Syed Abdus Sattar

Product Management & Strategy expert with 5.7 years experience in B2C & B2B IT industries. Drove product innovation, lifecycle management, stakeholder management, agile methodologies & data-driven decision-making across social media and Ecommerce domains

Work Experience

Associate Solutions Leader, Product Management \ Brane Enterprises Private Limited | Hyderabad

Drove B2B product charter, analyzing client needs, gathering detailed requirements, creating product roadmaps, iterated designs, and creating wireframes while coordinating with design and testing with tech teams. Bridged business needs and technical solutions to meet client expectations in product development on an AI-based no-code platform.

  • Developed a platform for US-based clients, leading to the digital transformation of their underwriting system, automating 80% of the underwriting process, and reducing cost by 90%
  • Designed an E-commerce platform for a Mexico-based client that included Supply Chain Management, Point of Sale, and Customer Retention Management modules and is estimated to reduce variable cost of doing business for the client by 40%
  • Conceptualized an E-Commerce retention marketing platform that drives repeat shopper sales with connected solutions for reviews, SMS, email, loyalty, and subscriptions

 

Manager, Strategy and Product | Sharechat Mohalla Tech Private Limited | Bengaluru

3.5+ years of experience of building & executing digital marketing strategies to enhance customer experience, improve user retention and engagement, and build a hyperlocal creator community. Led a team of 40 individuals across 15 Indian languages to set up strategy & roadmaps for consumer retention. Got promoted from Associate Manager to Manager in <2.5 years.

Product Improvement and Management:

  • Conducted user surveys and interviews and based on the feedback, led the project to introduce an in-app audio chat feature called Chatroom, currently one of the most used features in India
  • Collaborated with Data Science team to conduct A/B experiments to optimize position of tags & posts on explore page
  •  Drove experiments with product team to improve first feed for new users that increased retention by 5%
  • Removed system inefficiencies in the automated notification sending  system to improve notification click-through rate (CTR) by 30% and delivery rate by 15% by rolling out multiple A/B experiments on notification UI, content, volume, user journeys.
  •  Analyzed A/B test to launch a new video player leading to 30% rise in engagement & 3X increase in followers per creator

User Engagement and Retention:

  •  Conceptualized a plan to re-engage dormant & inactive users, implemented it & improved engagement per view by 5%
  • Enhanced user experience & increased content diversity by 10X in a quarter that increased 1-month retention by 3%
  •  Designed onboarding journey & improved key funnels that increased wk-1 retention by 10% & notification CTR by 40%
  •  Introduced a gamified incentivization process of badges that increases users’ creator activity on the platform by 20%
  •  Streamlined the news-breaking process and decreased its TAT to 4 minutes that improved click-through rate of trending tags by 12% and time spent per user in trending tags by 18

Electronic Design Engineer | SEDEMAC Mechatronics | Pune

  • Designed, maintained, troubleshot & worked on the evolution of hardware product variants under SEDEMAC's product lines
Accomplishments

Promoted for exemplary performance: Promoted  from Associate Manager to Manager at Sharechat for Exemplary performance

Powerplayer Award: Received the Powerplayer award from the Senior General Manager for outstanding performance during Diwali Campaign Management improving Engagement per view by 15 percent compared to previous year.

Academic Achievements

  • Achieved 99.6 percentile (AIR-4235) in IIT JEE-Advanced 2014 and got admission into IIT Guwahati
  • AIR-5283, National Science Talent Search Exam-2007; Mathematics AIR-2352, General Awareness AIR-1071
  • Ranked first consecutively for five academic years from 2003-08 and was awarded the Certificate of Merit for receiving First Rank in 3rd standard to 7th standard.
Education

B.E (Electrical and Electronics), BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Certificates

Become a Product Manager | Learn the Skills & Get the Job Udemy 

Advanced Product Management: Vision, Strategy & Metrics Udemy

Co/Extra-curricular
  • Member of the Hindi Drama Club at BITS Pilani and performed in front of Nobel Prize Winner, Kailash Satyarthi
  • Awarded Mahatma Gandhi and Aryabhata awards for academic performance in school, 2008
  • Participated as the captain of Volleyball team and Goal Keeper in Football team in High school, 2006-2008
  • Enthusiastic follower of Cricket, Football and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
  • Interested in reading about Indian history specifically the Medieval Period

Quick Look

  • Work Experience: 5.7 Years
  • Previous Roles

    Associate Solutions Leader, Brane Enterprises Private Limited

    Manager I, Strategy and Product, Sharechat Mohalla Tech Private Limited

  • Function : Product Management/Development
    Strategy
  • Industry/Sector: Advertising/Media/Entertainment
    Technology
Work Experience

Associate Solutions Leader, Product Management \ Brane Enterprises Private Limited | Hyderabad

Drove B2B product charter, analyzing client needs, gathering detailed requirements, creating product roadmaps, iterated designs, and creating wireframes while coordinating with design and testing with tech teams. Bridged business needs and technical solutions to meet client expectations in product development on an AI-based no-code platform.

  • Developed a platform for US-based clients, leading to the digital transformation of their underwriting system, automating 80% of the underwriting process, and reducing cost by 90%
  • Designed an E-commerce platform for a Mexico-based client that included Supply Chain Management, Point of Sale, and Customer Retention Management modules and is estimated to reduce variable cost of doing business for the client by 40%
  • Conceptualized an E-Commerce retention marketing platform that drives repeat shopper sales with connected solutions for reviews, SMS, email, loyalty, and subscriptions

 

Manager, Strategy and Product | Sharechat Mohalla Tech Private Limited | Bengaluru

3.5+ years of experience of building & executing digital marketing strategies to enhance customer experience, improve user retention and engagement, and build a hyperlocal creator community. Led a team of 40 individuals across 15 Indian languages to set up strategy & roadmaps for consumer retention. Got promoted from Associate Manager to Manager in <2.5 years.

Product Improvement and Management:

  • Conducted user surveys and interviews and based on the feedback, led the project to introduce an in-app audio chat feature called Chatroom, currently one of the most used features in India
  • Collaborated with Data Science team to conduct A/B experiments to optimize position of tags & posts on explore page
  •  Drove experiments with product team to improve first feed for new users that increased retention by 5%
  • Removed system inefficiencies in the automated notification sending  system to improve notification click-through rate (CTR) by 30% and delivery rate by 15% by rolling out multiple A/B experiments on notification UI, content, volume, user journeys.
  •  Analyzed A/B test to launch a new video player leading to 30% rise in engagement & 3X increase in followers per creator

User Engagement and Retention:

  •  Conceptualized a plan to re-engage dormant & inactive users, implemented it & improved engagement per view by 5%
  • Enhanced user experience & increased content diversity by 10X in a quarter that increased 1-month retention by 3%
  •  Designed onboarding journey & improved key funnels that increased wk-1 retention by 10% & notification CTR by 40%
  •  Introduced a gamified incentivization process of badges that increases users’ creator activity on the platform by 20%
  •  Streamlined the news-breaking process and decreased its TAT to 4 minutes that improved click-through rate of trending tags by 12% and time spent per user in trending tags by 18

Electronic Design Engineer | SEDEMAC Mechatronics | Pune

  • Designed, maintained, troubleshot & worked on the evolution of hardware product variants under SEDEMAC's product lines
Accomplishments

Promoted for exemplary performance: Promoted  from Associate Manager to Manager at Sharechat for Exemplary performance

Powerplayer Award: Received the Powerplayer award from the Senior General Manager for outstanding performance during Diwali Campaign Management improving Engagement per view by 15 percent compared to previous year.

Academic Achievements

  • Achieved 99.6 percentile (AIR-4235) in IIT JEE-Advanced 2014 and got admission into IIT Guwahati
  • AIR-5283, National Science Talent Search Exam-2007; Mathematics AIR-2352, General Awareness AIR-1071
  • Ranked first consecutively for five academic years from 2003-08 and was awarded the Certificate of Merit for receiving First Rank in 3rd standard to 7th standard.
Education

B.E (Electrical and Electronics), BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Certificates

Become a Product Manager | Learn the Skills & Get the Job Udemy 

Advanced Product Management: Vision, Strategy & Metrics Udemy

Co/Extra-curricular
  • Member of the Hindi Drama Club at BITS Pilani and performed in front of Nobel Prize Winner, Kailash Satyarthi
  • Awarded Mahatma Gandhi and Aryabhata awards for academic performance in school, 2008
  • Participated as the captain of Volleyball team and Goal Keeper in Football team in High school, 2006-2008
  • Enthusiastic follower of Cricket, Football and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
  • Interested in reading about Indian history specifically the Medieval Period