Abhijeet Thakre

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Achieved 3x revenue growth in one year.
  • Led successful Go-To-Market strategies for new products.
  • Built high-impact teams and optimized performance.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on revenue operations and analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipProject ManagementBusiness AnalyticsStrategy

Other Skills

Team BuildingBusiness StrategyProblem SolvingAnalytical SkillsProgram ManagementStatistical Data AnalysisData VisualizationBusiness AnalysisMicrosoft ExcelCPublic SpeakingMicrosoft WordMicrosoft PowerPointCreative Problem SolvingTableau

About

All I am going to do is, build good businesses and live closer to nature.

Experience

7 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Apna

5 roles

Head - Enterprise Pilot Success

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Built and led a 5-member team (4 CSMs + 1 Recruiter) to drive pilot-to-paid conversions for enterprise clients.
  • Designed and implemented SOPs for CSMs, optimizing the pilot journey and ensuring seamless onboarding, training, and value realization.
  • Spearheaded a 40% increase in closed-won pilots, even with a team of 1-2 years of experience, by creating a structured training and execution framework.
  • Established a pilot tracking system to monitor client progress, enabling data-driven decisions and proactive interventions.
  • Delivered weekly insights on industry trends and pilot performance to the COO, aligning stakeholders on key strategies.
  • Successfully converted large enterprise accounts, many of whom had never used a platform solution before, by deeply understanding their hiring processes and tailoring engagement strategies.
Team BuildingProject ManagementBusiness StrategyProblem SolvingLeadership

Product GTM

Oct 2024Jul 2025 · 9 mos

  • Led the Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy for Apna’s new product, transforming it from an early-stage idea into a scalable revenue-generating solution. Defined the pricing strategy, identified the right client segments, and built a strong sales pipeline. Conducted early sales meetings to refine the pitch, developed data-driven reporting analytics from the ground up, and packaged the offering into a fully operational product now being actively sold.
  • Created a playbook for the sales team to drive it forward for scale.
  • Product GTM & Commercialization:
  • Spearheaded the Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy for Apna’s Banner product, transitioning it from concept to commercialization.
  • Defined a scalable pricing strategy with multiple monetization models (CPM, days active).
  • Conducted market research to identify key client segments & refine product positioning.
  • Sales & Pipeline Development:
  • Built a high-value client pipeline by identifying & engaging early adopters.
  • Led early-stage client meetings to craft a compelling sales pitch & secure product adoption.
  • Established competitive differentiation & negotiation playbooks to drive deal closures.
  • Data & Analytics Implementation:
  • Designed bottom-up reporting analytics, enabling performance tracking & ROI measurement.
  • Created a conversion funnel analysis to optimize sales performance & identify bottlenecks.
  • Product Packaging & Scaling:
  • Developed the end-to-end sales enablement package, including pitch decks, pricing models, case studies, & ROI narratives.
  • Enabled product scalability by aligning sales, marketing, & operations for sustained revenue growth.

Manager - Enterprise Revenue (RevOps)

Promoted

Sep 2023May 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • 🚀 Scaling Enterprise Success | 3x Revenue Growth | Building High-Impact Teams
  • I thrive at the intersection of strategy, operations, and revenue growth. Over the past year, I have been instrumental in setting up and scaling Apna’s Enterprise Customer Success function from the ground up—an industry-first move in our competitive landscape.
  • Key Achievements:
  • ✅ 3x YoY Revenue Growth – Spent a year deeply understanding the business, establishing systems, and habitualizing SOPs to drive predictable revenue outcomes.
  • ✅ Team Leadership – Currently managing a team of 17 (3 Business Analysts, 4 Telecallers, 11 Key Account Managers) with Enterprise Revenue as the North-Star Metric.
  • ✅ Scaling & Structuring – Grew the KAM team from 5 to 11 while introducing structured SOPs, Performance Indicators, and KAM Performance Models to optimize individual and team impact.
  • ✅ Enterprise Product Expansion – Collaborated on product development and deployment to enhance Apna’s Enterprise offerings.
  • ✅ Learning & Development – Led the creation and adoption of an onboarding module for new CSMs to accelerate learning and performance.
  • Building from 0 → 1:
  • Methodically tackled key challenges:
  • 🔹 Focused on FF (Fulfiment) as the initial success metric, ensuring marquee accounts were well-managed.
  • 🔹 Addressed relevancy and product-level issues, before shifting focus to client interactions as a competitive differentiator.
  • 🔹 Drove physical client meetings to increase face time, enhancing retention and expansion.
  • 🔹 Developed a CSM input-to-revenue output metric, linking effort to revenue achievement and optimizing team structure for maximum impact.
  • Now, with strong foundations in place, my focus remains on scaling revenue, deepening enterprise relationships, and optimizing performance models for sustainable growth.

Manager Strategy and Operations

Apr 2023Dec 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Part of the Revenue Operations team, where in the capacity of IC (Individual Contributor) I manage Fulfillment and Demand Supply Matching of all mature revenue generating businesses within apna.
  • Such as Marketplace, Database and SHR (intentionally left abbreviated)
  • Part of my work involves -
  • 1. Data Champion (Data Analytics)
  • 2. Dashboard Building for Daily Maintenance of relevant Metrics under me
  • 3. Insight Generation via data and business model building
  • 4. Working cross-functionally with Product, Sales and Tech team to create, operate and optimize business solutions
  • 5. Creating, Maintaining and Executing levers for major metrics (such as Fulfilment in this case) to optimize for revenue generation
Analytical SkillsProblem SolvingStrategyBusiness AnalyticsProgram ManagementBusiness Strategy+3

Lead Business Analyst

Sep 2021Mar 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Currently Managing Demand Supply of the Marketplace, part of Revops team.
  • Using & Cultivating skills (Analytics, Product/Project Management, Marketing) to get things done at apna
  • Market Sizing & Research done to accelerate and identify new cities to launch apna in, launched to 30+ cities
  • PR – Contributed to more than 20 articles for many publications and news channel (YourStory, CNBC TV18, Economic Times etc)
  • Created and managed a new channel for user acquisition – low CAC, super-low Cost/Applicant
  • Created and drove analytics of new user retention metrics, which helped identify less efficient channel of acquisition
  • Created and drove setup of companywide MIS, which is currently consumed and loved by investors, CXOs and managers alike.
  • Monetization of apna
  • Data leader – Leading a team of analysts to drive analysis, dashboards creation to make process efficient
  • Heading Marketing – Managing communications of new product features, discounts, new product line for Monetization
  • Product Management – Constantly talking to users to gather input on what needs to change, and creating/suggesting new products ex., Custom actions feature for each job
  • Project Management – Driving Employer Retention analytics
  • Investor Relations -> Deck Building, Analytics
  • and anything business
Business AnalyticsData Visualization

Ironman india

Ironman Tri-athlete

Feb 2024Oct 2024 · 8 mos · Goa, India · On-site

  • Achieved a long-time dream to be an Ironman Tri-athlete :)

Growmore biocoal energy

Angel Investor & Board Member

Nov 2020Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

  • Growmore Biocoal Energy -
  • Manufacturing carbon-neutral, high GCV, low ash production bio-fuel mandated by government.
  • The company is headed by seasoned individuals having 16+ years of experience combined, producing environmental friendly coal alternatives at large scale, caters to industrial needs primarily.
  • Playing active early-stage role as Director
  • Raised more than $X in 3 months (chose to not disclose to public)
  • Developed and directed strategy for launch of new plant, producing Torrefied Biomass Pellets, which
  • is currently the highest revenue generating product per KG of the three product offerings from the
  • company
  • Fulfilment time from Order Confirmation to dispatch too long resulting in poor customer review,
  • created a new fulfilment process for faster deliveries of Higher Volume Clients (Optimized by ~30%
  • per ton)

Tesco

2 roles

Data Analyst

Promoted

Jul 2019Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Responsible to provide end-to-end analytical insights on new Business Objectives/Projects overtaken by TESCO.
  • Synthesized current business intelligence data to produce reports and polished presentations,
  • highlighting findings and recommending changes.
  • Met with stakeholders to establish favorable business relationships and support mutually beneficial
  • interests.
  • Analysed the business impact if the least used delivery time slot (10 PM) was removed, by running an
  • A/B test on trial and control stores, the impact on sales was very low, if the hypothesis were true.
  • Initial health check-up on unmanned C&C pods, developed tool for calculating incremental uplift and
  • another tool for finding better fit of trial and control stores based on correlation, variance and IQR,
  • basically reducing efforts by almost 90%.
  • Managed the timely delivery of monthly GHS health report ( customer viewpoint, competitor
  • performance and KPI's ) which was used by the Online Leadership Team.

Business Analyst

Jan 2019Jun 2019 · 5 mos

  • Time Series Forecasting, using models such as Holt-Winters Method, Exponential Smoothing etc. to predict number of calls over a period of year.
  • Simple Linear Regression to predict the headcount needed based on temperature and time of the year
  • Building a dashboard on Micro-Strategy platform, this provided the upper management an overview of all departmental KPI’s.
Business AnalyticsData Visualization

Psychx

Co-Founder

Jan 2019Aug 2019 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • We are a career counseling and guidance start-up, using the power of data and concepts of advanced Psychology to give your child a better understanding and hold of themselves.
  • Instrumental in the development of a start-up focused on providing Career Guidance and Counseling to students.
  • Changed Business model from B2C to B2B2C, for higher volume clients.
  • Built relationships with various school authorities, parents, coaching classes to build a robust client list of 12 schools across India.
  • Conducted a small survey to design a student friendly UI/UX, by gamifying the process ( achieved faster completion rates +40% )
  • Published and wrote articles on blogs, Quora to increase organic traffic on company page ( avg. 15 visits/article )
  • Ran various on-ground guerilla marketing campaigns ( conversion rate 3% )
Business AnalyticsData Visualization

Apollo tyres ltd

Intern

Jul 2018Dec 2018 · 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Working on android app development, and developed an web app on R shiny platform.

Worldquant

Research Consultant

Jun 2018Jan 2019 · 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Developed 200 mathematical quant models, under 7000 simulations, of which 100 models are in production right now.
  • Work comprised of studying various datasets, which consisted of information about certain characteristics which have an effect on the stock prices of an industry or market.
  • Analysing the datasets to predict the future stock (P&L graph) of that industry, by using the data of past ten years, so that we get a constantly growing P&L.

Entrepreneurship cell - bits pilani

Coordinator

Feb 2017Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Organized Mixers, Dinners and Talks amongst Faculties, Founders, students
  • Carried out action - driven initiatives, Under the banner "Just Do It"
  • Tried to combat 'Paralysis by Analysis" phenomenon by focussing on the action

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor’s Degree — electronics and instrumentation engineering

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Engineer's Degree — physics

Jan 2014Jan 2019

Dinanth Junior College, Nagpur

12th

Jan 2012Jan 2014

CDS School,Nagpur,Maharashtra,India (ICSE Curriculum)

High School Diploma

Jan 2002Jan 2012

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