Mid-senior product roles
Pankaj Parasar
@pankajparasar
Seasoned product manager with startup success and 13 years of experience.
What I'm looking for
I am product lead with 13 years of experience in building consumer facing platforms that deliver business outcomes.
1. 0-1 and N experience: My products have built 2 unicorns - Emeritus, and upGrad. The products I created serve 250k users and do $60m revenue annually.
2. Collaborative solution-maker: I have built product teams from scratch 2 times, set processes for inter-team communication and collaboration, led agile development across geographically spread teams, successfully launched products improving average revenue per user by 2.5x while delivering profitable user growth with above 95% CSAT.
3. Extensive experience in CLM: I have studied customers up close, and built customer lifecycle management platform that serves 120k signups yearly. If you are building onboarding platforms, I can become a pivotal resource in helping you take the product to market fast.
Experience
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Associate Director Products (New Initiatives)
Emeritus
Dec 2021 - Jun 2023 (1 year 6 months)
Spearheaded cross-functional stakeholders & engineering team collaboration to design, refine, & manage product backlog for a CLM platform for universities with program, storefront, inquiry, profile, admission, payment, notification, & enrolment functionalities. Launched the phase 1 of the customer lifecycle platform based on microservices architecture serving 120k customers annually. Led a team of
Senior Product Manager
Simplilearn
Jun 2020 - May 2021 (11 months)
Led the design of program management module enabling bundling, contributing to 60% ARPU increase & $6.5M in value. Developed API-driven certificate automation, saving 6k manhours, and boosting 35% social sharing. Revamped product page design impacting a 50% increase in qualified leads.
Senior Product Manager
Emeritus
Oct 2018 - Jun 2020 (1 year 8 months)
Built a new enrolment engine enabling bundle ordering functionality & led the GTM, accomplished >$6M in annual value. Owned the user experience & engagement charter, integrated search, filter, blogs, videos features resulting 3.5x organic traffic. Led a cross functional POD to enable A/B testing of product page reducing page bounce by up to 11%. Steered the accessibility roadmap and scope of acces
Head of Growth
UpGrad Education
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018 (9 months)
Scaled the business from $1m to $3.5m quarterly run rate by building a seamless onboarding product flow for customers. Integrated screening test with instant score within the onboarding journey expanding top of the funnel by 10-11x. Created a scalable referral engine with OTP verification, driving a 25% share of total revenue through referrals. Implemented lead scoring, instant messaging & notific
Product Manager
UNext
May 2016 - Sep 2017 (1 year 4 months)
Owned end to end process of market research, user stories, wire-frames and GTM of a test prep platform with 9.5k+ users. Launched a market first product with revamped test interface & live classes feature, drove $1.1m revenue & 2x ARPU. Built a partner site automating the onboarding journey of channel partners, reducing onboarding time by two-thirds.
Product Manager
Sympli Delicious
Jun 2014 - Jun 2016 (2 years)
Drove competition and market research, product development, and go-to-market, realized > $500k revenue. Initiated and implemented storage and manufacturing processes on ERP reducing cost of goods by 30%.
Business Analyst
TATA Consultancy Services
Oct 2008 - Jul 2012 (3 years 9 months)
Conducted RCA of frequently occurring defect types, reduced 2% defect rates, and contributed to a 3%-point jump in CSAT. Gathered & analyzed user requirement, ensured 100% coverage through maintaining the requirement traceability matrix (TRM).
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