Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Interests
Timeline
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Abhishek Samantaray

Pune,Maharashtra

Summary

A start up enthusiastic & highly capable product manager & growth strategist with 13+ years experience, seeking to leverage proven leadership and strategy skills in B2B/SAAS software growth hacking, Product management, Digital marketing Strategy, Team building, Client engagement, and Customer success. A passionate Product Management expert, who strives to create and oversee the development & growth of new software products .

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Growth

InstaSafe, India
Pune, Maharashtra
08.2020 - Current
  • Built & executed multiple Growth strategies to increase customer accusation & retention.
  • Led the growth team to execute marketing plans to achieve global reach for InstaSafe's products.
  • Closely worked with the key stake holders to draw the product strategy to position strongly in the market.
  • Implemented agile methodologies in product development & worked closely with the customers to get the first hand feedback.

Product Manager

Shoptimize India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune, MH
07.2019 - 08.2019
  • Led product development team of 25 to enhance products based on customer data and AI.
  • Conceptualized and deployed enhanced product features in the AI platform and optimized implementation
  • Prepared PRD ( Product Req Doc) for the AI platform (Polaris) features and led the UI/UX and Dev team to build it from scratch along with GTM strategy.
  • Helped incorporate product changes to drive customer engagement and firm profits based on data analytics.

Vice President

ProMobi Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Pune, Maharashtra
01.2014 - 05.2019
  • Starting from scratch, led the B2B/SAAS Product Development, marketing & growth, into a multi-million profit making business.
  • Conceptualized long-range product roadmaps and strategically designed according to market data and research, working closely with the CXOs.
  • Executed GTM strategy using Market analysis, marketing strategy.
  • Increased company growth through deep data analysis of market trends and internal sales records, thus driving the product positioning in the right path
  • Worked closely with the design team to deliver best of User Experience (UX/UI) of the product, for ease of use and look & feel
  • Worked closely with Engineering, marketing, sales & customer success for proper alignment of product positioning and content generation
  • Cross functional Team management & leadership.

Project Manager

Quadnode Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Pune, Maharashtra
02.2013 - 12.2013
  • Handled Product design, development & delivery for clients from US & Europe. Project Management and team management delivering quality, following agile methodologies
  • Closely worked with the clients for requirement gathering and project execution planning.
  • Led multiple teams of engineers, designers & QAs to deliver projects successfully.
  • Successfully set up processes to make day to day project management easier and more productive

Project Manager

Sapnasolutions Pvt. Ltd
Pune, Maharashtra
02.2011 - 01.2013
  • Managed and delivered numerous Web and Mobile Apps successfully.
  • Handled end to end project management & delivery.
  • Led multiple engineering, design & QA teams to deliver Apps in time.
  • End to end client communication, from requirement gathering to project planning & delivery, with clients from USA, Europe & Australia
  • Manage releases/delivery and attend client feedback for changes, project retrospection. Rich experience in working with multiple teams comprising of different nationalities.

Location Manager

ICICI Bank Ltd
Pune, Maharashtra
08.2008 - 01.2011
  • Managed the whole portfolio of Pune to reach yearly targets.
  • Led multiple teams & vendors including training, mentoring and reach quarterly targets with high success rate.
  • Implemented & managed IT resources, automation internally as well as with vendors for data accuracy and smooth process execution.

Education

MBA - Information Technology

KIIT University
Bhubaneswar

B.Tech - Information Technology

Silicon Institute of Technology
Bhubaneswar

Skills

Growth Strategies

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Accomplishments

  • Built a MDM (scalefusion.com) product from scratch and made it to multi million profit making business.
  • Delivered more than 70 web & mobile apps to customers from across the globe.
  • Nurtured closely a few clients who grew to contribute 1.0 M USD revenue per year.

Interests

Reading, Traveling, Photography

Timeline

Head of Growth

InstaSafe, India
08.2020 - Current

Product Manager

Shoptimize India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2019 - 08.2019

Vice President

ProMobi Technologies Pvt. Ltd
01.2014 - 05.2019

Project Manager

Quadnode Technologies Pvt. Ltd
02.2013 - 12.2013

Project Manager

Sapnasolutions Pvt. Ltd
02.2011 - 01.2013

Location Manager

ICICI Bank Ltd
08.2008 - 01.2011

B.Tech - Information Technology

Silicon Institute of Technology

MBA - Information Technology

KIIT University
Abhishek Samantaray