Anish Khandelwal

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in decoding organizational decision-making.
  • Proven track record in driving product growth strategies.
  • Strong focus on pattern recognition and system intelligence.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in SaaS with a focus on growth strategies and user engagement.

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Skills

Core Skills

System ArchitectureOrganizational BehaviorProduct ManagementGrowth Strategy

Other Skills

pattern recognitionsystem intelligenceProduct Road MappingProduct MarketingData AnalyticsProduct DeliverySprint PlanningUI UXWeb Application DevelopmentGrowth StrategiesQuality AssuranceGrowth HackingHardwareProgram ManagementRecruiting

About

Most people don’t struggle because they lack intelligence. They struggle because they’re operating inside systems they don’t understand. I work on that layer. I study how people, teams, and organizations actually behave —under pressure, incentives, and incomplete information. My focus is not motivation. It’s judgment. At Lazy Monk Labs, I work on - decoding founder and organizational decision-making - identifying hidden constraints and misalignment - turning intuition into repeatable systems This page is where I publish patterns I’m seeing in real time —about work, power, incentives, culture, and leverage. If you care about: • thinking clearly instead of reacting • building systems that compound • pattern recognition over opinion You’ll find the writing useful.

Experience

Lazy monk labs

Chief System Architect

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Exploring pattern recognition, awareness, and system intelligence through live decodes and writing.
pattern recognitionsystem intelligenceSystem ArchitectureOrganizational Behavior

Getsetyo

Head of Growth

Oct 2024Apr 2025 · 6 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

Career break

Travel

Oct 2023Sep 2024 · 11 mos

Sugarbox

Senior Product Manager - Growth

Dec 2022Sep 2023 · 9 mos · Bengaluru

  • Sugarbox is building the backbone for the Internet of the future through patented CDN technology. Avionics being an established use case is at the core of the company's growth strategy.
  • Spearheading Avionics vertical team to drive user adoption, engagement and monetisation for AirAsia's in-flight entertainment platform
  • Driving product strategy by generating insights through User research, Data analytics & understanding client expectations.
  • Leading cross-functional coordination with 6 horizontal squads and executing Go-to-market & enhancement of the features/solutions developed
Product Road MappingProduct MarketingData AnalyticsProduct DeliverySprint PlanningUI UX+8

Stepchange

Founding Member - Growth

Mar 2022Dec 2022 · 9 mos · Bengaluru

  • StepChange started off with a vision to create a super app solving for the needs of users who want to live a more sustainable lifestyle. The company has now pivoted to a SaaS product to enable carbon accounting for companies
  • Lead the Product & Go-to-Market for Beta version of habit tracking app that
  • enabled user to measure their carbon footprint & switch to a sustainable
  • lifestyle
  • Drove user acquisition through performance marketing and community
  • building to acquire 1500 users within 2 months
  • Built gamification to drive customer retention and improved app usability
  • through feedback and data-driven insights
  • Benchmarked 10 sustainable e-commerce platforms in India and US to
  • create the product roadmap
Data AnalyticsSprint PlanningUI UXWeb Application DevelopmentRecruitingMarket Research+5

Makemytrip

Lead Growth Product Manager - TripMoney

Mar 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

  • Product Lead for Tripmoney insurance platform serving Go-MMT.
  • Built insurance to a Rs 1 crore+ profit per month category - 100% organic growth during pandemic
  • Enabled bit-sized insurance as a service for 2 Partners X 4 LOBs X 2 channels X 4 Platforms = 64 Points of sale
  • Lead complex cross functional integration of insurance platform APIs while constantly improving the the platform to accommodate needs of various stakeholders
  • Designed and executed multiple experiments for price discovery, identifying the right copy, testing new insurance products
  • Lead the design and launch of Covid Insurance in a standalone react native funnel
  • Lead the design and launch of Travel insurance sale in a standalone react native funnel for international travellers
  • Worked with Data science team to develop a model for price discovery for bite sized insurance taking into account transaction amount, user history and indicators like child being a part of the booking
  • Launched sales of insurance post order completion through post sales communication over whatsapp, email and Notification ( industry-first)
  • Tools - Figma , Zepplin (Design ) Postman (API ) Google Analytics, Redash & Basic Omniture ( Analytics)
  • Product Operations - BNPL
  • Lead support for BNPL and insurance
  • Lead development of product features to improve BNPL customer experience and eliminate the root cause for customer escalation or enable faster resolution Eg. Automated alerts, Funnel enhancements, Support dashboard re-design
  • Monitored multiple funnels using Google Analytics/Redash and worked on data pipeline improvement
Data AnalyticsSprint PlanningUI UXWeb Application DevelopmentProduct OperationsCustomer Support+6

Ola electric

Senior Program Manger - Growth

Apr 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

  • Conducted user research to identify user pain points, needs, daily economics, and aspirations in turn identifying driver cohorts & and value propositions for each cohort
  • Lead the Go-to-Market- sold 4x of the monthly industry within a month days in Gurgaon
  • Led a team of 10 to establish sales & and retro-fitment channels

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

3 roles

Program Manager - Product Operations - Prime Play

May 2017Apr 2018 · 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Vertical Product lead of PrimePlay – responsible for continuous improvement in customer experience and engagement working with horizontal product & and Ops
  • Improved "Perfect Rides" from 75% to 98% within 4 months at a scale of 2 lac
  • daily rides from an installed base of 45,000 Prime Play Cabs
  • Also - Drove supply side go-to-market and NPS improvement for Prime Play
  • supply. Improved NPS by 23 basis points

Program Manager - Growth - Ola Rentals

Feb 2017May 2017 · 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Program lead for marketing activities around IPL promoting the rentals fit for stadium commute use case
  • Conceptualised and executed social media campaigns in collaboration with agencies

Program Manager - GTM - Ola Corporate

Apr 2016Jan 2017 · 9 mos · Bangalore

  • Program Lead for the conceptualization and piloting of Employee Transport Management Product ( Ola Commute)
  • Conducted a baseline market study to establish a framework of pain points to be addressed
  • Designed and conceptualised the product strategy based on the study as a part of a 2-member team
  • Led the operationalization of the pilot; built and trained the execution team and the process
  • Formulated the go-to-market strategy along with financial estimates for the coming 5 years

Philips

Summer Intern

Apr 2015May 2015 · 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

  • Conducted process parameter study for outsourced plastic parts to create a baseline for price negotiation
  • Devised an empirical model for plastic mold cost estimation using historical data and thumb rules

Tata motors

Assistant Manager

Aug 2011Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Project Manager in the production engineering(PE)division for projects worth 20 Cr
  • Co-ordinated project related activities across 9 sub-divisions ensuring timely issue resolution to meet delivery SLA
  • Monitored all project related activities at the vendors end for offloaded workload
  • Created detailed project plans including cost breakup and Job-level breakdown
  • Also -
  • Lead the development of a web-based real time performance tracking system for the division
  • Drove the development of a website for attracting external business for the division.

Husk power systems

Summer Intern

Apr 2010May 2010 · 1 mo

  • Technical aggregation of the reasons of failure of gas engines used for production of power using rice husk
  • Collected historical data based on one to one interaction with plant staff through detailed interviews
  • Diagnosed the root cause of failures and provided recommendations for preventive action

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Jan 2014Jan 2016

NIT Warangal

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

S.D Jain Modern School

Jan 1999Jan 2005

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