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Piyush Narang

Product Manager at TOI | Ex - Amarujala.com | Ex - RateGain

Noida

11+ years of work experience

Times Internet
Mar 20224 yrs 2 mosPresent

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Amarujala.com
Sep 20183 yrs 6 mosFeb 2022

Noida Area, India

Managed amarujala.com site & android app, most engaged & most visited Hindi content website (52M MAU) - Pivoted the product from a free content destination to a subscription based content platform (Amar Ujala e-paper and amarujala.com). - Improved 30 days retention by 22.5% for Amar Ujala android app. - Active devices of the Amar Ujala android app increased by 400%. - Introduced flagship features like text-to-speech, news briefs, big story section, breaking news strip, dark mode, content highlights, blogs, premium articles, personalized push notification and podcast to improve the user engagement and brand lovers. - Launched micro websites for general election 2019, IPL 2019, daily quiz and podcast. Owned and launched the e-commerce and complete marketplace, one platform for all marketplace solutions. - Introduced and launched flagship and personalization features. - Developed a marketplace management system to manage all leads, orders, services, users and vendors.
Culture Machine Media Pvt. Ltd
Feb 20188 mosSep 2018

Pune

-Defining product roadmap, prioritizing features and driving product strategy discussions. -Planning and executing product roadmap to meet goals via a regular deployment cycle. -Creating wireframes, user stories, and business cases, defining product requirements, creating prototypes, defining test scenarios and conducting acceptance/usability testing. -Analyzing product-related data, derive insights, figuring out patterns and propose solutions backed by data. -Involved in market research, competitive analysis, technology assessment, Market/product gaps, and requirements. -Working closely with the Engineering Team (Development, QA, and Documentation) to deliver product releases on time and of expected quality. -Ensuring successful launch execution and clear consumer messaging of key product roll-outs. -Working closely with the stakeholders on using developed products for customer implementation. -Participating in Proof of concept, Sales Demos, Customer Pilots and Business Conferences.
Culture Machine Media Pvt. Ltd
Jan 20181 moJan 2018

Pune

Culture Machine Media Pvt. Ltd
Apr 20173 mosJun 2017

Pune Area, India

Project-1: Building a Model to automate identification of Content Formats and Content Theme of a Video My role in the project: My role was to propose a model that can be developed to automate the identification of content theme and content format from videos Meta data. This project was divided in two parts human centric approach and machine centric approach. Project-2: Proactive Content Creation: Collect data for various Tent-pole events. My role in the project: My role was to develop database of Tent-pole events. For which I have to explore various websites and APIs where we can fetch data. To extract data I wrote web scraper and used online web scraping tool. Project-3: Mapping of YouTube Channels with other social media platforms My role in the project: My role was to propose a solution to fetch external links from YouTube. For this I wrote a script in C#.NET which can extract external links from YouTube Channel ‘About’ page and store those links in local files. Project-4: Discover keywords and phrases that describe a brand from the consumer’s perspective My role in the project: My role was to propose a model through which one can extract related keywords and phrases. I wrote a script in python based on NLP to support my model, which can generate desire results. Project-5: Establish hierarchical mapping amongst the freebase entities for aggregation My role in the project: My role was to propose a model, through which one can built a relation between the entities, in association with clubbing similar entities. For this project I extracted data for 7 lakh entities (as sample) from Wikidata.org, this data is further used by stored procedures written by me, to build mapping among the entities.
RateGain It Solutions
Jul 20132 yrs 11 mosMay 2016

Noida Area, India

RateGain provides hospitality and travel technology solutions for revenue management decision support, rate intelligence, seamless electronic distribution and brand engagement. Designation: Software Engineer Product: PriceGain Air It is a unique cloud-based price intelligence tool that allows real-time monitoring of air fares for retail travel businesses like Airlines and Online Travel Agents (OTA's) across various competitor & supplier websites. Technology Programming Language C#.NET Database SQL Server 2008 Framework Visual Studio 2008 Role and Responsibility 1. Main Responsibility is to develop web spiders (AKA Internet Robots / web scraper / web crawler) for different travel websites which provides online air reservation. 2. Analyzing individual website for navigation, data points and website behavior using HTTP Analyzer, IE Watcher and Fiddler. 3. Development using C#.NET code for web screen scraping. JSON and LINQ is also being used. Special handling for Anonymous shopping. 4. Unit Testing. Project: Automate Identification of Booking Engine There was requirement to automate the identification of Booking Engine used by individual hotel. Complete automation was done for known booking engines and for new booking engines this tool facilitates the user to navigate to required page to record the new booking engine. It improved the quality and efficiency to a great degree. Technology Programming Language C#.NET Database SQL Server 2008 Framework Visual Studio 2008 Role and Responsibility 1. Design and development of this tool 2. Created DB schema for storing the hotel list, booking engine keywords and final responses 3. Allows to rerun the app from last run position 4. Unit Testing.

Piyush’s AI Stack

cursor
cursor
langchain
langchain
notion
notion
openai
openai

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Information Technology Business Management

Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology

20162 yrs2018
Lovely Professional University

B Tech, Computer Science

Lovely Professional University

20094 yrs2013

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Headline

Product Manager at TOI | Ex - Amarujala.com | Ex - RateGain

About

• 9+ years of experience in creating successful consumer products across industries (Digital content, Travel, e-commerce, & Mobile) • Tools: Axure RP & Balsamiq (wireframe); GA, Data Studio & MySQL (Analytics); JIRA (task/bug tracking); Optimizely (A/B testing) • Education: MBA – Symbiosis International – Pune; B tech – LPU – Jalandhar

Location

Noida

AI stack

cursor

langchain

notion

openai

Work experience

Product Manager at Times Internet, Mar 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Product Manager at Amarujala.com, Sep 2018 - Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Noida Area, India, Managed amarujala.com site & android app, most engaged & most visited Hindi content website (52M MAU) - Pivoted the product from a free content destination to a subscription based content platform (Amar Ujala e-paper and amarujala.com). - Improved 30 days retention by 22.5% for Amar Ujala android app. - Active devices of the Amar Ujala android app increased by 400%. - Introduced flagship features like text-to-speech, news briefs, big story section, breaking news strip, dark mode, content highlights, blogs, premium articles, personalized push notification and podcast to improve the user engagement and brand lovers. - Launched micro websites for general election 2019, IPL 2019, daily quiz and podcast. Owned and launched the e-commerce and complete marketplace, one platform for all marketplace solutions. - Introduced and launched flagship and personalization features. - Developed a marketplace management system to manage all leads, orders, services, users and vendors.

Associate Product Manager at Culture Machine Media Pvt. Ltd, Feb 2018 - Sep 2018 · 8 mos, Pune, -Defining product roadmap, prioritizing features and driving product strategy discussions. -Planning and executing product roadmap to meet goals via a regular deployment cycle. -Creating wireframes, user stories, and business cases, defining product requirements, creating prototypes, defining test scenarios and conducting acceptance/usability testing. -Analyzing product-related data, derive insights, figuring out patterns and propose solutions backed by data. -Involved in market research, competitive analysis, technology assessment, Market/product gaps, and requirements. -Working closely with the Engineering Team (Development, QA, and Documentation) to deliver product releases on time and of expected quality. -Ensuring successful launch execution and clear consumer messaging of key product roll-outs. -Working closely with the stakeholders on using developed products for customer implementation. -Participating in Proof of concept, Sales Demos, Customer Pilots and Business Conferences.

Intern at Culture Machine Media Pvt. Ltd, Jan 2018 - Jan 2018 · 1 mo, Pune

Business Analyst Internship at Culture Machine Media Pvt. Ltd, Apr 2017 - Jun 2017 · 3 mos, Pune Area, India, Project-1: Building a Model to automate identification of Content Formats and Content Theme of a Video My role in the project: My role was to propose a model that can be developed to automate the identification of content theme and content format from videos Meta data. This project was divided in two parts human centric approach and machine centric approach. Project-2: Proactive Content Creation: Collect data for various Tent-pole events. My role in the project: My role was to develop database of Tent-pole events. For which I have to explore various websites and APIs where we can fetch data. To extract data I wrote web scraper and used online web scraping tool. Project-3: Mapping of YouTube Channels with other social media platforms My role in the project: My role was to propose a solution to fetch external links from YouTube. For this I wrote a script in C#.NET which can extract external links from YouTube Channel ‘About’ page and store those links in local files. Project-4: Discover keywords and phrases that describe a brand from the consumer’s perspective My role in the project: My role was to propose a model through which one can extract related keywords and phrases. I wrote a script in python based on NLP to support my model, which can generate desire results. Project-5: Establish hierarchical mapping amongst the freebase entities for aggregation My role in the project: My role was to propose a model, through which one can built a relation between the entities, in association with clubbing similar entities. For this project I extracted data for 7 lakh entities (as sample) from Wikidata.org, this data is further used by stored procedures written by me, to build mapping among the entities.

Software Engineer at RateGain It Solutions, Jul 2013 - May 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Noida Area, India, RateGain provides hospitality and travel technology solutions for revenue management decision support, rate intelligence, seamless electronic distribution and brand engagement. Designation: Software Engineer Product: PriceGain Air It is a unique cloud-based price intelligence tool that allows real-time monitoring of air fares for retail travel businesses like Airlines and Online Travel Agents (OTA's) across various competitor & supplier websites. Technology Programming Language C#.NET Database SQL Server 2008 Framework Visual Studio 2008 Role and Responsibility 1. Main Responsibility is to develop web spiders (AKA Internet Robots / web scraper / web crawler) for different travel websites which provides online air reservation. 2. Analyzing individual website for navigation, data points and website behavior using HTTP Analyzer, IE Watcher and Fiddler. 3. Development using C#.NET code for web screen scraping. JSON and LINQ is also being used. Special handling for Anonymous shopping. 4. Unit Testing. Project: Automate Identification of Booking Engine There was requirement to automate the identification of Booking Engine used by individual hotel. Complete automation was done for known booking engines and for new booking engines this tool facilitates the user to navigate to required page to record the new booking engine. It improved the quality and efficiency to a great degree. Technology Programming Language C#.NET Database SQL Server 2008 Framework Visual Studio 2008 Role and Responsibility 1. Design and development of this tool 2. Created DB schema for storing the hotel list, booking engine keywords and final responses 3. Allows to rerun the app from last run position 4. Unit Testing.

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Information Technology Business Management, Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology

B Tech, Computer Science, Lovely Professional University