Hi! Manav here.
Engineering Management graduate student at NC State with 5+ YOE driving digital product lifecycles, and growth strategy.
Companies I've Worked With
Experience
Work History
- Directed competitive intelligence initiatives via automated pipelines across 6 LLMs, benchmarking brand positioning against key competitors in real time.
- Architected product strategy and data schemas for career pages to drive Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), boosting owned AI citations from 40% to over 65%.
- Redesigned root web portal architecture into a multi-track URL network, transforming a static 6-page site into a high-density, search-indexable ecosystem for AI crawlers.
- Founded and led Times Algo, scaling product strategy for 10+ global client initiatives and increasing Q1 client retention by 25%.
- Owned end-to-end product lifecycles across web and CMS platforms from ideation to launch, reducing time-to-market by 25% and growing user bases by 40%.
- Directed product experimentation via A/B testing and feedback loops, achieving 32% higher conversions and a 28% increase in session duration.
- Conducted competitor research and behavioral analytics (GA, SEMrush) to prioritize feature backlogs, cutting bounce rates by 18% and boosting leads by 22%.
- Executed market research across 15+ firms via SQL, uncovering user insights that improved lead targeting efficiency by 12%.
- Analyzed acquisition metrics via Google Analytics, optimizing keyword positioning to increase search traffic by 45%.
Portfolio
Featured Projects
CardSail
Designed credit card application UI/UX flows cutting task completion time by 30%.
IPSWFiles.com
Built Next.js web app serving 5,000+ monthly users, speeding load times by 40%.
Credit Card Complaints
Interactive Tableau dashboard analyzing 86k+ US consumer complaints.
Academics
Education
North Carolina State University
Master of Engineering Management
Coursework: Project Management, New Product Creation, AI for Engineering Managers
Savitribai Phule Pune University
B.E. in Computer Science
Coursework: Software Engineering, Database Management Systems, Data Analytics
Credentials
Certifications
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Google UX Design Certificate
Google Career Certificates