Mahesh Reddy Gadari

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 8 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led product initiatives for 15M+ MAUs at Pocket FM.
  • Built lending stack from scratch at ShopSe.
  • Improved user engagement and retention across multiple platforms.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Leader with expertise in Fintech, E-commerce, and EdTech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementGrowth StrategiesFintechE-commerceEdtech

Other Skills

A/B TestingAPI DevelopmentAgile DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAmplitudeAmplitude AnalyticsAnalytical SkillsAnalyticsAutomationBalsamiqBrand ManagementBusiness AnalyticsBusiness Growth StrategiesBusiness Intelligence (BI)Business-to-Business (B2B)

About

I’m a Product Leader with 8+ years of experience building and scaling products across Fintech, Audio/Entertainment, E-commerce, EdTech, and Infrastructure domains. My work spans high-impact product charters across the full funnel — Activation, Engagement, Retention, Monetization, Internal Tooling, and GTM — with a strong track record of shipping outcomes, not just outputs. I’ve led Growth and Platform Experience charters at Pocket FM (15M+ MAUs), building GenAI-powered creator tools, semantic ML models, and personalized discovery systems that improved retention, CTR, and playtime. At ShopSe, I was the founding PM, building its lending stack from scratch — owning 0→1 launches, bank/NBFC integrations, fraud prevention systems, and merchant tooling. I’ve also solved fulfillment and category experience problems at scale at Meesho, helped reduce churn and CAC at Unacademy, and optimized warehouse logistics at L\&T. My product toolkit includes B2B SaaS platforms (CRMs, Dashboards, Lending APIs), B2C user growth (activation, onboarding, UX simplification), fraud/risk management (IMEI validation, KYC, PAN/Aadhaar match, velocity checks), and cross-functional execution (OKRs, GTM, stakeholder alignment). Domains of impact: Fintech: Consumer lending, KYC, merchant fraud prevention, loan ops E-commerce & Logistics: Stockouts, returns, fulfillment, dispatch SLAs Content & Entertainment: Activation funnels, AI/ML-led content discovery, creator tools Internal Tooling: Finance, Ops, Legal, and Support automations A strong believer in measurable product thinking, I drive initiatives that tie directly to business KPIs — whether it’s GMV, MAU, LTV, CAC, or GTM velocity.

Experience

8 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Pocket fm

Senior Product Manager

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • I led initiatives in Growth, User Experience, Payments, and Internal tooling to scale content creation (15MAU) globally by improving creator onboarding, retention, show quality, payouts, and internal operations efficiency.
  • Simplified product flows (metadata editing, text-to-audio, etc.,) reducing friction in publishing; improved creator activation by 1.4×.
  • Launched autosave, share-before-publish features to remove friction in onboarding; boosting first chapter publications by 8.5%.
  • Improved text editor UX with redo/undo, version history, and layout enhancements; increased activation by 6%.
  • Introduced Creator Studio and GenAI Assistant tools (via Quirkle AI) to guide narration; improved creator retention by 20%.
  • Built semantic ML models to flag low-retention shows, cutting quality benchmarking time by 15 days; enabled faster show launches.
  • Personalized show ranking and implemented AI-generated thumbnails (DALL·E, Leonardo); lifted CTR by 2× and playtime by 36%.
  • Integrated Perfios (KYC) and Razorpay (TDS); reduced payout failures to 0.02%, reduced customer support queries by 70%.
  • Fixed Hindi audio adoption (3× growth) by improving punctuation tuning in the synthesis pipeline; improved creator payout by 8%.
  • Built payout engine to cut monthly processing time by 8 days/month; improved NPS by 8% and engagement (throughput) by 14%.
  • Revamped contract eligibility; pruned underperforming shows and cut incentive burn by 56%, increasing LTV margin by 19%.
  • Automated spam, filler, profanity, and plagiarism QC; reduced Ops review time by 30%, scaling QC throughput by 1.5×.
  • Developed internal tools for Finance, Ops, Legal & Support; accelerated payout processing and lowered 45% overall workload.
  • Drove quarterly OKRs (product strategy), Go-To-Market roadmap, and cross-functional alignment; improved GTM velocity by 30%.
  • Mentored PMs on problem discoveries, market research, product roadmapping, product launches, and feature/backlog prioritization.
Product Launch PlanningGo-to-Market StrategyGrowth HackingUser ExperienceMachine LearningAnalytics+3

Shopse

Founding Product Manager

Jul 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Joined as the first Product Manager to lead the 0→1 charter at ShopSe, a lending fintech. Built ShopSe’s lending stack, owned 0→1 launch of CD loans, scaled merchant Ops, and led integrations with 14+ banks/NBFCs as the founding product manager.
  • ShopSe generates revenue from lead generation commissions, loan disbursement commissions, and the Merchant Discount Rate (MDR). My north star was building a secure, scalable CD loan platform that could serve both offline and online B2B and B2C ecosystems, enabling high GMV throughput while minimizing fraud, onboarding friction, and payout errors.
  • Launched CD Loans with 14+ banks/NBFCs; unlocked ₹90 Cr GMV in 90 days, serving 30K+ users.
  • Built API stack for real-time loan approval/disbursal, fallback flows, and latency optimization; improved conversion by 2.5%.
  • Onboarded 10K+ merchants across mobile, electronics, and edtech categories; scaled ops to 150K monthly loan leads.
  • Reduced seller-side fraud by 36% and cut support queries by 40% via warranty return compliance and auto-settlement tracking.
  • Built internal CRM + ops dashboards to track loan lifecycle and support 7 internal teams; reduced manual ops by 40%.
  • Launched IMEI validation, Aadhaar-PAN linking, velocity checks, and denial caching to cut identity fraud by 30%.
  • Conducted market research, competitive analysis, and market sizing, finding an unaddressed market three times the size. Addressed challenges: inefficient digital underwriting, high infrastructure costs, low repayment rate, and high fraud risks.
  • Built fallback flows for underwriting failures (KYC mismatch, PAN/Aadhaar issues), reducing funnel drop-offs and increasing disbursal conversion by 2.5%. Tracked borrower journeys and drop points through internal dashboards for CS and finance teams.
  • Owned the end-to-end seller/merchant operations experience — from onboarding to SKU pricing, warranty flows, returns/exchanges, and payment settlements.
Product Launch PlanningGo-to-Market StrategyMarket ResearchFraud PreventionCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Product Management+1

Meesho

Product Manager II

Mar 2020Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • At Meesho, I worked on improving the end-to-end seller journey across catalog, inventory, returns, and fulfillment. I partnered with operations, engineering, design, and analytics teams to reduce costs, minimize fraud, and improve supply chain efficiency in India’s long-tail e-commerce ecosystem. Managed category & Category Operations for India’s leading social e-commerce platform, aimed at uplifting fulfilment of daily orders.
  • ● Proposed & shipped stockout alert system to prevent seller fraud (inventory masking), lowering daily stockouts by 8%
  • ● Managed programs for taxonomy enrichment across top 3 GMV categories, enhancing product discovery and improving orders by 2%
  • ● Created roadmap for size-chart standardization and offer-locking mechanisms, decreasing daily returns of fashion category by 3%
  • Audited top-returning SKUs and found design/fit mismatch and logistics lapses as key causes. Introduced a new SKU tagging system, improved size charts with visual guides, and embedded AI-driven anomaly detection for return-prone inventory.
  • Partnered with warehouse ops to standardize QC checklists and automate return window logic in the seller dashboard.
  • ● Overhauled ‘Product Supplier Mapping’ cron jobs, increasing visibility of high-performing suppliers, slashing daily stockouts by 5%
  • Mapped high-performing but frequently OOS SKUs and identified a lack of visibility in supplier mapping as the root cause. Redesigned product–supplier mapping logic using clustering algorithms and SKU linkage analytics.
  • Improved inventory sync frequency and ran daily in-stock health dashboards for ops.
  • Outcome: Reduced OOS-related cart drop-offs by 5% and improved restocking rates by 6% on high-GMV items.
  • ● Strategized and implemented commission for logistics partners based on dispatch adherence, reducing undelivered orders by ~8%
Product ManagementE-CommerceData AnalysisUser ExperienceLogistics ManagementE-commerce

Unacademy

Product Manager

Jul 2017Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • At Unacademy, I led key initiatives across learner engagement, course discovery, and educator onboarding, contributing directly to revenue-driving and retention-critical metrics. My role spanned web and mobile experiences, internal tools, and analytics infrastructure. I worked closely with engineering, marketing, design, and category teams to ship improvements that impacted both platform usage and educator efficiency.
  • Designed and launched a Learner Community module that enabled real-time collaboration between students, mentors, and educators. Conducted user research to understand drop-offs, learning motivation, and content fatigue. Defined user stories and PRDs for personalized notifications, thread pinning, and live doubt-solving features.
  • Standardized behavioral analytics frameworks across web and mobile, set event taxonomies, enabled funnel tracking, and launched dashboards for business and category teams.
  • Increased weekly active user retention by 8% and drove higher NPS from long-tail learners via real-time community engagement.
  • Defined A/B testing hypotheses, success metrics, and test durations to compare legacy vs new flows. Partnered with marketing to align copy and visual CTAs for ongoing campaigns.
  • Redesigned user experience using data and research, enhancing content visibility and boosting course enrollment by 8%
  • Redesigned behavioral analytics to standardize event tracking across platforms, cutting marketing campaign costs by 1.2%
  • Developed a learner community with social gamification, collaborating with analytics, and boosting user engagement by 1.3×
  • Launched scheduler feature, collaborating with multiple product teams, resulting in a 32% increase in live class adoption.
Product ManagementUser ExperienceAnalyticsA/B TestingMarket ResearchEdTech

Education

National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Electronics Engineering

Jan 2013Jan 2017

Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Hyderabad

Intermediate — MPC

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Visvodaya High School, Nizamabad, Telangana

Secondary Education

Jan 2010Jan 2011

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