Headline

Product Manager, AI products · 8 years shipping 0→1 · co-ran a creative agency for 8 years, 72+ brands · self-taught across sales, design and code

About

I've spent eight years starting small things with no capital. I'd like to spend the next few inside a company that has it, working close to the founder. How it started: at 17, my friend Ganesh and I pitched summer camps door to door at apartment gates. At 18, I messaged a realtor who'd posted in a Facebook group, followed up for two weeks, and got the account. Our campaigns brought in the buyer for a ₹6 Cr flat he was listing, and the one Raine & Horne franchise we worked with grew to three. I learned more about selling from that than from anything since. The agency we built ran eight years under three names (Rewopme Media → Blank & White Studios → GetMyCreative). At its peak: ₹5L monthly recurring revenue, 72+ brands, 30M+ views on client content. The work I'm proudest of is the unglamorous kind — Nandini packaging that sells at Bangalore airport's T2, and Namma Power Run, which grew ~30% a year to 4,000+ runners with no ad budget. The studio still trades, on a smaller footing. In late 2025 we tried to build a GenAI creative platform on Gemini, Imagen and Veo. We got into Google for Startups with $100K in credits and piloted it with paying clients. Then a compromised API key ran up a ₹8L bill we couldn't carry, and we shut it down — carefully, with clients transitioned. It's the most expensive lesson I've had, and it's why I now watch infra bills daily. Since then I've built two things that are live and in use: → ELTH (elthclinic.com): clinic management software that Solace Life Clinic in Bangalore runs its day on — 9 departments, 8 staff roles, billing, WhatsApp automation, a patient portal. Ganesh built the initial frontend; I did product, design and most of the engineering, shipping weekly while the clinic used it. → comeoffline (comeoffline.com): a small paid, phone-free events community. ₹499+ tickets, every paid ticket showed up, 71 trackable QR posters as the marketing, and the booking platform behind it. I don't have a degree — I left school at 17 to do this, and everything since is self-taught. What I do have is range: I've sold, priced, designed, coded, handled payments and support, and kept a small team paid. I also know where I'm still green — scale, process, working inside a structure — which is exactly why I want a Founder's Office seat: to learn those at a company that's already growing, while carrying my share of the load. If that sounds useful, the full work is at nikithvijay.com. Happy to talk. nikikumar15@gmail.com

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

elevenlabs

hugging face

langgraph

Work experience

Founder at Comeoffline, 2026 - Present · 9 mos, Paid, phone-free events community in Bangalore. ₹499+ tickets, 100% show rate (everyone who paid walked through the door).

Product Manager at Elth Clinic, 2026 - Present · 9 mos, A clinic operating system a real Bangalore clinic runs its day on, replacing software the owner paid ₹12k a month for and never opened. Live at elthclinic.com on a paying subscription at ₹8k.

Chief Marketing Officer at getmycreative, Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, GetMyCreative began as a boutique branding agency and is now evolving into a Generative AI-powered creative suite (currently in build). Our mission is to reimagine how brands approach creativity — from identity to campaigns — blending design, strategy, and automation. Key Achievements (Agency Work): KMF Nandini: Rebranded their sweet box packaging to reflect Karnataka’s pride and culture. The refreshed designs are now among the top-selling SKUs at Kempegowda International Airport (T2). Namma Power Run: Partnered with the iconic run dedicated to Dr. Puneeth Rajkumar, driving a 30% YoY increase in participants across 3 consecutive editions through performance marketing and creative event assets. Anand Bogh Sweets (USA): Rebranded and redesigned for a boutique Indian sweets brand with 25+ retail store placements across the U.S., boosting their sales by connecting design to cultural nostalgia for Indian customers. What’s Next: Building GetMyCreative AI Suite — a generative AI platform that empowers brands to access instant, scalable creative assets without compromising quality or cultural nuance. This is the natural next step in my journey: moving from executing creative projects by hand to building tools that democratize creativity at scale.

Product Manager at N-Smart, Apr 2025 - Jul 2025 · 4 mos, Ran product on V1 of a grid asset platform for a US electric utility: user stories, systems modelling, full UI/UX flows and wireframes in Figma.

Co-Founder at GetMyCreative AI Suite, 2025 - 2026 · 1 yr, Led product on a GenAI creative-execution platform on Gemini, Imagen & Veo (Vertex AI): model-detected editable regions in a template, an infinite-canvas AI studio, brand kits auto-generated from a client's own site, a workflow catalog and an admin CMS.

Education

K.L.E. Society's S. Nijalingappa College (KLE SNC), Bengaluru

Public links

nikithvijay.com: https://nikithvijay.com/