Ram Narayan Subudhi

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

15+ years of product management experience across diverse industries.
Expert in scaling products from 0 to 1 and 1 to 100.
Regularly mentors PMs and delivers high-rated webinars.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Product Manager specializing in E-commerce and EdTech with a strong focus on user engagement and growth.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyMarketplace GrowthUser Experience (ux)Growth StrategiesE-commerceCoachingSoftware Development

Other Skills

A/B TestingAIAlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsAnalyticsAttribute LibrariesAutomationBusiness AnalyticsBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCRMChange ManagementCompetitive AnalysisConsumer ProductsContent Creation

About

He's currently heading Marketplace Growth products at Flipkart. Prior to this, he has led various demand side and consumer facing products such as Catalog Mgmt, Growth Hacking, User Generated Content, etc. He has 15+ years of experience building products across Ecommerce, EdTech & Telecom. He has built both consumer products as well as platform products, 0 to 1 as well as 1 to 100 products. He has also built data products at scale. He regularly delivers product management related webinars & guest lectures on online platforms such as upGrad, Simplilearn, etc.. He also actively mentors PMs & advises startups in achieving product market fit and scaling up.

Experience

14 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

11 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Upgrad

upGrad Xpert (Product Management)

Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 · 0 mo

Registered as a PM Expert with upGrad
👉 Delivering webinars/expert sessions on different aspects of Product Management (avg. rating 4.6*/5)
👉 Collaborating in curriculum design, content creation and delivery for Product Management courses.

WebinarsCurriculum DesignContent CreationProduct ManagementCoaching

Flipkart

Director of Product Management

May 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

[2020 - ] Heading Seller Experience, Engagement & Growth, leading a team of PMs & PMMs.
👉 Managing the entire Seller & Selection Lifecycle - onboarding, engagement, growth, behaviour shaping, support, etc.
👉 Seller Experience on Seller Web Dashboard, Seller App, Whatsapp Channel, CRM.
👉 Seller Insights, CVP recommendations & growth levers such as Flipkart / External Ads, Influencer Marketing.
👉 Automation of operations & AI-fication of seller journeys
[2017 - 2019 ] User Engagement
👉 Managed UGC, Wishlists and a suite of products to improve user engagement & trust on Flipkart
👉 Increased user contributions by >10x & user engagement by >16x in a span of 2.5 years.
👉 Built industry first products such as aspect ratings & reviews, through review mining & summarisation.
👉 Externalised UGC constructs to enable SAAS play and build revenue streams.
👉 Launched multiple new products such as customer & seller Q&A, image & video reviews, expert & influencer reviews, shareable/collaborative collections, etc.
👉 Conceptualised & launched multiple data products such as auto content classification & moderation, intelligent content solicitation, auto answering of customer queries, etc.
[2016 - 2017] Customer Shopping Experience & Growth
👉 Led key growth initiatives - Flipkart website relaunch, Category specific experiences for Large Appliances / Beauty & Personal Care / Fashion categories, Returns Reduction for Fashion.
👉 Introduced new research & shortlisting tools in the consumer funnel such as buying guides, product videos, rich product description, product compare, size recommendations, etc.
[2015 - 2016] Catalog & Listing Management
👉 Led the core platform and its interactions with both the supplier and the consumer world, managing a scale of 1mn+ incoming new listings every week.
👉 Conceptualised & built products for managing category definitions, attribute libraries, product taxonomies, product-to-product relationships, etc.

Marketplace GrowthProduct ManagementUser EngagementData ProductsAutomationAI+1

Standard chartered bank

Corporate Finance Intern

Apr 2014 – Jun 2014 · 2 mos · Mumbai

👉 Awarded Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) after my internship stint - sole recipient from IIM Bangalore (out of 4 interns)

Globalscholar

Senior Software Engineer

May 2011 – May 2013 · 2 yrs · Chennai

👉 Led a team of four for developing the next generation Personalised Learning solution for K-12 schools in the US, having a 600K + subscriber base across multiple districts.
👉 Double hatted as a Product Analyst, working closely with the client & the sales team to understand business use-cases & frame product requirements.

Personalized LearningProduct AnalysisTeam LeadershipProduct ManagementSoftware Development