Himanshu Rajiv Sharma

Himanshu Rajiv Sharma

Product & strategy leader with 7+ years of experience leading digital products from ideation to scale across Online Travel, FinTech, and Digital Media. Led products generating multi-crore revenue and shaped industry adoption through strategic government, regulatory, and enterprise engagements. Experienced in building high-performing teams that drive business impact.

Work Experience:

7.6 Years

Industry:

Consulting | Technology

Function:

General Management | Product Management

Work Experience

MakeMyTrip (India's largest Online Travel Platform) | Gurugram

Lead Product Manager

  • Built a real-time dynamic discounting engine to maintain price competitiveness using customer demand and pricing signals, powering 51% of hotel bookings.
  • Drove B2B booking coverage to 46% through traffic-driven intelligent crawling system to improve pricing relevance.
  • Expanded competitive coverage by integrating 5 new OTAs and 1 Lac+ pricing signals across 1500+ global destinations.
  • Built a 3-layer proactive crawl health monitoring system to enable early detection, reducing failures by 80% and improving turnaround by 70%.
  • Streamlined B2B onboarding through OCR based automated content capture, driving 15% conversion uplift, 30% incremental onboarding, and +700 listings/month.
  • Automated property-level competition tracking across 4 platforms, eliminating manual dependency while achieving >90% accuracy and reducing TAT by 71%.

Protean eGov Technologies (Powering national digital infrastructure: PAN, NPS & Account Aggregator) | Mumbai

Senior Product Manager

  • Defined product strategy for Digital Lending, Data Privacy (DPDP), and Account Aggregator solutions, through engagement with the Government Ministries, Regulators, Banks, and NBFCs to drive adoption.
  • Represented Protean across strategic government and industry engagements, driving partnerships, product adoption, and commercial opportunities with multiple Ministries and enterprise clients.
  • Developed MVP for a B2B2C credit platform with a ₹10 Cr+ revenue opportunity, partnering with the Gates Foundation to lead on ground user study across India.
  • Led the modernisation of the Vidya Lakshmi Portal for the Ministry of Finance, redesigning the end-to-end education loan journey to improve borrower experience and lender participation.
  • Conceptualized a digital lending marketplace for underserved & new to credit borrowers, owning product strategy, GTM, and system architecture.

Hindustan Times (India's Leading News platform) | Gurugram

HT Growth Manager

  • Led product-led growth initiatives for HT Digital's subscription business, driving acquisition, engagement, and conversion across both web and app platforms.
  • Owned the growth strategy and product roadmap for company's flagship news portfolio, including LiveMint, Hindustan Times, and LiveHindustan, serving a 120M+ monthly active user base.
  • Managed and trained a 4-member team to deliver 43% YoY revenue growth from ₹8.4 Cr to ₹12 Cr through product-led growth initiatives.
  • Conceptualized and launched AI-based user experience, optimizing subscription conversion & reader engagement.
  • Generated new revenue stream worth 25 Lacs through co-branded premium subscription offerings with global publications including The Economist and The Wall Street Journal.
  • Defined product requirements and collaborated closely with engineering, design, editorial and marketing teams.
  • Defined intelligent notification strategy using industry first tools like MoEngage, CleverTap & NetCore.

Cardekho (India's leading Auto research & buying portal) | Gurugram

Senior Business Analyst

  • Worked on Auto portals as Senior Business Analyst
Accomplishments
  • Authored industry consultation studies:
    • Easing Access to Credit for Women and the Underprivileged (Gates Foundation)
    • Enhancing EPFO Member Experience (Ministry of Labour & Employment)
  • Winner of CEO’s Star Performer Award for leading LiveMint to #1 spot in digital revenue.
  • President’s Spot Award for Online Car Booking MVP, unlocking a new revenue stream.
Education
  • BTech - Computer Science & Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur
Certification
  • 8 Weeks Generative AI Certification on Applications of Gen AI, BuildFast with AI
  • GGI Impact Scholar | Class of 2024, Global Governance Initiative
  • AI for Everyone Certification, DeepLearning.AI
  • Google Cloud Certification, Google
  • Career Accelerator Program in Product Management, Upraised
  • Software Product Management Certification, University of Alberta
Extra-curricular
  • PGPX Cell Head for ProdMan Club at IIM Ahmedabad
  • NCC Certificate Holder, National Cadet Corps, Ministry of Defense
  • Completed Tata Mumbai Marathon, January 2025