NIHAR AGRAWAL
Senior Product Manager
Hyderabad
Work Preference
Summary
Senior Product Manager with 9+ years of experience building and scaling data platforms and AI-driven SaaS products. Owned product strategy and execution end-to-end—from PRDs and roadmap definition to Agile delivery and experimentation. Led 0→1 and 1→N analytics platforms adopted by ~800 enterprise customers, scaling to $10M+ ARR. Strong expertise in applied AI for executive decision-making and reducing data-to-insight time.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Product Manager, Analytics & AI Division
Darwinbox
HYDERABAD
02.2022 - 12.2025
- Built and scaled a global analytics platform (0→1) adopted by ~800 enterprise customers across India, SEA, MENA, and the US, scaling to $10M+ ARR.
- Owned PRDs, roadmap prioritization, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and releases in close partnership with engineering, design, and data teams.
- Defined OKRs, north-star metrics, and KPIs to guide prioritization and measure adoption, engagement, and reliability.
- Drove >65% module attach rate with strong C-suite and leadership adoption through experimentation, funnel analysis, and iterative rollouts.
- Partnered on APIs, data pipelines, access control, and data governance to ensure scalability and multi-country compliance.
- Led end-to-end product development of an AI-powered Analytics Assistant for senior leaders, enabling natural-language queries and insight explanations, reducing data-to-insight turnaround time by 40%+.
- Delivered additional AI-driven tools (Analytics Methodology Assistant, Leave Policy Settings Translator, Roadmap Priority Generator) to improve self-serve decision-making.
Manager, Data Analytics & ML Solutions
Merilytics
HYDERABAD
03.2017 - 02.2022
- Owned analytics and ML solutions for enterprise clients across logistics, e-commerce, and retail.
- Delivered ML-driven route optimization achieving ~8% transportation cost reduction.
- Built recommendation and inventory optimization systems reducing costs by up to 60%.
Trainee Market Analyst
Futures First
HYDERABAD
06.2016 - 01.2017
- Traded energy futures with focus on risk management, market analysis, and decision-making under uncertainty.
Education
B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee
Roorkee06.2016
Skills
Product lifecycle management
Accomplishments
- Built and scaled an enterprise analytics platform driving $10M+ ARR, achieving high attach rates across large enterprise customers and becoming a core decision-making tool for leadership teams.
- Launched AI-powered conversational analytics for executives, reaching 70%+ monthly active usage among leadership users and materially improving consumption of business metrics.
- Designed an internal AI agent aggregating signals from Jira, Gainsight, HubSpot, and product usage data, reducing quarterly roadmap planning effort by ~33% through automated synthesis of insights.
- Led AI-assisted workflow automation for complex policy configuration, reducing new customer onboarding time by ~40% while supporting multi-country enterprise requirements.
- Drove critical platform-level prioritization decisions at scale, balancing growth and quality to protect enterprise adoption and enable sustained expansion after multiple years of rapid product growth.
- CAT 2016- 99.98 percentile
Timeline
Senior Product Manager, Analytics & AI Division
Darwinbox
02.2022 - 12.2025
Manager, Data Analytics & ML Solutions
Merilytics
03.2017 - 02.2022
Trainee Market Analyst
Futures First
06.2016 - 01.2017
B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee