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Pankaj Parasar

@pankajparasar

Seasoned product manager with startup success and 13 years of experience.

India
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What I'm looking for

Mid-senior product roles

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

Emeritus logoEM

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

Emeritus logoEM

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

UpGrad Education logoUE

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

UN

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.

TS

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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