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Jigar Panchal

Jigar Panchal

Mumbai,Maharashtra

Summary

Data Science & Product Analytics leader with 7+ years driving strategic decisions using analytics, ML POCs, and experimentation. Skilled in team building, growth metrics, and translating data into actionable insights for senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Customer Success

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Growth & Product Analyst ( L1, L2, L3)

HackerRank
07.2021 - Current
  • Built and scaled the Analytics & Data Science team from scratch to 9 analysts . Established structured training modules, mentorship programs, and team onboarding plans, significantly improving analyst ramp-up time from months to a few weeks.
  • Developed and deployed internal GPT-powered analytics ChatBot integrated via Slack, enabling customer-facing teams to quickly access data insights, reducing analyst dependency and turnaround time from 2 days to about an hour on medium complexity tasks .
  • Significantly reduced content leakage conflicts (73%) in Certified Assessments by developing scenario-based modelling solution, enabling proactive risk mitigation.
  • Revenue Optimization : Identified abuse/ fraudulent patterns to reduce revenue leakage - 2% of ARR
  • Reduced candidate evaluation timelines (time-to-hire by 75%) for a global investment banking and management firm by building robust statistical anomaly detection models (Bayesian statistical methods, Outlier Detection techniques) for MCQ plagiarism in assessments.
  • Created a proprietary statistical index for tracking tech-hiring trends, informing strategic planning, and go-to-market strategies.
  • Delivered comprehensive analytical insights weekly, monthly, and quarterly to senior stakeholders (VPs, Directors) on pricing strategies, product funnel performance, and activation metrics, enabling proactive strategic decisions leading to >=100% target achievement.
  • Uncovered Activation Metrics ( Setup, Aha and Habit Moments) and led rigorous experimentation (statistical hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, Bayesian inference) across critical user journeys (homepage, onboarding), directly improving key metrics - signups and activation by 50% and 20% resp.
  • Awarded the "Be-the-Captain" (2024) honor at HackerRank Annual Awards, acknowledging significant ownership, analytical leadership, and strategic impact.

Data Scientist (Assistant Manager)

Angel One (Previously Angel Broking)
04.2021 - 09.2021
  • Built NLP-driven sentiment analytics (Python, spaCy, traditional NLP) to automate customer feedback analysis, reducing manual insight generation time from Weeks to 1 day.
  • Delivered recommendations for customer acquisition campaigns to improve campaign efficiency and lowering Customer Acquisition Cost ( impact unknown since I exited before campaign performance evaluation).
  • Automated ETL and reporting workflows via Cron Jobs, Python scripting, and BigQuery, significantly accelerating visibility on business pulse.

Analyst, Sr Analyst

Cartesian Consulting
09.2018 - 03.2021
    • Developed churn prediction models (logistic regression, random forest) reducing customer attrition by 5% for a Premium-Apparel Brand in India.
    • Implemented forecasting solutions (ARIMA, Prophet) for retail demand, optimizing inventory management.
    • Performed Market Basket Analysis (Apriori algorithm) to optimize cross-sell opportunities, increasing incremental revenue per customer
    • Recommender Engine for in-store customer recommendation & campaign targeting

Education

B. Tech - Computer Engineering

KJ Somaiya College of Engineering
Mumbai
06.2018

Skills

  • Databases & Cloud: Python, R, SQL, BigQuery, Excel, dBt, AWS (S3, EC2, Redshift), GCP BigQuery, Docker, Cron Jobs, Airflow
  • ML Frameworks: Scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, PyTorch, spaCy, LangChain
  • Generative AI: GPT Model fine-tuning, Embeddings, Prompt Engineering
  • Analytics & Visualization: Tableau, Looker, Pendo, Fullstory
  • Experimentation & Statistics: A/B Testing, Hypothesis Testing, Bayesian Inference
  • Product Analytics & Growth Metrics: Funnel Analysis, Cohort Analysis, Retention & Churn Analysis, User Journey Mapping, North Star Metrics, Product Adoption Metrics, Behavioral Segmentation

Timeline

Senior Growth & Product Analyst ( L1, L2, L3)

HackerRank
07.2021 - Current

Data Scientist (Assistant Manager)

Angel One (Previously Angel Broking)
04.2021 - 09.2021

Analyst, Sr Analyst

Cartesian Consulting
09.2018 - 03.2021

B. Tech - Computer Engineering

KJ Somaiya College of Engineering

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