Abdul Khan

Product Manager • New Delhi, DL, IN

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Senior Product Manager with experience in multinational corporations and startups, across diverse industries & domains including B2C & B2B products.

Senior Product Manager with 10+ years experience in leading the end-to-end product development lifecycle across B2B & B2C products. Experience working in diverse domains (media-tech, fintech, edu-tech, e-commerce and food-tech) for for major conglomerates including Newscorp, Times Internet, and Hindustan Times as well as startups. Co-founding team member in two startups. Successful fund raising $3,50,000 from 15 investors for my own startup.

Projects

Subscription Revamp for VCCircle

Check the portfolio for details - https://sites.google.com/view/abdulmajidkhan/vccircle

Eat Treat (startup)

Please check the portfolio for details - https://sites.google.com/view/abdulmajidkhan/eattreat

Job alert from TimesJobs

For details please check the portfolio - https://sites.google.com/view/abdulmajidkhan/tj

Work History

Senior Product Manager

Mosaic Digital (Hindustan Times Group Company)About the organization: Mosaic Digital is a digital products company catering to the growing needs of investors, entrepreneurs, enterprise and emerging tech companies, startups, and more. It provides advanced research and insights coupled with a credible journalism and innovative brand solutions which moves markets, helps our partners and users to make informed critical decisions and powers top companies and careers. In 2020 Mosaic Digital was acquired by the Hindustan Times Group. About the product(s): VCCEdge (B2B, Fintech) - Vccedge.com is a leading capital market deals, directories, and financials data repository which helps facilitate the investment ecosystem in India. An online subscription-based service, VCCEdge allows users to track detailed information on LPs, IPOs, M&As, venture and listed debt, PE/VC, angel/seed funds and their deals and transactions. VCCircle (B2C, media) - VCCircle.com is the pre-eminent source of news, information, data, and analysis on alternative investments in India. The platform covers deals, exits, M&As, investors, investments, entrepreneurship, management, and strategy. It was the first website in India to have launched a premium subscription model. Some Achievements: • Successfully introduced VCCEdge Pro, a new subscription product with financial dashboards, resulting in a 25% increase in new clients and a 60% upgrade rate among existing clients. • Revamped the subscription process for the VCCircle website, leading to a 60% increase in revenue and a 35% reduction in churn rate. • Introduced cross-product features between VCCEdge and VCCircle, resulting in a 5% increase in common subscribers across both platforms. • Launched EdgeInsights and SalesEdge products as spin-offs of VCCEdge, contributing 10% to the overall revenue. • Supervising a group of four product managers, overseeing their responsibilities divided between the front-end and CMS areas of our respective websites.

Senior Product Manager

Mosaic Digital (NewsCorp Group Company)Oct 2017 - Nov 2020 • 3 yrs 2 mosAbout the organization: Mosaic Digital is a digital products company catering to the growing needs of investors, entrepreneurs, enterprise and emerging tech companies, startups, and more. It provides advanced research and insights coupled with a credible journalism and innovative brand solutions which moves markets, helps the partners and users to make informed critical decisions and powers top companies and careers. In 2015 Mosaic Digital was acquired by Newscorp (world's biggest media organization). About the product(s): VCCEdge (B2B, Fintech) - VCCEdge is a leading capital market deals, directories, and financials data repository which helps facilitate the investment ecosystem in India. An online subscription-based service, VCCEdge allows users to track detailed information on LPs, IPOs, M&As, venture and listed debt, PE/VC, angel/seed funds and their deals and transactions. It enables investors and advisors to make informed decisions, manage risk, and achieve market-beating return. VCCircle (B2C, media) - VCCircle.com is the pre-eminent source of news, information, data, and analysis on alternative investments in India. The platform covers deals, exits, M&As, investors, investments, entrepreneurship, management, and strategy. It is the first news website in India to have launched a premium subscription model. Products: VCCEdge - https://www.vccedge.com/index.php VCCircle - https://www.vccircle.com/ Some Achievements: • Developed new product features and revenue streams for VCCEdge by implementing the roadmap, resulting in a 3X increase in client base and a 45% reduction in churn rate. • Collaborated with the editorial team for VCCircle, addressing alliances, SEO, UX, and more, leading to a significant benefit across the key metrics. • Launched TechCircle.com website as a spinoff from VCCircle along with separate mobile apps for VCCircle and TechCirle, contributing to a combined 30% increase in pageviews and new users.

Product Head

Technoxom Pvt. LtdDec 2015 - Jul 2017 • 1 yr 8 mosAbout the organization: Technoxom was a well-funded startup conceptualized and funded by the Paramount Group (renowned real estate developers). The startup strived to provide innovative web based products through which it intended to solve the problems in the Infrastructure sector in India. About the product(s): Infraprix was a B2B e-commerce marketplace for bulk buying of building materials and interiors at the best price. It was a technology platform that provided the best deal to the buyer (real estate developers, infrastructure companies etc). It was the first platform in the infrastructure industry in India that introduced real time bidding by the manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, retailers for selling bulk construction material. Product(s): Infraprix (B2B, Infrastructure) - http://infraprix.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/infraprix/ Responsibilities: • Devised the vision and the strategy for the product alongside the stakeholders. • Developed the roadmap for the product. • Managed the product design, development from idea conceptualization to product launch. • Regular customer interaction for understanding their needs and behavior through direct interactions with both the buyers and the suppliers. • Defined success metrics, customer cohorts for analyzing product performance and redefined business strategy. • Regularly performing competitor analysis, market analysis and recommending plan of action to the stakeholders. • Established all the processes for the product and aligned the same with other teams like design, development, sales, crm, purchase and catalogue team. • Provided training to the sales, operations and CRM teams through F2F interaction and webinars/video conferencing also. • Supervised a group of two product managers, overseeing their responsibilities divided between the front-end and CMS areas of the website. • Startup had to shut down business due to funding issues by the main investors.

Co-Founder

Eat Treat ( startup )Nov 2013 - Nov 2015 • 2 yrs 1 moAbout the organization: Eattreat was conceptualized with a vision to cater to the food lovers community by offering them varied food related options under a single website. Product - Eattreat (B2C & B2B, Food-Tech) Website - www.eattreat.in (initially www.eattreatonline.com) Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/EatTreatOnline/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@EatTreat Became a co-founder after a thorough analysis of the Indian food industry. The Eattreat Facebook group became a customer needs understanding platform for me and it finally paved the way for me to experience the startup journey. •Created Business Plan and presented it to a large pool of Angel, VC and PE investors. • Devised the vision and the strategy for the product. • Outlined detailed specifications and established business requirements for the product. • Managed the product design, development from idea conceptualization to product launch. • Drove product roadmap. Developed product positioning and messaging. • Set up the entire IT and development team from scratch, and drove the product development life cycle to create the entire ecosystem along with processes. • Supervised BRDs / PRDs, wireframes, mockups, flowcharts and presentations to support various business functions. • Drove the product branding and promotion via online, social networking sites (SMO), promotional mailers/sms and PR activities through offline media like newspaper, magazines etc. • Performed business planning, marketing and managed various teams in order to deliver results for the investors, drive future growth and brand recognition. Achievement: • Successfully raised an investment of $350,000 from 15 angel investors. Funding Information: • http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/facebook-group-eattreat-bags-350000-from-15-investors/articleshow/47494786.cms • http://www.businessinsider.in/Eattreat-raises-350000-from-15-investors/articleshow/47515566.cms

Head - Product & Digital Marketing

IILM UniversityJul 2009 - Oct 2013 • 4 yrs 4 mosAbout the organization: With a legacy spanning more than 25 years, the IILM group caters to the education sector in India with University, institutions for higher education along with Banyan Tree schools spread across India i.e. Delhi, Gurgaon, Greater Noida, Lucknow, Jaipur, Chandigarh Haryana. Product(s): IILM (B2B & B2C, Edu-Tech) Univesity: https://iilm.edu/ Institutes - https://iilm.ac.in/ Undergraduate Business School - https://ubs.iilm.edu/ Schools - https://banyantree.in/delhi/ Responsibilities: • Responsible for strategy formulation, roadmap, new products features defining. • Participating with stakeholders in the business strategy formulation. • Perform competitor analysis, market analysis. • Coordinating with prospective customers thereby collecting their feedback and analyzing it. • Data and web analytics for decision making and post release metric analysis. • Managed the digital marketing strategy for the organization. • Managed a team of comprising of product manager, designer, seo, content writer, digital marketing executives. Some Achievements: • Redesigned UX, UI, and flows for all the IILM Group of Institutions websites, resulting in a 3X increase in queries and 2X increase in user traffic and 5X increase in admissions thereby contributing to the overall revenue increase for the organization. • Launched a Learning Management System (LMS) based on Moodle, increasing digital interaction between faculty and students by 50% and reducing manual work by 90%. • Developed a digital marketing strategy for social media channels, resulting in a 2x increase in organic traffic and a 3x increase in traffic from social media channels to the website. Skills: Stakeholder Management · Customer Experience · Business Requirements · Product Road Mapping · Market Analysis · Product Requirements · Communication · Product Strategy · Business Planning

Product Manager

Times Business Solution Ltd( A Times Group Company)May 2007 - May 2009 • 2 yrs 1 moAbout the organization: Times Business Solutions (TBS) is a division of Times Internet Limited – the “Life Interactive” arm of the Times Group (India's biggest media organizaton), provides global internet users interactive media to provide support, assistance, and guidance throughout their life. TimesJobs.com, the premium recruitment portal meets all jobs needs. It is TBS’s flagship business and has been in existence since 2004 and has established a strong competitive position in the online recruitments space amidst tough competition. Product – Timesjobs (B2C, Candidate Jobsite) - https://www.timesjobs.com/ Hire through Timesjobs (B2B, Recruiter Jobsite) -https://hire.timesjobs.com/ Responsibilities: • Creating product requirement documents (PRD's) • Perform competitor analysis, market analysis • Coordinating with customers thereby collecting customer feedback and analyzing it. • Perform data and web analytics for decision making and post release metric analysis. • Coordinate with design, engineering and testing team from feature inception till the release. Some Achievements: • Reduced the job registration form on the website www.timesjobs.com from 4 pages to just 1 page, resulting in a 40% increase in the registration rate for job seekers. • Improved the algorithm for Job Alerts (matching jobs sent via email) and added new features in the job alert mailer sent daily to job seekers, resulting in an increase in the average daily job applications from 70,000 to 1,60,000. Received an appreciation mail from the Vice President on the success of the project. • Conceptualized and launched a toolbar for job search, RSS services, blog, and chat application for job search and apply. This initiative led to an increase in daily user traffic from 2 million to 3.5 million. Skills: Wireframing · Data Analysis · Market Analysis · Product Requirements · Competitive Intelligence · Communication · Web Analytics · Analytical Skills

Education

New Delhi Institute of Management

MBA/PGDBM, Information Technology & MarketingJul 2004 - Jun 2006

Manipal Institute of Technology (MAHE, Manipal University)

Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT), Information Technology Jul 1999 - Jun 2002

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