Akash Sharma

Akash Sharma

Product Manager with 6.3 years of experience building user-centric, AI-driven products from 0-to-1 to scale, backed by a software engineering foundation. Skilled in product strategy, roadmap, growth experimentation, stakeholder management, and leading cross-functional teams. Adept at navigating ambiguity, making data-driven decisions, and translating complex problems into measurable business impact.

Work Experience:

6.3 Years

Industry:

BFSI | FMCG & E-Commerce | Technology

Function:

Consulting & Strategy | Product Management | Project & Program Management

Work Experience

Spinny (Full-stack used car retail platform) | Gurgaon

Product Manager

  • Owned product strategy and roadmap for the Inspection vertical, leading a 10-member cross-functional pod spanning engineering, QA, TPM, data, and design.
  • Defined the GTM strategy and launched the Inspection Report service as a new revenue stream, generating an additional ₹2 crore in annual recurring revenue.
  • Built an AI-powered audit system processing ~2,700 inspections daily, cutting manual review effort by 80%
  • Designed a standardised diagnostic workflow for complex vehicle issues, reducing cumulative refurb hold TAT by 1,150 days per month and cutting warranty-related MIL cases by 32%
  • Led development of an automated tunnel-based vehicle inspection system, reducing inspection TAT by 15% through standardised image capture and AI-driven damage detection
  • Developed an OCR-powered inspection platform covering 11 mandatory panels, replacing manual gauge-reading with automated defect detection, improving accuracy by 8% and cutting missed defects by 10%

Interview Kickstart (Edtech platform for tech interview prep) | Remote

Associate Product Manager 2

  • Spearheaded 0-to-1 development of an internal Sales CoPilot tool for large-scale call audit and coaching, driving a 6% increase in conversions and ~80% manual audit effort savings
  • Drove a 12% uplift in landing-to-registration conversion through UX improvements and A/B testing across high-traffic pages
  • Launched instructor-led masterclasses, achieving 4X ROAS and a 90% lower cost per lead than paid channels.
  • Led Climb Credit integration as a BNPL replacement for Affirm, recovering ~$600K (~8%) of U.S. revenue in Q1 2025.
  • Introduced a post-registration instant-callback feature, improving early-funnel activation and connect rate by 25%
  • Owned stakeholder alignment across marketing, sales, operations, and design to lead the Webflow-to-WordPress migration, cutting landing page delivery time by ~30%.
  • Created and deployed WhatsApp registration flows, driving a 5% uplift in registrations through conversational UX

Astroyogi (Consumer astrology platform and marketplace) | Gurgaon

Associate Product Manager

  • Developed a configurable cashback engine for wallet recharges to drive retention and reactivation, increasing repeat transactions by 6%, reactivating 4% of dormant users, and lifting trial-to-paid conversion to ~7.5%.
  • Devised an in-app ratings system with contextual engagement nudges, raising Play Store rating by 0.2 points and App Store rating by 0.1 points, generating 10K+ 5-star reviews within 6 weeks.
  • Automated astrologer live-show scheduling, cutting operational workload by 50%, increasing monthly show volume by 30%
  • Revamped the homepage and key website sections and built an internal horoscope-content CMS, driving 12% growth in organic traffic while cutting publishing time by ~80% and removing engineering dependency.
  • Launched swipe-based navigation for live shows, lifting unique viewers per show 20% and average watch time ~15%
  • Introduced anonymous ratings and reviews, increasing monthly submission volume by ~8%

RenewBuy (Digital insurance distribution and aggregator platform) | Gurgaon

Associate Product Manager

  • Integrated Credilio to extend the partner network into credit-card distribution, opening a new non-insurance revenue stream.
  • Automated lead capture and distribution via LeadSquared, cutting response time by 35% and eliminating manual handoffs
  • Conceptualised and prototyped a B2C insurance wallet app from scratch, centralising policy tracking and renewals

Accolite (now Bounteous) (IT services and software engineering firm) | Bangalore

Senior Software Engineer

  • Led 0-to-1 development of PruGroupLife group insurance product, driving 30,000+ policy sales in Year 1 of launch
  • Developed REST APIs, backend features, and BPMN process flows for Prudential's mobile app across Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Hong Kong, supporting 200,000+ annual policy transactions
  • Established a repeatable data migration framework, reducing downstream policy-servicing bug resolution time by 40%

Software Engineer

  • Standardised policy document design and development workflow, cutting average turnaround time by 25%
  • Built an automated post-deployment sanity test suite, cutting QA time by 50% and enabling faster release cycles
Accomplishments
  • Codebards Honour Club - Awarded for Outstanding Performance in March and April 2025 at Interview Kickstart
  • Best Performer in Q3’25 in the inspections team at Spinny
  • Finished Tuffman Gurugram Half Marathon in March 2026
  • Senior Diploma in painting and Junior Diploma in Keyboard with Distinction
  • NCC ‘A’ certificate - National Cadet Corps, Ministry of Defence, 2013
  • Zonal Winner - Unified Cyber Olympiad (2012)
Education
  • B.Tech (Information Technology) - Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
Certification
  • Career Accelerator Programme in Product Management, Upraised
  • Excel Skills for Business: Advanced, Macquarie University
  • Pre-MBA Statistics, IIM Ahmedabad
Extra-curricular
  • International Immersion Programme (IIP) Coordinator for ESADE at IIM Ahmedabad
  • Quizzing - 1st position, PM Infinity Quiz and 2nd position, Scholarship Committee Quiz at IIM Ahmedabad. Represented school and college at national-level quizzes, including The Hindu Young World Quiz and All India Inter-DPS Quiz.
  • Finance Coordinator, Revels '18 - Managed collections and introduced digital payments
  • Volunteered with Teach For India to teach mathematics to underprivileged school students during the COVID-19 lockdown.
  • Toastmasters International Member - Completed Level 1 of Presentation Mastery Path, Division P, District 41 (2021)