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Hardik Nischal

6x founding team member | Ex-Delivery Hero, Talabat, Raisin.

Dubai

6+ years of work experience

Foodics
Mar 20251 y 6 moPresent

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

∙ Led Lending vertical (everything but Tech) from 0-1, launched in 6 months, and disbursed Term Finances worth 0.5M in the first month of launch. ∙ Enabled 100% digitalized eligibility check + Finance offering amount, by AI powered Credit Engine (leveraging 50+ external and internal data points). ∙ Redefined the direction of the venture (scope, target users, core value propositions) by qualitative and quantitative research using AI agents. ∙ Received the Foodics Hero Award as the top performer in Q2 2025 (during my first quarter at the company).
Jan 20241 y 2 moMar 2025

Remote

∙ Led everything other than Tech. ∙ Organically onboarded 1000+ users using an AI GTM agent (built on N8N) for Reddit. ∙ MVP is live at https://magine.ai
Career Break
Aug 20235 mosDec 2023

∙Spent some quality time with parents after being away from home for 8+ years. ∙Made my first real estate investment. ∙Traveled across India. ∙Mentored and supported early startup founders around their 0-1 journey.
Delivery Hero
Oct 202210 mosJul 2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

∙ Product: B2C Mobile App (IOS and Android): Prescription based Pharmacies Delivery Service. ∙ Team size: 6 (2 FE, 2 BE, 1 EM, 1 Staff Engineer) + 1 Product Designer and 1 Product Analyst ∙ Key Deliverables: -- Led the entire Product domain from inception for the Pharmacy vertical (identified the key pain points and the core value propositions). -- Launched MVP & delivered ~50 successful orders. -- Pivoted to MVP 2.0 (enabled B2B channel of User acquisition i.e. Hospitals and reduced order fail rate from ~85% > ~30%).
Delivery Hero
Jan 20211 yr 10 mosOct 2022

Berlin, Germany

∙ Product: Operations Tool (Web) for Vendors from all verticals (Cooked Food/ Groceries/ Concept Kitchen), across 47 Countries (in four Continents), used for managing their employee access and day-to-day strategic work. ∙ Team size: 10 (3 FE, 4 BE, 1 EM, 1 Manual QA, 1 Automated QA) + 1 Product Analyst and 1 Product Designer ∙ Key Deliverables: -- Increased User self sufficiency on Product (for employee account creation by 93%, account edition by 399.53%, account deletion by 594% and visits by 71% (pre and post), via conceptualizing and delivering a new Global User management system over 3 versions). -- Led migration and adoption of Operations Tool in 6 countries (Australia, Germany, Nicaragua, Slovakia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey). -- Improved acquisition of new users (globally) by ~20%, via improving the end to end sign-in process in the Tool. -- Led implementation of a custom Design System (for entire global and local UX/ UI components) across the whole vendor performance tribe.
Raisin
Jan 20209 mosSep 2020

Hamburg, Germany

∙ Product: Operations Tool (Web) used across 20 PoS in two continents by internal & external B2B Stakeholders to conduct entire day-to-day operations. ∙ Team size: 7 Engineers (3 FE, 3 BE, 1EM) + 1 Designer + 1 Scrum Master ∙ Key Deliverables: -- Led end to end discovery and delivery of the company's first back office tool. -- ~60% reduction in time and cost to perform operations, and ~30% increase in no. of Clients acquired.

Hardik’s AI Stack

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Education

Hochschule Anhalt

Master's in Business Administration, Business Administration, Management and Operations

Hochschule Anhalt

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Researcher (for my M.B.A. Thesis), Behavioral Sciences and Marketing

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

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Headline

6x founding team member | Ex-Delivery Hero, Talabat, Raisin.

About

8+ years of experience in building and growing a diverse portfolio of digital Products across early stage companies and established multinationals, across EU, MENA and APAC region. Driven by the impact digital products can have in making life easier.

Location

Dubai

AI stack

claude code

n8n

Figma Make

Granola

Make

Wispr Flow

Work experience

Senior Product Manager at Foodics, Mar 2025 - Present · 1 y 6 mo, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ∙ Led Lending vertical (everything but Tech) from 0-1, launched in 6 months, and disbursed Term Finances worth 0.5M in the first month of launch. ∙ Enabled 100% digitalized eligibility check + Finance offering amount, by AI powered Credit Engine (leveraging 50+ external and internal data points). ∙ Redefined the direction of the venture (scope, target users, core value propositions) by qualitative and quantitative research using AI agents. ∙ Received the Foodics Hero Award as the top performer in Q2 2025 (during my first quarter at the company).

Co-Founder and CEO at Magine.ai, Jan 2024 - Mar 2025 · 1 y 2 mo, Remote, ∙ Led everything other than Tech. ∙ Organically onboarded 1000+ users using an AI GTM agent (built on N8N) for Reddit. ∙ MVP is live at https://magine.ai

Health and well-being at Career Break, Aug 2023 - Dec 2023 · 5 mos, ∙Spent some quality time with parents after being away from home for 8+ years. ∙Made my first real estate investment. ∙Traveled across India. ∙Mentored and supported early startup founders around their 0-1 journey.

Senior Product Manager at Delivery Hero, Oct 2022 - Jul 2023 · 10 mos, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ∙ Product: B2C Mobile App (IOS and Android): Prescription based Pharmacies Delivery Service. ∙ Team size: 6 (2 FE, 2 BE, 1 EM, 1 Staff Engineer) + 1 Product Designer and 1 Product Analyst ∙ Key Deliverables: -- Led the entire Product domain from inception for the Pharmacy vertical (identified the key pain points and the core value propositions). -- Launched MVP & delivered ~50 successful orders. -- Pivoted to MVP 2.0 (enabled B2B channel of User acquisition i.e. Hospitals and reduced order fail rate from ~85% > ~30%).

Global Product Manager at Delivery Hero, Jan 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos, Berlin, Germany, ∙ Product: Operations Tool (Web) for Vendors from all verticals (Cooked Food/ Groceries/ Concept Kitchen), across 47 Countries (in four Continents), used for managing their employee access and day-to-day strategic work. ∙ Team size: 10 (3 FE, 4 BE, 1 EM, 1 Manual QA, 1 Automated QA) + 1 Product Analyst and 1 Product Designer ∙ Key Deliverables: -- Increased User self sufficiency on Product (for employee account creation by 93%, account edition by 399.53%, account deletion by 594% and visits by 71% (pre and post), via conceptualizing and delivering a new Global User management system over 3 versions). -- Led migration and adoption of Operations Tool in 6 countries (Australia, Germany, Nicaragua, Slovakia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey). -- Improved acquisition of new users (globally) by ~20%, via improving the end to end sign-in process in the Tool. -- Led implementation of a custom Design System (for entire global and local UX/ UI components) across the whole vendor performance tribe.

Product Manager at Raisin, Jan 2020 - Sep 2020 · 9 mos, Hamburg, Germany, ∙ Product: Operations Tool (Web) used across 20 PoS in two continents by internal & external B2B Stakeholders to conduct entire day-to-day operations. ∙ Team size: 7 Engineers (3 FE, 3 BE, 1EM) + 1 Designer + 1 Scrum Master ∙ Key Deliverables: -- Led end to end discovery and delivery of the company's first back office tool. -- ~60% reduction in time and cost to perform operations, and ~30% increase in no. of Clients acquired.

Education

Master's in Business Administration, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Hochschule Anhalt

Researcher (for my M.B.A. Thesis), Behavioral Sciences and Marketing, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta