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title: "Ankesh Aggrawal - Senior Director in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ankesh Aggrawal, Product @ Junglee Games | Ex- Cult.Fit, Zomato, Mu-Sigma based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, lovable, and mcp."
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# Ankesh Aggrawal on Tal

## Headline

Product @ Junglee Games \| Ex\- Cult\.Fit, Zomato, Mu\-Sigma

## About

Senior Product & Growth leader with entrepreneurial mindset having 13\+ years of experience of building & scaling digital platforms in B2C gaming, health & fitness, e\-commerce as well as B2B SaaS space, backed up by founder journey building couple of 0\-1s, with a solid track record of contributing to company’s topline through product led growth\. Currently leading cricket fantasy product “Howzat” within Junglee Games, playing a pivotal role in growing the product into one of India’s largest fantasy gaming platforms, driving user acquisition, retention, referrals, and core gameplay engagement through compounding product loops that scale — whether it's virality, retention, monetization, or NPS\-led growth\. I enjoy building zero\-to\-ones, designing features with high business impact, and optimizing product funnels based on sharp user insight and experimentation\. Core strengths include: \- Product Strategy & Execution \- Growth Loops \(Referrals, organic growth, Cross\-sell\) \- Gamification \- User Segmentation & Funnel Optimization \- NPS & Feedback\-Led Product Design I thrive in high\-velocity teams and love scaling digital products that deliver delight at scale, leading cross\-functional teams to drive end\-to\-end mobile product development and strategic roadmap execution\. My journey has been defined by a leadership style rooted in product excellence, data\-driven decision\-making, and a relentless focus on scalable, sustainable growth\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

lovable

mcp

openai

## Work experience

Senior Director at WeRize, Apr 2026 \- Present · 4 mo, Bengaluru

Associate Director at Junglee Games, Oct 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Spearheading Junglee’s cricket fantasy product “Howzat” into top\-3 market leadership position by scaling it 200% YoY to 3M MAU during IPL’25 with MRR of INR 50Cr \- Leading team of 8 product folks, strategizing annual product roadmap for FY 25\-26 with focus on hyper\-growth phase through key pillars of network effects, meta growth loop levers & user engagement \- Post online gaming bill, was responsible to pivot into social gaming leading 25 members, eventually launched Junglee Ludo & scaled to 0\.2M DAUs with D7 retention of 12%, contributing INR 5 Cr\. ARR

Co\-Founder at Happy Panda, Aug 2023 \- Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Founded mental health platform with relationship mentors as niche to solve for relationship related challenges globally leveraging AI as a co\-pilot to increase mentor’s efficiency \- Launched beta product with 10K users for first time sessions & \~250 monthly active paying client with D30 retention of 38%\.

Head of Product at Curefit \- house of cult, Mar 2021 \- Feb 2023 · 2 yrs, Gurugram, Haryana, India, \- Spearheaded the overall sports vertical in the Cult ecosystem & introduced Cultpass PLAY on the platform impacting org's top\-line by 5% month on month \- Led a team of overall 15 resources spanning across PM, Product Design & Tech functions, was able to create an uptick impact on the Acquisition funnel by \~15%, trial to conversion funnel by 7% & user engagement by 25% \- Ideated, conceptualized & implemented Academy offering, to boost the org’s top\-line by 5% M\-o\-M & expand the user cohort to 5\-18 yrs age group folks interested in structured sport offerings

Senior Product Manager at Junglee Games, Nov 2019 \- Mar 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, gurugram, \- Heading their core product, Junglee Rummy, doing \~$70M annually in rake, was responsible for owning the Acquisition, FTUE & GamePlay funnel \- Leading of team of 2 PMs & 2 PAs, impacted the Install to Registration ratios by 12% in the span of 1 year, D0 gameplays and conversions by 12% and 7% respectively, through various product initiatives including introducing new & effective sign\-up methods, Android flow enhancements, OTP capturing flow, FTUE journey flows etc\. \- Worked extensively & enhanced core GamePlay features like Matchmaking, Real time collusion detection, User Skill score, State Restriction flows, TORF features etc\. in conjunction with CXOs, & Decision Sciences team to impact the Avg\. User games and Avg\. Rake/player as key KPIs

Sr\. Product Owner at LimeTray, Nov 2016 \- Nov 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Gurugram, Haryana, India, \- Responsible for Owning the PnL of Discovery and Engagement product lines across 10K Outlets and 3 countries handling \~25% of company’s top\-line \- Launched one of the most customer centric product \-Loyalty in the F&B market and drove almost 85% adoption of the product in existing clients increasing company’s revenue streams by 16% and client’s monthly repeat business by 23% on average \- Revamped one of the existing engagement product \(CRM\) and scaled up the revenue contribution from that product by 4X in a span of 1\.5 years contributing to 10% of company’s top line

Senior Business Analyst at Mu Sigma Inc\., Oct 2012 \- Oct 2016 · 4 y, Bengaluru

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Civil Engineering, Punjab Engineering College

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