I am Kshitij, a product manager who has a formal education in design from 1 of the top 7 technology institutes of India. I am a self-taught full-stack developer. I have gained 6 years of professional experience which has honed my skills to empathize better with stakeholders, be it a user or a business team, while keeping a sharp eye on business opportunities. I am a DIY and a lean working style enthusiast. Once in a while, I indulge in new experiences to expand my perspective on the biosphere and life in general.
I started my professional career with an Indian e-commerce unicorn, Flipkart, as an interaction designer. Designing interactions and systems for a scale of millions of users per day taught me how to better align the design process for business needs and trained me in product development cycle management. Utilizing this experience in a relatively small VC funded startup (Touchtalent, now Bobbleapp) as their 4th employee, I set up the product development culture and process. The confidence of managing a product development in entirety landed me up as a Lead in the Innovation Group at Housing.com. I lead development and launch of 2 products from scratch in a lean working team. This is when I realized that I could churn out better products in more quantity as an enabler. I joined India’s fastest growing e-Grocery startup, Peppertap, as a Product Manager and have been shaping products and product strategies since then at the parent company, Nuvo Logistics.
The remote working notion has always interested me. With the remote work trend catching up, I started experimenting with my time utilization. Having freelanced for startups from Netherlands, Singapore, and Sweden as a Product Manager, I have started to like this mode of working.