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Product builder with 11 years of experience, including 7 years in product. Recent focus is on AI-native product systems for personalization, lifecycle, and growth. Track record of driving measurable revenue and retention outcomes across large-scale B2C products. Actively engaged in independent product consulting for a startup and an NGO.

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11 Years of experience
4 Companies / orgs
17+ Shipped initiatives
10M+ Users impacted

Career timeline

Tech Mahindra 2013-2016
Teach For India 2016-2018
Games24x7 2019-2025
Skillz 2025-2026
2013 2026
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Mar 2025 - Feb 2026

Senior Product Manager

Skillz | Bengaluru, India
AILifecycleMonetizationLiveOps

Overhauled multi-year lifecycle and monetization strategy for a publicly listed US B2C platform, unifying loyalty, communications, and personalization into a coherent end-to-end user journey.

  • Redesigned loyalty program reward logic to tie incentives to user actions instead of static tier membership, reducing reward spend by 30% and driving 9% net revenue uplift through higher engagement.
  • Identified a Daily Challenges design flaw causing abrupt user progress resets. Reprioritized roadmap to fix root cause over new feature delivery, improving D14 retention by 10% and delivering 5% net revenue uplift.
  • Aligned Marketing, Analytics, and Engineering to rebuild lifecycle targeting from batch to real-time, delivering 6% net revenue uplift and uncovering 2 undetected funnel drop-offs.
  • Uncovered an unaddressed operational gap in campaign execution and built a 0 to 1 AI-powered lifecycle tool, automating end-to-end campaign creation, targeting, and reporting, reducing execution effort by 50%.
Jun 2019 - Feb 2025

Senior Product Manager

Games24x7 | Bengaluru, India
GrowthPersonalizationExperimentationPlatform

Led platform and growth product strategy for Indian B2C apps with 10M+ users, scaling retention, monetization, and experimentation across all products.

  • Anchored app redesign in user research across 100+ players, building a configurable, real-time architecture serving distinct experiences per cohort, improving new user retention by 9% and existing user revenue per user by 3%.
  • Established an org-wide experimentation platform from scratch for A/B testing, feature flags, and instant rollouts, removing release cycle bottlenecks across all product teams and cutting app release dependency by 82%.
  • Designed a dynamic monetization system targeting each user's specific friction point across frequency, session value, and retention, driving 15% revenue per user uplift for new users and 4% for existing users.
  • Defined analytics and monitoring platform strategy enabling visibility across funnels, cohorts, and health metrics, reducing issue detection time from 2 days to 5 minutes and eliminating engineering dependency for data access.
Jun 2016 - Apr 2018

Fellow and Fellow Advisor

Teach For India | Bengaluru, India
EducationPartnershipsScale

Owned program strategy and execution for 1,000+ students and 25+ Fellows, designing solutions, driving adoption, and scaling impact through institutional partnerships.

  • Designed and launched Tarabati, a digital learning program for 20+ government teachers, delivering 65% improvement in student learning outcomes.
  • Built and scaled 11+ institutional partnerships including Harvard University, Apple, and Cisco to deliver high-impact learning programs at scale.
Jun 2013 - May 2016

Business Development Manager

Tech Mahindra | Nigeria and India
BFSIMarket EntryData Governance

Owned end-to-end market entry and business development for West Africa, building commercial presence from the ground up in an unfamiliar market.

  • Led West Africa market entry, identifying opportunities, building go-to-market solutions, and driving $100K in annual revenue in a new market.
  • Defined data governance framework and business rules for enterprise reporting systems, improving data quality from 5% to 95%.
Academic

Education

2018 - 2019

MBA

Indian School of Business (ISB) | Hyderabad, India
2009 - 2013

B.Tech

University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) | Dehradun, India
Continued learning

Certifications

07/2024

Stanford Product Management Certificate

Stanford University
03/2016

Sales and Marketing

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi
Recognition

Awards

Games24x7 Business Impact Award

ISB Torch Bearer Award

ISB Merit Scholarship Award

Tech Mahindra Excellence Award

Outside work

Interests

National Level Chess Player

Represented Haryana at 4 National Tournaments. Represented India at 1 International Tournament.

Travelling

Roots across 4 Indian regions and Nigeria. Kept exploring ever since - 15+ countries, 5 continents.

Martial Arts

Trained in Karate - Brown IV belt.

Domain

Strengths and exposure

Domain strengths

Engagement and Lifecycle Management, Loyalty and Retention Mechanics, Monetization, Experimentation Platforms, Analytics and Monitoring, LiveOps, Personalization, AI-Enabled Workflows.

Industry exposure

Gaming (India and US), EdTech, BFSI (West Africa).

Tools and craft

A/B testing, cohort analytics, user research, CleverTap, predictive segmentation models, agentic AI for operational workflows.