Nijesh Prakash

Product Director

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 9 mos experience
AI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led AI-driven product innovations in customer experience.
  • Achieved significant cost savings through operational improvements.
  • Successfully launched multiple fintech and healthtech products.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Leader in Fintech and HealthTech with a strong focus on customer experience and operational scalability.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyCustomer ExperienceMarket Research

Other Skills

AICC++Corporate SolutionsCredit SolutionsData AnalysisDatabase AdministrationEngineeringFraud DetectionGeofencingJavaLeadershipLogistics ManagementManagementMicrosoft Excel

About

Product leader with 11+ years of experience driving impact across customer experience, delivery, and payments in fast-paced B2B and B2C environments. I currently lead customer and delivery experience at Licious — building AI-led platform tools, improving last-mile reliability, and scaling internal platforms for proactive issue resolution and flexible payment experiences. My work blends systems thinking with user empathy — focused on reducing friction, enhancing trust, and enabling operational scalability. Previously, I led fintech and healthtech products at Freo and MFine, launching payment innovations and internal tools that improved experience and efficiency. I'm passionate about building products that work reliably at scale, mentoring teams, and working cross-functionally to turn complexity into clarity.

Experience

12 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Licious

2 roles

Director of Product Management

Promoted

Apr 2024Dec 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Driving charter-level strategy across customer support, delivery reliability, and payments — with a focus on internal tools, platform scalability, and operational impact.
  • Lead a team of PMs and analysts across post-order, last-mile delivery, and payment recovery flows
  • Rolled out an AI-led support assistant, fully internalized which reduced handling time by 30%, saved INR 1.5 Cr annually
  • Launched a real-time control tower to detect anomalies and enable proactive resolution which led to20% drop in escalations
  • Improved delivery accuracy and coverage through smart address mapping + gate-level geofencing which led to 40% drop in misdeliveries
  • Enabled “pay anytime” collection flows → reduced payment-related cancellations by 50%
  • Built a store-led order/inventory platform for omnichannel scale-up and unlocked INR 1 Cr/month revenue
  • Deployed ML-led smart rider sequencing; improved SLA adherence by 15%
Customer ExperienceProduct StrategyPlatform product

Principal Product Manager

Feb 2023May 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Built a hybrid support system combining workflow-led flows and AI chat, reducing call volume by 20%
  • Redesigned NPS collection strategy, increasing feedback coverage 8x through contextual in-app triggers
  • Enhanced order tracking journey with real-time ETAs and improved status communication, reducing order-related queries by 20%
  • Strengthened product ops feedback loops by partnering with CX and operations to close the gap between issues and fixes

Mfine

Lead Product Manager

Feb 2022Feb 2023 · 1 yr

  • Launched cashless corporate OPD platform powered by an in-house wallet, boosting repeat usage by 25%
  • Built wallet infra from scratch — QR payments, dependent validation, balance management
  • Introduced internal OPD curation tool, cutting package setup time from by 70%
  • Improved UPI success rate by 10% via redesigned transaction flow and error handling

Moneytap

2 roles

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

Oct 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Redesigned credit onboarding to remove friction and auto-fetch key data which led to 15% lift in approval rates
  • Launched Credit-on-UPI — a first-of-its-kind platform offering small-ticket credit via QR, unlocking 100K new users in 4 months
  • Led end-to-end experience for FreoCard, a digital-first credit card with app-native onboarding, spends, and repayments
  • Built fraud detection system to proactively flag fake documents, reducing fraudulent approvals by 15%
  • Drove platformization of core credit stack to support multiple lending flows and partner configurations

Product Manager

Oct 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr

  • Introduced workflow-based support automation, reducing resolution time by 20%
  • Enabled customized credit journeys for new partners, driving 20% incremental revenue
  • Focused on platform reuse and flexibility to accelerate partner launches and maintain compliance

Juspay

Product and Business Development

Aug 2017Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Ibm india private limited

Business Manager - Hybrid Cloud Solutions South India

Jun 2016Jul 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked under Cloud Business Unit of IBM with responsibilities including:
  • Key Account Management: Sole point of contact to enable business of Hybrid Cloud solution portfolio in key accounts of South India, contributing to the direct sales revenue of the organization
  • Marketing and Business Development: Developed marketing campaigns- mailers, banners to increase adoption of new solutions of the portfolio
  • Product Enablement: Give product demos and presentation to the clients enabling them about the capabilities of the solution
  • Customer Satisfaction: Improve customer experience by coordinating post sales deployment workshops to increase the consumption of cloud services
  • Work with select business partners and distributors to improve adoption of Hybrid cloud solutions

Siemens

Summer Intern

May 2015Jun 2015 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Domain of the project: Market Research
  • Project Title: Market research to find the Analytics Landscape in India and its applications across various stages of product lifecycle
  • Project Outcomes included:
  • Secondary Market Research: Analysed the consulting reports to find the major players in analytics sector in India
  • Primary Market Research: Reached out to 46 external experts including academicians, corporate professionals and entrepreneurs through cold calls to validate the findings of secondary research and thus give a 5 point recommendation to assess the analytics landscape in India
  • Analysis of data: Data points collected through market research was used to suggest :
  • Whether to go in house or outsource for analytics platform
  • Find the probable ways to improve the analytics capability of the organization
  • Suggest changes in the existing product portfolio to make more analytics friendly
  • Comparison with peers and how to win against them
  • Establish India as a powerhouse foe analytics talent

Vgsom, iit kharagpur

Student & Placement Coordinator

Jul 2014May 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Worked as a direct interface between the batch and industry. Responsible for facilitating summer internships and final placements of the batch.
  • Actively interacted with 300 + companies for placements, workshops and live projects
  • Involved in keeping the batch informed about the various B School Competitions being organized across the nation.

Tata consultancy services

Assistant System Engineer

Sep 2012May 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai

  • Client: India's leading public sector bank
  • Project: Workflow module of core banking system
  • Workflow module deals with the tracking of daily banking activities like account creation and loan sanction.
  • Responsibilities included:
  • Customer Satisfaction: Point of contact for the client's business analysts for the database and system. Interacted on a weekly basis to understand the issues they are facing and mapping them to technical requirements
  • Product Improvement: Worked with the front end development team to optimize the functionalities of the portal by fine tuning the underlying database queries
  • Technology Improvement: Performed analysis over past performance of the application and suggested the client to upgrade the hardware to improve the efficiency
  • Achievement:
  • Even being the junior most member of the team, was entrusted with the task of server migration which I carried out successfully and for which was even appreciated with “On The Spot Award.”

Education

VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Marketing

Jan 2014Jan 2016

SASTRA University

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

Jan 2008Jan 2012

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