Pushpak Teja

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Over 8 years in B2B SaaS product management.
  • Mentored over 100 students in product management.
  • Led educational initiatives impacting 10,000+ youth.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Management expert with a strong focus on education and mentorship.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyMarket ResearchProduct ManagementUi/ux Design

Other Skills

.NET FrameworkASP.NETAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceBig DataBusiness AnalysisBusiness StrategyCC#C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)CommunicationCritical ThinkingData Analysis

About

Hi, I'm Pushpak and I currently work with MoEngage in their Product Strategy/ New Initiatives team. I've 8+ years of Work Experience in B2B SaaS across Software Development and Product Management. As a Product Manager at Cisco’s Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group Business Unit, I worked on on Apps/ Edge Computing, and accelerated adoption of Cloud SaaS Automation solutions. Prior to Cisco, I worked with Aurigo Software in Product Development and Product Management. I worked with several early stage startups such as Bullspree (Stock Market Fantasy Gaming), TruckBook (Linkedin for Truck Drivers), and Run The World (Virtual Events) on Product and GTM Strategies. I am a lifelong learner and I have completed my MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, a business degree from Masters' Union, and Bachelors in Electronics from BITS Pilani. I have done over 120 courses online on topics ranging from Creative Writing to Financial Markets to Machine Learning. Currently I teach Product Management at EdTech startups such as Seekho. Skills: SaaS Product Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Market Research & Segmentation, Product Positioning, Roadmap planning, Software Development, Data Mining, Machine Learning Tools: Amplitude, Pendo, MoEngage, Figma, Jira, Confluence, Aha, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, New Relic Over the past decade, I volunteered and led educational initiatives at non-profits such as Nirmaan Organization and Make A Difference (MAD) impacting over 10,000 children and young adults. I have raised over 10 Lakhs INR in funding and sponsorships to support these initiatives. I'm always up for meeting new people and have interesting conversations. Do drop me a message if you want to discuss about technology, products, start-ups, courses, books, or social impact.

Experience

9 yrs
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Moengage

2 roles

Senior Product Manager

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Product Manager - New Initiatives & Strategy

Feb 2022Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Product Strategy: Translate the Vision into a formalized Product Strategy with 12-24 months horizon.
  • Product Research Strategy: Bring both internal and external market and customer insights as well as competitive intelligence for MoEngage's product lines to drive future product directions.
  • New Market Opportunities: Identify and validate new market opportunities through customer feedback, competitive analysis, and market analysis/ trends with the goal of identifying new product categories/solutions.
  • Build, Buy, or Partner new Product initiatives (set of capabilities): Develop and own the ’build, buy, and partner strategy playbook’.
  • Analyst Reports: Prepare and present our roadmap to Analysts (Gartner, Forrester)
Product StrategyMarket Research

Upraised

Product Mentor

Apr 2024Aug 2024 · 4 mos

  • Mentored 2 PM aspirants with 20 hours 1:1 sessions
  • Took live session on SQL fundamentals for Product Managers

Mesa school of business

Product Mentor

Jan 2024Aug 2024 · 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

  • 1:1 Resume Reviews and Mock Interviews for 3 Students in the Founding cohort of Mesa
  • 20+ Hours of Product Interview Preparation Delivered

Airtribe

Product Mentor

Apr 2023Mar 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Mentored 100+ students across 6 cohorts for Airtribe's Flagship course - Product Management Launchpad.
  • 150+ hours of engagement overall including group mentorship sessions, 1:1 mock interviews, and evaluating assignments.

Adplist.org

Product Management Mentor

Jun 2022May 2023 · 11 mos

Bullspree

Product Consultant

Apr 2022Apr 2023 · 1 yr · Remote

  • Led a team of 5 (APM, EIR, UI/UX, Ops, Analyst) to define and execute product vision in alignment with the founders
  • Grew the mobile application to 3 lakh+ downloads, ~80K MAUs and ~15K DAUs.
  • Improved D7 retention from 10% to 30% by launching 4 new products - League, US and Crypto Markets, Predicto, and Learn
  • Exceeded revenue targets by growing 3X in Q2 by adding gamification elements and referrals, and revamping contest strategy
  • Created dashboards in Excel, Adjust, and MoEngage for visibility on metrics (led vendor selection, onboarding and event design)

Seekho

Product Mentor

Nov 2021Nov 2022 · 1 yr

  • Delivered 16 live sessions with a total audience of 250+ product aspirants.
  • Helped 20+ students with 1-1 sessions on resume review, mock interviews and career guidance.
  • Sessions delivered are as follows:
  • SQL 101 for PMs
  • Design Thinking Workshop
  • How to Crack a PM Role
  • Product Management | The Beginnings
  • Product Interview Question: What's your favorite product
  • Intro to Product Analytics
  • Product Management and Program Management - Difference
  • Interview Questions - Product Execution
  • Interview Questions - Product Sense

Cisco

Product Manager

Aug 2021Feb 2022 · 6 mos

Truckbook

Product Manager

Apr 2021Jul 2021 · 3 mos

Run the world

Product Growth Leadership Fellow

Sep 2020Nov 2020 · 2 mos

Make a difference

2 roles

City Team Lead

May 2019Oct 2019 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked directly with the Strategic Operations team (includes CEO) as 1 of 2 city managers leading 36 program managers and 450+ volunteers impacting 500 children and youth, responsible for building city team culture, setting team goals, creating systems and city performance trackers, ensuring the best volunteer experience and took all projects to timely completion
  • Managed project dependencies of high priority projects like at least 10 volunteer sourcing campaigns, 10 volunteer recruitments, 20 induction & role-specific trainings, 5 fundraising campaigns, 5 mobilisation campaigns, 10 customised team experience design & implementation across 10 different teams through change controls, resource allocation, impact assessments and performance trackers.

Foundational Programme Fellow

May 2018Apr 2019 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Pioneered MAD's newest program in Bangalore with ~50 volunteers and ~50 children
  • Led initiatives on Volunteer recruitment, experience, training, and curriculum design and development
  • Built skill assessment dashboards using Power BI, accessible to multiple stakeholders for improved outcomes.

Aurigo software technologies

2 roles

Associate Product Manager

Oct 2018Aug 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Managed cross functional teams to design functionalities and features that are not only generic but also highly customizable in nature and oversaw their successful implementation in Aurigo’s flagship SAAS product, Masterworks Cloud, an integrated suite of enterprise software products for planning, building and maintaining large capital assets, infrastructure and facilities
  • Revamped the UI/UX and created design standards for the product to enhance customer delight
  • Established the Product Roadmap prioritizing key features from existing customers, potential customers, and the business trends
  • Designed and delivered Product trainings, feature demonstrations and walkthroughs for internal and external stakeholders

Member Of Technical Staff

Jun 2016Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Developed and enhanced key features and framework of Aurigo Masterworks Cloud by writing object-oriented, modular, scalable and secure code using Microsoft ASP.Net technology stack.
  • Led the development team for Aurigo Demos winning 4 deals in a span of 4 months with a success rate of over 50%
  • Mentored a team of 3 college graduates to solve over 50 issues along with hands-on training of the Product in a span of 3 months
  • Integrated Amazon LEX with Masterworks named as AuroBot (a conversation-driven bot) to support basic functionalities of product in 2 days as part of a Hackathon, winning the 2nd prize for it
Product ManagementUI/UX Design

Intel labs

Intern

Jul 2015Dec 2015 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Research intern, Signals Algorithms and Systems (SAS) Laboratory
  • Worked with research scientists at Intel to develop a novel algorithm to continuously monitor the cardiac activity of the heart while the user is working on a laptop with sensors embedded on either side of the mousepad
  • Through signal denoising techniques, reduced the wait time between two consecutive outputs by 80% (for a quality signal).

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor's Degree — Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

Jan 2012Jan 2016

Georgia Institute of Technology

Master's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2018Jan 2020

Masters' Union

PGP — Technology and Business Management

Jan 2020Jan 2021

Udacity

Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree — Computer Science

Jan 2017Jan 2017

Stackforce found 100+ more professionals with Product Strategy & Market Research

Explore similar profiles based on matching skills and experience