Nishant Das

Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Raised $300,000 in Pre-seed funding for Cheerio.
Increased conversion rates by 6x at Razorpay.
Helped 350+ students gain admission to top business schools.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with strong product management and growth hacking capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementGo-to-market StrategyVenture CapitalAdmissions Counseling

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAutomationB2C MarketingBGPBrand SolutionsBrandingBusiness StrategyCC++Cisco Systems ProductsCisco TechnologiesCloud ComputingCollege ApplicationsContent StrategyConversion Optimization

About

- Founder, Product Head, Marketer and Growth Hacker at Cheerio where I help businesses grow their repeat revenue via omnichannel marketing across email, sms and WhatsApp - Wanna build omnichannel interaction layers with your customers, don’t spend 4 months in Dev, buy a Cheerio license Side Hustles: - MBA Applications Consultant: I helped 350+ people reach their dream schools such as Indian School of Business, IIM ABC, Columbia University, Cornell and a bunch of other Ivy Leagues - Product Management Coach - Helping PMs transition to being a Founder - Helping Founders build kickass Pitch Decks (Having presented to more than a 100 VCs myself and raised 400K USD, I know exactly what it takes to make a killer pitch) Past experience: - Head of Growth Product Team at Razorpay(Previous role) - Increased conversion by 6x, NPS by 50 points and reduced tickets by 85% - Product Manager- Storefront Discovery at Lenskart - Increased conversion by 35% - Senior Product Manager at HolidayIQ(acquired by lastminute.com) - Improved UGC creation by 12% - Senior Engineer Cisco Systems - Founder, CEO and MBA applications consultant at The Bootcamp - Helped 350+ students get to their dream b-schools Hobby Projects: - Started a YouTube Channel to solve the problem of NO BS, Unbiased, short, to the point daily world news that actually matter (no mentions of Taimur I promise) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLp_ulBf-kj7yVtdkTWhbMg/

Experience

10 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Cheerio

Founder

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Founder and Head of Product
Cheerio provides end to end conversational marketing, support and sales technology SaaS to businesses helping them improve repeat sales and customer lifetime value.
At Cheerio I lead Product Management, fundraising and marketing activities while also working as a product manager with our tech team.
Helped our company achieve 94% retention over a 2 year period and a 1000+ paid B2B clients base
Helped increase user retention by 6x in 4 months by building features that help businesses better engage their customers, such as direct chat, email, sms, whatsapp drips
Helped raised $300,000 in Pre-seed round and get commitments worth a further $1 Mn from Angels and Angel groups
As a founder you really do a little bit of everything, so I code whenever I can, carry out some UX design, sales, marketing and even file our taxes. It’s great being founder !

Product MarketingNew Business DevelopmentPositioning (Marketing)New Product RolloutVenture CapitalSoftware as a Service (SaaS)+3

Razorpay

Product Manager II

Apr 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Heading Product growth for SME merchants
Increased conversion from Sign Up to first transaction by 6x
Automated KYC flows in 7 months to ensure 3x more merchants were on boarded without any manual intervention
Increased NPS from by 1.5x in 5 months by reducing settlement TAT from by 90%
Built merchant to merchant referrals, carried customer data platform integration to increase merchant growth by 13% per month
In charge of product based growth roadmaps

Lenskart.com

Product Manager

May 2019 – Jan 2020 · 8 mos · Bangalore

Owned Product discovery roadmap - from Homepage to Add to Cart
Optimised product search and increased homepage to cart page conversion by 18%
Optimised category sorting of products to increase homepage to add to Cart conversion by 7%
Built a parallel assisted flow of buying spectacles via our AI chatbot lensa, Increased add to carts by 30%

Holidayiq

Senior Product Manager

Apr 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

Handling Strategic Growth Initiatives
Product Management
Growth Hacking
Revenue Optimisation
Personalization

The bootcamp consultancy private limited

Founder

Mar 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Helped 350+ Students reach their dream masters programmes by mentoring and coaching them on GMAT/GRE, College Application Essays, Interview Prep. Majority of these 350 were selected in Ivy Leagues(likes of Columbia, Cornell) and Indian School of Business, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow.
Built a 100,000 USD + revenue company.
I still mentor students part time. So if you are looking to apply to an Ivy league or ISB reach out to me.

Interview CoachingCollege ApplicationsAdmissions CounselingEducational Consulting

Cisco

2 roles

Senior Engineer

Dec 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

Product Release owner - Feature enhancements for datacenter/collaboration products
Specialist in Data center and Unified Infrastructure platforms such as NEXUS, UCS and MDS.
Hands on experience with virtualization technologies by VMware( ESXi, Vcenter, Vsphere),
Cisco UCS Director, Microsoft Hyper-V.
CCNA Routing and Switching
CCNA Data Center.
CCNP Routing and Switching.
CCNP Data Center.
Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist

Network Consultant Engineer

Jul 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

Involves large scale Planning, Designing and Implementation of customer's end to end networking environment.
Specialist in Data center and Unified Infrastructure platforms such as NEXUS, UCS and MDS.
Hands on experience with virtualization technologies by VMware( ESXi, Vcenter, Vsphere),
Cisco UCS Director, Microsoft Hyper-V.
CCNA Routing and Switching
CCNA Data Center.
CCNP Routing and Switching.
CCNP Data Center.
Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist