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Ankur Bhatia

Senior Product Manager, SurveyMonkey • 0-​>1, Product Strategy, Monetization, PLG • Building global products for millions

Bengaluru

12+ years of work experience

SurveyMonkey
Aug 20241 yr 11 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built PLG flywheel by mitigating onboarding friction and accelerating time-to-value, enabling rapid self-serve adoption and team-level expansion • Led global self-serve checkout transformation with complete product reboot and enabling scalable international rollout • Owned end-to-end product strategy and execution for product portfolio with $XX M ARR, X M+ MAU - GetFeedback (erstwhile Usabilla), a voice-of-customer CX platform, and SurveyMonkey Apply (erstwhile Fluidware) that allow customers to collect and analyse user feedback with widget through websites, mobile apps SDK, email and simplify applications with workflow automation respectively • Crafted product, packaging, pricing and growth strategy, influencing organisational product roadmap and strategy
topmate.io
Feb 20233 yrs 5 mosPresent

• Mentor aspirants for breaking into product management and getting into dream business schools
Freelance (Self employed)
Jun 20206 yrs 1 moPresent

• Mentored and helped secure admits to study programs at top 50 global b-schools, including London Business School, Esade, and UBC Sauder School, along with total scholarships worth ~$100K
Vivy
Sep 20233 mosNov 2023

Berlin, Germany

• Drove the development and execution of products and solutions for B2B customers, leading ‘customer interactions’ team responsible for CMS web portal, and health programs, quizzes, messages, vouchers in digital health mobile app (iOS and Android) live in 3 international markets • Revamped voucher campaign creation flow, simplifying process for portal users • Rolled out ‘vouchers wallet’ feature, improving engagement and customer experience within app and offering ~80K end users better positioning to access all vouchers at single place
General Education
Feb 20222 yrs 3 mosApr 2024

• Product vision, strategy, growth, operations, user acquisition, activation and retention for edtech product
Allianz Partners
Feb 20212 y 6 moAug 2023

Munich

BASF
Oct 20193 moJan 2020

Ludwigshafen

Jan 20196 moJul 2019

Stuttgart

Nagarro
Feb 20186 moAug 2018

Senior

Infosys
Aug 20134 y 6 moFeb 2018

Product

Ankur’s AI Stack

claude code
claude code
gemini
gemini
lovable
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openai
openai
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Figma Make
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Education

Kellogg Executive Education

Executive Education, Leading with Artificial Intelligence

Kellogg Executive Education

20202020
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

20182 yrs2020

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Headline

Senior Product Manager, SurveyMonkey • 0-​>1, Product Strategy, Monetization, PLG • Building global products for millions

About

Product leader scaling global self-serve product-led growth platform products - both consumer and enterprise from 0->1 and beyond. 11 years of experience; owned end-to-end strategy, growth and execution for digital products with $22M+ ARR. Currently leading global CX SaaS solutions spanning payments, pricing, UX, engineering, analytics, legal and go-to-market workflows. Focused on reducing friction across user journeys, accelerating time-to-value, and driving activation, expansion, and retention through scalable growth and monetization loops. Using data, experimentation, AI capabilities and product sense, I identify high-impact opportunities, shape product strategy, and deliver measurable business results end-to-end at scale. • Scaled products from the ground up across diverse fast-paced environments and geographies spanning SaaS, enterprise scale-ups, pre-seed and own bootstrapped consumer product startup • FT-MBA, HHL: HHL Asia-Pacific & DAAD STIBET scholar, focused in strategy, marketing, & innovation • Key skills: Product vision & strategy, monetization & revenue growth, product discovery & experimentation, global expansion & go-to-market, product analytics, user experience & design, cross-functional leadership & stakeholder management, data & AI-driven decision-making Interested in solving problems that sit at the intersection of user value and business impact, I appreciate any feedback, recommendations, and opportunities for further pursuits. E-mail - ankur9391@gmail.com

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

gemini

lovable

openai

v0

Figma Make

Work experience

Senior Product Manager at SurveyMonkey, Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Built PLG flywheel by mitigating onboarding friction and accelerating time-to-value, enabling rapid self-serve adoption and team-level expansion • Led global self-serve checkout transformation with complete product reboot and enabling scalable international rollout • Owned end-to-end product strategy and execution for product portfolio with $XX M ARR, X M+ MAU - GetFeedback (erstwhile Usabilla), a voice-of-customer CX platform, and SurveyMonkey Apply (erstwhile Fluidware) that allow customers to collect and analyse user feedback with widget through websites, mobile apps SDK, email and simplify applications with workflow automation respectively • Crafted product, packaging, pricing and growth strategy, influencing organisational product roadmap and strategy

Product / Career Mentor at topmate.io, Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos, • Mentor aspirants for breaking into product management and getting into dream business schools

Career Mentor / MBA Consultant at Freelance (Self employed), Jun 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo, • Mentored and helped secure admits to study programs at top 50 global b-schools, including London Business School, Esade, and UBC Sauder School, along with total scholarships worth ~$100K

Senior Product Manager at Vivy, Sep 2023 - Nov 2023 · 3 mos, Berlin, Germany, • Drove the development and execution of products and solutions for B2B customers, leading ‘customer interactions’ team responsible for CMS web portal, and health programs, quizzes, messages, vouchers in digital health mobile app (iOS and Android) live in 3 international markets • Revamped voucher campaign creation flow, simplifying process for portal users • Rolled out ‘vouchers wallet’ feature, improving engagement and customer experience within app and offering ~80K end users better positioning to access all vouchers at single place

Co-Founder / Director, Product Management at General Education, Feb 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, • Product vision, strategy, growth, operations, user acquisition, activation and retention for edtech product

Product Manager at Allianz Partners, Feb 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 y 6 mo, Munich

Visiting Consultant - Product Strategy at BASF, Oct 2019 - Jan 2020 · 3 mo, Ludwigshafen

MBA Consultant at Porsche, Jan 2019 - Jul 2019 · 6 mo, Stuttgart

Senior Product Associate at Nagarro, Feb 2018 - Aug 2018 · 6 mo, Senior

Product analyst at Infosys, Aug 2013 - Feb 2018 · 4 y 6 mo, Product

Education

Executive Education, Leading with Artificial Intelligence, Kellogg Executive Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management