Hi, I'm Prithvi!

I’m a product manager who loves making people’s lives easier through technology

Work Experience

Podium
08/21 - 12/22

Senior Product Manager, Payments & FinTech | Merchant Growth
Podium is an all-in-one communications and payments platform for SMBs

  • - 2x’ed Payments activations with new low-risk, low-friction UX
  • - Reduced merchant fraud to near-zero with in-product protections
  • - Launched net new product Podium Capital to 100s of merchants

Taptap Send
10/19 - 07/21

Product Manager
Taptap Send is a money transfer mobile app for underbanked diasporas

  • - Delivered new money transfer flows to unlock 5 new markets
  • - Launched new payment methods, 2x’ing first transfer conversion

Hearsay Systems
08/18 - 10/19

Senior Product Manager | Data & Analytics

  • - Shipped Insights in 90 days to demonstrate the ROI of the Financial Advisor
  • - Cloud and to drive customer satisfaction of program measurement
  • - Leading the effort to build data-driven decision-making into the product suite

Hearsay Systems
07/17 - 08/18

Product Manager | Hearsay Relate - Web and Mobile
Hearsay Relate is a compliant texting and voice solution for Financial Advisors

  • - Launched Quick Replies that led to an 8% increase in 30-day retention
  • - Delivered a new Contacts experience that increased adoption by 11%
  • - Bundled voice as a new channel to drive revenue from new sales

Yahoo
09/16 - 07/17

Product Manager | Search Monetization
Launched multiple ranking and relevance packages over the course of Q4 2016 and Q1 2017 across all devices and publishers, resulting in:

  • - Positive and sustainable RPM uplifts to meet company revenue goals
  • - Improvements in ad quality for company search volume goals

Yahoo
08/15 - 09/16

Associate Product Manager II | Search Monetization
Delivered millions in incremental revenue against company targets through:

  • - Experimentation and A/B tests of traffic segmentation
  • - Expansion to multiple publishers
  • - Enhancement of the search user experience across partners

Yahoo
08/14 - 08/15

Associate Product Manager I | Mobile Mail

  • - Delivered 5% month-over-month DAU growth with launch of modern redesign
  • - Drove performance improvements of key user actions to under 300ms
  • - Devised instrumentation of user actions to foster data-driven decisions

Apple
05/13 - 08/13

Mac OS X Performance Engineering Intern
Investigated IO policies for flash storage systems through prototyping the kernel and driver, conducting experiments on various criteria, and then measuring the performance impact on user-driven workloads.

Klout
05/12 - 08/12

Front-end Software Engineering Intern
Developed integrated testing framework, implemented new features and code refactors, and contributed to complete redesign of site in JavaScript (Node.js, Backbone.js)

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering
Double Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering / Computer Science
Magna Cum Laude Honors

Recognition

08/2012

05/2008