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title: "Pragyan Prakash Pradhan - AI/ML Product Manager & Fractional CPO in Bangalore Urban | Tal"
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# Pragyan Prakash Pradhan on Tal

## Headline

Senior Prouct manager \| Fractional CPO & AI/ML Product Leader \| Automotive OEM → AI/SaaS \| PMP® · PSPO I \| Mercedes\-Benz · VW · Renault\-Nissan · Tata Motors \| Open to Global Remote Roles

## About

Most product leaders come from either engineering or business\. I spent 10 years inside Mercedes\-Benz, Volkswagen, Renault\-Nissan, and Tata Motors — solving hard, high\-stakes engineering problems at global scale\. Then I rebuilt myself as an AI/ML product leader\. That combination is rare\. And it's what I bring to every product I own\. I now operate as a Fractional CPO and Senior PM, working with early\-stage and growth\-stage companies to define product vision, build ML\-powered platforms, and scale from zero to one\. I've led discovery for AI/ML\-driven products, designed trust & safety systems for B2C marketplaces, and advised data science teams on model integration, evaluation metrics, and human\-in\-the\-loop feedback loops\. My edge: I speak fluent engineering AND fluent product\. I can sit with a data scientist, a CTO, and a CFO in the same room — and translate across all three\. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What I've done: ▸ 14\+ years across global automotive OEMs \(Mercedes\-Benz R&D India, VW Group, Renault\-Nissan Alliance, Tata Motors\) ▸ Fractional CPO & PM advisor to AI/ML, SaaS, and consumer tech startups ▸ Co\-founder, Mentyours\.com — B2C mentorship marketplace \(zero to live\) ▸ PMP® Certified \| PSPO I Certified \| Lean Six Sigma ▸ B\.E\. Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Currently open to: → Senior PM / Principal PM roles \(AI/ML, Automotive Tech, SaaS\) → Fractional CPO / Head of Product engagements → Global remote · Full\-time or contract 📩 pragyanpp1992@gmail\.com \| 🌐 pragyanpp\.com

## Location

Bangalore Urban

## AI stack

claude

cursor

langchain

langgraph

langsmith

notion

## Work experience

AI/ML Product Manager & Fractional CPO at Consulting, Dec 2025 \- Present · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Providing fractional CPO and senior PM advisory services to early\-stage and growth\-stage startups across AI/ML, SaaS, and consumer technology — embedded as a strategic product partner, owning roadmap definition, discovery execution, team coaching, and go\-to\-market strategy\. • Define product vision, 12\-month roadmaps, and sprint\-ready user stories for AI/ML\-driven platforms, translating business objectives into clearly scoped epics for globally distributed engineering teams\. • Lead end\-to\-end product discovery — user interviews, competitive analysis, and Jobs\-to\-Be\-Done \(JTBD\) frameworks — identifying high\-impact opportunities and materially improving backlog quality\. • Advise on ML model integration and data pipeline requirements; define model acceptance criteria, evaluation metrics, and human\-in\-the\-loop feedback loops, bridging data science and business stakeholders\. • Designed trust and safety product flows for a B2C mentorship marketplace: mentor verification, identity validation, abuse\-prevention triggers, and end\-to\-end session lifecycle management\. • Established OKR frameworks, sprint cadences, and executive reporting structures that increased milestone predictability and alignment across client organisations\.

Digital product delivery \|Senior Product Manager at Mercedes\-Benz Research and Development India, Jun 2022 \- Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Mercedes\-Benz Research & Development India \(MBRDI\) Digital Product Delivery \| Senior Product Manager June 2022 – Present · Bengaluru ▸ Owned end\-to\-end product delivery for AI/ML\-driven digital engineering platforms, translating complex R&D requirements into sprint\-ready epics for globally distributed engineering teams across India and Germany\. manufacturing accuracy for production programmes\. ▸ Defined model acceptance criteria, evaluation metrics, and human\-in\-the\-loop feedback loops for ML modules; bridged data science teams and business stakeholders to accelerate model deployment timelines\. ▸ Drove product discovery for 3\+ digital initiatives — conducting stakeholder interviews, competitive benchmarking, and JTBD analysis — improving backlog quality and aligning roadmap priorities with global R&D leadership\. ▸ Established sprint cadences, OKR frameworks, and executive reporting structures across cross\-functional teams \(design, engineering, manufacturing\), improving milestone predictability and reducing delivery variance by \~25%\. ▸ Collaborated with counterparts across Mercedes\-Benz AG \(Stuttgart\) to align digital product strategy with global vehicle programme timelines, managing dependencies across 5\+ workstreams simultaneously\.

Project Program Coordinator at ŠKODA AUTO Volkswagen India Private Limited, Dec 2021 \- Jun 2022 · 7 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, ŠKODA AUTO Volkswagen India Private Limited Technical Project Manager & Program Coordinator December 2021 – June 2022 · Pune ▸ Led end\-to\-end feasibility and manufacturability assessments for sheet metal programmes across the VW Group India platform — integrating simulation outcomes into project plans to proactively identify and mitigate technical and schedule risks before tooling commitment\. ▸ Coordinated cross\-functional programme reviews across design, simulation, tooling, and supplier teams — maintaining alignment on milestone gates and ensuring DFM sign\-offs met VW Group global quality standards\. ▸ Translated forming simulation outputs \(springback, thinning, formability\) into actionable engineering briefs for programme leadership — enabling faster design freeze decisions and reducing late\-stage design change costs\. ▸ Managed concurrent deliverables across multiple body\-in\-white components — coordinating supplier readiness, tooling timelines, and internal engineering reviews to maintain programme schedule adherence within a compressed 7\-month engagement\. ▸ Acted as single point of contact between VW India engineering and external simulation/tooling vendors — resolving technical escalations and maintaining delivery momentum across a fast\-paced programme environment\.

Technical Project Lead → Acting Technical Product Owner at RENAULT NISSAN MITSUBISHI ALLIANCE, INDIA, Nov 2017 \- Jun 2022 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Tamil Nadu, India, Renault\-Nissan\-Mitsubishi Alliance Technical Project Lead → Acting Technical Product Owner November 2017 – June 2022 · Chennai, Tamil Nadu ▸ Acted as technical PO equivalent for global vehicle programme deliverables across the Alliance — owned DFM review sign\-offs, managed backlog of 50\+ engineering milestones, and aligned cross\-functional teams spanning France, Japan, and India\. ▸ Led sheet metal forming feasibility and manufacturability assessments for 3\+ global vehicle programmes — identifying structural risks early in the development cycle and preventing downstream cost escalations estimated at ₹2–5Cr per programme\. ▸ Defined and maintained engineering milestone backlogs across concept, development, and pre\-production phases — coordinating with design, tooling, simulation, and supplier teams to hit programme gates with <5% schedule deviation\. ▸ Drove adoption of simulation\-led validation \(FEA/forming simulation\) as a default gate criterion — reducing physical prototype iterations by \~30% and compressing time\-to\-tooling sign\-off across programmes\. ▸ Served as primary technical liaison between Alliance India engineering and European programme leadership \(Renault, France\) — translating complex simulation outputs into decision\-ready briefs for non\-technical stakeholders\. ▸ Mentored and coordinated a team of 6–8 engineers across forming simulation, DFM review, and supplier quality workstreams — building team capability and maintaining delivery consistency across simultaneous programme timelines\.

Research And Development Engineer at Tata MotorsLtd, Aug 2013 \- Nov 2017 · 4 yrs 4 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Contributed to product delivery lifecycle across two OEM organisations; supported backlog of engineering design validation tasks aligned with cost, quality, and regulatory requirements\.

Research And Development Engineer at Tata MotorsLtd, Jul 2013 \- Nov 2017 · 4 yrs 5 mos

## Education

Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

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