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title: "Sarthak Chandra - Product Manager in Pune District | Tal"
description: "Meet Sarthak Chandra, IIM Bangalore | MBA Class of ’28 | Building UX-focused tech products that drive growth | ex-Product @ Blinkit, Jio | IIIT-D ’23 based in Pune District. AI stack includes aistudio, claude code, and claude. Explore public work links including sarthakchandra.netlify.app."
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# Sarthak Chandra on Tal

## Headline

IIM Bangalore \| MBA Class of ’28 \| Building UX\-focused tech products that drive growth \| ex\-Product @ Blinkit, Jio \| IIIT\-D ’23

## About

Building products that matter is more than a profession, it’s a point of view\. Whether growing a B2B Wi\-Fi platform at Jio by 130%, unifying 10\+ disparate IoT systems for measurable business impact, or launching practical learning initiatives through VikalpWeb, the constant has been a passion for turning complexity into simple, delightfully functional solutions\.​​ The journey so far has been anything but linear: engineering foundations, business strategy acumen, and a continual focus on user empathy have shaped an approach that’s both analytic and creative\. Championing cross\-functional teams, leveraging data, and prioritizing user feedback have earned high satisfaction scores and breakthroughs in untapped markets\.​ Curiosity extends beyond the boardroom\. You’ll find the same energy watching a late\-night cricket match, cheering for RedBull and Verstappen on Formula 1 weekends, or seeking out the best new eats in town\. Always open to new and challenging opportunities, anywhere vision, teamwork, and innovative first\-principle thinking can be put to the test\. If you’re building something impactful or want a product strategist who brings unique experience and relentless curiosity, let’s connect\. Excited to learn, share, and collaborate to shape what’s next\.

## Location

Pune District

## AI stack

aistudio

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

gemini

## Work experience

Product Manager at Blinkit, Jan 2026 \- Jun 2026 · 6 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, · Increased self‑serve reporting usage by \~45% and cut report‑related tickets by \~30% by launching a unified Reporting tab with 25 standardised reports, filters, saveable views and AI insights\. · Reduced security risk incidents to near‑zero and seller admin effort by \~40% by introducing individual logins, role‑based access control, granular permissions and full audit trails\. · Grew seller mobile DAUs by \~50% and reduced desktop dependence by \~35% by shipping a Seller app with a one‑view snapshot of business health and daily ops KPIs\. · Reduced GRN TAT by \~25% and payout disputes by \~40% by making invoice upload mandatory at RO creation and validating GST/quantity/price mismatches upfro

Product Manager at Jio Things Limited, Jun 2023 \- Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, Managed Wi\-Fi Platform Sep\-2024 \- Present \- Secured a 130% growth in platform adoption, leading end\-to\-end product development for B2B/HNI residential Wi\-Fi platform \- Achieved 7\.5Cr revenue in the first 6 months of launch, building GTM strategy across clients relevant to MVP features of platform\. \- Increased customer satisfaction scores to 4\.2/5 \(previously 2\.9\), through user\-centric design enhancements & improving flow\. \- Yielded per customer cost saving of 10 Lakhs per customer per year, promoting scalable but efficient infrastructure processes \- Drove market research and analysed 15\+ competitors to position as a cost\-effective premium offering in the Indian market\. \- Improved user experience and flow, boosting customer satisfaction scores by 120% post new version deployment\. \- Secured 12% market share within first 6 months for the SMB market launching GTM strategy to expand into 8 new markets Unified IoT Platform Project Jun\-2023 \- Sep 2024 \- Cut down infra needs by 50%, & reduced development lead times by 75%, resulting in a 20x faster deployment for new features \- Increased customer conversion by 60% by prioritising data\-driven feature development and reducing integration complexity\. \- Captured 30% market share across 13 IoT verticals through a scalable, user\-centric product, enhancing operational efficiency\. \- Saved \~10CR annually in maintenance costs by establishing standardised operating procedures, and optimising cloud usage\. \- Aligned customer needs and product vision, accomplishing a 51\.02% CTR \(previously 15%\) with data\-driven marketing strategy\.

Summer Intern: Product Analyst at Panasonic India, May 2022 \- Jun 2022 · 1 mo, Gurugram, Haryana, India, • Identified and controlled app bugs by 30%, improving user satisfaction by 25% through analysis of pain points for internal CRM\. • Benchmarked the app against competitors, streamlined decision\-making process, and drove a 20% rise in user compliance\. • Devised 17 best practices for Salesforce CRM integration\. Increased efficiency by 40% & brought down data entry errors by 15%\.

Summer Research Intern at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, May 2021 \- Jul 2021 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Leveraged Python libraries to analyse data from obituaries and official sources—quantified under\-reporting of COVID\-19 deaths\. • Analysed data to find, on average, a 400% rise in obituaries and a 45% discrepancy in daily government reports for Covid\-19\. • Published an article in IIMB’s Management Review \(IMR\) Journal on the under\-reporting of Covid Deaths by the Government\.

Co\-Founder at Vikalp, Jul 2019 \- Nov 2020 · 1 y 4 mo, Remote, \- Vikalp is a Startup in the Ed\-Tech space, aiming to bring affordable and effective mentorship to everyone, to help them upskill with industry leaders guiding them\. \- Worked on creating the business strategy and operations playbook for the startup centred around the needs of consumers and possible revenue streams

## Education

Master of Business Administration, Business Administration and Management, General, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Minor: Economics, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

## Public links

- sarthakchandra\.netlify\.app: https://sarthakchandra\.netlify\.app/

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