Nikhil Reddy Pakala

Product Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India6 yrs 8 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Achieved 99% same-day refunds for failed bookings
  • Increased user retention by 5X in early days
  • Led teams of 4 to 40+ throughout product experience
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in SaaS and mobile applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyData AnalysisInterior DesignArchitecture

Other Skills

A/B TestingAgile MethodologiesAnalytical SkillsAnalyticsAndroid StudioApplication Programming Interfaces (API)Business InsightsBusiness OwnershipBusiness StrategyBusiness-to-Business (B2B)CommunicationCompetitive AnalysisConsultingConsumer InternetCreative Problem Solving

About

As a Product Manager with an entrepreneurial background with overall 6+ years of experience together in Saas-based products and Mobile Apps, I excel in ensuring the success of products by balancing usability, technical feasibility, and business requirements. My skills include ideation, market research, user interviews, prototyping, usability testing, UI/UX design, product roadmap development, feature analysis, prioritization, sprint planning, usage analysis, and data analysis. Some of my professional achievements include - Achieved 99% same-day refunds for failed bookings and 5X increase in Day 1 to Day 5 retention, elevating platform credibility. - Reduced average refund time from 6 months to less than 2 hours. - Increased CVR by 0.2% and reduced booking time by 10%, leading to a 2X increase in user flow. - Attracted 20% more app traffic, acquired 15,000+ new users, and increased engagement by 50%. - Achieved a 3% CVR increase, 10X more inquiries, and secured 100+ vacation bookings. - Achieved 20+ orders and broke even on day 1 with a 30% profit margin. - Led teams with sizes from 4 to 40+ in my whole product experience to date My background as an interior designer adds a creative perspective to my problem-solving approach. I am adept at making data-driven decisions while also relying on intuition. If you are interested in my profile or have any questions related to product management, I offer my knowledge and expertise. Let's connect for a casual chat and discuss ☕. You can DM me or connect me over a call at 8555845607 or email at nikhil.pakala@gmail.com

Experience

6 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Valuelabs

Product Manager - Cart and Checkout

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • I am working for Shutterfly.com as a Product Manager from Valuelabs team which has 25+ years of relationship between both the companies where Valuelabs consistently providing top notch services to Shutterfly
  • As a Product Manager for the all new Cart and Checkout Domain at Shutterfly.com, I orchestrate the entire product journey, from adding items to the cart to ensuring successful payments and timely shipments to customers. My responsibilities extend to managing internal tools like Customer Service and Promotion tools which are part of my territory.
  • Thriving on optimizing the end-to-end Cart and Checkout experience completely from scratch as a part of the revamp of the entire site to be on top of competition by using top technology to serve our customers better. I am committed to driving efficiency and confidence in every transaction.
Business OwnershipProduct Road MappingData AnalysisGatewayPlatform IntegrationAnalytics+26

Rehlat

Product Manager - Mobile Apps and Payments

Jul 2022Oct 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • As a Product Manager I began with overseeing mobile applications on both Android and iOS platforms, I hold the
  • responsibility for managing the entire app flow and its various functionalities. My role encompasses a wide
  • range of tasks, including leading the Tech team, developing Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), overseeing Sprint cycles and Scrum calls. I actively engage with stakeholders from different departments and prioritize requirements based on factors such as business needs, technical feasibility, and user
  • experience considerations.
  • Recently, my role has expanded to include managing and enhancing post booking experience and partner integrations. A significant part of my responsibilities involves engaging with potential partners to enhance our business and improve retention. This entails integrating our platform with add-on service providers such as seat selection, extra baggage selection, travel insurance, e-visa facilitation, fraud suspecting, and more.
  • I actively seek and collaborate with partners aligned with our business goals. Through effective communication and negotiation, I establish mutually beneficial partnerships that enhance our services and provide added value to customers. These integrations expand our product offerings and improve the user experience.
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Phenom

2 roles

Associate Product Manager- MX Talent Analytics

Nov 2021Jul 2022 · 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Talent Analytics is a Cross-functional Product where data of each and every product built in phenom flows here which helps users to make decisions ofcourse to be implemented in those respective products. Here I was involved with various teams in the company such as Engineering, Design, CS, Support, Product, Delivery Managers, Leadership. Involves in all the calls where decisions are made with help of Data Analysis and User behaviour.
Business OwnershipProduct Road MappingProblem SolvingProduct StrategyData AnalysisProduct Design+47

Associate Product Manager - Swaasa

Mar 2021Nov 2021 · 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • This is a separate wing of Phenom where it is like Idea 2 Implement. Worked here on Idea to be launched in B2C sector from research to building canvases to involving in user interviews to affinity mapping to user flows to involving in designing wireframes to digital presence etc., Here learnt a lot on various things hands-on like stake holder management/ Design thinking/ Working backwards/ Innovation/ Branding/ Communication/ and many more...!!!
Business OwnershipProduct Road MappingProblem SolvingProduct StrategyData AnalysisProduct Design+44

Ust global

Product Manager

Oct 2020Dec 2020 · 2 mos

  • As a Product Management Intern, at UST global in Products and Platforms department, I worked on a product in sales domain from scratch. Starting from market research, presenting to executives about the opportunity, involving in scoping the product and also in proposing possible solutions by working along with cross functional teams.
Business OwnershipProduct Road MappingProblem SolvingProduct StrategyData AnalysisProduct Design+41

Freshthinks

Founder & Product Head

Jan 2020Sep 2020 · 8 mos

  • Started FreshThinks, which is a farm-to-table model where we deliver farm fresh vegetables directly to the home. Managed to get designed two versions of the app using XD and developed the final version of the mobile app with the integration of 2 design versions with the flutter framework. MVP tested successfully in my town. But had to park it aside due to various other reasons
Business OwnershipProduct MarketingProduct Road MappingProblem SolvingProduct StrategyData Analysis+44

Kraftco

Interior Designer

Feb 2019Apr 2019 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Creative Problem SolvingStructured ThinkingDesignTeamworkEnglishBusiness Strategy+1

Raster engineers private limited

Jr Architect

Jun 2017Nov 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

Creative Problem SolvingStructured ThinkingDesignTeamworkEnglishArchitecture

Education

Institute of Product Leadership

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Technology Management

Jan 2019Jan 2021

Indian School of Business

Technology Entrepreneurship Program — Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Jan 2015Jan 2017

Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science, Yerragattu Hillocks, Bheemaram, Hasanparthy, Warangal

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

Jan 2013Jan 2017

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