Goal-oriented product manager with a focus on developing and implementing successful strategies, driving profits, defining and tracking metrics, and improving customer experience. Offers a history of success built on product ownership and development through team collaboration and stakeholder management. Prepared to bring 5+ years of experience from multiple roles and to take on challenging position with opportunity to make lasting impact on company and customer success.
Overview
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Product Manager
Airpay Payment Services Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai, MH
11.2018 - Current
Managing the following the Products and Services
Wallets (Closed and Open)
Subscription Management
Inward Remittance
Kinara Banking Platform
Customer Rewards
Neo-Banking Platform
KYC and Compliance
Tap&Pay Solution
Split Settlement
Primary Responsibilities:
Developed product documentation to communicate and align key components of upcoming features/products to internal teams.
Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.
Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
Collaborated with sales, marketing and support teams to launch products on time and within budget.
Established KPI's for each milestone within the product roadmap to measure progress.
Conceptualized and deployed enhancements/features in line with the sales and marketing objectives.
Performance and Achievements:
Conceptualized and developed new subscription models, enhancements, and merchant controls which led to a 7X growth in merchant adoption of the service including various legacy Indian brands
Helped airpay's Kinara Banking Platform achieve a month-on-month growth rate of ~14% since launch through enhancements based on on-ground feedback and new feature deployment
Helped airpay's Kinara Banking Platform achieve a daily GTV equal to ~20% GTV of its legacy business within 6 months of launch
Redesigned and combined existing services, which had very low adoption, into new products which had better conversions and required minimal development resources
Defined the master KYC/AML policies for the company, in co-ordination with upper management, and developed the required back end for its implementation
Helped management in closing and maintaining key accounts and partnerships such as IRCTC and Oracle
Senior Business Development Manager
Skenzo – Media.Net
Mumbai, MH
05.2017 - 08.2018
Primary Responsibilities:
Develop relevant advertising & sales collaterals, and business proposals.
Proactively and strategically initiate contact with newly discovered potentials.
Negotiate commercials terms and close the deal.
Build reports to analyze data that help in consistently increasing revenue.
Strategize and co-ordinate marketing efforts.
Study client's existing technology/systems and advise them on the most appropriate processes, to ensure seamless integration of our solution.
Provide commercial, marketing and strategic support to clients.
Identification and segregation of potential Market Segments.
Create targeted pitch for each client segment.
Co-ordinate with overseas offices.
Create compelling proposals in response to incoming enquiries.
Conduct interactive demos through web conferences
Conduct training sessions for clients through web conferences
Performance and Achievements:
Achieved more than 200% Growth in Monthly Profits.
Formulated a content calendar for the year.
Introduced differentiated pricing and advertising strategy as per the content calendar to increase revenue.
Created campaign envelopes (with all necessary collaterals) for each client to facilitate easier conversions.
Convinced Low Yield Clients to transition to higher performing module thereby increasing revenue for us and efficiency for our clients.
Conducted fortnightly performance reviews with clients and relevant internal teams.
Implemented creation of client specific collaterals based on their feedback.
Team Up-skill and Job Rotation Program.
Advocated for and implemented a job rotation amongst Research Assistants, Campaign Mangers, and Business Development Specialist to help reduce monotony for each individual team member and increase awareness of time/skills required for roles within the department.
Held monthly feedback session with individual team members in order to understand their like/dislike for various aspects of their roles and helped them switch roles as per their skills and preferences based on the job rotation program.
Helped define KPI’s and assign a mentor for non/poorly performing members for the team.
Advertising Collateral – Efficiency and Implementation.
Streamlined collateral creation process and reduced the completion time from 9 days to 4 (average).
Integrated new technologies into the current workflow to increase accountability and transparency.
Coordinated with all relevant teams to create a shared workflow to remove major bottlenecks.
Executive- Content Sales/Publisher Relations
Zirca Digital Solutions
Mumbai, MH
11.2016 - 04.2017
Primary Responsibilities:
Generate and follow up on leads for Zirca’s Brand Strategy Division.
Co-ordinate with content creation and media planning team for each brief.
Pitch the resulting marketing strategy to client.
Engage publishers for sponsorship opportunities on behalf of clients.
Sign up publishers for Zirca’s in-house content tools and help with the onboarding process.
Manage key publisher accounts for Zirca’s in-house content tools
Performance and Achievements:
CIO community website for Vodafone Business Services.
Worked with VBS and their agency (Ogilvy) to understand their objectives for an online portal aimed at CIO’s/CXO’s.
Coordinated efforts between Ogilvy and Zirca’s content and design teams through various iterations of the proposal.
Negotiated with various external technology and video creation vendors to establish the cost of the portal.
Website Redesign for Veritas Human Capital Consulting.
Interviewed internal stakeholders in the clients organization in order to outline the different objectives of the website.
Researched websites of global and national competitor for best (content) practices and keyword analysis.
Manager of Publisher
Magzter Inc, Relations & Marketing Solutions
New York, NY
09.2015 - 06.2016
Primary Responsibilities:
Managed publisher relationships in all territories worldwide.
Engage new publishers in Magzter’s technology platform.
Engage existing publisher in Magzter’s marketing campaigns.
Performance and Achievements:
Redesigned all the back end processes and systems responsible for ‘new magazine issue’ procurements from publishers worldwide.
Led discussions with all internal teams to create a project timeline and was primarily responsible for the design and execution of project.
Automated communications with publishers and reduced issue procurement time by ~75%.
Reduced the workload on publisher support team - issue procurement team trimmed down from 5 to 2 personnel.
Created and analyzed a survey to learn about customer experience on Magzter's platform.
Implemented UI and UX changes based on survey data.
Helped publishers through the Onboarding process.
Creating a timeline for the onboarding of larger publishing houses (Time Inc. and Conde Nast).
Coordinating between technology, production, and marketing teams to ensure successful launch.
Provided International Sales Support by dovetailing Magzter’s global sales force on all key pitches.
Analyzing market penetration and brand awareness in different regions.
Oversaw deployment of e-mailer based marketing campaigns and progressively redesigned templates based on customer and publisher feedback.
Created sales pitch to increase publisher engagement in marketing activities.
Tracked and analyzed campaign performance in order to improve end-customer engagement and conversion.
Helped in user testing of our Android and iOS apps.
Involved in creation of Magzter’s new User Experience.
Assistant Project Lead
Miller & Cambridge India Private Limited
Mumbai, MH
06.2014 - 08.2014
Developed strategic plans and coordinated execution with all project stakeholders to ensure a successful transition from alpha phase to launch of the beta website.
Selected Project Experience:
Launch of GoalSketch.com Beta website.
Created a Project Charter for the launch.
Reviewed and Implemented final site designs.
Created a marketing plan.
Assessed performance of outsourced web designers.
Found and shortlisted payment gateways.
Collaborated with gateway providers and web designers to ensure successful on-time implementation.
Industry Research Intern
Tabit Media Private Limited
Mumbai, MH
06.2013 - 07.2013
Conducted research to find relevant websites to expand the existing marketing portfolios.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Management, Leadership, Marketing
Bentley University
Boston, MA
08.2011 - 05.2015
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Skills
Product Strategy
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Quote
“What I believe” is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and government, not for the human intellect.
Emma Goldman
Timeline
Assistant Product Manager
Airpay Payment Services Pvt. Ltd.
11.2018 - Current
Senior Business Development Manager
Skenzo – Media.Net
05.2017 - 08.2018
Executive- Content Sales/Publisher Relations
Zirca Digital Solutions
11.2016 - 04.2017
Manager of Publisher
Magzter Inc, Relations & Marketing Solutions
09.2015 - 06.2016
Assistant Project Lead
Miller & Cambridge India Private Limited
06.2014 - 08.2014
Industry Research Intern
Tabit Media Private Limited
06.2013 - 07.2013
Bachelor of Science - Management, Leadership, Marketing
Bentley University
08.2011 - 05.2015
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