Vandana Gautam

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 2 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led user engagement strategies at top tech firms.
  • Expert in data-driven product management.
  • Proven track record in enhancing user retention.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in the SaaS and B2C sectors.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyUser EngagementBig Data

Other Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)B2C MarketingBalanced ScorecardBootstrapBusiness StrategyCC++Cloud DevelopmentCodeIgniterConsumer ProductsData AnalysisDecision-MakingDesignDesign ThinkingElastic Stack (ELK)

About

Senior Product Manager with an MBA from IIM Bangalore and a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur, specializing in driving user engagement, retention, and revenue growth through data-driven strategies. With experience across Phonepe, Dream11, Microsoft, IBM, Pocket FM, and Gaana, I’ve led impactful projects, from boosting retention at Dream11 to enhancing engagement at Pocket FM and optimizing adoption at Microsoft. Passionate about innovation, I thrive in environments where strategic insights and dynamic product development converge to elevate customer experiences and business outcomes

Experience

11 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 6 mos
Current Experience

Phonepe

Senior Product Manager

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Building credit distribution for India
Product ManagementProduct StrategyTeam LeadershipData AnalysisLeadershipUser Experience (UX)+3

Dream11

2 roles

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

Jul 2023Dec 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Worked on driving user growth, enhancing retention, and crafting personalized, data-driven strategies to engage users effectively. Specialized in driving user acquisition by optimizing onboarding journeys to improve new user conversion rates. My work involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless execution and alignment across product, design, engineering, analytics, marketing, and customer support functions.
Product ManagementGenerative AIDesignDesign ThinkingPricing StrategyLeadership+4

Product Manager

Jan 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Worked on different areas both user facing and internal, end to end ownership of all things communications across the app and New users across different touch points of the app. Worked on promotion personalisation and a suite of data products

Microsoft

Product Manager

May 2021Jan 2022 · 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Worked on Azure, complete ownership of internal product TiP, Test in Production, worked with dedicated team of 5 developers. Worked on product vision and strategy from user acquisition, retention, customer satisfaction to adoption and growth
  • Organizer IDC book club, Azure Bootcamp, spearheaded mentorship program for PMs
Product StrategyPricing Strategysaas

Tech mahindra

Sales Intern

Oct 2020Dec 2020 · 2 mos

  • Strategic selling, analysis & sales, speech AI product, engaged 40+ clients

Pocket fm

Product Manager

Jun 2020Jun 2020 · 0 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Developed GTM for new user generated content, increase engagement, 18% increase in uploads
  • Developed 3+ UI/UX features, consumer behavior insights from user data, increased listening rate

Ibm

Strategic Business Consultant

Apr 2020May 2020 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Prioritized roadmap & finalized delivery timelines, impacted 100k jobs, with engineering and QA teams
  • Optimized business & system processes, reduced error rate & turnaround time
  • Developed global sales incentive strategy, 7+ countries, designed business flows, saved 270 man hours
Big DataHadoopMachine LearningElastic Stack (ELK)

Womenite

Change maker

Jul 2017Aug 2017 · 1 mo · Greater Delhi Area

Gaana

Data Scientist

May 2017May 2019 · 2 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Spearheaded internal big data analytics architecture from inception, architecture to execution. Worked on solving product problems such as target notifications, personalization, age gender prediction, dynamic ads, song language predictions using Machine learning, Big data and NLP
  • Awards and Achievements
  • Best Innovator & Gaana Impact recognized for E2E execution of creative solutions
  • Techie of the Quarter awarded for taking initiatives & designing innovative solutions
  • Head, first 24-hour Hackathon for of 250+ employees
  • Interviewer & Placement co-ordinator for campus placements at IIT Kanpur

Samsung electronics

Student Trainee

May 2016Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Build a light offline (embedded) version of a Natural Language understanding Engine, AlterEgo
  • Worked on disassembling and parsing a sentence to return a JSON Object
  • For disassembling, lexical entries with ontological concepts with maximal munch was used and for parsing, pattern matching was used
  • Introduced slang correction and spell check to approximate sentences Techniques
  • Models of language built using computational linguistics, lexicology and morphology/syntax

Pervazive inc.

Internship

Nov 2015Dec 2015 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Data science analyst
  • Anomaly detection in a web log file with minimum human input
  • Worked on an analyzer capable of detecting known and unknown intrusions intelligently
  • Automatic differentiation of normal network activities from those abnormal activity Techniques Unsupervised clustering, data pre-processing, dimensionality reduction and classification

Indian institute of technology, kanpur

3 roles

Secretary, Gliding Club.

May 2014Mar 2015 · 10 mos

  • Organized various lectures and workshops for new students and conducted joyrides for over 150 people

Secretary, Programming club

May 2014Mar 2015 · 10 mos

  • Organized lectures, talks for new students on competitive programming, algorithms, web development
  • Administered problem testing and test case generation in Programming Events in Takneek, annual inter-hall technical festival and Freshers Programming contests

Student

Apr 2013May 2017 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Graduated with major in Computer Science and Engineering and minor in IME in IIT Kanpur. My research are Machine Learning, Data Science, Natural Language Processing and Security

Education

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2019Jan 2021

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2017

St. Xavier School bhopal

Jan 2001Jan 2013

Stackforce found 100+ more professionals with Product Management & Product Strategy

Explore similar profiles based on matching skills and experience