Alimpan Barua

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 3 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over 11 years in digital product management.
  • Expert in product-led growth and user engagement.
  • Co-founder of a successful product management consultancy.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in E-Commerce and Gaming sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementGrowth Hacking

Other Skills

AlgorithmsCC++Core JavaCustomer AcquisitionCustomer EngagementCustomer Lifecycle ManagementCustomer RetentionData StructuresDigital MarketingE-CommerceEclipseEnterprise MobilityGoogle AnalyticsJava

About

Alimpan has over 11 years of experience in digital product management across industries, with a focus on user growth and customer engagement. He holds a post graduate degree in management from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Alimpan is currently running ProductXperts as a co-founder wherein he and his pool of product experts are providing product management boutique consulting/fractional CPO services for startups and scaleups and helping these companies accelerate business growth through product. Alimpan had led the Growth Product charter at Pocket FM, where he was responsible for driving product-led growth, user acquisition and reactivation, and customer lifecycle management. He has a track record of delivering impactful product features and growth hacks that enhance user experience and retention. Previously, he headed all the product verticals and horizontals at Pocket52 (Gameskraft), where he launched two new games and led a team of product managers, analysts, and designers. He also led growth in GlowRoad, an online reseller network, where he increased the overall GMV by 10x with key focus on LTV/CAC ratio. Alimpan is passionate about building products that solve real customer problems and create value for both users and businesses.

Experience

North partners

Co-Founder

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Advising multiple early stage consumer facing startups as fractional CPO on product, team building, growth.
  • North Partners (previously ProductXperts) helps companies:
  • Define and clarify product strategy and roadmaps
  • Build new product and software teams, with advice on org design and process
  • Upskill and coach existing software teams to deliver commercial results
  • Fix challenges with product / market fit and customer adoption and retention
  • Resolve delivery problems to get growth-building software out of the door
  • We are also product partners for Build.Club (https://www.linkedin.com/company/build-club)
  • With over a decade of experience leading change in product & tech teams, we operate with a very hands on approach wherever you need it

Pocket fm

Associate Director - Growth Product

Jan 2023Jun 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Led the Growth Product charter at Pocket FM - PLG (Product led Growth) - User Acquisitions and Reactivations, CLM (Customer Lifecycle Management)
LeadershipOver-the-Top Content (OTT)Product ManagementGrowth Hacking

Gameskraft

Associate Director - Product

Jun 2020Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Headed all the product verticals and horizontals at Pocket52 Poker Brand
  • Led a team of product managers, product analysts and product designers
  • Had launched 2 new games (Rummy and Callbreak)
LeadershipOnline GamingProduct Management

Glowroad.com (acquired by amazon)

AVP - Product & Growth

Aug 2018May 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Led Growth in the organization – Growth Product and Growth Marketing at GlowRoad (now acquired by Amazon)
  • Owned the entire CLM – Acquisition, Activation, Engagement/Retention and Reactivation and brought a 10x increase in overall GMV with key focus on LTV/CAC ratio to drive the entire CLM
  • Acquisition – Increased acquisitions via introduction of acquisition channels in digital marketing, acquisition hacks in the product (Referral program, Contacts sync, Group Buy, Price Drop features) at an optimized CAC
  • Activation – Conducted A/B experiments and increased install to sign up by 15%
  • Increased sign up to 1st order by 70% via journey notifications in Clevertap and revamping home screen for a new user
  • Engagement/Retention – Increased conversions of new users by driving engagement via Gamification
  • Improved M1 Retention by 2x through improvements in home page feed, product listing and product details pages
  • Increased ARPU by 30% through upselling and cross selling features in Cart page
  • Introduced Loyalty program in the app followed by subscription feature to drive retention
LeadershipE-CommerceGrowth HackingProduct Management

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

Product Manager

May 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Built workflows around PLM (Partner Lifecycle Management) programs with an aim to improve partner productivity and performance during his lifecycle in the platform
  • Introduced push notifications in iOS partner app and redesigned the in-app notifications in android app.
  • Introduced contextual notifications and feedback mechanism in the Ola Partner Training App for better engagement, made hygiene fixes to the conversion funnel to improve the conversion rates
  • Explored the impact of possible motivators in the platform with an aim to improve partner retention

Times internet

Senior Product Manager

Apr 2015May 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Worked on smartapp (www.getsmartapp.com). Android app has over 3 million downloads and app rating of 4.4/5 in Play Store.
  • As a Lead Product Manager, has worked closely with the UI & UX designers, Android and backend developers to implement features and continuously improve the product flow and ensure delivery of features on time and on the other side, working with the Business Head to lay out the product roadmap in line with the overall product vision and strategy.
  • Has complete ownership of the entire Recharge and Payment modules of smartapp ranging from features ideation, product flow design, user navigation and integration of 3rd party SDKs. Responsible for continuously improving the entire recharge and payment experience by removing bottlenecks from the conversion funnel and responsible for key business metrics related to revenue and conversions.
  • Ownership of the entire customer acquisition and retention strategy ranging from bringing a successful referral program (over 500k signups through referrals) and laying out a polished customer communication strategy (push, in app, email and SMS notifications). Responsible for key product metrics related to acquisition and retention.
  • Manages the marketing campaigns of smartapp to drive acquisition, conversions and retention; monitor product analytics through Google Analytics and Apsalar to understand user behaviour and segments.
  • Has worked closely with product designers to test new designs and user navigation by conducting usability tests and A/B tests.

Nucleus software exports limited

Product Manager

May 2014Mar 2015 · 10 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Worked in the Mobility Solutions team on a new app for banking operations in Android platform; involved in developing business and functional requirements, wireframing, prototyping and product flow of the app.
  • Conducting market research on mobile banking trends and new technologies, gathering market requirements and adding potential features to the product roadmap of existing mobility solutions
  • Developed Go-To-Market Strategy for our existing products in the lending market and coming up with recommendations for Marketing, Alliance and Sales teams.
  • Collaboration with internal stakeholders – Services, Internal Support, Sales and Marketing teams and coordinating with them for various cross-functional requirements.

Microsoft

Program Manager Intern

Apr 2013May 2013 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Worked in Microsoft Bing division and was involved in market research, wireframing and prototyping, developing business and functional requirements, working with UX designers and developers for a new app "Birthday Party Planner" in Windows Phone 8 platform

Oracle india pvt. ltd

Software Development Engineer

Aug 2011May 2012 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked in the generation of error analysis reports in deployment of products in Lifecycle Management (LCM) platform; identified errors in workflow; reduced errors per deployment from 0.98 to 0.125.
  • Built a generic deployer for running scripts in an enhancement project of internal tool Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP); incorporated this feature in the tool’s internal portal; reduced deployment time by 5 secs.
  • Underwent trainings in Oracle Business Intelligence Tools and received certification during Oct. 2011.

Infosys

Summer Intern

May 2007Jun 2007 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Applied various research techniques to discover key influencers within an universal bank in a project on Social Network Mining; suggested a method which increased the result accuracy by 14%.
  • Received Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) from the company after the successful completion of my project

Education

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Post Graduate Program in Management — Finance and Marketing

Jan 2012Jan 2014

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Dublin

International MBA Student Exchange Programme — Marketing and Information Systems

Jan 2013Jan 2013

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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