Akhilesh Ravishankar

Co-Founder

Paris, Île-de-France, France12 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in product management and strategy.
  • Expertise in building user-centered design processes.
  • Strong leadership skills in managing cross-functional teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Leader in the Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Other Skills

Adobe PhotoshopAgile MethodologiesBusiness AnalysisBusiness StrategyCRMCoachingData AnalysisDesign ThinkingDocumentationExperience DesignFeature PrioritizationFinTechFundraisingGTMGo-to-market Strategy

About

Experienced product leader | Problem-solver | Empath I love identifying and solving problems, with structured thought processes. My deep passion towards understanding human behaviour enables me to work towards building great teams and experiences for my customers and teammates.

Experience

12 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Bereal.

Founding Product Manager

Dec 2025Present · 5 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France · On-site

Voodoo

Founding Product Manager, BeReal

Dec 2025Present · 5 mos · Paris

Qonto

2 roles

Staff Product Manager

Dec 2024Dec 2025 · 1 yr · Paris, Île-de-France, France · Hybrid

Senior Product Manager

Jun 2021Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France · Hybrid

  • Qonto is the leading European business finance solution. It simplifies everything from everyday banking and financing, to bookkeeping and spend management. Qonto energizes SMEs and freelancers so that they can achieve more.
  • Alexandre Prot and Steve Anavi launched Qonto in July 2017
  • Qonto’s international team is growing fast and we are actively hiring!
  • Hundreds of thousands of customers in Europe are already using Qonto
  • €622m raised with VCs and business angels including Valar, Alven, the European Investment Bank, Tencent, DST Global, Tiger Global, TCV, Alkeon, Eurazeo, KKR, Insight Partners, Exor Seeds and Gaingels.

On deck

Fellow

Jan 2021Feb 2021 · 1 mo · Remote

  • Part of the global On Deck community (OD50 Cohort 1).

Accel

Venture Development, Product and Growth

Jun 2019May 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Working with founders and product leaders of Accel portfolio startups –
  • At growth stage to help them accelerate growth while sustaining PMF
  • At early stages to define their GTM strategy
  • To help translate business requirements to the product roadmap, setting up metrics, hiring and scaling customer-first culture, implementing rapid experimentation processes

Belong.co

2 roles

Product Manager

Nov 2015May 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Led product and design across a 3-sided SaaS enabled marketplace connecting employers, recruiters and candidates
  • Led GTM for a data science powered recruitment CRM as a part of international expansion
  • Increased recruiter efficiency by 4x, by building a smart automated candidate engagement module
  • Optimised steps in the development cycle using design thinking
  • Nurtured documentation culture via product requirements and root cause analyses

Product Designer

Jan 2015Oct 2015 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Belong is a SaaS product that uses data science to match employers and talent; Backed by Sequoia, Matrix and others
  • As the 1st designer and an early member of Belong, built the team and processes from scratch – reported to the CEO

Phyzok learning solutions

Project Manager, Project Udaan

Oct 2014Dec 2014 · 2 mos · Pilani, Rajasthan

  • A CBSE and the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India initiative launched on Children's Day by Smriti Zubin Irani (then Union Minister of HRD) - Enabling 1000 underprivileged girl children to excel in engineering entrance exams. Eliminating the dominance of high costing coaching institutions.
  • Oversaw creation of 200 hours of video content and textual supplements from scratch within a month
  • Created a system to recruit a team of dedicated and motivated contributors/content creators
  • Developed and implemented an effective quality control system for the content
  • Worked in direct liaison with CBSE to create impactful content

The department of photography (dopy)

Coordinator

Aug 2014Dec 2014 · 4 mos · Pilani, Rajasthan

  • Recruited a batch of 15 photographers to manage all activities of the department
  • Oversaw generation of ~300,000 INR for the college cultural festival through the medium of photography over a period of ~5 months
  • Handled photographic coverage of all events throughout the semester, especially during the cultural (Oasis 2014) and sports festivals
  • Supplemented the publicity team by providing relevant designs and photographs
  • Represented the department as the SPOC to the Students' Union, BITS Pilani

Refine interactive pvt. ltd.

Summer Intern

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Compiled a database of ~2500 marketing-qualified leads for the sales team in 2 months
  • Supported the digital marketing team with design assets including infographics and event standees

Orient cement ltd.

Summer Intern

May 2013Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Jalgaon, Maharashtra

  • Worked on the Switchgear Protection System of the Clinker Grinding Unit (CGU) of Orient Cement Ltd.
  • Recommended retro-filling of mineral oil based transformers with ester-based dielectric fluids
  • Worked on upgrading a 33kV substation to 132kV substation for uninterrupted power supply

Aiesec

Core Member

Feb 2012Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pilani, Rajasthan

  • Started the AIESEC BITS Pilani chapter from scratch which branched out of AIESEC Jaipur chapter
  • Worked on outgoing exchange program to help multiple students from BITS Pilani intern abroad

Center for entrepreneurial leadership, bits pilani

Core Member

Sep 2011May 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pilani, Rajasthan

  • Steered the organisation of BedRock 2012, a real-time restaurant managing competition with student participation – generated ~200k INR collectively, in a span of 3 hours
  • As a part of the Conquest 2012 team - an International Business Plan Competition held in July-August 2012, helped in generation of sponsorship and organisation of the event

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) — Electrical & Electronics

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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