Principal Product Manager | F2P Mobile Games | LiveOps, Monetization, New Titles | ex-Zynga



Kolkata

Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru Area, India

Banglore





Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Aerospace Engineering
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SHIBPUR
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Principal Product Manager at Stellarplay Games, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Product lead for StellarPlay's casual portfolio. Two PMs and two analysts report to me. 1. Shipped three F2P mobile titles. Own roadmap, OKRs, and the revenue/ROAS forecast 2. Shipped features end-to-end across onboarding, progression, and economy, grounding decisions in user research and live A/B experiments 3. Monitored and identified opportunities to improve ARPDAU and LTV: Streak-based feature improved D30 ROAS (32% to 40%), launched cosmetic collection and to improve retention and sale ladder to improve ARPPU 4. Managed Live-Ops: Built systems and processes to take care of Live-Ops, ensuring quality and timely delivery of live content 4.a Reworked event mechanics, improved rewards, and added new monetization avenues, lifting ARPDAU by ~9% 4.b Launched a new LiveOps event featuring an original mini-game, lifting ARPDAU by 11% 5. Led a cross-functional team of Game designer, engineers, UI/UX and artists focused on creating new games and delivering engaging and fun live-ops content 6. Multiple ad-mon mediation optimization: Overall 20% increase in ads ARPDAU 7. Drove AI adoption across content and creative production, automating game content pipelines with design teams and, with the UA lead, built a creative production and testing pipeline that cut concept-to-deployment time
Product Manager at Stellarplay Games, Jul 2021 - Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Drove product roadmap by owning features across FTUE, engagement, monetization and Live-Ops 1. Revamped FTUE and early game experience: redesigned FTUE by conducting multiple play testing and A/B experiments 1.a Result: 2x early game progression in Dice Town Diaries, moved D1 retention from 28% to 37% 1.b Shipped multiple core progression mechanic for Dice Town Diaries (PvP game) cumulatively moving D28 retention from 3% to 5% 2. Improved Engagement and retention: Identified problems by analysing internal data and benchmarking against competitors, prioritized solutions, wrote PRDs and shipped features 2.a Result: Launched a weekly Bingo event for Dice Town Diaries that improved D28 retention by 100 bps while increasing daily engagement by 11% 3. Improved Monetization: Broke down and solved monetization problem from multiple facets 3.a Economy balancing: Increased new payer conversion from 1.1% to 2.8% in Tile Twist 3.b Game difficulty tuning: Created adaptive PvE tuning in Tile Twist that gave 10% increase in ARPDAU 3.c Live-Ops Improvement: Optimized Leagues tuning to deliver 12% increase in ARPDAU
AVP - Decision Science at HSBC, Feb 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Kolkata, Led machine learning delivery and governance for digital banking. 1. Worked closely with business teams to identify opportunities in customer experience, fraud and sales opportunities 2. Intent-prediction models cut call-center volume 8% — $1.2M saved annually. 3. Fraud-risk targeting and comms strategy saved ~$2M/month in compensation. 4. Owned governance across 20+ models — bias, explainability, compliance, monitoring.
Data Scientist at MiQ, Sep 2019 - Feb 2020 · 6 mos, Bangalore, Machine learning for programmatic advertising. 1. Collaborative filtering inside marketing creatives cut cost-per-conversion 30% for a retail e-commerce client. 2. Graph-based ad-surfacing model beat cosine-similarity approaches by 9% on CPC.
Data Analyst 2 at Zynga, Jul 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bangalore, Owned analytics for FarmVille Country Escape, closely worked with Product Managers of a $40M-grossing IAP title. 1. Personalized LiveOps difficulty: ARPDAU +3%, with better progression and retention. 2. Designed and analysed 10+ A/B tests across onboarding, progression and monetization. 3. Built the reporting frameworks and self-serve analytics the team ran on.
Decision Scientist at Mu Sigma Inc., Mar 2017 - Feb 2018 · 1 yr, Bengaluru Area, India, Enabled Fortune 50 clients make data informed decision, lead a team of 4 Data Scientists. 1. Helped clients identify opportunities worth solving using data - owned definition and prioritization for these problem statements 2. Churn modelling and retention strategy lifted B2B renewals 20%. 3. NLP intent classifier saved a Fortune 20 client ~$3.1M/year, accuracy +40%. 4. Experiment design for campaign measurement: call-centre volume down 4%.
Trainee Decision Scientist at Mu Sigma Inc., Mar 2015 - Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Banglore
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Aerospace Engineering, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SHIBPUR