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Rohit Kumar

Strategy & Product Leader | GenAI Transformation, 0→1 Growth & Ops Scaling Across Fintech, Travel & Mobility | IIM Calcutta | IIT Ropar

Gurugram

5+ years of work experience

Atain
Jan 20251 y 8 moPresent

Gurgaon

- Led product strategy for a crew operations platform, unifying 3 logistics modules to support a 400+ aircraft network and 10,000+ crew across hotel, transport, and PNR workflows. - Directed cross-functional alignment across 20+ stakeholders spanning engineering, client leadership, and operations — resolving competing priorities to deliver on agreed launch sequencing with zero SLA breaches. - Designed exception-management framework across 7+ disruption categories, increasing automation coverage and improving on-ground operational reliability. - Led GenAI product strategy for a conversational automation platform across 3+ enterprise travel clients, structuring the business case and rollout sequencing while balancing data privacy, compliance, and technical feasibility. - Diagnosed root-cause drivers of high-touch manual servicing cost; designed and tested a self-service migration strategy that cut manual support effort 30% and improved unit economics for enterprise clients. - Prioritized 10+ automation use cases with stakeholders, structuring trade-offs across compliance, client requirements, and technical constraints into the product roadmap.
Everest Fleet Pvt. Ltd.
Sep 20231 yr 4 mosDec 2024

- Set product and technology strategy for internal and driver-facing tools powering fleet operations across 30,000+ drivers and 10+ hubs in 5 metro cities. - Led 0→1 digital transformation strategy, deploying a support chatbot that replaced 20+ manual touchpoints with scalable self-service workflows. - Structured automation rules with 5+ operations leads for escalation handling, cutting manual steps ~20% and improving resolution consistency. - Drove operational efficiency gains of 20% in turnaround time and 50% in service resolution, directly impacting fleet-wide operational KPIs. - Used data from 30,000+ drivers across 5 cities to prioritize 8 roadmap initiatives tied to escalation performance, fleet uptime, and service quality. - Partnered with engineering, operations, and leadership to align product outcomes with business-critical operational KPIs.
American Express
May 20221 yr 1 moMay 2023

Gurugram

- Designed and executed a hypothesis-driven experimentation strategy across a 4M+ merchant portfolio, isolating high-leverage incentive and messaging levers that drove a 30% increase in merchant reactivation. - Ran 8+ structured A/B tests across 8+ merchant segments, translating analytics insight into targeted campaign and roadmap recommendations across the merchant lifecycle. - Partnered with Growth and Risk leadership to build a self-serve analytics infrastructure (5+ dashboards), enabling 20+ concurrent experiments and embedding a test-and-learn culture across teams. - Led SQL-based cohort and funnel analysis across millions of events, identifying friction points in merchant activation and engagement to inform targeted interventions. - Coordinated experiments with 15+ cross-functional partners across product, marketing, and risk, aligning hypotheses, metrics, and follow-ups for rigorous measurement. - Automated key campaign workflows, removing 5+ manual steps and cutting execution effort 25% — freeing capacity for higher-value strategic analysis.
Augniscient Pvt Ltd
Jul 20213 mosSep 2021

Thermistance
May 20201 yr 3 mosJul 2021

Rohit’s AI Stack

claude
claude
gemini
gemini

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

MBA

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar

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Headline

Strategy & Product Leader | GenAI Transformation, 0→1 Growth & Ops Scaling Across Fintech, Travel & Mobility | IIM Calcutta | IIT Ropar

About

I turn ambiguous, high-stakes business problems into structured bets then ship them. Over 5 years, I've operated at the intersection of strategy, GenAI, and operations across fintech, mobility, and travel, working directly with cross-functional and client leadership to unlock scale. Core Pillars: → 0→1 Strategy & GenAI Transformation: Built and scaled a GenAI conversational platform across 3 enterprise clients, automating 10+ workflows and cutting manual support effort 30%. → Growth & Experimentation: At American Express, designed and ran 8+ structured A/B tests across a 4M+ merchant portfolio, driving a 30% lift in reactivation through hypothesis-driven testing. → Ops Scaling & Efficiency: Redesigned operating workflows for a 30,000+ driver network across 5 metro cities, cutting turnaround time 20% and improving resolution efficiency 50%. → Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Leadership: Aligned 20+ stakeholders across engineering, operations, and client leadership on a 400+ aircraft, 10,000+ crew logistics platform spanning 5 operational systems. Highlights: - Led GenAI product strategy driving measurable containment and resolution gains across 3+ enterprise travel clients - Directed a 30% reduction in manual servicing cost through automation and self-service redesign - Owned end-to-end experimentation strategy on a 4M+ account portfolio at American Express - MBA, IIM Calcutta | B.Tech, IIT Ropar | SAFe Agilist Certified Actively exploring roles in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, and product leadership where structured problem-solving meets real operational scale.

Location

Gurugram

AI stack

claude

gemini

Work experience

Senior Business Consultant at Atain, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 y 8 mo, Gurgaon, - Led product strategy for a crew operations platform, unifying 3 logistics modules to support a 400+ aircraft network and 10,000+ crew across hotel, transport, and PNR workflows. - Directed cross-functional alignment across 20+ stakeholders spanning engineering, client leadership, and operations — resolving competing priorities to deliver on agreed launch sequencing with zero SLA breaches. - Designed exception-management framework across 7+ disruption categories, increasing automation coverage and improving on-ground operational reliability. - Led GenAI product strategy for a conversational automation platform across 3+ enterprise travel clients, structuring the business case and rollout sequencing while balancing data privacy, compliance, and technical feasibility. - Diagnosed root-cause drivers of high-touch manual servicing cost; designed and tested a self-service migration strategy that cut manual support effort 30% and improved unit economics for enterprise clients. - Prioritized 10+ automation use cases with stakeholders, structuring trade-offs across compliance, client requirements, and technical constraints into the product roadmap.

Founder's Office - Senior Program Lead at Everest Fleet Pvt. Ltd., Sep 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos, - Set product and technology strategy for internal and driver-facing tools powering fleet operations across 30,000+ drivers and 10+ hubs in 5 metro cities. - Led 0→1 digital transformation strategy, deploying a support chatbot that replaced 20+ manual touchpoints with scalable self-service workflows. - Structured automation rules with 5+ operations leads for escalation handling, cutting manual steps ~20% and improving resolution consistency. - Drove operational efficiency gains of 20% in turnaround time and 50% in service resolution, directly impacting fleet-wide operational KPIs. - Used data from 30,000+ drivers across 5 cities to prioritize 8 roadmap initiatives tied to escalation performance, fleet uptime, and service quality. - Partnered with engineering, operations, and leadership to align product outcomes with business-critical operational KPIs.

Analyst at American Express, May 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Gurugram, - Designed and executed a hypothesis-driven experimentation strategy across a 4M+ merchant portfolio, isolating high-leverage incentive and messaging levers that drove a 30% increase in merchant reactivation. - Ran 8+ structured A/B tests across 8+ merchant segments, translating analytics insight into targeted campaign and roadmap recommendations across the merchant lifecycle. - Partnered with Growth and Risk leadership to build a self-serve analytics infrastructure (5+ dashboards), enabling 20+ concurrent experiments and embedding a test-and-learn culture across teams. - Led SQL-based cohort and funnel analysis across millions of events, identifying friction points in merchant activation and engagement to inform targeted interventions. - Coordinated experiments with 15+ cross-functional partners across product, marketing, and risk, aligning hypotheses, metrics, and follow-ups for rigorous measurement. - Automated key campaign workflows, removing 5+ manual steps and cutting execution effort 25% — freeing capacity for higher-value strategic analysis.

Intern at Augniscient Pvt Ltd, Jul 2021 - Sep 2021 · 3 mos

Co-Founder at Thermistance, May 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Education

MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar