Sachin Punjabi

Product Manager

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India12 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product management for multiple high-impact consumer platforms.
  • Achieved significant user growth and retention in competitive markets.
  • Expert in integrating technology with consumer-focused product strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in Telecommunications, Streaming Services, and E-commerce.

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Artificial IntelligenceBusiness StrategyCustomer Focused DesignData AnalysisData MiningData WarehousingDatabasesDesign ThinkingGoogle AnalyticsManagementManagement ConsultingMarket ResearchMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeMySQL

About

Experienced Sr. Product Manager with strong product experience in Consumer Products ranging from content streaming, social platforms, telco to e-commerce. Currently working at platform level to solve problems in FinTech space. Ex - Airtel, Times Internet, Hotstar, Deloitte, IIM Ahmedabad

Experience

Rupeek

Senior Product Manager

Dec 2021Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • - Managing Lending Platform

Airtel x labs

Senior Product Manager

Jan 2019Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Worked on:
  • 1. Airtel Black Online Acquisition
  • 2. Secure Internet - Parental Control Service (Beta)
  • 3. Life Insurance with prepaid recharge
  • https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/telecom/telecom-news/airtel-offers-hdfc-life-insurance-cover-with-rs-249-plan/articleshow/69310733.cms
  • https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/insure/life-insurance/airtel-partners-with-hdfc-life-to-launch-prepaid-plan-with-insurance-cover/articleshow/69307599.cms

Times internet

Lead Product Manager

Jul 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Delhi Area, India

  • Scope:
  • Product Lead for House of God, which is an upcoming religious and spiritual platform with more than 1 million downloads and App rank 32 in lifestyle category in India. Acquired by Times Internet.
  • Products Managed:
  • House of God content streaming Android, iOS Apps
  • Content streaming website: www.houseofgod.co
  • Ecommerce website: shop.houseofgod.co
  • Spiritual travel website : trips.houseofgod.co
  • Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for KPI growth for all the above mentioned products.
  • Responsible for creating Product Roadmap for the company.
  • Reporting to investors with regard to product growth metrics and to discuss Product Roadmap.
  • Conducting user surveys & research to create better user experience and include relevant features.
  • Documenting requirements for features in JIRA.
  • Leading the Agile Project Management - Scrum
  • Working with design team for creating UI/UX.
  • Analysing user behavior data and performance data to find key growth areas and feature performances so far.
  • Mentoring design team to create better UI/UX
  • Achievements:
  • Returning user growth of 4X in 11 months
  • Increased retention on house of god app by 15%
  • Increased the watch time on House of god app by over 12%
  • Launched Spiritual travel website and content to commerceu monetisation in App . ( Cannot share revenue numbers)
  • Maintained the Playstore app rating of 4.6/5 for House of God App and reached 31st rank in Lifestyle category.

Hotstar – novi digital entertainment private limited

Product Manager

May 2015Apr 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai

  • Product Manager - Hotstar - User Personalisation (June 2016 - current )
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Responsible for managing the user personalization for hotstar.
  • 2. Improving watch time on the back of recommendations.
  • 3. Personalizing assets on the app based on user preferences
  • 4. Create avenues for content discovery
  • 5. Managing the costs for personalisation
  • 6. User behavior tracking , creating requirement specs, overseeing implementation, AB testing and tracking post go live
  • Product Manager - Hotstar - iOS Platform ( March 2016 - May 2016)
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Responsible for managing the release and sprint cylces for iOS platform.
  • Product Manager - Hotstar - Notifications (Dec 2015 - Mar 2016)
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Devising the notification strategy for Hotstar
  • 2. Creating use cases for personalised notifications
  • 3. Implementing the use cases and overseeing the notification product.
  • 4. Liaising with the technical team and the external vendor to ensure the smooth operations
  • of push notification system
  • Product Manager - Star Sports App - Android & iOS ( July 2015 - Feb 2016 )
  • 10 million installs
  • Play store rating: 4.2
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Managing the release and testing schedules for Android and iOS platforms
  • 2. Setting the new features and release requirements and creating Product requirement documents
  • 3. Liaising with the marketing, content, legal, CRM & data science team to solve for the problems
  • 4. Managing interactions with the external support partners for data and video player requirements,
  • 5. Featured the following series live on the app : IPL, ICC World T20, India-Australia series, Wimbledon, Hockey World Cup, Pro-Kabaddi, ISL , India South-Africa series.
  • 6. Worked with project management and data analytics tools: Atlassian JIRA and Google Analytics

Sebi

Research Intern

Apr 2014May 2014 · 1 mo · Mumbai

  • Investment Management Department at SEBI.
  • Market Analysis, Regulatory framework analysis. Equity Crowdfunding market and regulations.
  • Main Points:
  • Analysing the current legal framework and problems in regulating Equity Crowdfunding in India
  • Analysing crowdfunding parameters and regulatory frameworks in USA, UK, Canada, & Australia
  • Communicating with Investors and Entrepreneurs to understand the funding needs and issues

Deloitte

Business Technology Analyst

Jul 2011Jun 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Data Warehousing, Data Migration, Business Risk Analysis. Primarily Healthcare industry clients.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for implementing adverse event reporting system for global pharmaceutical clients
  • Worked with Deloitte Leadership to build competency in the field of pharmacovigilance
  • Implemented data model for multi-dimensional analysis for pharma clients as a firm initiative
  • Achievements:
  • Received ‘Outstanding value to client’ award for implementation of life-science projects
  • Team achieved savings of over $1 million p.a. for the client by implementing adverse event reporting mechanism as a part of a team
  • Saved 500 man-hours for the team by creating dashboard which expedited error monitoring procedure

Shahnet tech

Summer Intern Trainee Developer

Jan 2011Apr 2011 · 3 mos

  • Worked on Interactive Design and Development of a web-based portal for a UK based car-trading, In this project I was involved in multiple threads covering an end to end process right from conceptualization to the deployment of the portal.
  • Primary focus was on user experience design and interactive search techniques.

Education

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Post Graduate Diploma — Business

Jan 2013Jan 2015

IÉSEG School of Management

Summer School — International Business

Jan 2014Jan 2014

Nirma University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information Technology

Jan 2007Jan 2011

Amrut School , Ahmedabad

Jan 1996Jan 2007

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