Ankit Dhawan

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led product strategy for 35M+ users.
Co-founded a successful news app in India.
Expert in designing habit-forming user journeys.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech product leader focused on user experience and behavior change.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementUser Experience (ux)

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipProduct DevelopmentBusiness StrategyEntrepreneurshipMarketing StrategySEOMarket ResearchData AnalysisProgrammingMachine LearningData StructuresSocial Media Optimization (SMO)Social Media MarketingProject ManagementPython

About

Product leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling consumer products that drive measurable behavior change at scale. At Jar, I lead product strategy and execution serving 35M+ users across Bharat and enabling millions to take their first step toward formal savings in gold. I specialize in designing habit-forming user journeys, data-driven experimentation, and GTM strategies that turn complex financial behaviors into simple, trustworthy experiences. My work spans vision setting, roadmap architecture, and full-funnel optimization - aligning product, design, tech, and marketing teams around a single metric: user impact. I’m deeply passionate about building for Bharat creating scalable, profitable products that empower everyday Indians to save confidently.

Experience

12 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Jar

Director of Product

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

User Experience (UX)Cross-functional Team LeadershipProduct DevelopmentProduct Management

Vedantu

Senior Product Manager

Oct 2020 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

User Experience (UX)Cross-functional Team LeadershipProduct DevelopmentProduct Management

Healofy

Product Owner

May 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

User Experience (UX)Cross-functional Team LeadershipProduct DevelopmentProduct Management

Awesummly

Co-Founder & Product

Sep 2015 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Awesummly is India’s fastest and smartest short-news app — completely ad-free, lightweight, and designed for quick reading. It brings you breaking news from top national and international sources, summarized in seconds and available in English, Hindi, and 8+ regional languages.

User Experience (UX)Cross-functional Team LeadershipProduct DevelopmentProduct Management

Neuronme.com

Backend Developer

Feb 2015 – Sep 2015 · 7 mos · Noida Area, India

I am responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. My primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, managing API's, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end, integrating the front-end elements.

Ieee-gitm

Marketing and PR Head

Sep 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr · Gurgaon

My responsibilities are to increase Brand Recognition and Brand Equities of IEEE-GITM and development of marketing strategies and tactics.

Research summer school

Data Mining Researcher ||"A bit of Data,a wealth of information"||

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 · 2 mos · ITM,Gurgaon

Currently i am researching in the field of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
Data mining applications arise in several specific projects including speech processing, machine translation, visual processing and machine learning.The ongoing rapid growth of online data due to the Internet and the widespread use of databases have created an immense need for Data Mining and its applications.