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title: "Daniel C. - Senior Product Manager in Chennai | Tal"
description: "Meet Daniel C., Product @ Kula | Building next-gen recruitment SaaS | Ex-Zoho, PayPal based in Chennai. AI stack includes codex and cursor."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/daniel-c/share-image"
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# Daniel C\. on Tal

## Headline

Product @ Kula \| Building next\-gen recruitment SaaS \| Ex\-Zoho, PayPal

## About

I am a Product Manager working to build the next gen in recruitment SaaS\. I found my love for product management while doing marketing research for my product, in my free time\. I transitioned into product management in the subsequent weeks and I have not turned back since\. I am skilled in crafting user experience, conducting market research for requirements, prototyping, and delivering strong features and products that drive value\. I bring an eclectic yet wholly original skillset to the table\. With my background in marketing and having worked as a systems engineer, I bring a unique perspective to product management\. I can easily empathize with different teams from design, engineering, marketing, pre\-sales, support, and customer success enhancing my ability to deliver strong products and features with an excellent market and user fit\.

## Location

Chennai

## AI stack

codex

cursor

## Work experience

Senior Product Manager at Kula, Mar 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Second product management hire in the organization, leading efforts to build an AI\-native ATS\. • Drove adoption by 60\+ customers by leading the 0 \- 1 build and launch of Kula’s ATS • Improved time to hire by 100% for customers through innovative AI features like AI applicant scoring, AI interview notetaker, conversational analytics, and AI scheduling recommendations\.

Product Manager 3 \- Technical at PayPal, Jan 2023 \- Feb 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, I was the Product Manager responsible for invoicing, withdrawals & deposits, and refunds & reversals risk platforms and drove horizontal projects like the PayPal sandbox modernization for risk platforms\. • Cut down spam by 95\.5% in one of the biggest spam attacks in PayPal history by leading the build\-out and delivery of mitigation features within a span of 3 months for the invoicing risk platform\. • Enabled $2\.8M in TPV and prevented loss of around $1\.2M during withdrawal of money from PayPal by delivering features for the withdrawal risk platform\. • Improving integration time with PayPal by 12% by leading the efforts to build out the risk capabilities in PayPal’s external sandbox environment\.

Lead \- Product Management at Zoho, Feb 2022 \- Jan 2023 · 1 yr, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, I was a Lead Product Manager for Zoho’s Business Intelligence Suite\. • Improved DAU by 23% and reduced user drop\-off during evaluation by 36% using user action based email campaigns\. • Reduced post\-installation drop\-off of the on\-premise deployment by 53% by revamping the onboarding flow\. • Drove the SaaS version of ManageEngine Analytics Plus from inception to launch\. The product is contributing to 46% of the new revenue of the product line and growing at a pace of 18% month on month\. • Mentored 2 new APMs and cut down the time spent on recruitment by 42%\. • Evangelized the product across 4 continents in all of our primary business centers by doing presentations in ManageEngine User Conferences and other industry events\.

Member of Technical Staff \- Product Management at Zoho, Jun 2017 \- Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, I was a Product Manager for Zoho’s Business Intelligence Suite\. I work on the SaaS \(Software as a Service\) and on\-premise deployments of Zoho Analytics and ManageEngine Analytics Plus\. • Led the development of analytics integrations with popular IT applications like ServiceDesk Plus, ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, and Desktop Central that drive revenue by $2M\+ per year\. • Led the development of a SaaS analytics microservice in the ServiceNow marketplace which improved new revenue by 17% • Led the development of multiple features like import/export of report templates, migration, Out\-of\-the\-box SSO, MFA, etc\. which are used by over 14K\+ customers and 2M\+ users\. • Automated the feature request & feedback collection from customer\-facing teams and built a pipeline to feed product decision\-making and development, improving turnaround time by 27%\. • Partnered with engineering, marketing, and documentation to redefine the release process and reduced release issues by nearly 100%\.

Systems Engineer at Infosys, May 2016 \- Jun 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos, Chennai Area, India, I executed a project for a leading banking institution while also mentoring and onboarding newcomers to my team\. • Virtualized 50\+ applications using App \- V\. • Ensured high quality and usability in all the deliverables and reduced errors by 73%\. • Scored an overall average of 91% in the Foundation Program and was named a High Performer \(HPF\) in my cohort\.

## Education

PCPBM, Business Administration and Management, General, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Electronics and Communications Engineering, St\. Joseph's College of Engineering

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