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Senior AI Product Manager, Search and Personalization

Systems of Impact

AI Product Management Consultant

Product Manager Accelerator

Product Mentor

Mozilla

Achievements:
•	Led a 5-person cross-functional team to implement the first experimental design with AI/ML experimental capabilities at Pocket, a B2C social bookmarking product for storing, sharing and discovering web bookmarks.
•	$3M revenue growth by expanding Pocket Recommended content to international markets.
•	Managed the Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for the B2C AI/ML home surface product, impacting 600k monthly active users (MAU), leading to an 8.18.% increase in customer engagement.

Responsibilities:
•	Managed 3 B2C AI/ML products, including a B2C AI/ML content delivery product, a cross-platform B2C AI/ML home surface product, and a B2C AI/ML international expansion product.
•	Led Product Roadmap, design, and MVP of B2C AI/ML platform in order to decrease machine learning model time to production.
•	Led the Product Roadmap for the B2C AI/ML content delivery product in order to decrease the bounce rate on the Home page.
•	Prioritized requirements for B2C product user onboarding by completing user interviews (Voice of Customer) to decrease Home bounce rate.
•	Wrote and prioritized User Stories, requirements, enhancements, and issues for a B2C AI/ML Pocket recommended content based on strategic, product, and business goals.
•	Set data-driven OKRs and KPIs in order to drive prioritization and roadmap decisions.
•	Collaborated cross-functionally to deliver B2C AI/ML Pocket-recommended content to new markets via Firefox New Tab (France, Italy, & Spain).

Staff Product Manager, Data Products & Machine Learning at Pocket

GameStop

Achievements:
•	Collaborated with the Product Details Page (PDP) team to increase and improve the recommendations shown on the page, leading to a 30% increase in average order value.
•	Led a 12-person team to implement in-house recommendations using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) across the entire product catalog, leading to increased recommendation placement by 75%, engagement by 11%, and overall rec revenue by 10%.

Responsibilities:
•	Led the Product Roadmap for a B2C AI/ML personalization product in order to increase average order value (AOV).
•	Collaborated cross-organization to re-platform the pricing engine MVP and its go-to-market (GTM) rollout across 3500 stores, leading to an estimated 75% reduction in manual pricing and pricing exceptions.
•	Interviewed 12+ customers and studied e-commerce market trends to understand customer needs and converted them into actionable engineering-focused user stories.
•	Set data-driven OKRs and KPIs in order to drive prioritization and roadmap decisions.
•	Organized and led agile ceremonies to prioritize user stories, provide guidance, and drive progress.

Senior Product Manager - Recommendations

MGM Resorts International

Achievements:
•	Launched the first personalized content within MGM in collaboration with Microsoft which resulted in $500k in net new revenue over a 90-day period.
•	Launched a Recommendation-as-a-Service Product (RaaS) serving both external and internal customers.

Responsibilities:
•	Wrote user stories, requirements, and prioritized for a B2C AI/ML product in Azure.
•	Conducted Voice of Customer Interviews and studied hospitality trends to understand customer needs, and converted them to actionable engineering-facing user stories.
•	Collaborated cross-functionally across 8 lines of business and engineering channel partners to scope, build requirements, develop, and deploy a RaaS Product.

Senior Product Manager - Personalization & Loyalty

Achievements: 
•	Led a 2-person team to launch a 0 to 1 MVP for restaurant recommendations via email, leading to $50k in net new revenue over 30 days.
•	Launched the first personalized content within MGM in collaboration with Microsoft which resulted in $500k in net new revenue over a 90-day period.

Responsibilities: 
•	Conducted Voice of Customer Interviews and studied hospitality trends to understand customer needs, and converted them to actionable engineering-facing user stories.

Product Manager - Customer Insights & Growth

Lender Toolkit, LLC

- Worked with customers to refine their processes and improve delivery times by up to 20%
- Created implementation analytics with Engineering team using PowerBI to track delivery times
- Worked with Ellie Mae to build and implement new cloud based software platform for next-gen experience

Product Manager / Implementation Project Manager

Reflex Media Inc

- Wrote user stories and Implemented ML-powered moderation techniques to manage messages and reduce customer support burden for a marketing agency, reducing support moderation by over 90% through ML image classification and natural language processing (NLP).
- Initiated work with Data Science to implement machine learning systems to improve user recommendations and increase user engagement
- Initiated work to understand the Google Ad Manager platform to work with Data Science and Digital Marketing to implement site-wide analytics and improve site ad conversion
- Initiated Ownership of Messaging and User Engagement of the Seeking site, increasing member engagement by 13%
- Worked within the Atlassian ecosystem (JIRA/Confluence) and managed feature backlog and spec creation for Dev, including prioritization

Associate Product Manager

Workfront

- Developed user interview strategy to improve Digital Asset Management (DAM) product offering
- Developed metadata reporting structure to understand user metrics and usage
- Owned product from Ideation through initial Growth phase
- Increased from 20 base customers to 132 customers in 6 months with no marketing, a 560% increase

Product Related:
- Part of core team to establish/test/deploy new Digital Asset Management (DAM) offering via agile product management methodology
- Initiated/Completed Market research of asset management competition
- Created insights, personas, user stories, and prioritization from interview process to establish an MVP
- Launched white label beta product to 20 businesses for testing and feedback
- Developed implementation methodology and initial KPI measurements to report to executive management
- Revised Digital Asset Management (DAM) process upon feedback and analytics of usage

Design Consultant Related:
- Created and tested new ways to deliver implementations using lean/agile methodology improving certain implementation tier delivery times down to 60 days from 4 to 6 months
- Process Mapped and streamlined customer processes thru Lean Six Sigma methodologies and worked with the customer to build into the Workfront tool

Associate Product Manager / CX Design Consultant

- Worked with “At Risk” clients to re-engage Executive management and increase Workfront usage
- In a year’s time, worked with nearly $5M worth of Annual Run Rate (ARR) At Risk clients and only had a $180k reduction in ARR
- Worked within our strategic team to develop product offerings whose end results were pushed out to the entire company, adding 10 additional products for Sales to generate revenue
- Worked with executive management on user adoption strategies and built process around it for additional product offerings for Customer Success to reduce overall cost center
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) for End-to-End solution for Workfront, Proof HQ, and Workfront DAM for Customer Success and Ops departments

Strategic Services Consultant

Primary Residential Mortgage

- Created and Developed a Project Management Office (PMO), creating a new department within the company
- Developed training programs to improve project management culture within the enterprise
- Head of the Project Review Committee, other members include C-Level and SVPs
- Managed projects with budgets of $250k up through $25M+
-- Cross-departmental collaboration of 24 different departments (inc vendors)
-- Timelines that spanned from a few months up to 1.5 years
- Researched and procured new PPM/Work Management solution (AtTask).
- Developed and Launched AtTask/Workfront to company of 2000 users over the course of 6 months

PMO Project Manager

- Project Management of new programs, initiatives and revenue channels.
- Contract Negotiation with External Vendors and Investors.
- Review and interpret Investor/Agency/MI memos and determine impact to the corporation.
- Identify/implement opportunities to leverage systems to reduce risk associated with programs.
- Research and gather business and/or financial information, perform ad hoc analysis to support business decisions and provide feedback to executive management regarding results.
- Develop a thorough understanding of the business and its functions, processes and operations.
- Keep abreast of business and market trends, which may affect the organization.
- Research new investors, establish any requirements, determine market need, build out program, launch to company

Program Administrator / Product Manager

- Facilitate and manage the lock pipeline for Secondary.
- Analyze existing reports used by the Secondary Marketing team to ensure accuracy and completeness of data. 
- Identify issues with current reporting mechanisms, determine cause and recommend solution to ensure accuracy and completeness.
- Analyze the delivery and transaction functions to identify opportunities to become more efficient.
- Assists in identifying and implementing process improvements for secondary marketing functions.
- Supports the Capital Market team as needed to assist in the fulfillment of trades.
- Supports the Program Admin team on the implementation of new products.

Secondary Marketing Analyst

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Sam Montoya

Asharq News الشرق

∙ Directed developers to build a custom CMS for partners, increasing efficiency and enhancing optimisation by 32%.

∙ Launched an AI-powered writing tool inside the CMS, cutting content production time by 30%.

∙ Managed recommendation engines for Asharq News, Asharq Business, Asharq Discovery & 
Documentary. These efforts expanded the user base by 56%, resulting in 3 million app downloads and 800,000 monthly active users across mobile and connected TV platforms.

∙ Drove Agile development across 4 squads, cutting delivery time by 25% and helping ship features twice as fast.

∙ Introduced MENA’s first vertical stream player, which tripled viewership.

∙ Rolled out Arabic Live TV & Search, which doubled user searches.

Digital Product Manager

∙ Led the Telco integration with Mobily & Zain, boosting revenue by $35M.

∙ Delivered a strategic subscription plan that lifted total subscriptions by 38% and paid subscriptions by 16% within just three months.

∙ Championed Agile execution with cross-functional teams, cutting delivery cycles by 20% and ensuring faster rollout of new features.

Product Development Manager

Extentia Information Technology

∙ Streamlined post-sales support processes, improving enterprise client retention by 27%.

∙ Led a cross-site working group that cut product classification and testing time by 81%, speeding up release cycles.

∙ Applied Agile practices to align product, QA, and support teams, reducing delivery bottlenecks and improving collaboration.

Product Manager - Process & Requirements

HurixDigital

∙ Increased mobile adoption by 40% by launching the demo simulation project.

∙ Boosted customer engagement by 50% through mobile streaming initiatives.

∙ Published 60+ apps across five mobile platforms, expanding reach and accessibility.

∙ Drove Agile delivery across design and engineering teams, cutting feature rollout time by 20%.

Mobile Product Manager - EduTech

Salucro Healthcare Solutions

∙ Managed P&L for India and US healthcare payment products, driving $1.5M recurring revenue from the PaaS subscription model.

∙ Launched an O2O model for selling insurance and e-commerce products in hypermarkets, adding $0.4M in new revenue.

∙ Delivered 12 product features in 3 months, improving usability and raising customer retention by 8%.

∙ Drove Agile sprints across product and engineering teams, reducing release cycles by 22% and accelerating feature delivery.

Product Owner - Healthcare Payments

JetSynthesys

∙ Built BRAND24, a social media analytics platform, gaining hundreds of B2B users and generating $5M in revenue.

∙ Launched Sachin Tendulkar’s “100 MB App”, hitting 100K downloads in just 2 hours and boosting fan interactions by 150% through gamification.

∙ Designed and delivered a Gamify CRM platform for sales and contact centers, improving engagement and productivity.

∙ Applied Agile practices across design and engineering, cutting feature rollout time by 20% and scaling faster delivery.

Mobile Product Manager - Influencer Market Place

Etisalat

∙ Launched and scaled the Ezy-Pesa retail money transfer ecosystem, driving strong adoption across markets.

∙ Built a Social Gamify portal, achieving 23% user growth and generating $80M in top-line revenue.

∙ Rolled out an eCommerce portal for Delights-to-Go services, adding $5.2M in new revenue.

∙ Applied Agile practices to coordinate cross-country teams, cutting feature delivery cycles by 20% and enabling faster market rollouts.

Product Manager; Ezy Pesa & Payments

People Interactive

Role: Designed innovating products in the Mauj/Shaadi consumer product group to business growth and revenue ecosystem.

1. Quadrupled revenue mobile app in the B2B sector from 4.2 MN to 18.1 MN & enabled cross-sell Delight.

2. Doubled the Acquisition by launched Shaadi on SMS from 1X to 3X on the various platforms.

Assistant Product Manager; Consumer Business

Reliance Communications

Role: This was the first product role where I was assisting product & business manager for growing subscription VAS in PAN India.

 1. Launched 25 subscriptions in a year and managed 250MN SMS revenue and contributed 26% growth.

2. Efficiently onboarded 12 B2B clients within 8 months of Mobile Marketing and achieved 50MN revenue.

Product Executive; Subscription & Engagement

Loop Mobile India (P) Ltd

I was a contract employee in the Sales & Operation department. My primary job responsibility was selling voms and voucher cards and maintaining market share in the mobile recharge business.

Sales Associate

I help product teams move faster by building secure AI copilot systems that turn messy workflows into clear, repeatable outcomes.

I’ve worked 14+ years across media, fintech, telco, healthcare, and SaaS. Results include:

• 3M+ downloads and 800K MAUs at Asharq
• MENA’s first vertical video stream player (tripled engagement)
• BBC iPlayer rollout with 5M downloads in 2 months
• $80M revenue uplift from P2P payments at Etisalat (East Africa)
• $1.5M ARR from healthcare billing tools at Salucro

What I focus on now:
• Local AI + private servers for sensitive work (on-device, no leaks)
• Cloud LLMs like GPT, Claude, and Gemini for advanced reasoning and scale with clear boundaries to protect data
• PRD assistants and analysers, meeting-note summarizers, research digests, and FAQ copilots
• RAG systems, evaluation/QA, and simple UIs non-technical teams can use

How I work:
• Systems over hype: model + retriever + evaluator + clear UX
• Privacy by design and measurable outcomes (speed, accuracy, adoption)
• Strong collaboration with engineering, design, data, and compliance

I believe the future of product management is AI-native: blending strategy, secure systems, and execution speed. I’m actively building in that direction.

Open to senior PM / AI PM roles and advisory work on secure AI systems.

If you’re a Product Manager, executive, or founder who wants AI that works locally for privacy and in the cloud for power, let’s connect.

~ Ram Nimbalkar 🦉

Disclaimer: My views are personal and do not represent my employer.

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