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Abhinav T Thakur

@abhinavtthakur

I lead F2P game products that grow monetization, retention, LiveOps, and long-term player value.

India
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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead product strategy and execution for consumer or F2P game products, building LiveOps, monetization, retention, and player-value systems with cross-functional teams.

At Carry1st, I own product vision, strategy, and commercial performance for Mergedom, a mature F2P title. I increased ARPDAU 2.5X through systems-driven LiveOps, player-forward monetization, economy improvements, and a D2C webshop that reached 18% of IAP revenue.

Previously at MPL and Gameskraft, I led retention, monetization, economy, and LiveOps roadmaps for competitive social casino and poker products reaching up to ~1M cumulative DAU and ~120K DAU. I build progression, rewards, experimentation, and social systems that improve player engagement while protecting long-term value and competitive fairness.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Carry1st logoCA
Current

Product Lead

Nov 2023 - Present (2 years 10 months)

Owned the Product Vision and strategy and top line commercial performance of a mature F2P title, Mergedom, balancing monetization, retention, and player experience.

-Owned product strategy and roadmap with focus on LiveOps and monetizatoin for a mature F2P title in the merge-2 category, driving long-term growth across retention, monetization and engagement
-Defined problem space, product & Liveo

Mobile Premier League (MPL) logoMM

Product Manager

Mobile Premier League (MPL)

Oct 2022 - Oct 2023 (1 year)

Owned retention, LiveOps, and monetization roadmap for a portfolio of competitive PvP social casino games. Drove whale ARPPU up by 21% and improved retention through targeted interventions.

Mobile Premier League (MPL) logoMM

Product

Oct 2022 - Oct 2023 (1 year)

Owned the retention, LiveOps and monetization roadmap across a portfolio of competitive PvP social casino games reaching ~1M cumulative DAU

- Strategised and designed Liveops Features/events across progression systems, compeititve events and mission systems incducing higher long term retention and increased spend depth with greater core loop engagement.
-Owned competitive LiveOps strategy across

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Growth Product Manager

Aug 2020 - May 2022 (1 year 9 months)

Founding PM for the Poker vertical, owning Liveops, retention, economy and monetization effecting an eventual DAU of ~120K

- Built and scaled an integrated non -core loop LiveOps ecosystem —spanning missions, tournaments, social competition,economy events, personalized offers, VIP progression and thematic campaigns—driving higher active days, Wage depth, depostis per day, payer conversion and lon

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Product Manager

Jul 2019 - Aug 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Managed product initiatives at a leading online lending marketplace, focusing on user experience and growth.

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Product Specialist

May 2018 - Jun 2019 (1 year 1 month)

Supported product management and development in the energy management sector.

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Product Manager

Jun 2017 - Mar 2018 (9 months)

 CLI Manager – Roaming

1. Driving top line through extraction from Out Roamer Customer base in UP East Circle
2. Responsible for maintaining and enhancing revenue from a high value customer base
3. Analyzing & Evaluating KPIs like ARPU, recharging pattern to understand customer behavior and implement segmented offerings
4. Growing business through revenue maximization programs aided by analy

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Management Trainee - Product

Jan 2017 - May 2017 (4 months)

Revenue Generating Subscriber (RGS) Base Management
1. Bolstered Winbacks (Revival of >30 days dormant base) and reduced Churn for Non-RGS
Base
2. Ideated, Planned and executed Reactive churn management campaign via segmented offers
seeding to Winback decay base
3. Oversaw and successfully implemented proactive churn reduction campaign via Days of
silence segmentation and subsequent seeding

 Foc

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Summer Intern - Human Resources

Apr 2015 - Jun 2015 (2 months)

1. Attrition analysis : Analyse and subsequently enumerate factors responsible for employee
exits in the past quarter
2. Conducted upwards of 150 exit interviews to try and understand the most vexed issues for
ex-employees
3. Factor analysis through SPSS for factor reduction
4. A demographically relevant determination of factors responsible for voluntary exits was
done

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Intern

Apr 2015 - Jun 2015 (2 months)

Planning and implementing the digital strategy
ó Ensuring digital marketing activity runs in conjunction with milestones in the strategy
ó Maximizing social media and monitoring competitors social media activity
ó Manage digital agency / Client relationships, day-to- day coordination and execution
ó Creation and maintenance of recurring performance reports and dashboards
ó Implement and manage onl

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

LM

Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management

Business Administration and Management, General

2014 - 2016

Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management logoLM

Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management

Master of Business Administration, General

2014 - 2016

Studied Business Administration and Management with a general focus.

JT

Jaypee University of Information Technology

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology

2010 - 2014

- Co Created for of its kind Military Simulator on Unity 3D which was later published as a research paper for a leading journal

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Jaypee University of Information Technology

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology

2010 - 2014

Pursued a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology. Co-created a military simulator on Unity 3D, later published as a research paper.

DP

Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram

High School Diploma, Science

2004 - 2010

Completed secondary education with a focus on Science.

DP

Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram

Science

2004 - 2010

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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