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Nirmal Thomas

Staff Product Manager at Tekion Corp

Bengaluru

15+ years of work experience

Tekion Corp
Apr 20224 yrs 5 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Tekion Corp
Jan 20202 yrs 4 mosApr 2022

Swoo
Aug 20181 yr 1 moAug 2019

Bengaluru Area, India

• Handle the product growth stack for Swoo • Understand the customers and their needs • Measure and optimize conversion funnels by improved user experience and product enhancements • Identify cohort patterns and improve segment based experience(like rubber-banding) for better app engagement and retention • Handle the push notification strategy for Swoo • Employed in-app notification as a tool to drive 25% D7 user retention • Planned and executed Refer and earn campaign contributing 60% user acquisition • Revamping the entire Refer and earn design for improved conversions • Improve virality potential of the app contents • Identify key metrics to track and rectify event tracking pain points • A/B test experiments and enhancements to measure success • Plan and implement new game formats • Own and Manage Trivia and Bingo games • Explore vernacular opportunities for growth
Plingd Entertainments
Jun 20153 yrs 3 mosAug 2018

Cochin Area, India

Plingd is a co-branded regional entertainment mobile application platform. Plingd has a rating of 4.4 in the app store and has got good customer feedbacks. Plingd downloads has crossed 150K users across the globe. The number of offline and online listens has crossed 900K. • Build the product from scratch. • Conduct market research and user surveys for collecting data helpful for product development. • Co-ordinate and lead the entire product development lifecycle – Requirements analysis, market validation, UX Research, Prototyping and UI designing, development, data design, testing and launch. • Create the business plan and financial projections. • Strategically define the product roadmap and define/assess KPI’s for business improvements and product feature enhancements. • Build strategic relationships and partnerships. • Get user downloads and revenue. • Drive marketing and sales campaigns on multiple channels. • Handle the B2B face of the product. • Negotiations for supplier contracts. • Close watch the competitors. • Monitor customer usage patterns and suggest measures to increase stickiness and user intuitiveness. • Explore Innovation opportunities.
QBurst
Mar 20141 yr 3 mosMay 2015

Cochin Area, India

• Define project requirements for clients across domains. • Create PRDs, Use case based Process Flow Diagrams, articulate the business requirements to the technical team and ensure that it is well captured. • Work closely with the UX team in Prototypes/Wireframes. • Assist the PM in the drafting and issuance of project proposals, RFP’s, tenders, schedules and project plans. • Sprint planning and create work breakdown structure in JIRA. • Track the progress on a milestone basis and ensure the quality of work being performed by the design, development and QA teams. • Part of 15+ successful mobile/web products
Sep 20121 yr 7 mosMar 2014

Cochin Area, India

• Worked on the product ‘Emotions’, a sentiments analysis tool for brands. • Part of the team developing iTestify.it, a widget which filters the positive mentions from different channels to post it directly to the website. • Plan and ship iTestify.it mobile application • Lead a small team of 5 remotely located interns. • Formulate analytics based solutions to help small retailers gain deeper insights on their data to improve business KPI’s. • Create report prototype models for analytics dashboards. • Technologies/Tools used: Python, SQL
Infosys
Aug 20102 yAug 2012

Chennai

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Education

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

20132 yrs2015
Cochin University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

Cochin University of Science and Technology

20064 yrs2010

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Headline

Staff Product Manager at Tekion Corp

About

Staff Product Manager at Tekion; Head of Product responsible for end to end product lifecycle at Plingd. Product Management professional with Masters from IIM Kozhikode with 8 years of industrial experience in Product building and management and handling Analytics/Business Intelligence, web/mobile development products across domains. Freelance Trainer/Speaker on topics of Entrepreneurship and Data Analytics. Mentoring & consulting for early stage startups and management students.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

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gemini

Figma Make

Work experience

Staff Product Manager at Tekion Corp, Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Product Manager at Tekion Corp, Jan 2020 - Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Product at Swoo, Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru Area, India, • Handle the product growth stack for Swoo • Understand the customers and their needs • Measure and optimize conversion funnels by improved user experience and product enhancements • Identify cohort patterns and improve segment based experience(like rubber-banding) for better app engagement and retention • Handle the push notification strategy for Swoo • Employed in-app notification as a tool to drive 25% D7 user retention • Planned and executed Refer and earn campaign contributing 60% user acquisition • Revamping the entire Refer and earn design for improved conversions • Improve virality potential of the app contents • Identify key metrics to track and rectify event tracking pain points • A/B test experiments and enhancements to measure success • Plan and implement new game formats • Own and Manage Trivia and Bingo games • Explore vernacular opportunities for growth

Head Of Products at Plingd Entertainments, Jun 2015 - Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Cochin Area, India, Plingd is a co-branded regional entertainment mobile application platform. Plingd has a rating of 4.4 in the app store and has got good customer feedbacks. Plingd downloads has crossed 150K users across the globe. The number of offline and online listens has crossed 900K. • Build the product from scratch. • Conduct market research and user surveys for collecting data helpful for product development. • Co-ordinate and lead the entire product development lifecycle – Requirements analysis, market validation, UX Research, Prototyping and UI designing, development, data design, testing and launch. • Create the business plan and financial projections. • Strategically define the product roadmap and define/assess KPI’s for business improvements and product feature enhancements. • Build strategic relationships and partnerships. • Get user downloads and revenue. • Drive marketing and sales campaigns on multiple channels. • Handle the B2B face of the product. • Negotiations for supplier contracts. • Close watch the competitors. • Monitor customer usage patterns and suggest measures to increase stickiness and user intuitiveness. • Explore Innovation opportunities.

Business Analyst at QBurst, Mar 2014 - May 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos, Cochin Area, India, • Define project requirements for clients across domains. • Create PRDs, Use case based Process Flow Diagrams, articulate the business requirements to the technical team and ensure that it is well captured. • Work closely with the UX team in Prototypes/Wireframes. • Assist the PM in the drafting and issuance of project proposals, RFP’s, tenders, schedules and project plans. • Sprint planning and create work breakdown structure in JIRA. • Track the progress on a milestone basis and ensure the quality of work being performed by the design, development and QA teams. • Part of 15+ successful mobile/web products

Product Consultant at Freelance Consulting - Analytics, Sep 2012 - Mar 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos, Cochin Area, India, • Worked on the product ‘Emotions’, a sentiments analysis tool for brands. • Part of the team developing iTestify.it, a widget which filters the positive mentions from different channels to post it directly to the website. • Plan and ship iTestify.it mobile application • Lead a small team of 5 remotely located interns. • Formulate analytics based solutions to help small retailers gain deeper insights on their data to improve business KPI’s. • Create report prototype models for analytics dashboards. • Technologies/Tools used: Python, SQL

Systems Engineer at Infosys, Aug 2010 - Aug 2012 · 2 y, Chennai

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology