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Tejas Gawas

@tejasgawas

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Product Manager turning 4+ years of P&L sales into end-to-end AI product development, from discovery to production.

United Kingdom

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for fintech and AI product roles where I can own KPIs, drive customer discovery, and ship reliable LLM/RAG features end-to-end with cross-functional execution.

I’m a Product Manager transitioning from 4+ years of B2B sales and P&L ownership into AI product management—with real receipts. I’ve shipped 5 AI products end-to-end, spanning multi-agent systems, RAG, and LLM recommendation engines, from problem discovery through production on Render/Vercel.

I bring the sales fundamentals most portfolios miss: customer discovery across 500+ client conversations, funnel and metrics thinking, and cross-functional execution. Through the NextLeap PM Fellowship, I’ve reinforced my PM toolkit with MVP strategy, KPI trees, RICE/JTBD, and GTM prioritization.

On the build side, I’ve delivered robust systems like a multi-agent trip planner with schema-constrained generation and self-correcting validation loops, a facts-only HDFC mutual fund RAG assistant with compliance-safe query refusal, and an LLM-powered restaurant recommendation engine with a rule-based fallback. I also create product strategy through AI-supported discovery work—like my Spotify context-aware discovery case study and prototype.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Sales & Operations Manager

Udderlicious, Ltd.

Jan 2023 - Jan 2026 (3 years)

Owned day-to-day P&L across multiple product lines, including pricing, margins, and demand forecasting, while leading a team of 20. Managed key commercial accounts and forecasted inventory with supply chain teams to reduce stock-outs and over-ordering, contributing to £10M+ annual revenue.

P L Ownership Pricing Margin Demand Forecasting Inventory Forecasting Account Management Revenue Management Team Leadership Supply Chain Coordination

Business Development Associate

SH Financial Services

Sep 2021 - Jan 2023 (1 year 4 months)

Managed a team of 5 to develop cross-regional sales strategy for the EMEA region, driving 30% growth in qualified opportunities. Generated 200+ leads and 52 client signings (over £20M in total contracts) by prospecting C-level executives via cold calling, email, and LinkedIn outreach, booking 120+ meetings and increasing leads by 100%.

Sales Strategy B2B Lead Generation Opportunity Qualification Cold Calling Email Campaigns Appointment Setting Team Management

NextLeap PM Fellowship Fellow

NextLeap

Jan 2026 - Present (6 months)

Completed structured PM training covering MVP strategy, wireframing, KPI trees, RICE/JTBD frameworks, and GTM prioritization, culminating in the ChatGPT Voice adaptation and Spotify graduation case studies.

Wireframing JTBD Case Studies

Autonomous Review Intelligence Agent

Groww

Built an autonomous AI agent that converts Groww app store and play store reviews (up to 500 per run) into a weekly one-page insight pulse delivered to Google Docs and Gmail drafts via MCP servers. Automated an 8-phase pipeline on a weekly GitHub Actions schedule and implemented a FastAPI + Next.js insights dashboard with PII scrubbing and Groq theme analysis.

AI Agents MCP GROQ GitHub Actions fastAPI Next.js PII Scrubbing

Restaurant Recommendation Engine

BiteWise AI

Built a full-stack AI restaurant recommendation engine that filters 50,000+ restaurants across 5 preference dimensions and uses GPT-4o-mini to rank and explain top matches. Implemented a multi-phase product pipeline with a rule-based fallback ranker and deduplication to return 5 unique results per query.

fastAPI Pandas Fallbacks Deduplication

Right Music, Wrong Moment

Spotify

Identified a context-blindness gap in Spotify discovery by mining 1,799 reviews across 4 sources through a multi-phase AI analysis pipeline and validating findings with a 32-respondent survey. Authored a PRD and case study deck with RICE-prioritized solutions and a phased roadmap, and built an MVP prototype with context-aware discovery mechanics using Express + React.

Product Strategy PRD文档撰写 JTBD Python NLP Pipeline Express React OpenAI Roadmapping

HDFC Mutual Fund FAQ Assistant

HDFC Mutual Fund

Built a facts-only RAG chatbot across 5 HDFC mutual fund schemes, grounding answers in a content-hash-verified corpus indexed with OpenAI embeddings and generated via a Groq LLM. Implemented a compliance-safe query classification layer that refused 5 unsafe query categories and deployed a tested pipeline on Render + Vercel.

RAG Embeddings GROQ fastAPI Vercel Deployment