Yogesh Thakur

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Address :

yogesh.thakur@hotmail.com
Phone : +919958423308
C-50, Dayanand Colony, Lajpat Nagar-4 New Delhi-110024

Summary
A committed and highly focused product manager with a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the consumer
internet space. Currently responsible for product planning and execution throughout the product life cycle,including:
gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with the
IT, marketing and support departments to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met.

Work experience
Times Internet Ltd

July 2014 Present

Product Manager-Economictimes.com
Defined strategy and business plan for ET Portfolio- an Online Financial Portfolio Managing Tool
Developed innovative product solutions grounded in clear understanding of customer needs.
Gathered and analyzed market information and used findings to define Product strategy leading to increase in new
customer aquisition by 20% on a Month on Month basis
Drove business KPIs through rapid iteration of customer-facing product features
Collaborated with advertising and promotion managers to promote products and services

Religare Broking Limited

March 2012 June 2014

Manager- Product and Strategy

Identified key growth opportunities for the business through driving of multi channel marketing campaigns leading
to aquisition of 5k new customers
Spearheaded creation of Automated Business Reporting tool using Elegant JBI, reducing dependencies on email
based reporting through the central MIS team
Drafted user stories, use cases and functional specifications to support product development for An automated
Lead Management System
Redesigned internal Change management process reducing the the delivery TAT by 30%
Maintained in-depth knowledge of distribution platform guidelines and capabilities to guide internal development

Religare Securities Australia

May 2011 March 2012

Business Analyst
Tracked, analysed and interpreted trends in trading pattern data of ASX and came up product features addressing
the same.
Documented process flows for customer service operations and developed requirements for functional
improvements and enhancements.
Lead the design and development for a Mobile Trading App for iOS. Managed the development from idea phase
by wireframing user flow, creating PRD
Collaborating with UX designers to develop interface and working alongside engineers during development and
QA.
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Creating BRD/FRD for creation of web based trading portal, portal administrator module and capturing
requirements for margin lending.
Worked closely with QA to develop use cases, review test cases and track feature bugs.

Standard Chartered Bank

Mar 2010 June 2010

Intern
Reducing the Number of Incidents getting logged at IT service desk
Identified the causes of rise in number of tickets getting logged at IT service Desk and came up methods to
control the same pro-actively
Reduced and controlled expenses by doing a segmentation of the the most frequent occurring incidents,
determining the reason for their occurrence and creating mechanism of handling the same through a central pool
of resources

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Nov 2007 June 2009

Programmer Analyst
Analyzed requirements and used systematic approaches to implement and document the tasks.
Resolved customer issues by establishing workarounds and solutions and by debugging and creating defect fixes.
Coordinated with QA testers for end-to-end unit testing and post-production testing.
Interfaced with clients for requirement gathering and drafted technical documents from the same

Education
PGDBM

June 2009 March 2011

I.M.T. Ghaziabad

B.E.( Electrical)

Jun 2003 May 2007

Thapar University

Technical Skills
SQL
R data miner
Google Analytics
MS Excel
Microsoft Visio
Axure for wireframes

Interests
Sports like Badminton ,Football and squash
Music both Western and Indian
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Surfing the internet

Reading Newspapers

References
References available upon request.

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