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Unmukt Raizada

Unmukt Raizada

Bengaluru

Summary

Visionary product leader and entrepreneur with a passion for transforming ideas into high-impact solutions. Unmukt thrives on rapid iteration and data-driven decision-making to drive aggressive, sustained growth. He has a proven track record of building and implementing product flywheels across diverse sectors, from early-stage startups to global enterprises. Committed to fostering cultures of innovation that push boundaries and redefine industry standards.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Co Founder, Product

Thena.ai
Bengaluru
06.2022 - Current

Leadership

- Co-founded AI-driven B2B SaaS startup backed by Lightspeed and First Round Capital.
- Scaled from $0 to $1.2M ARR (primarily US SaaS) in 14 months, acquiring 150+ customers including 6 US-listed companies.

- Navigated all aspects of early-stage startup growth: fundraising, organizational strategy, team building, and market positioning.
- Grew team from 1 to 20+, building out product, engineering, design, support and customer success functions.

Product Management

- Led product strategy and development of an AI-powered ticketing solution with integrations across CRM, Incident Management, and communication platforms.

- Established agile processes for user research, product development, feedback, and quality assurance
- Achieved 1200+ Weekly Active Users, demonstrating strong product-market fit
- Architected data platform using cutting-edge tech (DuckDB WASM, Duckdb, Clickhouse, dbt)
- Implemented LLMs, workflows, analytics dashboards and internal tooling to drive data-informed decisions, ease of support and proactive insights.

Lead, Applied AI and ML Products

JP Morgan Chase
Mumbai
03.2020 - 06.2022
  • Led 20-person team (product, AI engineering, backend) for Applied AI products in Research and FICC Securities
  • Implemented AI-driven regulatory adherence system, resulting in a 30% reduction in Severity 1 and 2 compliance breaches and a 2% increase in liquidity buffer through optimized trade settlements.

AVP Product

Airtel Digital Limited
Bangalore
07.2021 - 05.2022

Led product teams across Search, Discovery, Payments & Subscriptions, Analytics, Data Platform, and Growth for Airtel Wynk, Xstream OTT (120M MAU), and the data lake .

Key Responsibilities:
- Drove product strategy and implementation across multiple product verticals
- Managed cross-organizational collaborations with Instagram, artists, and content partners
- Led launch of Studio platform for content creators

Key Achievements:
- Improved net retention by 15% through ML-powered Discovery playlists.

- Reduced content partner costs by 20% using ML and customer journey mapping. Increased search-to-song play clickthroughs by 30%. Integrated search into user onboarding journey, enhancing user experience.

- Launched featured stories reaching 80M+ users during key events

Data Product and Chief Data Architect

Goldman Sachs
Bengaluru
07.2013 - 02.2020
  • Founding Member, Transaction Banking

    - Key player in 0-1-10 journey of one of Goldman Sachs' most successful products
    - Led data strategy aligned with firm-wide mandates, engaging directly with CXO group
    - Built and managed global team of data architects, engineers, product managers, and reporting experts
    - Developed data products, architecture standards, models, pipelines, and documentation
  • AI and Data Lead, Merchant Banking Divison (Realty)

- Developed suite of AI-driven products and reporting tool for 300+ team members across various functions:

  • Diligence automation.
  • Cash flow forecasting.
  • Warehouse simulations.
  • Data observability.
  • Agent integrations.

- Users: Traders, Sales desk, Asset Managers, Operations Managers, and Vendors.

  • Product Manager, Ops Strats
  • Developed self-service BI tool and data platform architecture, precursor to the open-source Legend project.
  • Achieved 50% DAU (2000 out of 4000 Operations users)
  • Enabled near real-time risk identification and 30-minute quant model creation.
  • Critical during global events: Crimea crisis, Debt Ceiling debates.
  • Tool: http://surl.li/nkvxlh

Analyst Programmer

Wipro Technologies
Bengaluru
02.2010 - 06.2013
  • Built an onboarding product for UBS that was used to onboard every one of UBS's customers.
  • All associated metadata was made available to UBS's warehouse, and relevant analytics associated with Account Opening, Servicing, and opportunity creation were managed by the product.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Telecommunication

M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Bengaluru
05-2019

Skills

  • Entrepreneurial Leadership
  • AI Product Innovation
  • Product Strategy and Vision
  • Data-Driven Decision Making
  • Cross-Functional Team Building

Timeline

Co Founder, Product

Thena.ai
06.2022 - Current

AVP Product

Airtel Digital Limited
07.2021 - 05.2022

Lead, Applied AI and ML Products

JP Morgan Chase
03.2020 - 06.2022

Data Product and Chief Data Architect

Goldman Sachs
07.2013 - 02.2020

Analyst Programmer

Wipro Technologies
02.2010 - 06.2013

Bachelor of Engineering - Telecommunication

M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Unmukt Raizada