Dec 2023 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Product Advisory Consultancy + writing a newsletter for 5800+ subscribers.
• Created an AI-powered resume writing platform from scratch with automated resume review, creation, and quality checks, reducing writing time from 2 hrs to 30 mins and service TAT by 85% and builders for cover letters, LinkedIn profiles with GPT4o
• Built apps using AI coding: sales enablement platform, Mental health bot, AI video generator, AI calorie tracker, and more
• Advising early-stage startups on product and growth in the space of AI tools, mobility, mental health through Antler VC, On Deck
• Published 70+ periodic deep dives into startups and products from a product management lens. Built an audience of 15,000+ across Twitter, LinkedIn, newsletter, and email lists.

Feb 2023 – Nov 2023 · 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

• Key accomplishments:
• Increased new monthly sign-up growth by 80% by shipping multiple experiments, including a sign-up modal to drive new user growth on blog pages.
• Accelerated monthly active registered users by 52% by building a new homepage redesign, more personalized feed, improving recommendations for blogs and tags, introducing a dedicated discussions page, and implementing AI writing features.
• Led the product management function from conceptualizing the product roadmap, writing product specs, wireframing, acceptance criteria, project management, review, launch, and feature marketing.
• At Hashnode, an Accel and PeakXV funded blogging platform with 3M MAUs, I led the product roadmap across the company - discussing goals and vision with the founders, understanding problems that needed solving, and independently ideating features to solve those problems and achieve the goals. I set up more detailed events tracking that wasn't present before.
• I conducted user interviews, used the product myself as a user to gain empathy, looked at analytics to decide what features are required. I was very active on Twitter/X for customer support and getting feedback from users, along with customer support on our community Discord channel. I set up processes for product development, product marketing, weekly newsletter.
• I achieved second place in our internal hackathon for the command K idea and execution.
• I also took ownership of product marketing - writing blogs, changelogs, social media posts on Twitter and LinkedIn, and creating product marketing demo videos.

Nov 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

• As the program director, I led three cohorts of the No Code Cohort program at The Product Folks, Asia's largest product community. I spearheaded multiple aspects of this cohort creation:
• Planning, curriculum design, admissions criteria, shortlisting and outreach to speakers, promotion and marketing, admissions review, hosting workshops, and overall execution of the program with the help of 10 volunteers.
• I leveraged my relationships with key stakeholders at No Code platforms like Notion (Ambassador), Softr (CEO), Bubble (Growth Head), Glide (Growth Head), as well as independent No Code builders and agencies.
• I conducted admissions review by analyzing over 1000 applications and shortlisting 100 across three cohorts.
• During execution, I hosted workshops and sessions, took and analyzed feedback, organized assignments and office hours, conducted those office hours, ensured queries were answered, provided support to mentors and students.
• I organized the capstone project final event, judging submissions and projects.

Jan 2021 – Apr 2021 · 3 mos

• Community member, On-Deck No-code Fellowship Program (ODNC1)

Dec 2020 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• As the founding product manager of Bord, a collaborative whiteboarding SaaS platform, I was instrumental in its creation from scratch. This involved leveraging skills in user experience design, user interviews, user testing, feature specification, creating roadmaps, tracking analytics, experimentation, and iterating on the product.
• In the early stages, we experimented with various user personas, including users at management consultancies as the primary target. To gain a comprehensive understanding of the market, I conducted a competitor analysis across existing whiteboarding platforms such as Miro, Mural, and others.
• Driving 100+ user interviews and usability testing with early users from leading consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, and BCG was a crucial part of the development process.
• We aimed to differentiate the platform by ensuring it was fast, with keyboard shortcuts enabling whiteboarding at the speed of thought, and easy-to-use templates instead of clunky ones.
• The result was a collaborative whiteboarding platform geared towards teams featuring templates, auto shapes, markup presentation capabilities, and team and workspace features.

May 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Emtropy Labs was a B2B SaaS product that initially helped improve remote work culture by continuous feedback, recognition and learning using AI/ML models. Later, the company pivoted to a customer support QA tool utilizing AI and ML models. Several early adopters, including the billion-dollar company Whoop, were among its customers.
• My impact:
• Increased quality by 15% by analyzing 30K monthly tickets (300x increase) using AI resulting in $400K cost savings
• Created feedback and recognition products (pivoted) used by 400+ employees to share 700+ kudos and 500+ feedback
• As a product manager, my role at Emtropy Labs involved creating a roadmap to ship new features. This involved understanding user needs by conducting interviews with end users and customers to understand the business case. Additionally, I performed competitive analysis and prioritized features based on the insights gathered.
• My responsibilities included collaborating with cross-functional teams, such as the founders, engineering, design, machine learning, and AI labeling teams. The goal was to develop and deliver products that addressed the identified problems, thereby increasing feature adoption and SaaS revenue.
• To support the product, I created training videos for users. These efforts aimed to enhance the overall user experience and facilitate seamless adoption of the Emtropy Labs solutions.
• Emtropy was later acquired by Support Logic for its technology.

Jan 2017 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• As a Founder of Quantum Careers – a Startup-India recognized venture providing career advancement products/services to boost user’s job prospects – I am involved in setting-up and optimizing all aspects of the business including product management, business development, process optimization, quality control, operations management, hiring/training/mentoring, expansion among other functions.
• Select accomplishments of this role include:
• Increased revenues to 3x organically through improvements in SEO, leads conversion and building partnerships
• Achieved 1st position on Google SERP in Mumbai & 2nd in Delhi for relevant keywords
• Initiated, negotiated and setup a franchise partnership in Delhi NCR

Jun 2016 – Nov 2016 · 5 mos

• Product Lead of the Pre-Owned Car loans business (market potential - ₹5 billion) that facilitated and streamlined the processing of 5000+ car loans with a disbursal value of 100CR.
• Instrumental in building a suite of mobile (Android + iOS) and web products from the ground-up by working closely the business head to define and execute the product roadmap using technology in a breakthrough way to disrupt an industry.
• Developed strong product management skill sets in Business Strategy, User Research and Needfinding, User Experience and Prototyping, PRD and User Stories, Product Development, Agile Project Management, Training + Product Demos + Onboarding, Analytics.
• Key accomplishments of this role:
• Facilitated 3000+ car loans valued at $12M by building a web and mobile platform Android + iOS; Currently at $1B annually
• Led a cross-functional team of Engineering, QA, Design, Junior PM, Sales and Operations in 5 cities
• Reduced time taken to process an online loan application by 60% by innovating the camera interface

May 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

Sep 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

• My work at totalBarca came about through a passion for the sport of football and in particular the team FC Barcelona. I provided live commentary on football matches to 50,000+ Twitter followers in over 100+ countries worldwide. I worked with a globally connected team of 25 spread across 5 continents and led a team of 4 social media specialists. I also got to write detailed Match Preview articles for the site visitors (1 million monthly unique views)
• Select accomplishments of this role include:
• Increased 1667% increase in the Facebook likes (12K to 200K); 150% increase in the Twitter following (20K to 50K)

Jul 2010 – May 2014 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region