# Robin S M Robin S M is a remote worker on Himalayas, Principal Product Manager at Xebia, based in India. Source: https://himalayas.app/@robinsm ```text Product leader at Yara who scaled Farmcare to 1M users in 6 months and drove €14M in attributed sales. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Looking for a job | | Location | India | | Authorized to work in | India | | Salary expectations | 50k+ EUR | | Job categories | Product Manager, Principal Product Manager, Group Product Manager, Director of Product | | Skills | Product Strategy, Product Roadmapping, 0→1 Product Discovery, PRDs, Story Mapping, Backlog Refinement, Prioritization, Go To Market, Funnel Analysis, Cohort Analysis, A B Testing, Heatmaps, Session Replay, User Interviews, Usability Testing | ## What I'm looking for ```text I’m targeting Principal PM, Group PM, and Director of Product roles owning consumer or platform bets at scale. ``` ## About ```text At Yara International, I scaled Farmcare from prototype to 1M users in 6 months, building agronomic advisory, commodity pricing, and pest detection for first-time smartphone farmers. I tied in-app advisory to Yara’s fertiliser retail network across 3 countries, driving €14M in attributed sales in 2023. At Bayer, I launched FarmRise from prototype to 2M+ users, validating product-market fit with 200 farmers before full engineering investment. Across agritech, proptech, banking, and marketplace products, I’ve owned mobile-first products end to end, including Live Aldar’s digital property workflows and McKinsey’s B2B price optimisation platform. ``` ## Experience ### Principal Product Manager [Xebia](https://himalayas.app/companies/xebia). Sep 2025 - Aug 2026 ```text Lifted SLA compliance by 12% on McKinsey's B2B price optimisation platform by converting recurring ticket themes into roadmap items. Owned intake-to-resolution workflow for 400+ monthly tickets, ensuring P0 and P1 resolution within 12-24 hours. ``` Skills: Product-Management, Roadmapping, SLA-Management, Stakeholder-Management, Jira ### Senior Product Manager dbiz.ai. Jun 2024 - Jul 2025 ```text Grew buyer-facing digital adoption 13% by launching Live Aldar, replacing 4 manual property workflows. Migrated amenity and class bookings to in-app across UAE, reaching 40K+ bookings and a 65% self-serve share. ``` Skills: Product-Management, Digital-Adoption, Loyalty-Programs, Story-Mapping, Release-planning, Agile ### Senior Product Manager [Yara International](https://himalayas.app/companies/yara-international). Mar 2020 - Mar 2024 ```text Scaled Farmcare from 0 to 1M users in 6 months in India, building agronomic advisory, commodity pricing, and pest detection from scratch. Tied in-app advisory to Yara's fertiliser retail network across 3 countries, driving $14M in attributed sales in 2023. ``` Skills: Product-Management, Mobile-Apps, AgriTech, Agronomic-Advisory-Services, Pest-Detection, Bluetooth, User-Adoption ### Product Manager Maveric Systems. Jul 2019 - Feb 2020 ```text Lifted digital adoption 22% in H2 2019 by rebuilding login, overview, and statement journeys for 3 Middle East banks. Ran usability testing with 40+ retail banking customers, cutting statement-download abandonment by 29%. ``` Skills: Product-Management, Digital-Banking, Usability-Testing, User-Research, Journey-Mapping ### Senior Product Manager BuildDirect Technologies. Dec 2018 - Jul 2019 ```text Grew mobile marketplace MAU 12% in 2 quarters by reworking search, product discovery, and listing quality. Used heatmap and session-replay analysis to fix 5 friction points, lifting listing-to-enquiry conversion from 2.8% to 3.7%. ``` Skills: Product-Management, Marketplace, Mobile, Funnel-Analysis, Heatmaps, Session-Replay, Conversion-Rate-Optimization ### Product Owner [Bayer](https://himalayas.app/companies/bayer). Jul 2015 - Oct 2018 ```text Launched FarmRise from prototype to 2M+ users, validating product-market fit with 200 farmers. Held a 4.2 Play Store rating from 2016 to 2018 across 2M installs by running a monthly review-triage loop. ``` Skills: Product-Management, AgriTech, Mobile, PRD文档撰写, Story-Mapping, User-Research, Release-planning ### Senior Product Owner Prowareness. Oct 2014 - Jun 2015 ```text Redesigned 12 high-traffic pages across Raet's employee self-service workflow with 5 enterprise stakeholders, lifting satisfaction from 3.2 to 4.1 in 8 months. ``` Skills: Product-Management, Enterprise-Software, Stakeholder-Management, UX-Design ### Senior Product Owner [Tesco](https://himalayas.app/companies/tesco). Jun 2013 - Oct 2014 ```text Lifted support satisfaction from 3.3 to 3.9 by consolidating customer and order information into a single agent workspace, cutting average handling time 24%. ``` Skills: Product-Management, Customer-Support, Workflow-Optimization, Data-Consolidation ### Product Analyst, Marketing Analytics [IBM](https://himalayas.app/companies/ibm-com). Sep 2011 - Apr 2013 ```text Built marketing spend forecasting models across 6 geographies at 97% accuracy, redirecting budget toward the 3 highest-yield regions. ``` Skills: Marketing-Analytics, Forecasting, Budget-allocation, Data-Analysis ### Web Analyst [Tesco](https://himalayas.app/companies/tesco). Sep 2008 - Aug 2011 ```text Improved on-time web release delivery from 89% to 100% across Grocery, Wine, and Entertainment via a pre-launch QA checklist. ``` Skills: Web-Analytics, QA, Release-Management, Ecommerce ## Education ### MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology MBA, Marketing ```text MBA in Marketing from MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, completed in 2008. ``` ### MG University B.Com, Commerce ```text Bachelor of Commerce from MG University, Kochi, completed in 2006. ``` ## Tech stack - Box - Figma - Jira - Confluence - Trello - Drupal - Miro - Balsamiq - MURAL To contact Robin, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Shivank Srivastava](https://himalayas.app/@shivanksrivastava): Senior Product Manager, SaaS, Plantix - [Bhoopendra Kumar](https://himalayas.app/@bhoopendrakumar): Cofounder, CPO, DOCO - [Ajil Mammen](https://himalayas.app/@ajilmammen): Associate Director, Mindsprint (Olam Group) - [Akshay Khanna](https://himalayas.app/@akshayekhanna): Product Manager, AgriChain - [Shreedhar G](https://himalayas.app/@shreedharg): Senior Product Manager, VectorStack - [Akshay Soliwal](https://himalayas.app/@akshaysoliwal): Senior Product Manager, Publicis Re:Sources - [Ishita Datta](https://himalayas.app/@ishitadatta): Steering Committee Member, Women in Tech UAE - [Anirudh Rao](https://himalayas.app/@anirudhrao): Product / Platform Leadership, Lenskart Solutions Ltd. - [Lavisha KL](https://himalayas.app/@lavishakl): Senior Product Manager, Bazaarvoice - [divya manrai](https://himalayas.app/@divyamanrai): Product & Growth, Comify