Ganapathi Subramanian V

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product strategy for Gojek's Consumer Experiences.
  • Achieved 70% increase in consumer activation rates.
  • Implemented cost-saving measures resulting in significant savings.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in Tech and Consumer Experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAgile Leadership

Other Skills

Strategic VisionSenior Stakeholder ManagementProfessional MentoringObjectives and Key Results (OKRs)People ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct SolutioningUX DesignAgile Project ManagementData AnalysisBusiness Process DesignWireframingRequirements AnalysisAgile MethodologiesProcess Optimization

Experience

10 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Paytm

Group Product Manager

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Agile LeadershipStrategic VisionSenior Stakeholder ManagementProfessional MentoringObjectives and Key Results (OKRs)People Management+3

Gojek

4 roles

Lead Product Manager

Promoted

Aug 2022Apr 2023 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Heading product for the Consumer Experiences (CX) vertical, managing 3 teams working on critical areas such as consumer app home page, accounts & profile, order management and global search
  • Owning vision & strategy; OKRs & metrics; roadmap and delivery for all CX teams
  • Leading cross functional effort on salient projects such as Home redesign, Unified Identity & Auth; and supporting strategic company efforts around monetization via Ads and new service launches
  • Supervising 3 PMs, enabling them to independently manage their own charters, prioritization & execution of complex projects. Mentoring them on frameworks, processes & best practices in product & agile project management
  • Snapshot of solutioning of key projects, along with impact:
  • Implementation & fine tuning of WAF-based security measures, resulting in 70% reduction of costs (approx. $345k USD savings during June - Dec '22)
  • Overhaul of Customer Owner system (the backbone of Gojek consumer app), including the successful migration of ~50 APIs to a new tech stack, delivered through 6 milestones. Supports scaling to 10x traffic, with 30% improved latency for APIs. Savings of around $8k USD per month in terms of infrastructure costs
  • Conceptualization & validation of an 'explore' feature / guest mode for users. Experimentation ongoing, analysis pending
Professional MentoringObjectives and Key Results (OKRs)Product SolutioningStrategic VisionCross-functional Team LeadershipPeople Management+3

Senior Product Manager

Jul 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Managed the consumer onboarding & activations charters on the Gojek consumer app (includes identity experiences such as signup; and growth/conversion metrics), along with strategically important metrics such as activation rate
  • Achieved a ~70% increase in consumer activation rates (by influencing key input metrics such as install to signup and signup to first booking conversion rate) and an all-time high signup completion rate at 60%+
  • Executed 10+ experiments (backed by User Testing with concept prototypes)to establish and roll out a stable and intuitive signup flow for consumers. Also audited and vastly improved the instrumentation infrastructure
  • Rolled out new flows to capture active consent from consumers for compliance, achieving a
  • 40% capture rate from active users
  • Introduced enhancements to signup & account deletion flows to control abuse, led to blocking of ~90% of fraudulent requests, with FPs (measured through CCU tickets) within threshold

Product Manager 2

Apr 2020Jun 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Led the Ticketing Platform charter, part of Care Experiences team.
  • Detailed out the strategy and roadmap for platformizing issue resolution for Gojek customers across products (transport, food, logistics and so on)
  • Defined and owned critical OKR metrics around Care cost optimization and consumer experience
  • Platformization - Conceptualised and led the launch of "Grand Arbitrator": a no-code, self-serve automation workflow portal. This enables a wide user base (including non tech users) to easily create automations independently.
  • Issue Prediction - Rolled out ML based issue prediction models for email & low rating tickets, aiding in increased automation & deprecation of email channel
  • Further improved CX via increasing ticket automation coverage through the implementation of generic cross-cutting resolution workflows, leading to massive cost savings around CCU operations. Impact on key metrics is below:
  • Increase in automation rate for consumer issues in Indonesia market from 21% to 44%
  • Increase in automation rate in Thailand and Vietnam markets to ~20% (up from 0%) & ~32% (up from 23%) respectively
  • Other initiatives:
  • Revamp of order rating experience: Defined UI flows and finalized the wireframes, ready for development
  • Supported launch of Chatbot as a ticket channel, and App Ratings Widget on consumer app

Product Manager

May 2019Mar 2020 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for Ticket Automation initiatives under Care Platform group
  • Launched 20+ ticket automation workflows & enhancements, completely automating the resolution of 72% of all tickets (across user types - customers, drivers & merchants) in Indonesia. These have led to
  • Cost savings of over 78.5 Billion IDR for Gojek
  • 45% drop in tickets with L1 agent involvement
  • Conceptualised and rolled out a DIY mechanism on the app for drivers to check their performance and other key stats
  • Expanded the automation suite to Singapore & Vietnam
  • Developed an innovative solution with IVR integration to resolve top ticket drivers for the Singapore Ops & Care organization, helping to achieve 80% automation; and deprecation of phone support

Directi

Associate Product Manager

Jun 2017May 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Owner of Zeta Tax Benefits suite - Portal for corporate HRs to run and manage various benefit programs for their employees
  • Owner of Report Centre - Dashboard for all data & reporting needs of corporates. Managed its complete overhaul and added multiple generic & corporate specific reports to it
  • Led roll out of ‘Select Gift’, digital brand vouchers product within the Zeta Spotlight suite (Corporate gifting, rewards & recognitions platform)
  • Pioneered product analytics initiatives: Zeta Tax Benefits product completeness, Product Health Dashboard

Furdo

Marketing Intern

May 2016Jun 2016 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Unanimously selected as Furdo Summer Intern of the year 2016 for improving lead generation & conversion effectiveness
  • Provided recommendations for increasing user engagement & lead generation, resulting in 15% improvement
  • Reduced cost per lead (CPL) by 55% by suggesting a mechanism for targeted advertising on social media
  • Decreased website exits by 10%; analysed impact of layout, content on visitor by studying user interaction
  • Undertook online customer survey to determine the reasons for non-conversion of leads/design consults into full implementation

Thoughtworks

2 roles

Consultant - Application Developer

Jun 2013Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Retail Product Development
  • Contributed to the ideation & development of a Retail Product Tool for boutique apparel stores, 2–6 cr. rev. p.a.
  • Generated key business insights to improve sales by analysing POS data; cost savings to the tune of 5 lakhs
  • Evolved a pricing & marketing strategy for the retail product, undertook market research across 10+ retailers
  • Software & Innovation
  • Fabricated a dashboard for monitoring 2000+ stores for a $100 billion company in the United States
  • 12% increase in online customer engagement, conversion rate up from 2% to 35% for smart phone users
  • Sales increase by 44% forecasted, greater online customer interaction through new content and platform
  • Redefined consumer experience for target segment, ₹1 mn multiplex chain; developed online pre-booking service
  • Increased signups by 20% & Reduced drop offs by 12% by enhancing web portal of International Telecom Assoc.
  • Recommended change in email provider for A$750 mn company, delivery time for 3 million + emails down by 83%

Intern

Jan 2013May 2013 · 4 mos

  • * Received a PPO for my exemplary performance and making an impact during the internship

Education

Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Jan 2015Jan 2017

Thiagarajar College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2013

TVS Matriculation Higher Secondary School

Higher Secondary

Jan 2007Jan 2009

Lakshmi School

Secondary

Jan 2004Jan 2007

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