Shikhar K.

Product Manager

West Delhi, Delhi, India10 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led development of Adobe's GenAI solutions.
Scaled web products from 0 to 1.
Honed business strategy skills with top companies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Manager with strong expertise in AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyGenerative AiProduct AnalysisSales EffectivenessClient Relations

Other Skills

Strategic RoadmapsCritical ThinkingStructured ThinkingProduct RequirementsKey Performance IndicatorsStrategic PartnershipsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Product DesignExecutive-level CommunicationInterviewingAdobe AnalyticsKPI DashboardsEnd User ResearchProduct Road MappingSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)

About

Shikhar is an experienced professional with deep business, product management and technology skills. He has attended India's top engineering and business schools. He has a diverse skill set that encompasses a deep understanding of technology, business and SaaS products, combined with a practical, hands-on understanding of the business of tech. As a management consultant, he worked with India's top companies, honing skills such as business strategy development, business communication, negotiation, driving operational excellence and sales force effectiveness. Working as a product manager has helped him develop skills across product strategy, user acquisition, engagement and retention, product growth and new feature development. He has strong experience in scaling web products from 0 to 1. Most recently, he has been leading the development and growth of Adobe's GenAI solutions for documents in browsers.

Experience

10 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

2 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Adobe

3 roles

Principal Product Manager

Promoted

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

Jun 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Currently leading the GenAI roadmap for acrobat.adobe.com
Led launch and development of AI Assistant for acrobat.adobe.com
Incubated 5+ innovative GenAI features, shipped 1 incubated features
Identified and productized 10+ growth levers for driving growth in GenAI feature usage, more than doubling user base
Worked extensively on prioritization of GenAI powered features on the product roadmap
Spearheaded launch of Acrobat for Meta Quest devices in partnership with stakeholders from Meta
Completed certificate program in foundations of AI and ML from IIT Delhi

Strategic RoadmapsCritical ThinkingProduct StrategyStructured ThinkingProduct RequirementsKey Performance Indicators+6

Product Manager

Dec 2019 – Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Spearheaded the analytics charter for acrobat.adobe.com to build out infra and reporting for key OKRs and health metrics
Improved sign in rate by 25% by upgrading sign in experience for logged out users
Built out in-product monetization workflows leading to $10 M ARR in first year through PLG motions
Led the development of 7+ user facing features (Password protection for PDFs, PDF Viewer upgrade to drive engagement and monetization, Split and Organize PDFs)
Promoted from PM-20 to PM-30 in 18 months
Additional responsibilities - mentored 2 product interns, created and delivered PM internship pitch to students on IIM Bangalore and IIM Lucknow

Structured ThinkingProduct RequirementsKey Performance IndicatorsAdobe AnalyticsKPI DashboardsProduct Analysis+5

The boston consulting group (bcg)

2 roles

Senior Associate

Jul 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

EBITDA enhancement for metals major through digitization
Revenue acceleration for large media company through operational enhancement, sales force effectiveness and digitization strategy

Structured ThinkingKey Performance IndicatorsSales EffectivenessTableauExecutive-level CommunicationClient Relations

Summer Associate

Apr 2017 – Jun 2017 · 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Structured ThinkingKey Performance IndicatorsExecutive-level Communication

Credence capital

Fund Manager

Jul 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Lucknow Area, India

Adobe

3 roles

Computer Scientist

Promoted

Jan 2016 – Jun 2016 · 5 mos

Full stack developer working on Creative Cloud Ecosystem. Working on the Amazon AWS platform to deploy scalable web services.

Member of Technical Staff - II

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs

1. Currently working on color.adobe.com as a full stack developer.
2. Contributed to licensing workflows and algorithms in Acrobat Document Cloud to enable product features based on user license type
3. Shipped Adobe Reader for Windows Store (v3.0), uploaded to the Windows Store in July 2014.

Member of Technical Staff - I

Jul 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos

Worked on PDFL SDK 11.0 and implemented a key feature area crucial to the 11.0 release.
Worked on Adobe Reader for Windows 8.1 (v 3.0), a touch application for Windows Store, in which I designed, implemented and extended multiple infrastructure and user facing aspects of the application.

Google summer of code

Mentor

May 2011 – Aug 2011 · 3 mos

I was responsible for mentoring a Google Summer of Code student for developing an installer application for Sahana Eden

Sahana software foundation

Student Developer/Google Summer of Code Student

Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 · 0 mo

I developed the Spreadsheet Importer Module for Sahana Software Foundation's Sahana Eden software as a student participating in Google Summer of Code 2010.