked collectively on a few interesting, futuristic products. My responsibilities include:
• Come up with new product ideas
• Help create product roadmaps with priorities for each product
• Provide inputs to UX/UI team
• Nurture the PM team on a regular basis
• Handle day to day product execution and ensure releases happen as decided
• Work with leadership, sales, tech, and support stakeholders to finetune roadmap and features
• Domain: B2B enterprise, eCommerce, automotive, DMS, ERP

Feb 2020 – Aug 2020 · 6 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• At Praiso (Connexstra) I worked as a product consultant. The objetives were to build a product in driving safety domain for UK & US markets.
• Deliveries:
• Did primary, secondary market research & competative research to come up with positioning, pricing and competative edge.
• Did customer and user interviews to understand pain points and build features with priorities
• Created product roadmap for 6 months for two products
• Set & executed PM processes
• Assisted UX/UI
• Built two products:
• 1. The driving safety app (TSP) to monitor & assist driving behaviours using mobile sensors.
• 2. Driver mentoring app which suggests the best driving practices based on data received from the TSP (Telematics Service Provider) app.
• Domain: TSP, Driving monitoring and mentoring (B2B2C)

Sep 2019 – Jan 2020 · 4 mos · Pune Area, India

• At Chizel I was responsible for building a scalable product and relevant strategies for the production vertical. I was working with a very talented IIT Roorkee alumni co-founders. I was overlooking product management which was including user research, drafting specs, wire-framing, assisting designers, managing products through Jira, UAT, on-page SEO, creating a marketing strategy, and managing external agencies.
• During my tenure, I revamped the existing website with improved site structure, overall content, and on-page SEO. This impacted a sizable increase in business leads.
• I also have built a product from scratch called C-Pro for manufacturers to manage the existing mfg. suppliers and their manufacturing processes bringing better transparency and control impacting considerable cost savings.
• Chizel is a Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS) platform for low-volume/batch orders & prototypes. Chizel has a nationwide pre-assessed manufacturing partner network having flexible capacities and capabilities in various manufacturing processes including CNC Machining, Precision Sheet Metalwork, 3D Printing, Casting, Forging, Injection Molding & Vacuum casting.
• Chizel manages the entire manufacturing cycle from Quotation > QC > Delivery with 99%+ OTIF.

Jan 2016 – Aug 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Pune Area, India

• Buymaxo is a technology platform for industrial consumables helping brands, dealers, sub-dealers & end customers to transact with each other seamlessly. We are solving age-old problems in offline buying & selling by transforming entire offline transactions online.
• I was looking after product management majorly, sales, operations, and everything in-between the founder needs to take care of :-)
• Raised two rounds of funding
• Hired & led a team of 9 people across tech, design & sales operations.

May 2010 – Aug 2015 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Pune Area, India

• I have founded Bizporto in 2010. I was responsible for the product, operations, sales & finance. Managed to scale the business to 5000+ customers, 100+ employees operational from 6 cities in India.
• Bizporto is an online B2B product discovery platform, that connects local sellers & buyers to facilitate business relations between them. Bizporto offers tools to sellers to grow their business online in an easy & effective way.

Jan 2006 – Dec 2009 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• I have founded Atharva in 2006. I was responsible for sales, operations, finance, and overall growth.
• Atharva Innovations LLP is a sole distributor for HP make Self Drilling Screws and MS Fasteners and stockiest for various industrial tools, selling across Maharashtra.

Oct 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Vakratunda Consultancy was a CNC machine solutions company. We were offering CNC Programming, Setup & training services to small & medium sized engineering units.
• Company had around 10 flagship clients from Pune.

Jan 1998 – Sep 2004 · 6 yrs 8 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Raviraj Hi-tech is an Engineering domain company mainly works with international OEM's, offering machining solutions. At Raviraj, I was heading CNC division & was responsible for developing new business, develop efficient machining processes, CNC programming, training to concern employees & customer relations.
• In my last two years with Raviraj I have worked as a Management Representative (MR) & Plant In-charge for the company leading a team of around 150 employees.