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title: "Mrinal Thakur - Sr. Manager, Product Management in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Mrinal Thakur on Tal

## Headline

Sr\. Manager, Product Management \| Enterprise B2B SaaS Platforms \| 0→1 and multi\-portfolio ownership \| Applied AI \(RAG, agents, evals\)

## About

I build enterprise platforms, the kind with many interconnected products, multiple stakeholder types, deep integration surface, and long enterprise sales cycles\. Fifteen years across global MNCs and early\-stage startups, spanning multiple domains and every stage of the lifecycle\. Complex platform problems, 0 to 1 builds, growth\-stage products\. What I enjoy most is finding the right solution to the right problem, not the obvious one\. The hard part is rarely the feature\. It is the integration nobody wants to own, the workflow gap that shows up across customer feedback but sits between three teams, the metric everyone quotes and nobody defined\. I tend to be the calm one in the room\. Across those years the work has spanned multi\-million dollar pipeline, platforms serving tens of millions of users, products scaled across dozens of geographies, and teams built and led\. Outside work I have been learning applied AI by building, fine\-tuning small models, RAG pipelines, LLM evaluation\. I have realized I learn more by building things myself, and I write about it as I go, including what doesn't work\. Always happy to connect\. If you want to talk products, technology, business, or just swap notes, reach out\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

langsmith

n8n

openclaw

## Work experience

Sr\. Manager, Product Management at PowerSchool, Sep 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Building platform ecosystem across 10\+ interconnected K\-12 products, with a focus on simplifying the experience for administrators, educators, and families through tighter integration and more intentional prioritization\.

Sr\. Manager, Commercial Products, AI & Data at EY, Apr 2025 \- Sep 2025 · 6 mos, Applied hands\-on pharma forecasting domain knowledge to help a cross\-functional team scope and build a net new enterprise product from scratch\. Shaped the roadmap, flagging execution risks early, and ensuring the visual and data intensive experience matched how forecasting analysts work\.

Manager Product Management at PowerSchool, Apr 2023 \- Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Led a team of PMs across an LMS and Assessment portfolio serving 35M\+ users, driving platform integrations, international expansion, retention initiatives and AI product beta and adoption across one of the largest K\-12 platforms globally\.

Product Manager II at PowerSchool, Oct 2022 \- Mar 2023 · 6 mos, Focused on usability, retention, and competitive positioning within the core LMS product\. Shipped improvements that raised usability and strengthened the product's market standing among US school districts

Product Manager I at PowerSchool, May 2021 \- Sep 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos, Owned the K\-5 student experience and mobile product, growing daily active usage and mobile retention through user research\-driven feature work across Android and iOS\.

Product Manager \- Data and Analytics at Indegene, Aug 2020 \- May 2021 · 10 mos, Drove adoption and commercial success for a pharma forecasting SaaS, improving product adoption and defining new product approach for Patient\-flow forecasting that became industry standard and reference point for multiple top\-10 pharma clients\.

Associate Product Manager \- Data & Analytics at Indegene, Sep 2017 \- Aug 2020 · 3 yrs, Conceptualized and scaled a pharma forecasting product that was licensed to multiple top\-10 pharma customers, and deployed to multiple global regions

Product Manager at foOfys, Jun 2014 \- Jun 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Launched multiple products across travel, healthcare, and e\-commerce, including coding a prototype using Google Apps script with Zapier integration that cut new\-product market\-entry costs and supported funding pitches for the client company

## Education

PGDM, Management, Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Bachelor of Engineering \(BE\), Mechanical Engineering, Manipal institute of technology

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