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Vijay Rusum

GenAI & Agentic AI Platforms | 0→1 → $1.2M ARR | Ex-Green Story (Series A) | 17+ yrs across SaaS, Fintech, Energy & AEC

Bengaluru

8+ years of work experience

GlobalLogic
Dec 20241 yr 9 mosPresent

Hybrid

Lead product discovery and delivery across a concurrent portfolio of enterprise AI engagements — US benefits fintech, container logistics (PSU), renewable energy, pet-care retail, and aviation. • Agentic AI: driving end-to-end discovery for “Nudge as a Service,” an FSA spend-optimisation platform for a leading US benefits fintech — PRD, multi-agent architecture (scoring / education / attribution agents), 20+ use-case prioritisation, engineering handoff • AI prototyping: built a working operations super-app prototype for a container-logistics PSU solo — secured client buy-in; ₹10 Cr opportunity moved to commercial closure • GenAI delivery: RFQ-extraction MVP for a US energy-equipment manufacturer (+15% quote-processing efficiency); IPL-franchise fan-experience MVP via Velocity AI • Pre-sales product: EMS/PA backlogs + dashboard prototypes for a renewable-energy major enabling story-point-based proposal costing; agent backlogs for a 20-agent Gen AI Factory program; GTM for an aviation client’s flight-chat app • Practice building: PM hiring panel, product-strategy workshop for aspiring PMs, reusable playbooks, team-scaling framework (vacancy-to-occupancy ratio −10% in 3 months)
Green Story
Apr 20222 yrs 2 mosMay 2024

Bengaluru

•   Launched (0→1) a SaaS platform for optimising fashion-brand supply chains to cut carbon footprint, and scaled (1→10) the carbon-offsetting platform for brands purchasing carbon credits — reaching $225K MRR. •   Devised the product strategy and roadmap from customer feedback and qual/quant research that secured investor buy-in for Series-A funding. •   Launched a subscription-management module (Stripe, Chargebee) that reached $1.2M ARR within six months; overhauled prototyping and testing, cutting test-to-acceptance turnaround by 25%. •   Instituted continuous validation loops with customers, CS, and Mixpanel analytics — 25% faster feature shipping and 30% fewer product-related customer queries. •   Initiated a product-led growth model across product, design, tech, sales, and CS: +25% pipeline, −40% support tickets, +20% MRR (North Star Metric).
InQuest Technologies(smartapp.com)
Jun 20192 yrs 8 mosJan 2022

Bangalore

•   Launched (0→1) a low-code SaaS project-management platform for power, utilities, O&G, and AEC companies; scaled (1→10) the construction-contracting platform across North America, Europe, APAC, and MENA. •   Shipped an SCM module managing procurement, customisation, and delivery of hardware to US job sites; launched digital-twin capability using Open Design Alliance SDKs (.ifc) — project setup, quantity take-off, sheet separation, clash detection — and integrated RSMeans cost data with 3D-model take-offs for automated estimates. •   Cut AEC clients' arbitration-related losses by 30% by leading delivery of a public-blockchain audit layer that made project data and approval workflows immutable — turning platform records into tamper-proof evidence for construction disputes. •   Owned delivery governance end to end: scope, timelines, budgets, risk mitigation, and stakeholder alignment across client, vendor, and internal teams.
Vikas Global solutions ltd.
Sep 20189 mosMay 2019

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Created a KPI dashboard that enabled real-time tracking for the product team, streamlining performance measurement and ensuring alignment with business objectives that is utilized by 10 product managers for ongoing assessments. • Collaborated with UX/UI designers to revamp the user interface, reducing customer support inquiries by 40% and increasing overall user satisfaction by 20%. • Established comprehensive user testing protocols involving 40 participants, gathering targeted feedback that informed essential modifications to product features, resulting in a 25% increase in user satisfaction scores within two months.
Rusum Information Solutions Pvt.Ltd(RITS)
May 20171 yr 5 mosSep 2018

Greater Bengaluru Area

• •   Built a CAD plug-in for cloud upload, storage, and retrieval of drawings — 50% efficiency gain for architect workflows; finalist in a Government of Karnataka startup funding programme.

Vijay’s AI Stack

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Education

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Data driven product management, Product management

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Balaji Institute of Modern Management

PGDM, Operations Management

Balaji Institute of Modern Management

20042 yrs2006

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Headline

GenAI & Agentic AI Platforms | 0→1 → $1.2M ARR | Ex-Green Story (Series A) | 17+ yrs across SaaS, Fintech, Energy & AEC

About

I love digging into customer problems and solving them with modern technology. Two things 17+ years of doing it have taught me: products only matter when they ship, and they only last when they make money. I’ve taken products from 0→1 to revenue twice. At Green Story, I took a carbon-offsetting SaaS from 0→1 for fashion brands, shaped the roadmap that secured Series-A funding, and launched a subscription module that hit $1.2M ARR within six months. The platform grew to $225K MRR. Today at GlobalLogic (a Hitachi Group company), I lead product across a portfolio of enterprise AI engagements: → Discovery-to-handoff for “Nudge as a Service,” an agentic AI spend-optimisation platform for a leading US benefits fintech — PRD, multi-agent design (scoring, education, attribution), prioritisation across 20+ nudge journeys → An AI-powered operations super-app prototype for a leading Indian container-logistics PSU, built solo with AI-assisted rapid prototyping — won client buy-in; moved a ₹10 Cr opportunity into commercial closure → GenAI RFQ-extraction MVP for a US energy-equipment manufacturer (+15% quote-processing efficiency); fan-experience MVP for an IPL franchise → A 6-month omnichannel growth roadmap for a leading Indian pet-care retail brand I also build the PM practice itself — hiring, a product-strategy workshop for aspiring PMs, reusable playbooks. How I work: customer at the center of everything. Fluent in both technical and executive languages. Strong gut instinct, balanced with data. Greater joy in team victories than personal wins. And the buck always stops with me. My path is unusual — civil engineer → construction PM → product. So I’m at home in messy, physical, regulated domains (construction, energy, logistics, utilities) where AI products are hardest to land and most valuable. Open to Group / Principal PM roles — India or global remote. Domains: SaaS · AI/GenAI · Fintech · Fashion & Retail · Construction Tech · Energy & Utilities · Logistics · PropTech 📧 dimpyvijay@gmail.com 🔗 Portfolio: gentle-factory-84f.notion.site/Vijay-Rusum-Product-Portfolio-3b2637e87cb88153a431c6d5d690e3b8

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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gemini

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notion

openai

Work experience

Senior Product Manager at GlobalLogic, Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos, Hybrid, Lead product discovery and delivery across a concurrent portfolio of enterprise AI engagements — US benefits fintech, container logistics (PSU), renewable energy, pet-care retail, and aviation. • Agentic AI: driving end-to-end discovery for “Nudge as a Service,” an FSA spend-optimisation platform for a leading US benefits fintech — PRD, multi-agent architecture (scoring / education / attribution agents), 20+ use-case prioritisation, engineering handoff • AI prototyping: built a working operations super-app prototype for a container-logistics PSU solo — secured client buy-in; ₹10 Cr opportunity moved to commercial closure • GenAI delivery: RFQ-extraction MVP for a US energy-equipment manufacturer (+15% quote-processing efficiency); IPL-franchise fan-experience MVP via Velocity AI • Pre-sales product: EMS/PA backlogs + dashboard prototypes for a renewable-energy major enabling story-point-based proposal costing; agent backlogs for a 20-agent Gen AI Factory program; GTM for an aviation client’s flight-chat app • Practice building: PM hiring panel, product-strategy workshop for aspiring PMs, reusable playbooks, team-scaling framework (vacancy-to-occupancy ratio −10% in 3 months)

Senior Product Manager at Green Story, Apr 2022 - May 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, • Launched (0→1) a SaaS platform for optimising fashion-brand supply chains to cut carbon footprint, and scaled (1→10) the carbon-offsetting platform for brands purchasing carbon credits — reaching $225K MRR. • Devised the product strategy and roadmap from customer feedback and qual/quant research that secured investor buy-in for Series-A funding. • Launched a subscription-management module (Stripe, Chargebee) that reached $1.2M ARR within six months; overhauled prototyping and testing, cutting test-to-acceptance turnaround by 25%. • Instituted continuous validation loops with customers, CS, and Mixpanel analytics — 25% faster feature shipping and 30% fewer product-related customer queries. • Initiated a product-led growth model across product, design, tech, sales, and CS: +25% pipeline, −40% support tickets, +20% MRR (North Star Metric).

Senior Product Manager at InQuest Technologies(smartapp.com), Jun 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore, • Launched (0→1) a low-code SaaS project-management platform for power, utilities, O&G, and AEC companies; scaled (1→10) the construction-contracting platform across North America, Europe, APAC, and MENA. • Shipped an SCM module managing procurement, customisation, and delivery of hardware to US job sites; launched digital-twin capability using Open Design Alliance SDKs (.ifc) — project setup, quantity take-off, sheet separation, clash detection — and integrated RSMeans cost data with 3D-model take-offs for automated estimates. • Cut AEC clients' arbitration-related losses by 30% by leading delivery of a public-blockchain audit layer that made project data and approval workflows immutable — turning platform records into tamper-proof evidence for construction disputes. • Owned delivery governance end to end: scope, timelines, budgets, risk mitigation, and stakeholder alignment across client, vendor, and internal teams.

Consulting Product Manager at Vikas Global solutions ltd., Sep 2018 - May 2019 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Created a KPI dashboard that enabled real-time tracking for the product team, streamlining performance measurement and ensuring alignment with business objectives that is utilized by 10 product managers for ongoing assessments. • Collaborated with UX/UI designers to revamp the user interface, reducing customer support inquiries by 40% and increasing overall user satisfaction by 20%. • Established comprehensive user testing protocols involving 40 participants, gathering targeted feedback that informed essential modifications to product features, resulting in a 25% increase in user satisfaction scores within two months.

Start-up Owner at Rusum Information Solutions Pvt.Ltd(RITS), May 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • • Built a CAD plug-in for cloud upload, storage, and retrieval of drawings — 50% efficiency gain for architect workflows; finalist in a Government of Karnataka startup funding programme.

Education

Data driven product management, Product management, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

PGDM, Operations Management, Balaji Institute of Modern Management