Open to AI PM, Senior PM, Lead PM, and Group PM roles

I am a builder at heart. I love experimenting, creating new user experiences and staying close to new technologies.

A product builder shipping the AI-native systems powering personalization, lifecycle, and growth.

11 years of experience, 7 in product. Most recently at Skillz, leading engagement, monetization, LiveOps, and a 0-to-1 agentic AI tool for campaign automation. Previously at Games24x7, owning the experimentation engine, ML-driven communications, and personalization across all games.

11 Years of experience
7 Years in product management
10M+ Users impacted across products
17+ Shipped product initiatives
Companies Skillz Games24x7 Teach For India Tech Mahindra
Education ISB MBA Stanford Product Management
Games24x7 2023

App Redesign and Cohort-Configurable Lobby

Reimagined the app from the ground up, moving from a fixed landscape layout to a cohort-configurable architecture with an experimentation engine that ran parallel A/B tests without app releases.

GrowthPersonalizationExperimentationMobile
+9% New user retention
+3% ARPU (existing)
-82% App release dependency
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Skillz 2025

Loyalty Program Revamp

Reduced incentive cost from 45% of net gaming revenue by redesigning the loyalty program from upfront entitlement-based rewards to engagement-driven rewards, under a non-negotiable monthly launch deadline.

LoyaltyMonetizationEngagementLiveOps
-30% Incentive cost
+9% ARPU
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Games24x7 2022

Money Multiplier - Variable Reward Growth Framework

A first-of-its-kind variable reward mechanic in Indian rummy, inspired by Nir Eyal's Hooked Model. Shipped V1, learned the wrong behavior was being optimized, redesigned around a multi-lever ARPU framework.

GrowthMonetizationBehavioral Design
+15% ARPU (new users)
+4% ARPU (existing)
- Incentive cost reduced
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Skillz 2025

Agentic AI-Driven LiveOps Campaign Tool

Conceptualized and led the product vision for an agentic AI tool that automated the end-to-end LiveOps campaign lifecycle - briefing, content, targeting, scheduling, reporting - for the Marketing team across multiple titles.

AILiveOpsMarketing AutomationAgentic Systems
+50% Marketing efficiency
End-to-end Campaign automation
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Skillz 2025

Org-Wide AI-Enabled Product Workflows

Independently piloted, validated, and rolled out AI tools across the product organization for discovery, PRD authoring, and early design. No budget, no headcount, no formal mandate - led entirely outside formal responsibility.

AIOperational ExcellenceOwnership
+20% PM execution efficiency
$350 Per seat per year
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Games24x7 2023

Smart Communications - ML-Driven Personalization

Launched ML-driven personalization for notification timing as a two-way door decision while engagement was declining. Validated quickly, then expanded the framework to frequency, channel, and content.

Machine LearningPersonalizationCommunications
+30% Open rate
+20% Click-through rate
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Live web app 2025

WhatShouldIBuy - Consumer Decision Support

A consumer decision-support web app for high-stakes purchases (laptops, phones, TVs, ACs, mattresses, headphones). Built end-to-end from product spec to deployed live app. Designed to act as a decision assistant, not a product filter.

AIDecision SupportEnd-to-end build
Independent product audit 2026

Playsimple Cryptogram - Product Audit and 3-Quarter Roadmap

Ground-up audit of Playsimple Cryptogram - a 15-month-old casual word puzzle with 1.6M downloads and a 4.9-star iOS rating. 9 sections, 12 prioritized opportunities, full 3-quarter implementation plan. Prepared independently. Not assigned. Not guided.

Product AuditGamingStrategy

Who am I?

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I am a product builder with 11 years of experience, 7 in product. My obsession is figuring out why users behave the way they do, and shipping the systems that turn that understanding into growth - increasingly built on AI.

Most recently at Skillz (US-listed gaming company), I owned the full user lifecycle - engagement, loyalty, LiveOps, and lifecycle communications. I also identified an operational gap in marketing and built a 0-to-1 agentic AI tool that automated the entire campaign lifecycle (briefing, content, targeting, scheduling, reporting), cutting execution effort by 50%.

Before that, at Games24x7, I led the Growth Platform charter - the experimentation engine, ML-driven communications, personalization systems, and analytics infrastructure used across all games. The work I am most proud of is the app redesign: we rebuilt the architecture so the app could be configured differently for each user cohort in real time, with the experimentation engine running parallel A/B tests without app releases. Result: 9% higher new user retention and 3% ARPU uplift.

Before product

MBA at the Indian School of Business (ISB). Before that, business development for Tech Mahindra in Nigeria (BFSI domain, West Africa) and a Teach For India fellowship where I taught 60 kids using technology. That was my first real lesson in user behavior and engagement. I still mentor a few of those students. Some are in college now, which is a strange and wonderful thing to witness.

What I am drawn to now

Ambiguous problem spaces where the answer is not obvious, the data is incomplete, and strong product judgment is what separates a good outcome from a great one. Lately I am especially drawn to AI-native product surfaces - places where LLMs, agents, and ML change the unit economics of what a product team can ship and how fast a user experience can adapt.

Roots and pursuits

State-level chess champion and 4-time national-level player. Travelled internationally representing India in a school cultural exchange. From an ONGC family, I have lived across India from Gujarat to Assam, Andhra Pradesh to Uttarakhand. That and Nigeria taught me to read and adapt to different cultures quickly. Brown IV belt in Karate. 15+ countries, 5 continents.

Domain strengths

  • AI-Enabled Product Systems
  • Personalization and ML
  • Experimentation Platforms
  • Engagement and Lifecycle
  • Loyalty and Retention
  • Monetization

Industries

  • Gaming (India and US)
  • EdTech
  • BFSI (West Africa)

Education

  • ISB MBA, 2018-2019
  • Stanford Product Management Certificate, 2024
  • UPES B.Tech, 2009-2013

Currently exploring

  • Agentic AI in operational workflows
  • AI-native lifecycle and personalization
  • LLMs as a unit-economics lever
  • Behavioral economics in product design
Mar 2025 - Feb 2026

Senior Product Manager

Skillz

Led Engagement, Monetization, and LiveOps. Owned the full user lifecycle and shipped loyalty, lifecycle, and agentic AI tooling across the platform.

Jun 2019 - Feb 2025

Senior Product Manager

Games24x7

Led platform and growth product strategy for B2C apps with 10M+ users. Built the cohort-configurable app architecture, experimentation engine, and analytics platform used company-wide.

Jun 2016 - Apr 2018

Fellow and Fellow Advisor

Teach For India

Owned program strategy for 1,000+ students and 25+ Fellows. Designed Tarabati, a digital learning program with 65% uplift in student learning outcomes.

Jun 2013 - May 2016

Business Development Manager

Tech Mahindra

Led West Africa market entry for BFSI. Drove $100K annual revenue in a new market and improved enterprise reporting data quality from 5% to 95%.

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Want to talk?

I am currently exploring AI PM, Senior PM, Lead PM, and Group PM roles. If you are hiring, building something interesting, or just want to compare notes on product, I would be glad to hear from you.