Ankit Chugh

Program Manager

Delhi, India11 yrs 6 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led recruitment of 1,000 associates in 15 weeks.
  • Launched Meet, impacting 60,000+ job seekers.
  • Accelerated hiring pace by 10x at Zomato.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in SaaS and B2C hiring solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementRecruitingCourse DesignProject ManagementData ManagementSales ManagementMarket AnalysisBusiness Development

Other Skills

GenAI for Operational EfficiencyTeam LeadershipDashboardsData AnalyticsScrumJiraFigmaWireframingGoogle AnalyticsProduct OperationsDigital StrategyEstablishing Strategic PartnershipsCross-functional Team LeadershipUX ResearchProduct Launch

About

I’m a product leader focused on expanding access to meaningful work. Over the past decade, I’ve helped build and scale hiring marketplaces, redesigned talent systems in high-velocity environments, and brought AI workflows into global teams. My approach blends deep user empathy, systems thinking, and a belief that hiring should be transparent, fair, and intuitive. From the Meet hiring-tech platform's multi-version scale-up to Zomato’s frontline hiring transformation to NielsenIQ’s AI automation work, I’ve focused on simplifying decisions, improving matching, and helping people move toward better opportunities. MBA — IIM Ahmedabad | EIR Grant (Career-Tech Thesis)

Experience

11 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 4 mos
Current Experience

Nielseniq

Senior Program Manager

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

  • GenAI for Operational Efficiency
GenAI for Operational EfficiencyProduct Management

Zomato

Generalist

Apr 2024Oct 2024 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Customer Delight x Recruitment
  • Led a ten-member Hiring pod to recruit 1,000 Associates from 30,000 video applications in 15 weeks.
  • Accelerated hiring pace 10x to 80 Offers per Week (OPW) by growing top of the funnel (Applications) 5x and driving process excellence along the hiring funnel: Applications->Shortlisted->Offers.
  • Enhanced candidate experience by minimizing waiting between rounds, plugging in AI-enabled assessment, and ensuring feedback to each applicant.
  • City Enabler x Strategy
  • Part of a six-member team that analyzed the growth potential of doubling the salesforce while revamping KPIs to boost non-ad revenue growth.
  • Conducted a comparative analysis of the per-order unit economics and profit margins across Zomato's top 113 cities by revenue.
RecruitingProject ManagementTeam LeadershipDashboardsData Analytics

Medha

2 roles

Vice President of Product Management

Promoted

Dec 2019Apr 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Led Meet, the “Glassdoor for Bharat”. Meet is a two-sided platform for reviewing employment experience and finding growth-oriented career opportinities in tier II/III cities.
  • Product Management
  • Led a 25-member cross-functional team to launch the Meet app for employers (web) and jobseekers (android), matching 60,000+ people with 10,000 companies.
  • Optimized the Home -> Job Details Page -> Apply user journey to boost apply-through rate (ATR) for best-fit matching, resulting in a selection rate of 10% (2,000+ selects from 20,000 applications) vs an industry average of < 5%.
  • Designed Product Operations to weed out 99% of the fake jobs and reviews, nurturing trust in a job market afflicted with scams targeting young people.
  • Partnered with the World Bank for an RCT (Randomized Controlled Trial) experiment to evaluate Meet’s impact on 4,000 young women in Haryana – a cohort with the labor-force participation rate among the lowest in India.
  • Tools: JIRA, Google Analytics, AWS, Moqups, Hotjar, Figma, GitHub, Postman, Firebase, Mixpanel, Segment, SQL
  • Growth
  • Successfully launched the android app, onboarding 5,000 people from Medha’s alumni community to rate their employers, securing $150,000 in seed funding from the Ford Foundation basis early traction.
  • Ran omnichannel performance marketing campaigns to increase signups and AOs (app opens) of the jobseeker app at a frugal CPI (cost per install) of ₹4.
  • Built an employer engagement team to shore up the Application->Shortlist->Offer funnel for maximizing offer conversion.
  • Strategy
  • Crafted the platform Vision (Transparent and Inclusive job market) and roadmap in consultation with key stakeholders: founders, users, and ops staff.
  • Outlined target segments (18-25 year-olds and SMEs) and value proposition: Find opportunities for growth at companies near you.
  • Carved Meeत ’s unique positioning in the career-tech landscape by analyzing the competitive environment and value chain.
Product ManagementScrumJiraFigmaWireframingGoogle Analytics+4

Operations Manager

Nov 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr

  • Conducted User research to understand the aspirations and challenges of job-seekers and employers in tier II/III cities.
  • Recruited associates and interns to seed platform data and launch the prototype of the Meet platform.
  • Setup processes to onboard & engage users and audit the company review content shared by job-seekers.
  • Supported fundraising, leading to a grant from the Ford Foundation for $150,000 to build and scale the platform.
UX ResearchProduct LaunchProduct OperationsProduct Management

Harappa education

Consultant

Jan 2019Jul 2019 · 6 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

  • Harappa is an online learning institution that aims to enable foundational habits critical to achieving professional success and personal meaning.
  • Co-designed proprietary assessments-tech architecture (based on Bloom's Taxonomy) aimed at holistically evaluating and aiding learning outcomes.
  • Wrote assessments for courses designed to deliver 21st-century skills such as Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Leading Self.
Rubrics21st Century SkillsCourse AssessmentsBloom's TaxonomyCourse Design

Central square foundation

Program Manager

Jan 2018Aug 2018 · 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India · On-site

  • I worked with CSF's Project Management Unit in the Delhi Government's Department of Education.
  • Led a diagnostic assessment of factors shaping the school-to-work journey of govt. school students. The assessment included surveys and qualitative interviews of nearly 600 students and alumni.
  • Created a roadmap to revamp vocational training program in ~250 schools, impacting ~100,000 students.
  • Supported the design and operations of the Mentor Teacher Program, which aimed to upgrade ~26,000 teachers' pedagogical skills through a network of 160 Mentor Teachers.
Project Management Office (PMO)Primary ResearchProject Management

Escape velocity

Co-Founder

Dec 2015Dec 2017 · 2 yrs · New Delhi Area, India · On-site

  • Launched JobReady, a career exploration platform with proprietary Day in Life videos to explore career paths.
  • Struck key partnerships with non-profits and social enterprises such as GE Healthcare Academy, Quest Alliance, and Tech Mahindra Academy.
  • Impacted more than 15,000 students enrolled in vocational education programs across India.
  • Supported by UnLtd - a social enterprise incubator.
FundraisingProduct LaunchProduct ManagementProduct Operations

Sbi youth for india

Rural Development Fellow, Gram Vikas

Aug 2015Dec 2015 · 4 mos · Ganjam district, Orissa, India

  • Piloted digitization of the Management Information System (MIS) for the district tuberculosis department to improve the efficiency and efficacy of patient data collection.
  • Trained students in Gram Vikas residential schools to experiment with science and electronics kits.
Management Information Systems (MIS)Data Management

Texas instruments

3 roles

Technical Sales Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2013Apr 2015 · 2 yrs · On-site

  • Led account teams to drive revenue growth from a base of $2M at leading clients across automotive, energy, and industrial domains.
  • Conferred the Site Management Award for significant contribution to New Project Revenue at a large consumer electronics company.
  • Engaged CXOs and engineers in a consultative seven-step process, including project planning and estimating revenue potential.
  • Simultaneously managed over 100 projects with more than 700 TI products across fifty external and internal relationships.
Technical Product SalesB2B SalesSales ManagementConsumer ElectronicsMarket SizingTechnical Sales Presentations

Product Marketing Associate

Jan 2013Mar 2013 · 2 mos · On-site

  • Worked in the Emerging Connectivity Solutions(ECS) business unit(BU) in Dallas, Texas Instruments' HQ to help progress TI efforts in RADAR product definition by completing a series of RADAR tear-down reports. Other Tasks:
  • Re-baselined the competitive analysis for upcoming Wi-Fi SoC to support its launch.
  • Surveyed the market for audio systems to promote the SoC in the audio segment.
  • Worked with the India sales team to leverage support from the ECS BU for existing opportunities in the field.
Product AnalysisMarket ResearchMarket Analysis

Technical Sales Associate

Jul 2012Dec 2012 · 5 mos · On-site

  • Analyzed TI product portfolio for power adapters to increase market share in North India in the high-value but under-penetrated adapter market.
  • Trained countrywide sales and distribution teams to target incumbent top competition solutions in an extremely cost-sensitive market.
  • Appreciated by management for kickstarting engagement with 25 new clients and securing design-in with a key manufacturer.
Business DevelopmentCompetitive Analysis

Defence research and development organisation (drdo)

Summer Intern

Jun 2011Aug 2011 · 2 mos · New Delhi

Education

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Master of Business Administration - MBA — General Management

Apr 2023Mar 2024

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Electronics and Communication Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Copenhagen Business School

Coursera Certificate Program — Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

May 2015Aug 2015

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