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Senior Product Manager | Global Higher Ed SaaS @QS | AI Feature & Experience PM | Ex-Myntra | Ex-Startup Co-Founder (EdTech)

About

Pranav is a mission-driven product management professional and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience creating and managing products in the healthcare, edtech & E-commerce industries. Driven by a deep passion for leveraging technology to improve people's lives, Pranav co-founded Edisonedge Software Solutions, a company that developed educational games to help competitive exam aspirants achieve success. Currently, Pranav is dedicated to making a difference in the education industry with a strong focus on innovation and scalability @ QS Quacquarelli Symonds. While leading the growth of digital therapeutic products, he also pursued side projects in agritech, including hydroponics farming, SaaS-based farming solutions, and alternative protein (plant-based meat) production. In addition to his entrepreneurial pursuits, Pranav is committed to sharing his knowledge & introducing high-growth career options to motivated youth in rural areas of Bihar.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

aistudio

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

gemini

Work experience

Senior Product Manager at QS Quacquarelli Symonds, May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Product Owner at QS Quacquarelli Symonds, Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Solving problems for international higher education institutions and students by building impactful SAAS products.

Technical Product Owner at QS Quacquarelli Symonds, May 2022 - Feb 2023 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Partner Consultant-Product Manager at Myntra, Jun 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Director Of Operations at Dharma Life Sciences LLC, Jan 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Dharma Life Sciences helps people overcome their mental health issues using technology that focuses on high-quality, measurable outcomes & value-based payment methods. The 8-week emotional health program is technology-driven-psychologist-supported, solving issues ranging from anxiety to depression. Pranav was involved in various aspects of managing a mental health product & services company. Identify new business opportunities, building new products, managing research projects, hiring & training cross-functional teams, managing client relationships, leading strategic partnerships for research & product growth, and sales & marketing. He worked directly with the CEO & VP of engineering to make decisions for the business operations, product enhancements & setting strategic goals. In this role he enjoys generating new ideas, helping teams succeed, data analysis, and devising feasible solutions to relevant problems.

Product Manager at Dharma Life Sciences LLC, Apr 2019 - Dec 2019 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Managed neuroscience & CBT-based emotional health management software (apps & desktop software) comprising of 20+ types of brain games, 41+ emotional health assessments, and patient monitoring system. Public speaking: • 'Building an Environment of Creativity: Insights to overall Faculty Development' at Garden City University, Bangalore. • "Entrepreneurship Awareness Program" at JSS Academy of Technical Education, Bangalore. • "Impact of creativity on academic & professional success" at Indian Academy Group of Institutions, Bangalore.

Senior Research Scientist & Manager-R&D at Dharma Life Sciences LLC, Oct 2017 - Feb 2018 · 5 mos, Bangalore

Co-Founder & Head of Product Management at Edisonedge Software Solutions, Mar 2017 - Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bangalore, Edisonedge built an online educational skill gaming app (KwizKing) to make the competitive exam preparation journey fun, engaging, and rewarding. KwizKing offered exam aspirants to win real money on playing online quiz tournaments, on competitive exam topics. Post pivot, KwizKing focused on B2B and helped educational institutions run gamified quiz assessments for students. He conceptualized, designed, and led a team of developers to build the KwizKing app starting from idea to public beta launch. He was instrumental in all product development & management responsibilities such as: • Creating wireframes, roadmaps, strategy, UI/UX research, user persona, writing product requirement document, designing mobile app & website. • Product road-mapping, writing test cases, & conducting beta testing, building cross-functional team, managing freelancers, consultants & vendors. • Game management, KYC management, payment processing & customer success. • Strategic partnership with colleges, coaching institutes & managing overall finance of the company. • Making a business plan, pitch deck, and pitching to investors. • KwizKing ran on Flutter for mobile and Angular for web in the Frontend. Node.js with Microservices architecture in the Backend. MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Redis for datastore & cache, real-time behavior, and analytics. Hosted in Digital Ocean, APIs were documented using Swagger, and source code was maintained in Bitbucket.

Education

Leadership Programme, Loughborough Business School

Master of Science - M.Sc, Biotechnology, bangalore university