Product Manager / Technical Product Manager

TANVI GUPTA

650-***-**** *********@*****.***

*+ years a Product Manager and Scrum/Agile Leader in Consumer, AI & Fintech (Meta, Goodwater capital venture-backed vvibe.ai, First Republic Bank, Morgan Stanley, GE Capital) launching 0-1 products, setting strategy across business lines.

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

● Technical Product Manager and Agile Scrum Master leading a team of 15 engineers/Design/QA/UAT to to deliver multiple ETL projects, including the migration of 150K First Republic banking clients and their detailed payments transactions data to the "NextGen" digital platform from Fiserv

● Technical Product Manager at Morgan Stanley where I led the roll out of Liquidity Access Line Loan product where users could borrow against their stock portfolio getting an increase in 15% profits. I led the team using Agile Methodologies using daily stand-ups, removing blockers and keeping engineers, QA, and UAT teams aligned on progress.

● Accelerated AML global screenings (politically exposed persons and negative news screening) of customers for all lines of business by 45% at Morgan Stanley

● Drove new connections strategy for Instagram Direct using Machine Learning to determine which friend requests should be directed to a user’s Primary inbox. As a result of this effort we introduced “Message Requests” and “Hidden requests” folders in inbox which reduced inbox spam by 10%

● Product lead and co-founder for venture backed Metaverserve social platform. Built an immersive Avatar social platform on mobile devices (iOS/Android apps). Raised 500K in seed funding, shipped a 3D Avatar Agent powered by ChatGPT that users can engage with via live video and that can help them connect with other Avatars. This led to average user engagement of 10 min per day.

DETAILED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

vvibe, San Francisco, CA 2021 – 2025

Co-Founder/CEO & Head of Product

● Created LLM-based chatbot Lily, trained on proprietary data from thousands of user chat messages to each and voice calls

● Raised $500K in seed funding from VCs and Angel investors - highly skilled in crafting and delivering compelling narratives to various stakeholders, including investors, partners, and community leaders

● Led all product processes from creating the 0-1 product vision, strategy, roadmap, prioritizing MVP, defining requirements, prototyping designs, developing technical solutions, and iterating the MVP with end users

● Led product development for immersive features ( (3D Avatar video calling, GenAI stickers/games/icebreakers) ) to power growth to 80K MAUs, 5K DAUs and 10 min/day of avg. engagement time.

Meta, MENLO PARK, CA 2018 – 2021

Associate Product Manager (Messenger, IG)

● Led strategy & partnered with Data/UXR for optimizing online presence for users in Messenger/IG Direct. Shipped new online paradigm (Green dot) to signify online status while providing users with privacy controls. Increased topline sends by ~100M/month

● Led Instagram Direct’s Inbox strategy to reduce spam by implementing a 3-folder structure that routed new friend requests based on factors like common connections using extensive Machine Learning models. Achieved a 10% spam reduction.

● Led the expressions and delight product strategy efforts to make Messenger more delightful for users and boost brand affinity. Built key 0->1 features like in chat custom wallpapers and locale specific stickers (like Diwali for India, Ramadan for Indonesia) to boost expressiveness and time spent in the app

● Led product feature improvements for Group chat functionalities across Messenger by working with Design/Eng teams where the new mitigating designs were built in Lightspeed Messenger app (iOS) and WWW. These improvements resolved issues for 15M users/month

● Pitched and spearheaded the development of a new Messenger feature allowing users to react to messages with any emoji. Leveraged data and research to convince senior leadership to launch globally, and the feature is now available across Meta’s messaging apps PRIMITIVE LOGIC CONSULTING INC., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 2015 – 2018 Technical Product Manager/ Scrum Master

● First Republic Bank - Led a 15-member team across engineering, data, QA, and UAT leveraging Agile methodologies to deliver multiple ETL projects, including the migration of 150K First Republic banking clients to the "NextGen" digital platform. Achieved project delivery under budget by 15% while consistently meeting timelines and resource constraints. Product Strategy & Operations Lead

● McKesson - Created optimized process flows for the Clinical Trial Startup process by conducting 60+ interviews with key stakeholders across 4 business areas, resulting in cost savings of $3M per study. Worked with the engineering team to implement the new requirements to the in-house Clinical Trial Management system

MORGAN STANLEY, NEW YORK CITY, NY 2015

Technical Product Manager for Anti-Money Laundering Program and Liquidity Access Line Product – Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Technical organization Provided project lifecycle leadership over all phases of enterprise-wide implementations

● Rolled out Liquidity Access Line Loan product where users could borrow against their stock portfolio getting an increase in 15% profits for MS

● Accelerated global screening (politically exposed persons and negative news screening) of customers for all lines of business by 45%

● Delivered projects under budget by 30% resulting in meeting Federal government commitments 2 months ahead of promised timelines

GE CAPITAL –REAL ESTATE, NORWALK, CT 2014 – 2015

Technical Product Manager – Know your Customer Program – Actimize Implementation (Anti-Money Laundering Risk) – KYC Data Management Program to promote a consistent view of consumer across business lines

● Consolidated consistent customer information across 9 GE businesses while improving systems security and reliability by 30%

EDUCATION

MBA, Finance and Accounting, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Finance & Accounting, Carroll University, Waukesha, WI

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