Manager Engineering
Resume:
NITHISH MONSON
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
I N F O
ADDRESS
San Francisco, US
PHONE
*******.******@*****.***
S K I L L S
Product Strategy & Vision
User Acquisition &
Retention.
Product Management
Data Driven Agile
Roadmapping
Data Analytics
User Research & Testing.
Cross Functional Team
Leadership
Sprint Planning & Rollouts
Customer Journey
Mapping
Stakeholder Management
Product LifeCycle
Management
Lean and Design Thinking
User Experience Design
(UX)(CX)
P R O F I L E
7 years of entrepreneurial and product management experience, with 4.5 years in leadership positions. My area of focus include scaling two-sided service marketplaces, supply side governance, and user onboarding/retention. E M P L O Y M E N T H I S T O R Y
Director of Product, Sweeten New York
Sep 2018 — Nov 2019
• As part of the management team, represented product to the executive team and the board of directors, while collaborating with department heads in sales, engineering, and marketing.
• Built, Lead and mentored a world-class team (ex-Amazon, Microsoft, Zappos, EA) of 5 Product Managers, 2 UX Designers and a Growth Manager across three squads.
• Ideated the Product vision & market positioning as a holistic renovation platform. Implementing an 18months execution plan and roadmap, with 37% user adoption in phase 1.
• Some of the initiatives implemented & iterated by my product team - Partnership with Walmart e-commerce, Escrow based payment systems, Open AI matching, User activation & retention, Bidding tools, Design system, Platform governance.
Head of Product Co-founder/CEO, DesignBids Bangalore, India Apr 2015 — Aug 2018
• Iteration of the core platform to achieve P-M +t, ultimately scaling to 10,000$ active architects/ interior designers, and processing over j100M$ worth of proKects on platform.
• Led the product team of 11 engineers and product managers, with dotted line reporting with the overall team of 22-25. Implementing the best scrum and agile practices in backlog grooming, release/ rollout management, BDD, O‘Rs, impact scoring and story pointing.
• Overall Product strategy and roadmap execution to improve our existing product features and functionality viz. user on-boarding, product scaling methods, support/ticketing technology, attaining upto 30% MoM growth on our key 4 ‘PIs. ( ProKect Posted, GMV, Conversion Rate & Supply-side Retention).
• Expansion of product portfolio to include ’DB Pay;, ’DB Store; & ’DB Workspace;H with Product Partnership and Integration with ’Zestmoney; for line of credit,
’Pepperfry; e-commerce integration, and ’Space-designer3D; for design tools. Product Manager Co-Founder, CadMonky Chicago/ Delhi May 2014 — Apr 2015
• Lead the vision, strategy and execution of the product and managed all phases of product development cycle in a dynamic, remote environment by implementing agile techniques.
• Implemented product road-maps and features based on user data, customer feedback & ‘PIs.
• Conducted user research and gathered community feedback to build use cases and translate them to product requirements.
• Optimized onboarding 'ow for freelancer, improving conversion rate by 2.5x. Associate, Konstant Architecture Chicago
Nov 2013 — Oct 2014
• Involved in the design and execution of the following proKects - Sharfstein Residence, Mayer Residence, agen Residence in Chicago. Product Manager, Neuron Gym Delhi, India
Jan 2013 — Oct 2013
• Collaborated with the founder and software engineering team to develop an MVP through user discovery (surveys, interviews) & competitive analysis, getting 300‘$ App installs.
• Ownership of brain pro+le feature which resulted in a signi+cant boost in user retention.
E D U C A T I O N
Bachelor of Architecture, Indian Institute of
Technology
Roorkee, India
Aug 2008 — Jan 2013
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