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title: "Pranava R. - Product Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Pranava R., Product Manager: Consumer Tech, Marketplaces, E-commerce | Ex - Lenskart, Meesho | NIT Trichy based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and gemini."
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# Pranava R\. on Tal

## Headline

Product Manager: Consumer Tech, Marketplaces, E\-commerce \| Ex \- Lenskart, Meesho \| NIT Trichy

## About

Hi\! I'm Pranava, a Product Manager who likes building products where software meets the real world: consumer apps at scale, physical stores, devices, and the people using them on the ground\. Most recently I drove product for the Store Visitor charter at Lenskart: eye tests across 2,200\+ stores\. Before that, I was an APM at Meesho working on the product feed for 200M\+ users\. My favorite project there tackled product quality on the feed: catalog\-level quality signals were too noisy and missed systemically bad sellers, so I rebuilt filtering at the granular seller and category levels; lifting retention by 0\.6% \(\~₹100 Cr\) and cutting returns\. I started my career in data as a Data & AI Consultant at Thorogood, building BI platforms for Fortune 500 CPG clients\. SQL, Python, dashboards, that's still the foundation I build products on\. Earlier stints at AppX \(YC\-backed\), Impact Consulting, and 180 Degrees Consulting gave me my first exposure to user research, PMF, and building from zero\. Currently exploring my next role; ideally at the intersection of consumer scale and real\-world operations\. Happy to connect at pranava\.nitt@gmail\.com\!

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

notion

openai

## Work experience

Product Manager at Lenskart\.com, Nov 2025 \- Jun 2026 · 7 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Drove product for the Store Visitor charter \(In\-store\) with a 25\-member pod of devs & designers, serving 2,200\+ stores across India, UAE, SA, and Thailand\. \- Built and launched the end\-to\-end kids' eye\-test system covering child\-appropriate test flows, protocols & store ops, opening the under\-16 segment\. \- Cut virtual eye\-test failures by 35% \(from 1\.6 video calls per completed test down to 1\.1\) via on\-ground RCAs at stores & the remote optometry center; fixing UX misuse patterns and building resilient reconnection flows and reduced customer wait times and freed optometrist capacity\. \- Increased eye\-test throughput by 10% through revamped optometrist assignment algorithm, improving optometrist utilization across the network\. \- Scaled Bifrost, a device\-data \(IoT\) integration capturing prescriptions digitally from Auto\-Refractors and Lensometers, removing manual entry errors\.

Associate Product Manager at Meesho, Jun 2024 \- Nov 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked on the product feed and catalog quality for 200M\+ MAU at the intersection of user experience, supply quality, and marketplace health\. \- Improved retention by 0\.6% \(\+₹100 Cr\) and reduced returns by rebuilding catalog quality filtering at granular seller x category level to catch systemically poor sellers that catalog\-level signals missed\. \- Shipped 5 features and 20\+ experiments end\-to\-end with tech, data science, and business teams\. \- Owned 10\+ key metrics and automated 15\+ dashboards with real\-time alerts, enabling faster decisions and RCAs\. \- Awarded 'Star Team of the Quarter' twice by the CXO \- Business for KPI outperformance \('User 1st' & 'Extreme Ownership'\)\.

Consultant \| Data & AI at Thorogood, Jul 2023 \- Jun 2024 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Built data platforms and BI solutions for Fortune 500 CPG clients\. \- Led development of an end\-to\-end data migration solution for a multinational FMCG client, moving reporting from Nielsen Local to Nielsen Discover across 130\+ global markets\. \- Acted as Product Owner for the solution, driving requirements, prioritization and adoption with the client's internal teams\. \- Designed and deployed 10\+ automated data pipelines on Azure \(Data Factory, Databricks\), automating extraction from 70\+ datasets \(1M\+ rows\) and cutting processing time by 30%\. \- Delivered 10\+ Power BI dashboards used by client leadership for data\-backed decisions\.

Product \| Founder's Office at Livvy\.App, Feb 2023 \- Apr 2023 · 3 mos, \- Led MVP development for the early\-stage web platform, working cross\-functionally from concept to launch\. \- Designed and iterated 5\+ core UI/UX flows, improving navigation and engagement by around 30% based on user testing\. \- Analyzed 10\+ competitors on pricing, positioning and user pain points, feeding directly into product and GTM decisions\.

Project Manager at Fractal, Jun 2022 \- Aug 2022 · 3 mos, \- Proposed and promoted localized development environments, anticipating an x% reduction in infrastructure costs, aligning with broader cost\-optimization goals\. \- Authored a comprehensive setup manual, streamlining onboarding and reducing ramp\-up time for new and existing team members by ensuring clear, accessible documentation\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Production/Industrial Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

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