DEENBANDHU PANDEY
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic educational professional with a proven track record at Vedantu Innovations, driving $15 million in topline growth through innovative program operations and product strategy. Expert in data analytics and A/B testing, enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes. Adept at cross-functional collaboration, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Director(Program and Operations)
Vedantu Innovations Private Limited
Bengaluru
06.2024 - Current
- Overseeing the School Integrated Program operations and Offline Product. Scaled from 0 to 13 School Integrated Programs, building a topline business opportunity of $15 million.
- Responsible for strategizing and managing initiatives to enhance program efficiency and offline product development. This involved scaling products like clicker across 9000+ students, leading to learning output mapping for 100% of students.(First ever used tech in the offline coaching scenario)
- Driving cross-functional collaboration to ensure seamless program execution and optimal learning outcomes for students.
- Spearheading innovative projects to bridge technology and education, enhancing overall student engagement and success.
- Scaled from 0 to 150+ tech-enabled classrooms from the product, unlocking a topline business of $20 million per year with the immersion into the feeder market using the LOCO model of learning.
Program + Product Manager (Centre of Excellence)
Vedantu Innovations Private Limited
Bengaluru
02.2021 - 07.2024
- Head hybrid product (new initiative), student experience.
- Hybrid Product - A product managing a web-based, two-way live interactive platform that enables teachers to remotely teach classrooms and access real-time data of students' in-class performance and engagement.
- Different model testing and product development (OP, TTM, etc.). To enhance the student experience at a low cost.
- Headed product OP: A video-based learning model that reduced teacher costs by 30% and successfully launched an MVP, solving the need state of approximately 60,000 Vedantu students, unlocking a $90 million per year business opportunity.
- Product feature (Instant Gratification and gamification): Designed and implemented milestone features on the platform that increased the gratification factor in students by 34%.
- Managed cross-functional teams and stakeholder communication, and oversaw product development from inception to implementation.
- Experimentation in academics, sales (up by 11%), and creative content: A/B testing for the product, students' experience, and student engagement (average watch time up by 16%).
- Process excellence (Teacher Excellence): The adoption of interactive elements in the session went from 21% to 69%.
- Designed and implemented A/B experiments for our product to improve the teacher rating by 20% and session experience by 31%.
- Spearheaded the AI Live class project, one of the core offerings of Vedantu, disrupting Edtech. Successfully reduced the cost of a sample JEE course by 70%, targeting Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.
Head of the Mathematics Department (India Wing)
Vedantu Innovations Private Limited
Bengaluru
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Headed a team of 18 innovative teachers and experimenters from the Mathematics and MAT wing (9th, 10th, and Foundation grades).
- Designed and implemented student success metrics.
- Conducted research and innovation development for student engagement and assessment.
- Touched the lives of lakhs of students through gamified teaching.
- Collaborated with LO Team, Product Team, Content Team, Student Experience Team, and Teacher Experience Team to enhance learning outcomes.
- Conducted successful experiments (A/B testing) for in-class, pre-class, and post-class engagements and assessments.
- Worked with the innovation team to develop product features within the platform for user engagement.
- Worked deeply with the content team to advance learning methodologies.
Master Teacher, Quant and Maths (Part-Time)
Vedantu Innovations Private Limited
Bengaluru
05.2017 - 01.2020
- Mathematics teacher for grades 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th.
Education
Bachelor’s - Civil Engineering
Rewa Engineering College
Skills
- Content and Program Operations
- Product Strategy and Execution
- Design Thinking
- Data analytics
- A/B Testing
- Google Analytics
- Figma
- Jira
- HTML
- CSS
Recent Achievements
- Achieved 99.73 percentile in the Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation section of CAT 2022.
- Achieved 98.26 in CAT 2024.
Timeline
Associate Director(Program and Operations)
Vedantu Innovations Private Limited
06.2024 - Current
Program + Product Manager (Centre of Excellence)
Vedantu Innovations Private Limited
02.2021 - 07.2024
Head of the Mathematics Department (India Wing)
Vedantu Innovations Private Limited
01.2020 - 01.2021
Master Teacher, Quant and Maths (Part-Time)
Vedantu Innovations Private Limited
05.2017 - 01.2020
Bachelor’s - Civil Engineering
Rewa Engineering College
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