AI Product Manager & GenAI Strategist

Nishant Rana

**************@*****.*** • 919-***-**** • www.linkedin.com/in/nishant-rana-7848a71b0 • nishantrana.net SUMMARY

Product Manager with 4+ years delivering $520K+ cost savings and $2.1M revenue impact across enterprise B2B SaaS. Proven across 0-to-1 launches, GTM strategy, cross-functional execution and data-driven roadmap ownership. Duke MEM graduate with hands-on LLM and GenAI experience, translating data into measurable business outcomes. EDUCATION

Duke University North Carolina, USA

Master of Engineering Management – Product Management Track August 2024 - December 2025

• Coursework: Product Management, Managing AI Business, Digital Transformation, Marketing, Competitive Strategies EXPERIENCE

Sparc The World Inc. D.C, USA

Product Manager February 2026 - Present

Early-stage edtech platform focused on student clubs; owned full product lifecycle, driving GTM execution for a core platform feature.

• Ran customer discovery across 40+ stakeholder interviews, uncovering user gaps that shaped a new feature, improving product- market fit.

• Drove GTM launch strategy for a new feature against 30+ competitor benchmarks and targeted positioning, reaching 10K users at launch, validating product-led growth.

• Partnered with cross-functional engineering and design teams to run 3 A/B tests, driving 16% DAU lift and 40% feature engagement increase, focusing on highest-impact user gaps. Vitalise Ventures North Carolina, USA

AI Product Intern June 2025 - August 2025

McKinsey alumni-led early-stage strategy firm; worked as an AI product contributor, delivering GenAI-powered business simulation.

• Conducted JTBD analysis and built 3 user personas through customer discovery, shaping feature and pricing prioritization.

• Defined product strategy for a GenAI business simulation, TAM sizing, segmentation, and monetization, translating into a 3-phase GTM rollout for the company's enterprise pitch.

• Cut competitive research time 64% by building an LLM + RAG-powered intelligence bot that retrieved competitor data and generated analysis.

Infosys Limited Bangalore, India

Senior Systems Engineer - Associate Product Manager December 2021 - August 2024 Global IT services firm (NYSE: INFY); owned enterprise SaaS platform, led feature delivery across multiple product areas.

• Owned a 3-quarter product roadmap for India's national tax platform, balancing regulatory deadlines and engineering capacity prioritization across 12 features and 4 Agile sprint teams.

• Led PRD authorship, KPI framework, and feature prioritization with cross-functional teams to launch a 0-to-1 MVP, processing 300M+ records for 80M+ users, delivering $520K annual cost reduction.

• Reversed client rejection with a data-driven business case; secured stakeholder sign-off to ship a feature that cut support tickets by 46% for 80M+ users.

• Reduced operational costs by $330K/year by automating 50% of manual workflows and building SQL-based Power BI dashboards to track KPIs and drive data-driven decisions.

• Scaled delivery for 7 third-party systems and 12 Salesforce modules (Apex, LWC), driving $2.1M revenue impact. SKILLS

• AI / ML Product: LLM product development, Generative AI (Claude, GPT, Gemini), Claude Code, Codex, RAG workflows

• Technical: Python, Salesforce (Apex, LWC, Flow, Process Builder), Power BI, Tableau, DevOps (Copado/Git), Data Migration & Validation, Notion, Asana, Jira, Figma, Advanced Excel/PowerPoint, Competitive Intelligence Tooling, AI-powered automation

• Product & Strategy: 0-to-1 Product Development, Roadmap Development, Agile/Scrum, Stakeholder Management, Cross- functional Leadership, Monetization & Funnel Optimization, Market Segmentation & TAM Analysis, Prompt Engineering, SQL

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