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title: "Kushal Khandelwal - Product Marketing Manager in Mumbai | Tal"
description: "Meet Kushal Khandelwal, Product Marketing at Tessell | Top 100 PMM | PMA Ambassador & Mentor based in Mumbai. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and notion."
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# Kushal Khandelwal on Tal

## Headline

Product Marketing at Tessell \| Top 100 PMM \| PMA Ambassador & Mentor

## About

I'm a product marketer with ten years in technical SaaS, currently at a multi\-cloud DBaaS platform\. On the side, I build communities where serious PMMs can argue, learn, and figure out the craft together\. Across every PMM role I've had, the brief has been roughly the same: the product is good today, but the buyer and market are constantly shifting\. My job has been to figure out how the market is evolving now and rebuild the GTM around what I find\. Sometimes that means changing the persona\. Sometimes the positioning\. Sometimes, the entire category narrative\. I've done this in dev tools, data infra, APIs, and iPaaS over the last ten years\. The surface changes\. The work doesn't\. The longer I do this, the more I think the most underrated PMM skill is judgment\. AI has commoditized the storytelling layer, which only sharpens the point: the calls AI can't make are the calls that matter\. Deciding which story is worth telling, to whom, and why now\. It can't tell you that the segment is wrong, the problem is mis\-prioritized, or the buyer has quietly moved on while the deck stayed the same\. That's not storytelling\. That's judgment\. And it is built from context, which only comes from being close to the business and the buyer\. Everything else is dressed\-up guesswork\. Most of what I publish, build, and teach outside the day job comes back to this idea: → Co\-founder of Product Marketing Over Chai — an invite\-only community for serious PMMs → India Ambassador for the Product Marketing Alliance & voted 2x Top 100 PMM influencer → Host of PMA's official podcast for India — PMM Perspective When I'm not doing any of the above, I'm cheering for Manchester United \(a long, painful exercise in resilience\) and drinking too much coffee\. If you'd rather argue with any of this than agree, even better\. Come find me\.

## Location

Mumbai

## AI stack

claude code

claude

notion

Granola

## Work experience

Product Marketing Manager at Tessell, Apr 2026 \- Present · 5 mos, Bengaluru

Co\-Founder at Product Marketing Over Chai, Oct 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, An invite\-only community for product marketers to meet, network, and learn together\.

Founder at Nosy Neighbour, Apr 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Helping early\-stage and high\-growth tech companies build repeatable go\-to\-market processes with voice of customer programs and differentiated positioning and messaging\.

India Ambassador at Product Marketing Alliance, Mar 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 6 mos, Remote

Podcast Host \- Product Marketing Perspective at Product Marketing Alliance, Aug 2024 \- Mar 2026 · 1 yr 8 mos

Product Marketing Manager at DBSync, Jun 2024 \- May 2026 · 2 yrs, Greater Bengaluru Area, Led GTM expansion, positioning, and sales enablement for a suite of data movement \(ETL & CDC\) products for enterprise and mid\-market data engineers\.

## Education

B\.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies \(NMIMS\)

New Era High School

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