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Madhav Shankar

@madhavshankar

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AI product management leader building scalable GenAI SaaS and growth products for global startups.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m seeking Lead Product Manager, Senior Product Manager, Staff Product Manager, or Product Leadership roles within high-growth startups and global technology organizations—where I can drive GenAI-enabled product strategy, growth, and roadmap execution.

I’m a product management leader with over 10 years of experience building and scaling AI-powered B2B/B2C SaaS, marketplace, and consumer products. I drive product strategy, roadmap execution, growth initiatives, and data-driven adoption across enterprise SaaS and digital platforms, including Generative AI, LLM applications, RAG pipelines, semantic search, vector databases, and AI-driven automation workflows.

I’ve delivered measurable outcomes such as improving cancellation save rate to 50% (driving $2.1M ARR impact), growing subscription acquisition by 25% and revenue by 30% through AI-powered marketing automation, and scaling products from zero to 18,000+ users with ₹20L ARR. As a cross-functional leader, I align product, engineering, design, analytics, marketing, and operations to ship quickly, experiment relentlessly, and build products that customers truly retain.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Co-Founder

Current

WisOwl AI

Jun 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Architected and deployed an embedding-based semantic matching engine (FAISS, Supabase pgvector), improving candidate-to-job relevance by 3x and removing core LLM API dependency. Scaled to 5,000+ organic signups, secured 15+ recruiter partnerships, and led agentic AI workflows integrating Apollo.io, Apify, Vapi, WhatsApp, and N8N.

GenAI Product Management Semantic Search Vector Databases Faiss Pgvector Agentic AI API Integration N8n Playwright

Associate Director, Product

CaaStle

Jan 2025 - Apr 2025 (3 months)

Owned and executed product roadmap across Email/SMS/SEO/Paid Media, driving 30% revenue growth for Altuzarra and Elysewalker within 90 days. Launched AI-powered marketing automation (Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Klaviyo) and reduced campaign creation time by 40%, while leading an acquisition tech stack migration with zero business disruption.

Product Roadmapping Growth Strategy Marketing Automation Salesforce Marketing Cloud Klaviyo SEO Email Campaigns A B Testing

Senior Product Manager

CaaStle

Jan 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 11 months)

Drove 25% new subscription acquisition growth via feature launches, onboarding redesign, and hypothesis-driven A/B testing across web and mobile. Improved free trial-to-paid conversion by 20% through cohort-based experimentation and UX optimization, and accelerated marketing performance by 15% while reducing time-to-market by 30%.

Consumer Product Management A B Testing Cohort Analysis UX Optimization AI Content Generation

Product Manager, Consumer CX

CaaStle

Jul 2017 - Dec 2022 (5 years 5 months)

Optimized cancellation save rate to 50%, generating $2.1M ARR savings through retention flows, personalized win-back journeys, and voice-of-customer interventions. Recovered 21% of COVID cancellation-intent customers by shipping the MembershipPause feature in under 3 weeks and expanded mobile adoption to 75%, improving subscriber retention by 20%.

Customer Retention Win Back Journeys Mixpanel Google Analytics Funnel Optimization Voice Of Customer Lifecycle Marketing

Co-Founder & Head of Product

Medzin

Jul 2015 - Jun 2017 (1 year 11 months)

Scaled the healthtech discovery platform from 0 to 18,000+ users in 18 months, achieving ₹20L ARR through iterative MVP execution and mobile launches on iOS and Android. Secured $150K seed funding by articulating product vision, market opportunity, and GTM strategy and led cross-functional delivery across design, engineering, and operations.

Product Strategy MVP Execution IOS & Android Delivery User Growth Cross functional Leadership Product Analytics Mobile UX GTM Planning Agile Delivery

Product Adoption & Marketing

LimeTray

Mar 2015 - Jun 2015 (3 months)

Onboarded 70 restaurants onto the SaaS platform and achieved 100% quarterly target attainment ahead of schedule. Increased partner revenue by 15% using data-driven onboarding strategies and KPI-focused execution.

Product Adoption Partner Management Growth Marketing KPI Tracking Customer Success Data Driven Playbooks Funnel Optimization Stakeholder Management

Project Coordinator

Vibha / Vigyan Bharati

Nov 2013 - Nov 2014 (1 year)

Managed digital initiatives for Government of India science programs, including projects connected to initiatives launched by Late President APJ Abdul Kalam.

Project Coordination Program Delivery Stakeholder Management Cross functional Coordination Government Program Support