# Aadhar Agarwal Aadhar Agarwal is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Product Manager at Samsung Research, based in India. Source: https://himalayas.app/@aadhar-build ```text Senior Product Manager at Samsung Research who grew Finance+ GMV by $500M with AI-powered fintech products. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Looking for a job | | Location | India | | Authorized to work in | India, Germany, Austria | | Salary expectations | 7034k-7500k INR | | Job categories | Product Manager, Product Lead, Product Manager | | Skills | Product Strategy, Product Management, Product Roadmapping, Generative AI, Agentic AI, Responsible AI, LLM Evaluation, RAG Systems, Machine Learning, Personalization, Recommendation Systems, Customer Data Platforms, Fintech, SaaS, API Contracts | | Website | https://aadhar.build | | LinkedIn | https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/aadharagarwal/ | | GitHub | https://https://github.com/aadhar-build | ## What I'm looking for ```text Seeking senior product management or product lead roles in AI/GenAI, fintech, and customer intelligence. Interested in shaping product strategy and roadmaps for customer-focused products with measurable business impact, preferably with remote teams. ``` ## About ```text At Samsung Research, I grew Samsung Finance+ GMV by $500M by expanding the platform into new markets and introducing personalized offers. I also championed a three-year strategy for $4B in incremental GMV and helped move the platform toward agentic AI. I led product work on Samsung GenAI Search & Discovery, where LLM-powered query decomposition increased search adoption by 80%. At Airtel, I brought billing, usage, and service data into a unified customer profile, helping cut costs by 5% and lift CSAT by 10%. At Brevo, I led the Customer Data Platform Tribe as it evolved into an enterprise customer intelligence layer, contributing to a 15%+ revenue lift. Earlier, I pioneered an omnichannel personalization platform at Knowlarity (now Gupshup.io) & Swym, growing the merchant base by 60%. ``` ## Experience ### Senior Product Manager [Samsung Research](https://himalayas.app/companies/samsung-electronics). Feb 2024 - Jul 2026 ```text Led the Platform tribe to diversify Samsung Finance+ into a global AI-powered fintech platform, launching in 18+ countries and increasing GMV by $500M (+50%). Championed a 3-year product strategy and spearheaded the transition to an agentic AI platform. ``` Skills: Product-Management, AI, Fintech, Platform-Strategy, Agentic-AI, APIs, Data-Science, UX, Stakeholder-Management, GMV-Growth, Responsible-AI, Governance ### Senior Product Manager Airtel. Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 ```text Led the Customer Service Tribe to unify billing, usage, and service silos into a single customer profile, cutting costs by 5% ($3.5M) and lifting CSAT by 10%. Saved $1.5M in annual service costs with LLM-based use cases and increased ARPU by 5% and retention by 4%. ``` Skills: Product-Management, Customer-Service, LLM, IVR, CSAT, ARPU, Retention, Cost-Reduction, Data-Science, Personalization ### Lead Product Manager [Brevo](https://himalayas.app/companies/brevo). Nov 2019 - Nov 2021 ```text Led the Customer Data Platform Tribe of 3 squads and 25 engineers, moving the platform from an SMB tool to an enterprise-grade customer intelligence layer, leading to a 15%+ revenue lift ($10M ARR). Boosted user activation by 50% ($5M) and increased conversion by 20% ($4M) in 3 months. ``` Skills: Product-Management, Customer-Data-Platforms, Segmentation, A-B-Testing, Experimentation, Revenue-Growth, User-Activation, Conversion-Rate-Optimization, SaaS ### Product Manager Swym. Sep 2017 - Oct 2019 ```text As the startup's first PM, pioneered an omni-channel hyper-personalization platform surfacing product discovery without an explicit query, growing the merchant base 60% (6K merchants, $500K ARR). ``` Skills: Product-Management, Omnichannel, Hyper-Personalization, Product-Discovery, Merchant-Growth, ARR ### Product Manager Knowlarity. Sep 2017 - Oct 2019 ```text As the startup's first PM, pioneered an omni-channel hyper-personalization platform surfacing product discovery without an explicit query, growing the merchant base 60% (6K merchants, $500K ARR). ``` Skills: Product-Management, Omnichannel, Hyper-Personalization, Product-Discovery, Merchant-Growth, ARR ### Product Sales Manager Linkedin. Jan 2014 - Dec 2017 ```text Managed product sales for LinkedIn, driving revenue growth and client relationships. ``` Skills: Product-Sales, Client-Relationships, Revenue-Growth ### Product Sales Manager [TE Connectivity](https://himalayas.app/companies/te-connectivity). Jan 2014 - Dec 2017 ```text Managed product sales for TE Connectivity, driving revenue growth and client relationships. ``` Skills: Product-Sales, Client-Relationships, Revenue-Growth ### Senior Developer [Infosys Ltd.](https://himalayas.app/companies/infosys-limited). Jan 2009 - Dec 2012 ```text Developed software solutions as a senior developer, contributing to project delivery and technical excellence. ``` Skills: Software-Development, Technical-Excellence, Project-Delivery ## Education ### Reforge Product Strategy, Product Strategy. 2023 - 2023 ```text Completed Product Strategy certification from Reforge in June 2023. ``` ### Reforge GenAI Product Strategy, Product Strategy. 2023 - 2023 ```text Completed GenAI Product Strategy certification from Reforge in October 2023. ``` ### Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) MBA, Marketing and Strategy. 2012 - 2014 ```text MBA in Marketing and Strategy from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune, from 2012 to 2014. ``` ### Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT) B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering. 2005 - 2009 ```text B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, from 2005 to 2009. ``` ## Tech stack - Google Tag Manager - Snowflake - Looker - Node.js - Google Analytics - Mixpanel - Figma - Jira - React - JavaScript - Python - Amplitude - Notion - SQL - Cursor - N8N - Braintrust - Claude Code To contact Aadhar, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Harika Kante](https://himalayas.app/@harikakante): Product Manager II, Walmart - [Hariharan Baskar](https://himalayas.app/@h-ari): Senior Product Manager, Greylabs AI - [Manish Mishra](https://himalayas.app/@manishmishra4): Senior Product Consultant, India Accelerator - [Suraj M S](https://himalayas.app/@surajms1): Lead Product Manager, Jio Platforms - [Nandini Vinay](https://himalayas.app/@nandinivinay): Senior Product Manager, Cognizant Technologies Pvt Ltd - [George Ashok](https://himalayas.app/@georgeashok): Product Manager, Samsung Research - [Pranjil Chaturvedi](https://himalayas.app/@pranjilchaturvedi): Product Manager, Avua UK - [Akshay Soliwal](https://himalayas.app/@akshaysoliwal): Senior Product Manager, Publicis Re:Sources - [Shubhankar Gautam](https://himalayas.app/@shubhankargautam): Product Lead, Merchant Onboarding & Digital Journeys, BillDesk - [pranav mishra](https://himalayas.app/@pranavmishra3): Senior Product Manager, Samsung R&D Institute India