Apurva Gaonkar ​Email: ​apurva.vg@gmail.

com​ Mob: 8425872710

Product management professional with 6+ years of experience in AdTech and FinTech industries.

SKILLS

Product Design, Requirements Planning, Business analysis, Agile Software Development, JIRA, Trello, Google
Analytics, SQL, Kibana, CSS, HTML, Basic JavaScript, Wireframing, Balsamiq, Sketch, A/B Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Product Manager - Zeta, A Directi Company​ ​(Oct’15 - Till date) | ​https://www.zeta.in

● Product Owner of the Optima Product Suite - a B2B2C product that allows corporates to administer
employee benefits for meal, medical, fuel, communication, LTA etc
● Developed the Optima Product to more than 12 benefit products over a period of 18 months
● Scaled the product from 10 to more than 1500 corporates, with a user base of 1.5 million customers
with 8 million transactions per month
● Lead the launch of the Optima HR dashboard v2 and successfully migrated over 1500 corporates from
old dashboard to new one smoothly for improved customer experience
● Lead the product launch of Zeta Expense which is the corporate expense platform
● Worked with Zeta spotlight, the corporate rewards and recognition platform
● Managed a team of 10 people and single point of contact for Support, Marketing, Sales team PAN
India
● Awarded​ “Certificate of Excellence”​ and ​“Superstar Badge”
● Outstanding Employee for the year 2017

Business Analyst - Rare Mile Technologies Private Limited (Apr’14 - Sep’15)

● Product Owner for 4 different projects spread across US and Europe regions
● Single point of contact for the requirements, acceptance criteria, analysis and delivery
● End-to-end project management with the engineering team to maintain timely launches
● Lead the complete UAT project for their flagship search engine product Inferlytics

Software Quality Analyst - Directi Private Limited (Aug’12 - March’14)

● Spearheaded the project for complete migration from Media.net to Yahoo! Bing Network
● Handled a scale of a million plus publishers and advertisers on the platform
● Spearheaded the A/B test project of ads on Yahoo properties between Media.net and Google
● End-to end testing of the behavioral Ad targeting product
● Got a 100% rating(4/4) during the performance appraisal

Software Engineer - Applexus Technologies Private Limited (Jan’12 - July’12)

● Worked on the launch of the first version of the Flex-one product for e-mudra solutions

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

● Bachelor of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, 2010

● Diploma in Software Testing, Seed Infotech - Pune, 2011

LANGUAGES

● English, Hindi, Konkani, Kannada, Marathi