---
title: "Manas Mishra - Head of Growth in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Manas Mishra, PocketFM | Meesho | Phonepe based in Bengaluru."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/manas-mishra-5/share-image"
---

# Manas Mishra on Tal

## Headline

PocketFM \| Meesho \| Phonepe

## About

With a strong background in strategic growth, program management & partnerships, I bring a blend of business acumen and technical expertise to every role\. Currently, I drive impactful initiatives as a Business Manager at Meesho, leading the business charter of the checkout leg by driving cross\-functional programs to increase checkout conversion & prepaid share and forging key alliances especially in the payments space for growth, offers & monetization with the ultimate objective of positively impacting lives of millions in Tier 2\+ India\. Earlier I have worked on enhancing overall customer experience \(product & support\) at PhonePe and gained valuable software development exposure during my internship at Credit Suisse\. I hold a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani, where I also pursued a minors finance\. I am passionate about solving complex problems with a strong sense of purpose & urgency\. I am a fast learner and thrive in dynamic environments\. Enjoy building relationships and am always eager to contribute to the success of meaningful projects

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

Head of Growth at Bambinos\.live \- Future School, Jul 2026 \- Present · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Program Manager at Pocket FM, Nov 2024 \- Jul 2026 · 1 yr 9 mos, Led the launch of Hindi Originals in audio by blending commissioning/content strategy with business growth followed by driving content strategy & GTM for Pocket TV and am currently optimizing the remarketing engine to drive high\-retention user growth through data\-backed interventions

Business Manager at Meesho, Oct 2023 \- Dec 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Built & scaled the checkout leg business from scratch for Meesho which involved increasing conversion & prepaid share, creating monetization opportunities at checkout and managing P&L for checkout leg of Meesho\. Built strategic alliances and partnerships with brands across the board in Meesho's effort to democratize e\-commerce in India\. Established value\-add strategic partnerships with top fintechs \(GPay, PhonePe, Paytm\), 15 top banks \(SBI, ICICI, BOB etc\), top PGs \(PayU, Razorpay etc\) and multiple top brands \(Twid, McD, Zomato, Clovia\) Ended the stint with driving the 0\-1 & 1\-10 of Mobiles, Electronics & Appliances category solving critical buy & sell side problems

Associate Business Manager at Meesho, Apr 2022 \- Oct 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

Associate Program Manager at PhonePe, Jul 2021 \- Apr 2022 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Double\-hatted across NPS and Product Ops, owning the end\-to\-end sentiment engine and category experience\. I scaled NPS by 10pp and doubled survey participation by partnering with Data Science for deep customer profiling and revamping payment success funnels\. On the Ops side, I transformed the Gold & Silver categories, driving a 15% jump in automation and a 20% ticket reduction through proactive user research and strategic cross\-functional product launches\.

Graduate Engineering Trainee at PhonePe, Aug 2020 \- Jul 2021 · 1 yr, Bangalore

Business Technology Analyst at Credit Suisse, Jul 2019 \- Dec 2019 · 6 mos, Mumbai, Optimized regulatory reporting workflows by building C\# \.NET wrappers and Python automation scripts\. My solutions eliminated manual bottlenecks, saving 3 working days per cycle and providing leadership with real\-time QlikSense data visualization\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

[View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/manas-mishra-5)

```json
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/manas-mishra-5#person",
      "name": "Manas Mishra",
      "url": "https://tal.club/meet/manas-mishra-5",
      "image": "https://tal.club/meet/manas-mishra-5/profile-photo.jpg",
      "description": "Meet Manas Mishra, PocketFM | Meesho | Phonepe based in Bengaluru.",
      "jobTitle": "Head of Growth",
      "worksFor": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "Bambinos.live - Future School"
      },
      "hasOccupation": {
        "@type": "Occupation",
        "name": "Head of Growth"
      },
      "homeLocation": {
        "@type": "Place",
        "name": "Bengaluru"
      },
      "alumniOf": [
        {
          "@type": "EducationalOrganization",
          "name": "Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani"
        }
      ],
      "mainEntityOfPage": {
        "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/manas-mishra-5#webpage"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "ProfilePage",
      "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/manas-mishra-5#webpage",
      "url": "https://tal.club/meet/manas-mishra-5",
      "name": "Manas Mishra on Tal",
      "description": "Meet Manas Mishra, PocketFM | Meesho | Phonepe based in Bengaluru.",
      "dateModified": "2026-10-26T21:59:35.255Z",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://tal.club/#website"
      },
      "mainEntity": {
        "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/manas-mishra-5#person"
      },
      "primaryImageOfPage": {
        "@type": "ImageObject",
        "url": "https://tal.club/meet/manas-mishra-5/profile-photo.jpg",
        "contentUrl": "https://tal.club/meet/manas-mishra-5/profile-photo.jpg",
        "caption": "Manas Mishra profile photo on Tal"
      },
      "inLanguage": "en-IN"
    }
  ]
}
```