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Akshit Aggarwal

Bengaluru

Summary

Data-driven Product Manager with 5 years of experience leading tech and growth initiatives. Recognized for go getter attitude, exceptional communication skills and a strategic approach for prioritization to deliver innovative, user-centric products handling a cross functional team.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Manager

Zenda
Bengaluru
04.2022 - Current

Led tech and growth initiatives with a focus on integration using APIs, collaborated with a cross-functional team to improve NPS and the user journey for payments, with a focus on achieving higher app adoption.

  • Directed deployment of advanced data frameworks to expedite go-live time, achieving a 500% increase in live schools.
  • Accelerated the go-live process for a new school from 24 hours to a few hours through process refinements.
  • Designed & optimized WebView flows for embedded payments, authentication, and content consumption, resulting in easy ERP adoption and increasing app adoption by >50%
  • Created extensive PRDs and API documents defining endpoints, data configurations, and security measures like OAuth/API keys, while emphasising troubleshooting practices for postman collection accelerating ERP integrations by 25%
  • Led API product strategy, defining REST API endpoints for seamless third-party integrations with ERPs and internal microservices for notification and alert systems, ensuring timely and relevant notifications for all payment and data-related events to all stakeholders, with proactive resolution for over 98% of cases.
  • Streamlined payment experience through API optimization, clear CTA, and aligning refund protocols, resulting in faster payments by 25%.
  • Collaborated with Customer Success and Support teams to enhance customer support workflows, boosting satisfaction levels by reducing SLAs resulting a increase in NPS by ~40%
  • Conducted vendor evaluation and due diligence, assessing API reliability, security compliance, SLAs, and pricing models. Analyzing trade-offs between in-house development and third-party adoption.

Product

Tech Insurance Startup
Remote
04.2020 - 04.2022

Collaborated with leadership and senior team to pinpoint market gaps for new product launches. Defined post launch KPIs and OKRs and collaborated with design and tech to meet objectives

  • Drove product development by synchronizing technical functionalities with business goals and user expectations resulting in revenue jump >100% in personal insurance segment.
  • Collaborated with design & engineering teams to create wireframes, prototypes, and MVPs
  • Drafted comprehensive PRDs and defined relevant KPIs.
  • Led Agile scrum meetings to facilitate iterative progress and stakeholder feedback.
  • Formulated strategies that enhanced product adoption in diverse market segments.

Fullstack Mentor

Udacity
Bengaluru
10.2019 - 04.2020
  • As a Fullstack mentor I have guided more the 100 students to complete there nanodegree course and helped them progress in their careers

Cloud Security Support Engineer

Zscaler
Mohali
01.2018 - 12.2018
  • The role required in-depth knowledge of the Product and how we communicate and explain the solution efficiently to the client

Education

B.Tech - CSE

Chitkara University
07-2018

Certification - Product Management with AI and Gen AI

Indian School of Business(ISB)
Hyderabad

Skills

Product Vision and Strategy

  • Aligning strategy with stakeholders
  • Identifying market gaps
  • Executing vision that align with business needs

Product Management

  • Sprint planning & agile execution
  • Build product from scratch
  • Post launch KPI monitoring
  • Priortization of Backlog
  • Proficient with Figma for UI UX, SQL, Asana, JIRA, Notion, Postman, Datadog, Clevertap
  • Critical Thinking and Strategic Planning

Stakeholder Management

  • Maintained continuous feedback loops with clients and internal stakeholders to iterate on product direction
  • Communication

Organisation Building

  • Taking new initiative
  • Mentored Team Members
  • Workflow Optimization and Cross Functional Collaboration

Hobbies and Interests

  • Reading
  • Boxing
  • Yoga
  • Stocks
  • Quiz

Languages

  • Hindi
  • English

Timeline

Product Manager

Zenda
04.2022 - Current

Product

Tech Insurance Startup
04.2020 - 04.2022

Fullstack Mentor

Udacity
10.2019 - 04.2020

Cloud Security Support Engineer

Zscaler
01.2018 - 12.2018

B.Tech - CSE

Chitkara University

Certification - Product Management with AI and Gen AI

Indian School of Business(ISB)
Akshit Aggarwal