Abhilash Biradar
Product Manager
Product Manager with 6 years of experience in building and scaling products. Passionate about creating user-centric solutions and driving product growth.
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Experience
Co-Founder
STAD
Nov 2022 - Mar 2024Bangalore
- Built a mobile application for over 5K esports players to discover gamers and tournaments.
- Cultivated a thriving Discord community, achieving a membership of 6k+ individuals, while concurrently expanding additional social media channels with a combined following of 16K+ followers.
- Collaborated with top esports teams in India, such as S8ul and GodLike, to live-stream tournaments on YouTube, achieving 265K+ impressions and gaining over 4K subscribers.
Product Manager (Data & Experience)
ZET
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022Bangalore
- Founding PM at ZET, Series A Fintech startup backed by General Catalyst, Nexus, Sequoia, and Waterbridge.
- Built a scalable ETL/data pipeline to store customer data points, with the goal of scaling the business and enabling future strategic initiatives.
- Led partnerships with multiple credit bureaus and FIPs to build a rule engine that helped ZET agents sell appropriate products to their customers, resulting in a 16% reduction in rejection rate and a 20% increase in agent activation rate.
- Enhanced user experience by redesigning the signup process into a phased approach, resulting in a 12% increase in the install-to-signup conversion rate
Associate Product Manager (Discovery)
Sharechat
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021Bangalore
- Leading product discovery for India's biggest vernacular social media with 160 Mn MAUS.
- Revamped the UI of the content discovery section based on user category consumption, which resulted in a 1% increase in overall app retention and a 3% increase in overall topics consumption.
- Built a new approval pipeline for trending topics, which resulted in a 50% increase in trends adoption (5% of DAU) and a 12% increase in trending section retention.
- Worked with external content partners to speed up content inflow and tweak the feed logic, which resulted in a 9% increase in time spent on trending topics.
- Documented the guidelines for A/B testing to ensure accurate experimentation across product verticals.
Data Scientist
Simpl
Sept 2018 - Feb 2020Bangalore
- Series B-funded BNPL(Buy Now, Pay Later) fintech startup.
- Analyzed growth prospects to ensure timely collection of dues, which secured 90% collection within the first week after the credit period.
- Deployed a naïve Bayes classifier to group text messages received by devices into categories such as Credit, debit, and loan.
Education
B.Tech Computer Science
B.V.B Engineering College
2014 - 2018Hubli
- Elected secretary for the computer science department.
- Completed a 1-year data science internship at Express Analytics, Working on a customer segmentation and clustering project.
Publications
Detecting Depression in Social Media Posts Using Machine Learning
2019Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series
Springer24 Citations
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