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Ankita Kar

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 8+ years of product management experience.
  • Expert in aligning product strategy with customer objectives.
  • Proven track record in launching successful internet products.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in SaaS and AdTech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyTechnical Product ManagementSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Generative AILarge Language Models (LLM)Vibe CodingData AnalysisNodeJSPythonProduct Information ManagementSoftware Product ManagementMarketingSocial Media MarketingPublic RelationsOnline MarketingEntrepreneurshipTeam ManagementProduct Lifecycle Management

About

A data-informed product manager with 8+ years of product experience, who aligns every small product decision towards customers' objectives and the company goals. Feel free to book a session: topmate.io/ankita_kar Experienced in owning internet product launches through the whole lifecycle. My day to day: Cross-functional collaboration with all the departments such as Sales, Marketing, Finance, Product Marketing, UX, Engineering and Customer Success Decipher data for product decisions Own and build product roadmap Analyze data to gather product insights Prioritize stories for agile sprints based on Frameworks Take a customer-first approach for any product development Deliver products in a fast-paced and agile environment Define and execute product strategy for various product areas Define product architecture Goals: Make internet products intuitive Bring Business, UX and Engineering together Understand constraints and optimize for the outcome at hand

Experience

13 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 7 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Google

2 roles

Product Manager II

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Sept 2024 - present : Google Play Games
  • Apr - Sept 2024 : Google Ads
Generative AILarge Language Models (LLM)Vibe CodingProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

Product Manager

Feb 2022Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Google Ads

Sharechat

Product Manager

Dec 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Solved feed for hyperlocal information on ShareChat
  • Making creators love ShareChat

Clevertap

2 roles

Product Manager

Aug 2018Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • 1. Handled the whole product lifecycle and launched 3 major features: SFTP, Custom list segments & Bulletins after communicating with customers for product requirements.
  • SFTP helped reduce 20% in Bottomline for 10% of the accounts.
  • Custom list segments was instantly adopted by 5% of the accounts within 1 week of release.
  • 2. Own and manage the CleverTap plans, pricing & billing product roadmap
  • 3. Own and manage CleverTap web product roadmap
  • 4. Build product strategy for CleverTap online signup business
  • 5. Collaborate with PMM, Marketing,Sales for GTM strategy

Product Engineer

Aug 2018Jul 2019 · 11 mos

  • Increased memory efficiency by 300% by rebuilding Flow feature
  • Built and launched Recommendation feature
  • Improved speed and memory efficiency for recommendation campaigns by 100% by building catalog database
NodeJSPythonTechnical Product Management

Indus os

Software Engineer II

Mar 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • I managed end-to-end Product Life-cycle of AdServer at Indus OS(got selected as Case Study at Harvard).
  • AdServer delivers the best performing & optimized ads to all the clients from Indus OS such as Launcher, Messaging, Balance Analytics etc.
  • AdServer has been implemented by me in Node.JS on the following lines:
  • 1. High Performance i.e. response time ~ 13ms.
  • 2. Distributed Systems: Processes are decoupled such that load is managed through different processes handling different requirement who interact through messaging brokers.
  • 3. Setup a high performing webapp which handles 10 million requests per day.
  • 4. Setup a User Attribute pipeline system to decide the ad for the user depending of priority, monetization benefits & other attributes such as Location, App Version etc.
  • 5. Setup a reportings & feedback pipeline for analytics purposes written in Python.
  • I work with Tech Senior Managers, Senior Product Manager & Monetization Managers to take regular decisions regarding integration of different Ad-Networks & also implement on Ad-Networks from server side. This makes me well-versed with the AdTech & App Monetization industry.
  • Technical Skills : NodeJS, Python
  • Technologies used : MongoDB, consul, etcd, grpc, zeromq, gnats
  • Responsibility in day-to-day life:
  • 1. Designing Architecture for AdServer API & worker
  • 2. Coding the desired features
  • 3. Managing team member for Ad Campaigns Data
  • 4. Product Management for team & feature priorities
NodeJSPythonSoftware Engineering

D. e. shaw india private limited

Member Technical

Jul 2016Mar 2017 · 8 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Designed a daily trade report to suit requirements of the traders at New York Center; Designed & implemented algo to detect futures trade rolled in intraday trading(Python)
  • Understood the requirement & specs for the Exception Monitoring Tool after discussing with the Risk Analysts; Weighed the Rule Engine technologies available in Python(PyClips, Pyke, Durable Rules, Intellect) suitable for the tool
  • Designed & implemented a module to publish message to the ActiveMQ broker(using external APIs)
  • Worked on Monthly Investor Report generation software to enable generation of multiple reports through batch (Python & Perl)
PythonSoftware Engineering

Bluejeans by verizon

Intern

Jan 2016Jun 2016 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • 1. Understood the requirement of the QA team to be better enabled to analyse the results from Jenkins Analyzer
  • 2. Designed & developed an application for finding exceptions in the testing results on ruby, mongoDB & sinatra

Jagriti yatra

Fellow

Dec 2015Jan 2016 · 1 mo · India

  • Jagriti Yatra is a 15 days, 8000 km annual train journey which takes 450 youth from different parts of the world to meet the role models - social and business entrepreneurs in India.
  • 1. Selected in the top 450 applications among 20,000 entries
  • 2. Went on an entrepreneurial journey and a path of self-discovery
  • 3. Travelled 8500 KMs in 15 days and visited 12 destination
  • 4. Interacted with various business, NGO and social enterprise role models
  • 5. Interacted with entrepreneurs from diverse fields such as Education, IT, Energy and Culture
  • 6. Participated in the rural immersion program at Deoria, UP
  • 7. Analysed models of innovative social enterprises such as Barefoot College, Goonj

Worldquant llc

2 roles

Research Consultant

Sep 2014Jul 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • I developed various Quantitative Financial Models using Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Investment and Portfolio Management Concepts for the firm. These models are used by the traders for making their investment policies.
  • The models I built are tested and approved on different universes of stocks. Through this I analyse market data to develop quality Quantitative Investment Models.

Research Intern

May 2014Sep 2014 · 4 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Chowgule material handling division

Summer Intern

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Goa, India

Microsoft

Microsoft Student Partner- MSP ID-2014/079

Apr 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · BITS Pilani, Goa

  • We organize as many events and sessions related to latest Microsoft Software as possible. It benefits campus.

Department of sponsorship and marketing, council for student affairs, bits-pilani, goa campus(india)

2 roles

Marketing Head

Mar 2014Apr 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • 1. Led a team of 60 members
  • 2. Developed customised marketing avenues for the companies that sponsored our three festivals
  • 3. Complete implementation of the avenues promised
  • 4. 100% conversion of the money promised on paper to cash

Senior Marketing Manager

Aug 2012Apr 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Department of Sponsorship and Marketing (DoSM) is a group of students managing sponsorship and marketing related activities of the three festivals of BITS Pilani K.K.Birla Goa Campus which are:
  • 1.Waves,the cultural festival.
  • 2.Quark,the technical festival
  • 3.Spree,the sports festival.
  • DoSM seeks not just for cash sponsorship but also in-kind sponsorship. Besides this DoSM also handles various media associations for promotion of the three festivals and the sponsors. One of the primary jobs of DoSM is to design marketing strategies for the sponsors, ensuring that they get full value for the money invested in the festivals. It is a training ground for students pursuing engineering to improve their communication skills, to develop a sense about marketing and most importantly learn how to become effective as an individual and a team player.

Center for technical education, bits pilani goa campus, india

Student Coordinator

Sep 2013Apr 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

Center for entrepreneurial leadership, bits pilani

Member

Aug 2013May 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Goa

  • The motto of CEL is to organize and raise the spirit of entrepreneurial spirit in the upcoming youth of the country and help nurture it.
  • At CEL I have been involved in organizing various events, conferences and workshops at BITS Pilani Goa Campus

Center for technical education, bits pilani, goa campus

Mentor

Aug 2013Dec 2013 · 4 mos

Brainbought

Intern

May 2013Jul 2013 · 2 mos

Suyog computech (p) ltd

Trainee

May 2013Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India

  • I worked as a .NET Developer.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

MSc.(Tech) — Information Systems (Computer Science)

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