Donal Chomal

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Successfully launched multiple products in fast-paced environments.
Achieved significant revenue growth for startups.
Recognized for exceptional communication and leadership skills.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in B2C startups and Fintech solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementUser Experience DesignMarketingProject ManagementProduct Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesBalsamiqBehavior Driven DevelopmentBehavior-Driven Development (BDD)C++Cloud ComputingCoachingCommunicationCompetitive AnalysisCross-functional Team CollaborationCross-functional Team LeadershipCucumberDesignDesign ThinkingDocumentation Culture

About

Currently, I'm working for a grocery-delivery startup based out of Minneapolis, as the only PM under the Director of Product Management & Head of Product. From sprint planning, to owning the team of designer and data analyst, to tracking product & feature performances and fostering a documentation culture for smoother functioning of the dev & QA teams, I do it all. Prior to this, I worked as a Founding Member and Product Manager for an accommodation startup based out of my hometown (Guwahati) called XeniaRooms. During the first 2 years, I single-handedly managed a nationally dispersed team of developers & designers, designed prototypes, defined the entire content for the official website and organized marketing campaigns. Owing to the hard work of the 4 members of XeniaRooms, we achieved a revenue of approx. Rs. 40 Lacs in the 1st year. Additionally, I had been the Official Evangelist for XeniaRooms from the start and represented it in Government organized Entrepreneurship Development Program for North East Indian Startups (and won a grant of INR 10 Lacs amongst 1000+ participating startups). Prior to this, I worked as a Project Lead for Samsung Research Institute (Noida) to administer the launch of 2 new mobile phone projects and maintain 3 legacy projects. (Selfish plug - I got the tag of the 'Best Communicator' in the team within 2 months of joining Samsung.)

Experience

6 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 7 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

International asset reconstruction company

Product Manager

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Delhi, India · On-site

IARC is a RBI-regulated fintech firm that deals in acquiring NPAs from banks & NBFCs and managing, resolving & restructuring them.

Buncha

Associate Product Manager

Mar 2023 – Sep 2023 · 6 mos · India · Remote

Buncha is a planned grocery-delivery startup based out of Minneapolis, US.
Owned engineering sprints end-to-end, from background research & stakeholder interaction, through iterative design, development & QA processes, to launch and impact measurement
Created an integrated ‘My List’ feature within the Buncha App, transforming it into a comprehensive hub for all grocery-shopping activities, including planning, scheduling and ordering
Revamped the App’s Home Page to enhance the UX, decrease the abandoned cart rate and increase post-order additions
Fostered a culture of documentation within the organization, greatly improving the work experience of developers and testers
Key Achievements:
Built and launched a new flow within the Buncha App & Website to retrieve overdue payments from customers, leading to the successful resolution of 72% of previously blocked payments
Launched a ‘Price Match Guarantee’ program, bringing down price discrepancy reports to <2% of total orders

Engineering Sprints ManagementUser Experience DesignStakeholder InteractionImpact MeasurementDocumentation CultureProduct Management

Xeniarooms

Product Manager & Chief Evangelist

Jan 2021 – Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Guwahati, Assam, India · On-site

XeniaRooms is an accommodation startup founded to solve the needs of long term visiting guests and students in new cities (currently serving in North East India).
Discovered the need for an online booking portal in the long-term accommodation industry (worth INR 10 Cr per annum in Guwahati alone)
Liaised with stakeholders and customers to conceptualize and design the XeniaRooms website layout
Co-ordinated with a nationally dispersed team of developers and designers to build the website
Managed product demonstrations and testimonials for performance evaluations
Launched the official website which generated an annual revenue of approx. INR40 Lakhs in the first year of founding
Directed planning, budgeting and scheduling efforts for all marketing campaigns which increased adoption rate by 80%
Created and maintained the digital directory of all customer and client information
Key Achievements:
Shortlisted for the North East Entrepreneurship Development Program by IIM Calcutta Innovation Park
Owned 3 and tied up with 50+ accommodations in prime locations of Guwahati with more than 300 guests in 1 year of establishment

Stakeholder LiaisonWebsite DevelopmentMarketing Campaign ManagementTeam CoordinationRevenue GenerationProduct Management+1

Samsung india

Project Lead

Jun 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Noida Area, India

Managed end-to-end Product Development Lifecycle of 1 Flagship and 4 Economy category projects (mobile phone models) – from analysis of requirements to implementation to market launch
Collaborated with around 10 cross-functional teams to investigate and resolve issues pertaining to product development
Build zero-bug applications/binaries to ship to market routinely
Developed PRDs and FRDs for projects
Served as Samsung Culture Index Champ for the year 2020
Participated in company-wide chess and carrom competitions
Key Achievements:
Selected as SPOC for facilitating and training stakeholders on upcoming Google Projects and Android OS Releases
Administered the launch of 2 brand new projects as well as oversaw the maintenance of 3 legacy projects in 14 months

Product Development Lifecycle ManagementCross-functional Team CollaborationProject DocumentationStakeholder TrainingProject ManagementProduct Development

Blackrock

Analyst-Intern

Jan 2019 – May 2019 · 4 mos · Gurugram, India · On-site

BlackRock is the largest asset management firm in the world. I worked here as a technical intern for its legacy platform, Aladdin. During my 5 month internship here, I -
Learnt and applied Behavior Driven Development(BDD) methodology to automate the testing of Mortgage-backed Securities platform of Aladdin
Trained technical and functional teams on Cloud Computing and AWS products and platforms
Built a technical project (with 3 other fellow interns) to compare the performance of JSON vs. Google ProtoBuf (2 methods of serializing structured data)
Completed Aladdin Java Developer Certificate(AJDC) test

Behavior Driven DevelopmentCloud ComputingTechnical Training