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title: "Divanshu Gupta - Founder, Manvar (solo D2C venture) in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
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# Divanshu Gupta on Tal

## Headline

Founder, Manvar \(solo D2C venture\) at Self Employed

## About

I started in sculpture, trained as a mechanical engineer at NIT Jamshedpur, then studied design at Srishti \(CEED AIR 8\)\. Product management is where those three meet\. I’ve taken products from zero to launch in three settings\. As the first PM at Louisa AI, I built the product function from one to four PMs and won McKinsey as an enterprise client through a three\-month pilot\. At Goldman Sachs, I led a 13\-person team shipping an enterprise IT asset provisioning system, cut shift handover time by 42%, and migrated 8,655 users off a legacy monitoring system with zero downtime\. Now I’m running Manvar, a D2C collectibles business, solo from sourcing to a WhatsApp\-led sales funnel\. I’m looking for my next product role preferably from ground 0\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude

gemini

meta

midjourney

openai

## Work experience

Founder, Manvar \(solo D2C venture\) at Self Employed, May 2026 \- Present · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Launched a solo D2C venture in high\-ticket pop\-culture collectibles, owning sourcing, marketing, customer acquisition and delivery logistics\. Designed a pre\-order “Vault Allocation” model with non\-refundable deposits removing unsold\-inventory risk on 270 orders\. Built a buyer community across WhatsApp and Instagram broadcast channels, growing to 3,200 members with 7% converting to purchase\. Ran Meta ads and funnel optimization, reaching a CAC of ₹92 and ROAS of 30x driven by community retention strategy\.

Founding Product Manager at Louisa AI, Feb 2024 \- May 2026 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Established the company’s first end\-to\-end product delivery lifecycle as founding PM \(Agile workflows, automated ticketing, sprint velocity tracking\), cutting release cycles by 33% and Sev\-1/Sev\-2 incidents by 50%\. Won McKinsey & Company as an enterprise account by leading a 3\-month pilot with bespoke features\. Shipped Overlaps, an AI\-based relationship discovery feature, defining success metrics and output\-quality evaluation with engineering and data teams, driving adoption by 4,000 users \(40% of base at McKinsey\)\. Led 5 client instance deployments across engineering, design and client success, all delivered within SLA\. Built automated engagement loops across email and push notifications, increasing monthly active users by 25%\. Scaled the product team from 1 to 4 PMs and built the QA function \(3 people\), with hiring benchmarks and onboarding playbooks for a 30\-engineer organization\.

Product Manager at Goldman Sachs, Nov 2021 \- Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Built and launched an enterprise IT Asset Provisioning System leading a 13\-member cross\-functional team, automating role\-based allocation and reducing asset overhead by 12%\. Cut shift handover time by 42% \(60 to 35 mins\) for 64 production engineers by running discovery workshops and shipping a targeted workflow MVP\. Decommissioned a legacy monitoring system in 11 months, directing the build of its replacement and orchestrating a zero\-downtime migration for 8,655 users\. Drove a 22% increase in internal platform adoption by executing an internal GTM strategy, partner enablement sessions, and targeted executive pitches alongside design and event teams\. Instituted Amazon’s “Working Backwards” framework and OKR tracking, standardizing PR/FAQ documentation across teams to align product discovery with strategic business priorities\.

UX Designer & Information Architect at Accenture, Jun 2021 \- Nov 2021 · 6 mos, India, Built unified design systems across multiple product lines, standardizing user flows and making interfaces easier to navigate\. Designed modular component libraries and intuitive UI layouts, reducing onboarding friction and improving product usability\. Standardized design guidelines and core UX flows, speeding up frontend development while keeping the user experience consistent\.

Associate Manager at Hyundai Motor India Ltd\., Jul 2016 \- Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Greater Delhi Area, Cut APAC export troubleshooting turnaround by 46% \(45 to 24 days\) by applying structured Why\-Why \(Y\-Y\) root cause analysis to resolve recurring field failures\. Led teardowns and competitive benchmarking across 2 product lines, collaborating with vendors to prioritize features and define requirements for upcoming model roadmaps\. Delivered 12 kg weight reduction per vehicle by partnering with engineering on material optimization and component redesign for the Hyundai Weight Reduction Campaign\. Spearheaded vehicle body localization for the Indian market, coordinating styling, technical, and supply chain teams to meet regional regulatory standards and consumer preferences\.

## Education

Master in Design, Industrial Arts, Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Mechanical Engineering, NIT Jamshedpur

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